Tutorial Review- 15th of October 13

Review of Contact Sheet -15th of October 2013 The overall report of the images was successful. The most interesting images were discussed and majority decided the middle strip, the second and third images in particular. The car images a moment of uncalculated image. Artists such as Nan Golden and Diana Arbus were suggested to me. Nan Goldin as an artist looks at taking intensely personal, spontaneous, sexual and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. Her work consists of richly colored snapshots. Diane Arbus her raw, unusual images of the people she saw while living in New York created a unique and interesting portrayal of the city. She visited seedy hotels, public parks, a morgue and other various locales. These unusual images had a raw quality. She was known for going to great lengths to get the shots she wanted. From that I was told to consciously decide what are the 5 most relevant photographs from each of these artists and have them in my research folder. This would point out my interests and help me in the next step in my development of this brief. There is a feel of a rich relative coming back to an old house with maybe things belonging being gone. The question arose “has it always been a situation to Photograph only one person?’ “Should there be a third character?” It’s almost the first scene in a film, which needs to be introduced to new character. Suggestions made – making the subject aware of the photographers presence. It’s almost like retracing routes of past/ historical. Maybe the person could be unsettled returning to this place and not expecting what they see. Stan Douglas was another artist pointed out – mid century studio. Some of his works are displayed in the Tate gallery in London construct of photography in 1950s. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works. What are you going to do next? I am going to find them images from that artist that interests me the most and see could I find the next stage in this project. I would like to get another roll of film and take more photo’s to maybe finish the scene in the case where it introduces me the photographer adding a new character. Also I thought of showing the process of capturing the woman becoming aware of the presence of the photographer and being more on edge before leaving.

Diane Meyer

In her New Jersey series, she continues to explore some broader and universal themes such as history, memory and nostalgia but also embarks on a more personal journey into her past. It is a much more intimate body of work which touches upon the disconnection between the lived experience and that of its photographic representation through autobiographical references and snapshots from her childhood. For Diane Meyer, the visual language of pixilation highlights the artist’s concern with our culture of storing these photographic documentations of history and memory in a digital rather than a physical format. One could say that the artist is hinting at the demystification of the power and importance of the image to evoke an emotional response to memory and history when the image is stored digitally instead of printing it. i think this could be a continuation point from my project that i looked at people becoming invisible in the surrounding- FADING This could be NEW approach i could take.

First Project

What I took from the assignment on Robert Smithson. That he created these industrial relics he found and re-images them as “monuments”. He also writes of imagining time being sped up and watching ruins extend upwards as architecture falls down describing the paranormal as containing “ruins in reverse”. Modern buildings became old and deter rated before they are even finished. He mentions the effects of a place on a person. The notion of a concrete jungle. I came up with the concept when I re-visited the carpark that we went to see with Sean. I took pictures from the roof top and came up with this idea. I found this housing estate, so interesting there was gates surrounding them nearly sectioning them off from the city. When I look back on my pictures these people look blank, as if they are physically there but they have no emotion towards their homes they are merely there. I captured poses of people almost looking out in a way longing for an escape. So I photoshopped the people in black and white. Almost like they are forgotten about behind the gates away from the city. I wanted to create the aspect of monuments the people are so small in comparison they are insignificant so they fade to black and white. They are almost forgotten about when entering the gate- INCLOSED.

Jorg Marx

The project is about the transformation of the village environment at night time. While the city plunges into a sea of light at night, the village is barely lit by lights. There is no activity in the village which deflects from the interplay of the pale light and the building environment.

Anthoine Seguine photography

At the edge of the city, something has changed in the landscape. A new suburban housing was growing. He found it intersting that he got the role of a witness.

Larry Torno

His works include a collection of panormic photo's .Which make it almost cinematic formatting of large screen imagery. the letterbox approach gives a feel of Hollywood films.

George Rousse

gregory crewdson- "sanctuary"

Arnold Odermatt

Paul Graham- A shimmer of possibilty

Organising a choreography by the way he framed.

Gregory Crewdson

He uses this dramatic lighting to show these mysterious scenes. It almost like a tv show of a neighbourhood that something mysterious is occuring or is about to happen in the picture's. The people are very much dramatically lighted from the back. Giving a spooky approach to the picture.

James Casabere

He takes pictures of buildings he finds interesting and then he reproduces into these small models of the building he seen.

Jeff Wall

Lewis Baltz

Lewis Baltz is best known as one of the icons of the 'New Topography' movement in photography of the late seventies. Presented together in the exhibition 'New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape' in 1975 (Rochester, NY), this group of young photographers brought a shift in landscape photography in showing the images of a world far removed from an heroic vision of America. This move was also illustrated by the subject matter of urban and suburban realities under change, as well as the photographers' commitment to a critical and ironic eye of contemporary American society. Thirty years after its opening, this exhibition still remains one with the strongest impact on landscape photography world-wide in its attempt to define both objectivity and the role of the artist in photographic creation.

James Welling

William Eggleston