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/