The Final Step

The final part of the year has become and only but to submit the last post and hand in. The year has been a stressful and packed with bookwork, online blog's and image hand ins.
Although the year has been full of new parts, Meeting new people, going to Paris straight away and having a the independence to explore and enhance my photography skills.
Here is some of the work that i have created and achieved so far on this course.

Here the typology project in which we started in paris. I took on the project around the streets of Paris and explored the vision through the technique and idea typology. I then moved on and changed my orientation project into my a typology on the idea's behind university life. The work using film became difficult and i decided to make it about teenage female courses and the different views in which they stand and look.

Moving on to my final project, representation i have chosen here my final piece that i used.
The idea behind this piece of work was to show teenage anger amongst boys, myself having issues in this area i wanted to put out there and show that they are not alone and others have anger and outbursts.

I would like to give great thanks to my tutors Kristianne, Mandy, Stephen for putting me through the year and helping me discover more about myself and expand on my styles of photography.

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century

He was a German Romantic landscape artist, and painter. He is known best for his mid-life allegorical landscapes which features figures silhouetted against skies, morning mists, barren trees and old gothic ruins. Friedrich usually looked at taking an image with the intentions of getting an emotional response, and to capture an image that will give off a feeling and emotion. His work takes human form or small objects and makes them look smaller in their scenery, he expands the landscape creating an extraordinary scene.

As you can see from this picture that Friedrich has taken, the image really strikes you with a sense of empty, space, to me the image is very strong and powerful the way that the trees are huge and silhouetted on the background with the faded wall of an old church. I have chosen Friedrich because his images are so strong and beautiful, to me they are so amazing, capture the sense of nothing, but there is something in the atmosphere.

There is a clear movement that has been kept through these artists and how they portray their photographs. The idea is capturing an image showing nature, how it breaks down and corrodes man made and also natural objects, capturing human and natural images and also giving the photo feeling and soul.

These photographs have both taken these key points and used them to give the photograph some feeling and thought, bringing in nature and displaying it in a fearful way, bringing out the light’s, colours, shadows to create maybe a beautiful but fearing image.

http://www.unique-canvas.com/caspar-david-friedrich/june-temple-in-agrient-artwork-2375

Images from

http://edmundsiderius.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/caspar-david-friedrich-the-vista-artist/

Paris Photo

Looking back on when we visited Paris photo on the France trip back in november, i remember the distinctly huge layout of Paris photo. The art floor was completely open and divided by 8ft stud walls which contained some of the most elaborate and contemporary photography at the current time.

Some of the work from the exhibition was dated right back to even Ansel Adams and before, with Adam's work on the national Park, using his large format camera created images of the world as seen through your eyes, un-touched natural landscapes.

I heard about the 2012 event happening at the gallery and i decided to check out the reviews in a magazine and online. Some of the work displayed was the same as the previous year, but new work including photographs by Shomei Tomatsu, taken from his extraordinary category of photographs.

Tomatsu is know as the man who changed Japanese photography,Sometimes brilliantly surreal and always using an unsparing documentary eye, His inspiration is to capture images in a country in the flux of postwar change. 

Paris photo has the plan of inviting the world of top photographers to have their work all in one large space for up and coming artists or photographers to explore their mediums and techniques and to contrast and apply to further educational purposes.

http://www.parisphoto.fr/actualites.html

Images taken from

http://www.teppertakayamafinearts.com/shomei_tomatsu/0015.htm

National Portrait Gallery

The National portrait gallery has some of the most refined and contemporary art going at this current time. There are thousands of amateur photographers that are able to include themselves amongst this fantastic body of work by professionals.

The gallery inside had be laid out and styled to separate work out around a few different room linked all together in a circuit. All of the pictures were mounted and framed the same, which linked in with the wall colour and the skirting boards.

In 2011 the competition attracted nearly 6,000 submissions in which were taken from over 2,400 photographers based all around the world. There were then sixty pieces of work for the exhibition rooms, four in which were prize winners and the winner of the EllE commission.

First prize was awarded to Jooney Woodward for Harriet and Gentleman jack.

Woodward Born in London, 1979 and grew up in Dorset, eventually returning to the Capital to study Graphic design at Camber well college of Arts. She specialized in photography in her final year.

Her winning piece is of 13-year-old Harriet Power, a steward at the Royal Welsh Agricultural show. The photograph was taken in the guinea pig judging enclosure.

Maja Daniels is a photographer who works all around the world. He is a Swedish photographer currently base in London. After studying journalism and photography his work then focused on social documentary and portraiture on human relations in a western contemporary environment.

‘By using sociology as a frame of research and approach in my photographic work, I find it a good combination when trying to focus on the interaction between man and society and to combine photography and the written word.’

Here is a photograph taken from the Internet of the national Portrait gallery 2011. From the picture you can see the design and style of the image layout and themes.

On the wall in the corner, second from left you can see two images taken of twins Monette and Mandy, Born in France, currently living there, the photograph was taken by professional photographer Maja Daniels. The series of images with the twins was taken around their hometown, always wearing the same outfit and hair.


http://www.information.dk/fotobloggen/300633

Arnulf Rainer

Arnulf Rainer (born 8 December 1929, in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art. In his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the Hundsgruppe (dog group) together with Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, and Josef Mikl. After 1954, Rainer's style evolved towards Destruction of Forms, with blackenings, overpaintings, and maskings of illustrations and photographs dominating his later work. He was close to the Vienna Actionism, featuring body art and painting under drug influence. He did a lot of work on Hiroshima, after the bombing.

Under the influence of the gestic painting of Jackson Pollock, Jean Paul Riopelle and Wols, with whom he got acquainted in Paris in 1951, he turned away from fantastic Surrealism and moved on to abstract micro-structures. Around 1953 the first over paintings, which accompanied his whole life, came into existence. Religious themes, crucifies, had a lasting influence on his work. After intensive drug experiences and studies in psychiatric hospitals, he began to overprint photos of his own physiognomy and his body as well as pictures of Old Master and contemporary paintings. The studies of body language and the question of his identity became manifest in the series "Face Farces" and "Body Poses", which resulted in points of contact to the Vienna Actionist.

Creating a piece of work similar to Rainer’s is going take a model to pose in the correct way, I will be taking pictures from my previous work that is unprovoked and then paint and scratch onto the image.

I will be using acrylic paints and a Stanley knife to manipulate my work.

Rainer’s working style has a dramatic influence to it, he uses models in an extraordinary form or pose. Rainer’s models pose to how they will be drawn on, for instance the person being cut down the middle, and being strangled so acting with facial and body expressions to expose his body for later manipulation.

Images from :
http://soko-barefoot.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/arnulf-rainer.html

Craig McDean

Craig McDean is a photographer and filmmaker who is renowned for his striking fashion imagery and portraiture. Having discovered photography by taking pictures of his rocker friends in the North of England, McDean moved to London, where he assisted before striking out on his own with assignments for i-D and The Face.

In 1999, McDean made his highly anticipated publishing debut with 'I Love Fast Cars', his homage to the world of drag racing and the community who love it. In 2004, his second book, ‘Lifescapes’, was published by Steidl/Dangin. McDean currently lives in New York, and has photographed campaigns for Dior, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Armani, Estee Lauder, and Calvin Klein. He regularly contributes to a range of international fashion publications including W, American, French, British and Italian Vogue, and Another Magazine. He is a 2008 recipient of the ICP Infinity Award.

McDean has a unique style of representational art work. His set ups have great thought and and meaning to them. Chaos of the model has been thrown out on the exterior of herself and placed around the set. The colours are very neutral but the use of a lot of different colours and writing being expelled from her body onto the sofa, her outfit and chucked around. The body language show’s attitude and recklessness, I find exciting and inspirational, which will influence my work.

Images from:
http://www.touchpuppet.com/2010/02/01/sasha-pivovarova-by-craig-mcdean/

Gregory Crewdson

The obsession of the way that we believe woman should look, slim, beautiful, and how we portray a commercial woman to be a role model for young teens and middle age woman. Most human beings choose to believe this is how they should look to achieve happiness. Advertisement with fashion photography is one minded and controls the perception of female models.

How should the ordinary image look, the majority of photography has been staged but to the extent of being realistic, to create a piece of art that you can relate to and start to understand.

Gregory Crewdson takes the factors of common photography and stages his work on large life like scales, in order to structure and capture this fantasy of maybe how some places should be, in his mind the world is confused the way that people act and look at themselves, this is how the world should be, a stage, twilight fantasy

Best known for his elaborately choreographed large-scale photographs, Gregory Crewdson has become one of the most exciting and important artists working today. Twilight is the magic hour when ordinary routines undergo strange transformations. Crewdson’s Twilight series consists of 40 images from 1998 – 2002. The collision between the normal and the paranormal in these narrative images produces a tension that serves to transform the topology of the landscape into a place of wonder and anxiety.

These enigmatic photographs catch the mysterious moment of time between before and after, revealing unknowable or unimaginable aspects of domestic reality.

'I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.' 

Crewdson is explaining that this in between time where a person stops everything and has this fantasy and alone time, thinking about everything in a quiet time. His work is so creative in the way that he is able to capture such emotion from his models, and with the help of his fantastic sets.

images from http://krystinaplante.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/gregory-crewdson.html

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/gregory-crewson/

Ceasar Lima

Since 1991 Caesar Lima has been capturing provocative and visually stimulating images through the lens of his camera. A master at depicting unique and captivating subject matter, Caesar’s inspiration is derived from a singular drive to push the limits and evoke emotion through innovative photography.


With a Bachelors of Arts in Advertising, Caesar has always had an eye for the creative. With a passion and drive to depict unusual, even surreal images, his photography always evokes emotion. As a self proclaimed non-purist, his photography calls to mind imagery that is just outside of the box. I dont like to follow the rules, rather I like to explore the potential of what can be possible and yet unexpected, says the photographer. Caesars photography crosses the boundaries into a world of potential that doesnt live with the norm.

The work above body shades is a sexual heated set of images. Lima was trying to create the images for a fantasy veiwing, including woman part nude pressed against frosted glass with their breast's and bum's pressed up to create focus on these area's. The woman are in sexual suttle positions, exposing the lady like features and curves that entice people to look and explore.
I find the work fascinating and creates desire to use the style and progress.


Caesar has received multiple accolades and awards including the 2010 IPA Award, 2010 PX3 Paris Grand Prix, 2010 Archive 200 Best Ad Photographer, 2009 and 21010 IPA Award, 2009 Addy Award, and the 2008 Spider Fashion Award to name a few in recent years.


Stunning website : http://www.caesarlima.com/


http://abduzeedo.com/stunning-photography-caesar-lima

Illusion's with laurent laveder

Moon and sky in the night are pretty nice source of inspiration for the many of photographers.

Its funny how when abroad, you will see toursit's playing with the environment and attractions. I have noticed the most used are the leaning tower of pisa, the egyptian pyramids and the sun or moon. Most common to be holding or supporting these subjects.
Laeder is a photographer who has created work with the sun and moon using only simple objects.

'laveder is a professional photographer from France who prefers to take photos of nature and especially natural appearances and phenomena on the sky. It is also important to mention that he works as astronomy journals. Several of his photos can also been found on NASA's website and different astronomy publications from all over the world.'

The images above are taken from the body of work he created with the sun and moon. making his images work so well is the ability to isolate the sun/moon and make it look so real that it is next to the person in the photographs.


When i noticed his work i had to blog about it becasue it does not look clechet and tacky, but the photographs are very artistic and the use of angles, style and quality of the pictures really capture the audience, you want to see more idea's.


http://www.fludit.com/inspiration/illusion-photography-of-the-moon-and-people-by-laurent-laveder.html

Lindend Glendhill

High-speed water photography by Lindend Glendhill is in a whole different league.
This is the kind of photography that blows my mind because I can only imagine the amount of patience required to get the perfect shot. Everything has to be just right, the equipment, the colours, the background, the timing, and in this case, also the music!


She used a mic triggered SB800 Nikon flash controlled by stop shot which is a timing module that can assist with capturing images that move faster than your eye can see (it can even capture a moving bullet). To create the drops, Lindend used sound vibrations coming from a speaker! She was able to capture these photos while the paint drops danced to the music. The resulting paint sculptures are magnificent. She has some mad talent for sure.

As from the images above taken by Lindend, you can see how powerful and strong her work is. I beleive that work with fast moving objects frozen can be an everlasting doorway to extraordinary work.
Seeing her work caught my eye and i think this body of work will continue to fascinate and control the viewers eyes, wanting more !

Nick Knight

Fashion photographer known purely for his unique style and way about's of his imagery.
Working for one of the top magazines Vogue.
Knight concentrates his idea's and flow on bringing fresh new medium to the front page of Vogue.


Starting off as a student at bournemouth university, there have been no breaks for the photographer.
After an exhibition he was noticed and commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of 100 portraits for the magazine's fifth anniversary issue. 


After his career took off, he went on to work for companies and advertising such as Audi, calvin Klein and more, working in the editorial and advertising parts of photography.

Nick Knight

Nick Knight

Knight directed back in 2001 his first music video ever, the controversial Pagan Poetry video, for avant-pop star Björk.
In 2011 he directed the video for Lady Gaga's single "Born This Way”.
Since shooting Lady Gaga, he has continued his chain of work with the talented musician and artist and created some of the new styles and face of fashion onto Vogue's front page.

Nick Knight

Nick Knight

Knight has an extraordinary way of thinking and creating art, his work above, both the images for vanity fair. I find the photographs very loose and softly lit, creating a shallowness that can join well with the colourful hair, lipstick etc and contrast highly onto the out of focused background and foregrounds.


images from :
http://governmentgaga.com/gallery/nickknight-vanityfair/
http://deadpassarita.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/nick-knight_27.html

Iain Crawford

 A fashion photography expert, you can usually find his photographs associated with brands such as L'Oreal, Givenchy, Harpers Bazaar and Vogue. Iain Crawford's work is simple but produces an un-mistakable aesthetic. Always through the use of simple backgrounds, his pictures stand-out for their colour and patterns surrounding the model. In this essay, Crawford captures the moment a woman comes into contact with a substance - paint, powder or water - thrown across the sky.

Iain Crawford

Crawford created a very strong set of images using female models, paint, water and sand.
Iain capture's images that have a strong graphic and textural quality, often searching out the graphical symmetry in chaos, while still maintaining the personality and emotion of the subject. His career has lead him to shoot campaigns for many of the world’s top brands and receive commissions from a host of top international magazines.

Crawford has a unique eye for fresh uncontrolable photography with subjects and materials.
Still looking at his work, there is so much to look at an absorb, this is why his work is so strong and has such an impact on the viewer.

http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2009/12/iain_crawford_colour_bath.html#ixzz1sChAvV8H

William Lesch

William Lesch has been a working photographer for over twenty years. He earned his BFA in photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1978. Lesch had his first one-person show at the newly established Center for Creative Photography in Tucson in 1979, and since that time his work has been included in over one hundred group and one-man shows, both locally and around the world.

He began shooting at night in the mid to late seventies, and developed his signature style of light painting in the early 80’s. A monograph of his color desert light painting work was published by Treville Press in 1990.

"Tree Agave at Night, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona", 32"x32", 2000

William Lesch

In addition to his split-exposure and night photography, Lesch is currently exploring aerial studies of the landscape. Lesch maintains an active schedule of shows and exhibits, and his work is represented in Arizona by Etherton Gallery in Tucson and Larsen Gallery in Scottsdale.

William Lesch

His desire to work with colour and textures, bringing out and controlling the audience through a single image is incredible.
How different and fresh the art is, using lighting and exposures to bring out this everlasting detail through his imagery. The use of strong colours gives off different emotions to each viewer, as i have found peace, beauty and recognition of the subjects.

Metaphors and Allegory.

Allegory is a device used to present an idea, principle or meaning, which can be presented in literary form, such as a poem or novel, or in visual form, such as in painting or drawing. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric; a rhetorical allegory is a demonstrative form of representation conveying meaning other than the words that are spoken.

As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. As an artistic device, an allegory is a visual symbolic representation. An example of a simple visual allegory is the image of the grim reaper. Viewers understand that the image of the grim reaper is a symbolic representation of death.

Allegory is a story with a meaning other than a literal one.

Metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible object to represent a less tangible object or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figure of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance.

Metaphor is a figure of speech in which term is transferred to something it does not literally apply to.

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas, Au Naturel 1994 Mattress

The mattress has been shown as a couple, this could been see as an old married couple, the bucket representing the woman, having children, all used up and tired, the male still standing tall, all he thinks about is his penis, hens the erect positioning.

There is also the other reason, the female representation could be a hooker, the melons on the mattress high up are perky, as if to be a boob job.

The first reason could well be a feminist view on a married couple, or it could well be the woman abusing her body over the years with sex, without the male with a sex drive, she would have no job.

Sarah Lucas

 Sarah Lucas, "Self-Portrait with Fried Eggs" 1996

The image is a metaphor.

The fired eggs maybe are there to show the masculinity, the abused parts of the female, breast's are a part that the male looks for.

The slouching in the chair may reflect on how a man is, the portrayal of a lazy man, also the floor boards, maybe being a checkers match, being the female playing against the male to achieve and control what needs to be done and what she has to do.