Robert Longo

I want to be able to extract images of the figure falling or in flight from my video clips. Although I haven't recorded the moving images yet, I hope that some will be like Robert Longo's 'Men in the Cities' series (1979), with their twisted bodies, loose and lacking in control. I am particularly interested in the way the figure becomes cropped, as though amputated and seems puppet-like, controlled by invisible strings. The monochrome imagery emphasises strong shadows which might be appropriate in my work to help sculpt form. They suggest a dreamlike state, graceless dancing, loss of stability and curiosity.
Images from http://www.robertlongo.com/work/gallery/1118