tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41095608750404293382024-02-01T21:26:06.635-08:00Christine SandersonBA Hons Photography (Contemporary Practice), UCA RochesterChristine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-15397263170033645002012-05-18T08:19:00.000-07:002012-05-18T08:22:49.604-07:00Fashion Constructed Image: Self Evaluation<div style="text-align: center;">
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My roles within the group were build lead and budget manager. I found it difficult to carry out these roles and feel I would have been much better suited to sourcing props because I enjoy interior design and the creative aspects behind photography. One of the drawbacks of my jobs was that they weren't a constant thing I could work on. </div>
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I made an effort to voice my thoughts about the build when we had test shoots in the lead up to the build week and tried to take an active role in erecting the set when it came to the construction. It was hard to stay on top of the build and direct people when as a group we all got on with it and didn't need a lot of guidance.<br />
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When carrying out the role of managing the budget, I produced a spreadsheet involving a list of what we needed with columns for details, cost and who payed for these items; as well as what our total budget was and how much we had spent so far while I was updating it throughout the lead up to the build. We spent a third over our budget which surprised me because I updated the spreadsheet with things I wasn't aware we had bought or even needed for the construction of the set after it was over. I feel there was a big breakdown in communication throughout the weeks we were working on this project. We needed to meet up more often in person to talk about the set build and communicate better with each other as to what moves we were making within the group.<br />
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Despite it not being my responsibility within the group, I contributed towards researching and sourcing fashion items. <a href="http://christinesanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fashion-constructed-image-finding.html" target="_blank">See here.</a></div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-86193551624417360162012-05-18T05:39:00.000-07:002012-05-19T06:33:09.492-07:00Fashion Constructed Image: Finding the Fashion<br />
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Having been told our constructed fashion image needed to involve contemporary fashion we tried to source clothing from certain retailers in the high street which were based on catwalk styles. We also had some guidance in the form of the following photos to help us find the right outfit for our image.</div>
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We can see that the general similarities in these images are long skirts and high necklines and collars. As well as this, there are a lot of neutral tones with some bright reds and blacks but not too much of a variation in colour.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">While other members in the group were using this as inspiration, I decided to research what the current top trends on the catwalk were and look for clothing on the high street that related to these but which also fit with the classic 50s style; tying in the original with the contemporary to create a generally modern look.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The top few trends of <a href="http://lifestyle.ca.msn.com/beauty-fashion/fashion/top-10-trends-new-york-fashion-week-spring-2012?page=8" target="_blank">New York Fashion Week (Spring 2012)</a> are bird prints and sheer fabrics of which I found a surprising amount of while out looking. I was also keeping an eye out for the 50s style showing through in modern clothes. Some of the following photos are what I found...</span></div>
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The bird print vests are both very modern styles, however, similar clothes were also found in the 50s - collars, sleeveless, and ties at the hem. They are also made from sheer fabrics. The sheer skirt is knee length as they wore in the 50s. The dress is over the knee and fitted which shows off the woman's figure. This is known as a "wiggle" dress and originated from the 50s. They would also wear short jackets with three quarter length sleeves and I saw a lot of these in the shops I visited, some with round collars.</div>
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As well as this, while working with my group, I found relevant contemporary dresses mimicking the styles on the catwalk such as:<br />
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<br />Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-56837174810177158262012-05-16T14:20:00.000-07:002012-05-18T07:33:14.849-07:00Output Task - Planning our NewspaperAs a group, we have decided to take inspiration from the '50s Photo Dictionary'. We admired the mix between handwritten and typed text and the difference in layout between images, but mainly the minimal theme involving lots of white space around the images.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">For my input in the newspaper, each of my images will be on the left hand page of a double spread; placed in the centre of the page with lots of white space surrounding it. I will add hand-written captions detailing the prices of what I have photographed because these are important to my concept and will help readers to understand my concept and the meaning behind it.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">These are the captions I will hand write for each image:</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The following articles are what I want to be used to compliment my images in my part of the newspaper, in order, and in conjunction with each image:</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/from-rags-to-riches/3003993.article" target="_blank">From Rags to Riches</a></li>
<li><a href="http://news.sky.com/home/business/article/16227524" target="_blank">Thrifty Business: Charity Shops Enjoy £1bn Boom</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/costa-de-almeria/91126-no-recession-for-second-hand-sellers" target="_blank">No recession for second hand sellers</a></li>
</ul>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-20188307575800562082012-05-16T07:10:00.002-07:002012-05-18T04:21:21.166-07:00Fashion: Constructed Image: Process of Visual References<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We began creating mood boards based around the category of "Film" during the first week of having the assignment. These depicted scenes of films we admired the lighting choices of, examples of film noir, some of Tim Walker's fashion sets, strange and interesting rooms, the theme of exploration which particularly interested Joe Earley, photos of collections I found particularly interesting and some elaborate and even gothic make up styles. Generally, aesthetics we desired.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We displayed these mood boards and talked about them as a group. We discussed going for a similar look to the rooms in the last mood boards - we liked the extravagance and the vibrant colours. We also like Tim Walkers fashion influence upon our mood boards and thought we could work with something like this.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">However, upon having differing opinions we began to talk about a set split between a modern and colourful look and a more subtle traditional feel. One of the suggestions was creating a room directly split in half, each half showing a very different picture as well as the model being styled very differently on each side of the body. Two things came from this: the idea of duality, and a reference (Dark City) dealing with the notion of two opposites residing together.</span></div>
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Due to this influence, we then narrowed down our ideas and came up with revised mood boards depicting the psychological aspects of films which also exhibited the idea of duality such as Blue Velvet, Donnie Darko and Fight Club. We also started thinking about the American Dream after exploring films like Blue Velvet and American Beauty thinking about the notion of duality within them.</div>
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After this we decided to work with the idea behind the American Dream and focus on the facade behind it. How everything seems perfect but behind closed doors it is a very different story. We thought about what would be involved in our set f we went down this route. We decided fairly early on that we would build a dining room, and have a female model who would be the housewife looking after the home. We created more mood boards from this point focussing more on fashion and character and also the period of the 50s and what the home would look like in this decade. The look of the model became important as we decided we wanted a false look; doll like and awkward.</div>
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We then considered the use of mannequins to reinforce the awkwardness and doll-like look to contribute to the false perfection behind the concept of the American Dream. From this we ended up researching the aesthetics of the Nuclear Towns designed for experimentation and analysis of the effect of nuclear bombs in which mannequins were used.</div>
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These are what we used as our final visual references to achieve the right aesthetics for our concept having developed from all the influences we had from the beginning and honed in on what we felt was strong. We tried to make our set look like a real home, just as the nuclear homes were designed t seem real and why mannequins were placed within. Having been unable to source a mannequin we directed our model to seem fake, like a doll or a mannequin with awkward limbs and a strange posture with a distant gaze.</div>
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As well as this, we wanted to involve the outside with the interior and we used these photographs as inspiration and references for creating a similar look in our set with the juxtaposition between this strange occurrence - sand entering the house from the desert with what is seemingly normal and everyday life for the housewife.</div>
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<br /></div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-83319556572656739152012-05-06T15:57:00.000-07:002012-05-18T06:09:01.642-07:00The Output: Basic Newspaper Research<u>The Guardian</u><br />
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Across the top of the front page there are medium sized images which have been cropped and accompanied by captions introducing the stories further inside the newspaper. They are like snapshots of the issue and some quite typical, for example, 'Red or dead? United slip puts title in balance. In sport'. There is a quick heading, a small summary, where the story is located in the paper and a football related photograph, all the size of a credit card. Using these photographs in this way catch the attention of certain audiences looking to read about specific topics. Seeing just the cover of the newspaper with these images on may convince them to buy the paper because they know what they can find inside.<br />
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Below this strip across the top, there is a thick, black line separating it from the rest of the page where the stories lie. Beneath this is the headline associated with the picture and the column beside it. This is the main current story the newspaper is covering and continues within the paper. The image stretches across 4 out of the 5 columns; a large image for the main story with a caption beneath in a small font.<br />
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Below this again is another thinner line separating the two big stories. There is a larger headline, with a subheading and 4 short columns, continued inside the newspaper.<br />
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Across the whole front page there is another line separating the top of the paper with the main stories on and there are two more examples of stories inside; one begins on the cover and continues inside. There is a small picture; a little larger than the size of a postage stamp printed among the columns of this story where there is a bold piece of writing of equal size next to it. The bold font giving emphasis to the importance of this information in conjunction with the story.<br />
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<u>50 Photos Dictionary (by Fanny Wacklin Nilsson)</u><br />
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"A newsprint publication displaying 35mm film photographs. It is a personal dictionary of a few selected words, of which the photographs are presented in relation to, and my personal relationship to them."</div>
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<li>This is a 12-page newspaper (including cover and back page with index).</li>
<li>There is a mixture of typography: large italic font used for the few headings across the pages; smaller typed font; hand-written pieces.</li>
<li>Each page layout is different and seems personal - especially due to the handwritten bits of texts interjected throughout. For instance, there are a few large chunks of writing which describe wither one or a couple of photos on the page, and in contrast, on the cover there is only a single line of text captioning the photo.</li>
<li>The photos are all different sizes, and placed in all different places throughout the magazine - some accompanied by text, some not. For example there is a series of three images of a bicycle with nothing written with them (but on the other wise of the spread in the centre), and on the page before that there is a single image aligned to the right of the page and placed halfway down with the paragraph of hand written text beneath it aligned to the left of the bottom of the image.</li>
<li>The layout is irregular and the look and style seems to be minimal with a lot of white space.</li>
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</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-10851079748664376652012-04-05T12:42:00.000-07:002012-04-06T07:49:07.903-07:00Fashion Constructed Image: ProgressConcept summary: The dark side of the American Dream.<br />
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After having many meetings about our narrative and the construction of our set, our concept has developed further towards the breakdown of this perfection.<br />
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<br /></div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-49732803698553041162012-03-26T15:50:00.001-07:002012-03-26T15:55:17.886-07:00Time Machine Essay: Research so far...<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">I have decided to centre my essay around the theme of beauty and the sublime. I was inspired to write about this specifically through reading ‘Photography: the key concepts’.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">See <b><a href="http://christinesanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/time-machine-essay-visual-references.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">visual references blog post</span></a></b> for photos.</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Contextual findings</u></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yosemite National Park was established in 1890. The park was established to preserve its resources, which make it so unique and attractive, as well as to allow future public enjoyment.</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Yosemite National Park is a world heritage site which has made a significant contribution to California's cultural heritage, to the national park movement, and to Yosemite's 4,000 years of cultural heritage by Native Americans.”</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><br />
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</u></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>F64 Group</u></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Established </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">in 1932 by </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ansel</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Adams, Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham and some others</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">It deals with the concept of “straight” photography</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The group was in response to the "artistic," soft-focus, pictorial type of photography which was popular at the time.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emphasis was placed on "pure" photography, sharp images, maximum depth-of-field, smooth glossy printing paper, emphasizing the unique qualities of the photographic process.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The significance of the name lies in the fact that f/64 is the smallest aperture on the lens of a large-format camera and therefore provides the greatest depth-of-field.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The members of Group f/64 believe that photography, as an art form, must develop along lines defined by the actualities and limitations of the photographic medium, and must always remain independent of ideological conventions of art and aesthetics that are reminiscent of a period and culture antedating the growth of the medium itself.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></li>
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</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-56097596488344807262012-03-26T12:23:00.007-07:002012-03-29T06:27:46.556-07:00The Commission: prints and contact sheets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7s5qAm5Y2LKY-urw0nISebhFdTyQzOp1vUjasf8lwQ6gOXkIjuaJQ6dPnEnbc52r1uGBPMIrJ1UeJbmEddZF7qBoVd6hOzOCtIcSHGJ1Oks7HejSpEvMKxnf8AvEuDj0T__kM-7jUDjn/s1600/Scan-120326-0001new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7s5qAm5Y2LKY-urw0nISebhFdTyQzOp1vUjasf8lwQ6gOXkIjuaJQ6dPnEnbc52r1uGBPMIrJ1UeJbmEddZF7qBoVd6hOzOCtIcSHGJ1Oks7HejSpEvMKxnf8AvEuDj0T__kM-7jUDjn/s400/Scan-120326-0001new.jpg" width="301" /></a></div>These are the first few images I took for my series. I knew what I wanted from my images; drawing on my inspirations, but I wasn't sure how to achieve it and only realised I hadn't until I looked at my negatives.<br />
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The angles aren't quite right and in some images there are too many other distractions. In the images of my subject on the sofa I wanted a much more symmetrical look like that of my subject on the left who I made my first print of.<br />
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However, I then realised the photograph did not focus enough on my concept - the second hand market. I realised I needed to change my subjects position in relation to the furniture and put more emphasis on this.<br />
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I re-shot the subject on the right and my third with a good outcome.<br />
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I also photographed the subject I hadn't made a portrait of yet in my second shoot; trying to keep the aesthetics the same for both portraits.<br />
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I worked on what I decided was the fault of my last shoot, and perfected the pose and symmetry of my subjects.<br />
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Upon looking at my contact sheet it became clear that my focus was not perfect on every image but I needed to choose the ones I did for the composition of my subjects within the frame and the significant similarity between the two I ended up printing for my series.<br />
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Something quite frustrating about the two images I took of my new subject which I couldn't print is the fact that the only location I could have taken the image to fit the series would have meant cropping the top of the head in order to remove distracting features. I feel the photograph marked with the X has the right aesthetics to match my visual references, but not to how I have ended up photographing my subjects.<br />
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I experimented with the use of including other small second hand items in my photographs but felt this only caused a distraction and I wanted to achieve the simplicity and the clean look of my influences.<br />
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My aim of this shoot was to fit in my last image with the rest of my series which is why I experimented with pose and distance so much to try and recreate the previous.<br />
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I tried very much to match the position and distance of this subject to my previously photographed subjects so that it would fit in properly.<br />
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I also wanted to correct my last mistake of not including enough of the furniture in the photograph and not drawing enough emphasis upon it. This is why I angled the chair and changed the pose leading it slightly away from directly front on to the camera. I still wanted it to fit in with my other chosen images so I tried to make this change subtle. I then chose to place this print in the middle of my series as it had a slightly different look to my other two prints.<br />
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Looking at my contact sheets, I can see images that I feel may have worked better together but at the time of shooting and printing, I did not have all of my negatives together to compile my series at once. This is something I would like to definitely do for future projects.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">My Series</span></i></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Large 3 seat leather reclining sofa: £57<br />
<i>Average price new: £1500</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solid wood table: £60<br />
<i>Average price new: £500</i><br />
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Large solid wood chair: £35<br />
<i>Average price new: £100</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyfGyDwnCYlBoPpSyx6uGwP0tstH_LvvsL44IZYCaD7DgFgyvc-u5tas4X33QHoXW3AscXXcRd4fUZ3GtoX0DuS7XAbgslADLbQCBchZMg2UhXgxG5sTISIpRG1LFkV3VZB7lb7paP_hq/s1600/Waste_Project_Scan_003SMALL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyfGyDwnCYlBoPpSyx6uGwP0tstH_LvvsL44IZYCaD7DgFgyvc-u5tas4X33QHoXW3AscXXcRd4fUZ3GtoX0DuS7XAbgslADLbQCBchZMg2UhXgxG5sTISIpRG1LFkV3VZB7lb7paP_hq/s400/Waste_Project_Scan_003SMALL.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'BC Rich' electric guitar: £147<br />
<i>Average price new: £600</i><br />
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</i>'Marshall' amp: £30<br />
<i>Average price new: £200</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-25254678618539486562012-03-26T12:22:00.005-07:002012-03-30T02:49:31.159-07:00The Commission - My Research: Anne Hardy<div style="text-align: center;">Anne Hardy's photographs of constructed sets of unusual interiors is what she is primarily known for. This work of hers consists of items and furniture which she has collected from places like markets and jumble sales or skips - second hand, and arranged within her studio and then photographed. In this sense, she relates very well to the subjects within my series because there are links evident (in both her photographic choices and with my series) with the population and the second hand market.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">Aspects in some of Hardy's work such as in Cipher, provide a painterly and atmospheric aesthetic. This is achieved by the hazy glow being produced by the fluorescent lights; the " faux grotto" walls; and the differing levels of the hanging ropes having an effect spatially upon the room. These aren't just objects found carelessly on the street and thrown into a room together to produce something that could look kind of cool. They are carefully considered objects being places appropriately with each other to create a style which is then complimented with the decoration and technical choices Hardy makes. They are works of art. Hardy often admits to reshooting her images, even if the changes made is moving an object by centimetres.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This second image including the skylights relates well to my choice of using natural lighting because of how the source of light in her work is intended to, and does a very good job of looking like natural daylight. It further evokes the feeling of the set being a regular but just unusually adorned room, which in reality, it is not.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In an article on 'The Guardian' called "Anne Hardy's best shot", she speaks about an image of hers she particularly likes from 2005. Her sets built in her studio are centred around the camera so it is more photography related than an installation. She used a medium format camera, like I chose to do, and a wide angle lens which makes sense to photograph a whole "room". I used a standard lens however, as I was only photographing certain scenes in a room.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A major similarity between mine and Anne Hardy's work, is that it somewhat showcases the second hand market. Although Hardy uses a lot of small objects and waste in her images to fill up the room, she also uses furniture and larger objects - this is where the second hand market comes into it and more specifically; it's availability.<br />
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Through her printing method Hardy gives the viewer of the image a sense of looking into the room. This is aided by the inclusion of so much of the space and objects in her photograph - namely, her choice of a wide angle lens.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/anne_hardy.htm</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-54139077928283451762012-03-26T07:26:00.006-07:002012-03-27T14:23:18.048-07:00The Commission - My Research: Alex Soth<div style="text-align: center;">"I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Alex Soth expresses the need to tell a story through his photography and express the narrative but admits he struggles to do so. "Photographs often leave me feeling like something is missing". This is almost like what I wanted to do with my photographs - tell a personal story.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is an opinion that the best photographs inspire curiosity rather than satisfy it and I believe I may have achieved this is my series with the simplistic framing and the subtle use of money that will make people wonder what the significance of it is. Hopefully people will look at my series and want to know what the significance of the people in their locations are too and their link with them, and in turn, understand the context. I think this is also a similar element in Soth's work. For example, his photograph below, of an older male next to what looks like a cabin holding a model aeroplane in each hand.<br />
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Soth talks about how the house caught his eye. He went and enquired and met the man's wife who told him that he had in fact build the house. She also explained how Charles and his daughter built model planes in the room he called his 'cockpit' on the 4th floor entered via a ladder. The room was small and lined with windows; too small to photograph in. The photograph is taken on the roof.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This image provokes my interest (just as Alec Soth talks about this house and the people provoking his) and there also seems to be some juxtaposition between the apparent age of the man and the fact that his hobby is often also shared by children.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The isolation of the subject relates to how I have chosen to frame my subjects with a shallow depth of field. Although the second hand items are important in my series and to my concept, the concentration on the subjects is to give it context and I chose to do this to make it personal.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This image of Soth's would have been a perfect visual reference for my concept had I pursued my first idea about photographing a constructed set in a random location.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Two visual references of Alec Soth's which I found inspired my photographic choices are the portraits below of the women in what seems like their homes. They seem to suit the colour tones in the rooms. It is their posture and their relationship to the camera which I have recreated in my own series as well as their natural expressions and contexts within the photographs.<br />
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http://www.seesawmagazine.com/soth_pages/soth_interview.htmlChristine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-84431633061887854312012-03-22T14:58:00.007-07:002012-03-26T14:15:57.036-07:00Critical Appraisal: The Commission (300 words)My series is about the availability of the second hand market and the advantage of having it in our current economy as well as the anonymity behind is context. My series is based around perfectly good furniture and objects which have become waste to one person but are appreciated by others; one mans trash is another mans treasure. I feel my work would sit best in an exhibition.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My understanding of the issues of waste is that it is generally a negative thing but has many different definitions. Waste can be positive: recycling; compost; the second hand market. I wanted to demonstrate a positive outcome of the issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To begin with I wanted to photograph a constructed set after being inspired by Anne Hardy’s work (<a href="http://christinesanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/commission-my-research-anne-hardy.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">my research here</span></b></a>) but abandoned this idea because I felt it lacked depth. Then I decided I wanted to make portraits with a more personal touch. I looked at Alec Soth’s work (<b><a href="http://christinesanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/commission-my-research-alex-soth.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">my research here</span></a></b>) and aspired to recreate the subtle tones, square aesthetic and precise framing in my own series. I also spent some time researching the second hand market’s advantages and popularity <a href="http://christinesanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/commission-contextual-waste-project.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">found here</span></b></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I chose to utilise natural lighting giving a more personal feel to my images. I used ISO 160 film for clarity and used a shallow depth of field to focus on either the faces of my subjects or the significant object and to demonstrate the personal essence in my series.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I managed my studies by taking two photographs and printing these, then re-shooting the other I took at an earlier stage - having already discarded the print. This way I worked well with two images and then concentrated on matching my last to fit the series (<b><a href="http://christinesanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/commission-prints-and-contact-sheets.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">contacts and prints here</span></a></b>) Time management is the most challenging aspect and to overcome this I need to plan each movement for future projects.</span></div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-17735855777815031602012-03-11T14:52:00.002-07:002012-03-26T05:43:12.698-07:00Time Machine Essay: Visual References<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I have decided to centre my essay around the theme of beauty and the sublime. I was inspired to write about this specifically through reading 'Photography: the key concepts'.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The development of the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality in nature distinct from beauty was first brought into prominence in the 18th century in the writings of </span>Anthony Ashley-Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span>John Dennis<span style="font-family: inherit;">, in expressing an appreciation of the fearful and irregular forms of external nature, and </span>Joseph Addison<span style="font-family: inherit;">'s synthesis of concepts of the sublime in his </span>The Spectator<span style="font-family: inherit;">, and later the Pleasures of the Imagination. All three Englishmen had, within the span of several years, made the journey across the </span>Alps<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and commented in their writings of the horrors and harmony of the experience, expressing a contrast of aesthetic qualities."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">Friedrich choses to base his landscapes solely on locations in Northern Germany where there are beautiful scenes of scenic trees, hills, harbors, as well as different and atmospheric lighting conditions like misty mornings and other light effects based on a close observation of nature. “Some of Friedrich's best-known paintings are expressions of a religious mysticism."</div><!--EndFragment--></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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"Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point"<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">"Ansel Adams was a visionary figure in nature photography and wilderness preservation. He is seen as an environmental folk hero and a symbol of the American West, especially of Yosemite National Park. Adams' dedication to wilderness preservation, his commitment to the Sierra Club, and of course, his signature black-and-white photographs inspire an appreciation for natural beauty and a strong conservation ethic."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>***</b></div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-61355202128966791132012-03-09T10:35:00.003-08:002012-03-26T13:25:30.094-07:00The Commission: Contextual 'Waste' project research and developmentsI decided to do some more contextual research into the benefits of the second hand market and discovered another very important layer to my concept. Recycling furniture through the second hand market benefits not only the people involved but the environment. This is because the use of resources in manufacturing new furniture is reduced and therefore less "waste" is produced. So not only are people finding a home for second hand furniture considered waste to some, but they are stopping the necessity for the disposal, recycling and process of it becoming technical waste. <br />
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A also looked more into the links between the second hand market and our current economic status as I want to make a comment about this. Freecycle is a website devoted to allowing the exchange of second hand items.<br />
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</div><div>"The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.<b> Our goal is to keep usable items out of landfills. By using what we already have on this earth, we reduce consumerism, manufacture fewer goods, and lessen the impact on the earth.</b> Another benefit of using Freecycle is that it encourages us to get rid of junk that we no longer need and promote community involvement in the process."</div><div><br />
</div><div>By October of 2008, the number of internet searches in the UK consisting of the words 'second hand' had increased by 22% in a year. Cars, books and furniture are among the top listed. People realise that they can save money and help the environment by purchasing second hand items and this is what I want to display in my series.</div><div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><div><ul><li>My selection of the furniture in my images will hopefully lead viewers to realise the nature of them because they won't look like the new, perfect, modern products selling now - they are not newly bought or made.</li>
</ul><ul><li>The way in which I frame and compose my portraits will also hopefully draw emphasis to the furniture, and therefore their appearance and showcase it well. My subtle use of money (present in the image but not in sharp focus) will emphasis the economic benefit.</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>References:</i></span></span><br />
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<ul><li><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">http://www.kimberlymichaudinteriors.com/kami-online-design-services-0</i></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>http://uk.freecycle.org/</i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i>http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2008/10/second_hand_goods_classifieds_freecycle.html</i></span></li>
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Festen, or 'The Celebration' was directed by Thomas Vinterburg. Festen was the first Dogme 95 film, and Vinterburg; one of the founders of the movement. Despite the aim of Dogme 95, Vinterburg admitted to blocking a window in one of the scenes of the film which means two rules were broken - additional props being brought in and the use of special lighting. Furthermore, director Von Trier also used backing music during the filming of 'The Idiots'. The inclusion of these artificial aspects means the representation cannot be argued as a truthful one.<br />
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A particular scene in the film interested me. During the celebratory meal where everyone is gathered for Helge's 60th birthday, Christian stands up to make his toast and he suddenly begins speaking of how his father sexually abused him and his twin sister (who previous committed suicide in the hotel where the party is happening). Throughout and when he has finished speaking there is a confused and still atmosphere. The camera films people looking blankly at each other. His father at the head of the table dismisses it. After this scene of the film, it seems the aspect of doubt and confusion surrounding whether or not what Christian spoke of is actually true and how people just disregard it, means that because people can get on with the party, seems to automatically mean it's not true, or 'real'. This is the impression I got from the filmmaking in this case - how it seems that the truth comes out, but life goes on like it is not the truth at all.Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-77146345195801738302012-02-23T15:39:00.003-08:002012-02-28T12:12:50.666-08:00'Waste' Concept Update<div style="text-align: center;"><u><i>Thought Management</i></u></div><div style="text-align: center;">Having received research from my partner from the Commission seminar task, it made me think a lot more about my idea. Anne Hardy, Mario Caicedo Langer, Matt Wain and Katie Thompson are among the artists related to my initial concept of the lack of recession for second hand buyers and how second hand products which are waste to one person are useful and loved by another.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I looked at Anne Hardy's constructed sets in relation to my very first original idea of photographing a living set up of second hand furniture placed in a random location. However, I felt this concept lacked depth because despite the location representing it's purpose in one place when it has been discarded from somewhere else, it still seemed much too random and not considerate enough. This idea would also lead to with difficulties of finding location and transport, and most importantly, the whole room of second hand furniture.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I considered the idea of making something useful from waste products - recyclable materials and scrap metal etc. This is exactly what Mario Caicedo Langer does; constructing ornaments or furniture and turning the theory of 'waste' around into a more positive subject along with Katie Thompson who transforms objects. I would have liked to experiment with this idea but didn't want to risk choosing it solidly for my concept in the danger that I would not be able to produce something of value to photograph and especially in enough time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><i>Conclusion</i></u></div><div>Then I really decided I wanted to focus on second hand furniture because I have a tie to it and wanted to portray a personal message through my photographs. My family have always purchased second hand furniture because it has been the best and most cost effective choice for our lifestyle. I want to portray the advantage of buying second hand and in a sense, how there is no recession for second hand buyers because the economy does not affect them in the same way it does others.<br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b>So a summary of my concept would be the availability of the second hand market and the advantage of having it in our current economy and the anonymity behind it's context; one mans trash is another mans treasure.</b></b></div><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><u>Visual choices</u></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am still playing around with a few visual ideas for my series - the composition and framing mainly and how each image in my series will work together because I want them to flow really well. This is something I failed to achieve in my last two series I presented for the Environment projects. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My new idea is to take a set of portraits of second hand buyers with their furniture. For example, I visualise each person to be sitting and looking straight towards the camera. I have decided I will use medium format colour on my Hasselblad 500 c/m and isolate my subjects with their objects with a very shallow DOF.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am also considering involving the subtle presence of money. For example, a small pile of notes sitting on the lap of each of my subjects. This brings in the economical advantage to buying second hand and brings a new level to my concept. I feel there would be something lacking without the presence of this, especially as the idea of second hand furniture in itself is strongly linked to money in general. I have also thought about somehow labelling the furniture with it's price which will be low and therefore give some indication to it's context and how it was not brought new. I need to go about this very carefully though as to keep the image subtle, natural and classy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also want to experiment with including my dog in my series who we rescued from a dog home (and in that sense is second hand) but I do not know if I want to take it that far yet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I like Alec Soth's almost minimal style and the muted tones. The posture and pose of these subjects as well as the context of them is something I'd like to incorporate into my own series although the lighting in my images will hopefully be slightly warmer.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><u>Planning</u></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">I would have liked to visually explore my previous ideas more, but instead I allowed myself a lot of time simply for thought and working out how they would work in my mind which is how I work comfortably. As well as this, my previous ideas are not something I could have easily and quickly have explored because they would have taken time and organisation to photograph and all to possibly just discard the idea which I would not have had time to do.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I intend to shoot at least one roll of film this weekend to experiment with how each of the elements I want to include will look. What I can make work. What I need to leave out of my series. One of the images I want to include will be taken in my own home where we have an abundance of second hand subjects and very beautiful natural light every now and again which I want to really take advantage of.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Images to come...</b></div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-30724535327127457942012-02-22T02:46:00.001-08:002012-02-28T12:10:58.367-08:00Research Task: Laura Dack's research for my project<div class="MsoNormal"><i>Concept: the lack of a recession for the second hand market and the availability of hand-me-down products<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">ANNE HARDY<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Hardy’s work is constructed within empty spaces, repopulated with sourced second hand furnishings and objects that reanimate the ‘room’ into discombobulated, dystopian environments. The lack of displayed human interaction leaves us to create how the rooms came to be how they appear, rendering their disorientating appearance ‘dreamscapes’. Her images appear painterly, as they are constructed to be viewed purely from the camera’s vantage point, producing a purely two-dimensional environment. The images will always appear unreal or fabricated, yet the scenes depicted still ‘possess’ the space. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In looking at her work, the concept of using an object from someone else’s life to create a new pictorial one springs to mind. Second hand objects carry with them a story of their past ‘life’ and in creating new images with them it carries on both their legacy and their function. Reusing furniture reduces waste that has been created by fly-tippers, but can be used to a similar visual effect, as if they have been dropped into the scenes.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Langer works with broken gadgets, scrap metal and other unwanted waste to create a series of cyborg-style sculptural creations. He reuses a common waste product due to the vast increase in electrical consumerism and consumption in the past thirty years. The forms he creates take items that would otherwise take a lot of energy to melt down into bi-products and reform, and creates new products that can be reused in their reincarnations. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Langer’s art inspires ideas of using found, ‘unneeded’ or refused objects to create something functional once more, such as ornaments as he did, or other items such as furniture. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal">MATT WAIN<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I came across this commercial photographer when researching photographers who shoot portraits of people in their personal environments. I was drawn to using his work as an example in this research as in these shots the use of the environment expresses the idea that people have a relationship with furniture and visa versa. This made me think about the change that occurs to cast-off or second hand furniture that is bought or collected; does it lose its story/surface memory when passed from one person to another, and how does it reincorporate itself into a new environment. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Obviously the furniture in his images doesn’t suggest they are second hand but it is relevant to the portraiture theme of the project to see the relationship between subject and environment. From this I personally would be inspired to photograph the homes of those who collect second hand furniture but, unlike the work of Anne Hardy, I would have the subject in the image to draw parallels between the furniture and the owner, suggesting the personal relationship between them.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I would use these objects to reconstruct either a 360˚/270˚ scene of a room, or multiple single vantage point scenes of a room, and photograph various parts of the scene to create various narratives about the suggested inhabitant of the scene. I would construct furniture in the style of Katie Thompson, by using bits of furniture and other objects. I would be tempted to pastiche the dystopian backdrops of Anne Hardy’s work and also her use of hanging objects to fill the room so that no part of the image(s) is empty. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">If three separate scenes were created, I would shoot with a large depth of field to emphasise the sheer amount of objects, as I would aim to cram a lot into one area, creating jumble heaps, much like scenes in the movie Labyrinth in the junk yard where children’s forgotten things end up. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-31051480126947377802012-02-21T08:31:00.002-08:002012-02-28T12:08:13.123-08:00Research Task: My research for Laura Dack's project<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>My research for Laura Dack's project.</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Basic concept: the rate of decay and consumption concerning waste.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who would you look at and what ideas can you take from those photographers/artists in order </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><u><b>David Maisel</b></u></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">David Maisel is a perfect visual reference for the aspect of decay in this concept in terms of both still life and landscapes and he would definitely be an influence of mine. Popular work of his comes in the form of the still life images he has produced from photographing copper canisters originally kept at the Oregon State Insane Asylum (where 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' was filmed in 1975). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Having looked into these photographs, I discovered that the copper of the containers reacted with water when they were kept in an underground archive at the asylum which flooded numerous times over a number of decades. This is what caused the different formations and colours on the cans during their time in the depository where they were left. The canisters contain ashes of patients who were never claimed by anyone. Each can is individual and unique, just like we are. Metaphorically these cans become almost like portraits of the people who's ashes reside inside.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As is evident from the above photograph, Maisel uses a very shallow depth of field which highlights detail in the formations; similarly to how a portrait photographer may use a very shallow DOF to focus on the eyes of their subject to highlight their importance. Maybe Maisel is trying to say something about these people through representing the cans in this way specifically.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite the nature of the objects and the negative connotations linked to them through their origin, the subjects in their present form are strangely beautiful. The shallow DOF aids this but it is predominantly the colour and detail in the photographs that makes them so.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From looking at the interior images of the Asylum taken by Maisel, vibrant colour and either natural light or light coming specifically from lightbulbs seems to run through all of his images in this body of work. To me this makes them striking just like his photographs of the canisters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is something strange about the beautiful natural light coming in from the windows and the brightly painted walls when perceiving this in context - this is a stark juxtaposition with the nature of the location and it's history although this is displayed visually also through the peeling paint and random rubble carpeting these same rooms. I personally really like these photographs. Both elements photographed of the Asylum - the canisters and interiors and part of Maisel's body of work 'Library of Dust'.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The DOF used for the photographs of the interiors is larger than that of the canisters. This allows the details of the peeling walls and the dirt lining the edges of the room to retain their detail as these are important aspects of the photos visual elements and meaning. The natural aesthetics that both sets of these photographs take on are something that can be used in your own project to help structure it. It makes them more relatable in the sense of their realism and also how we often strive for beauty.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">http://lookintomyowl.com/david-maisel-library-of-dust.html</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">http://davidmaisel.com/works/lod.asp</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><i><b>Robert Polidori</b></i></u></span><br />
Robert Polidori has created photographs of destroyed interiors after the New Orleans flood, the aftermath of hurricane Katrina and photographed buildings greatly affected by the Chernobyl disaster. The visual approach to his images are similar in a way to Maisel's. The buildings are adorned with bright colours despite the negative context they are in.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is said that "<span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">Polidori transcends the limits of photography and captures traces of the human condition — paradoxically, in places that have usually been abandoned and are devoid of human presence. Each photograph amounts to a social portrait, revealing the soul of its various subjects, and layering both past and present in poignant works steeped in sorrow and beauty."</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The theme of decay is as much evident in these images as Maisel's asylum work. I get the impression more from Maisel's series that these places have been abandoned for a long time which supports the concept of the rate of decay specifically. However, Polidori's seem more like it is simply documenting the stare of these interiors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Other similarities between the two interior works which I feel work very well are:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ul><li>the large depth of field displaying the detail of the decay and allowing all aspects of the images to become equal in importance (and for the scenes to be viewed as a whole).</li>
<li>The seemingly natural light providing some beauty to the devastating scenes.</li>
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</div><div><u><b><i>Andreas Gursky</i></b></u></div><div><u><br />
</u></div><div>A good photographer to look at in terms of consumption which his project particularly his 99-cent work. He photographs things on a large scale, which would relate to a theme of a fast rate of consumption.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I would chose to portray this concept though landscape or the interiors of decaying buildings because these can look very effective when the decay is displayed through a large scale. However, a smaller still life could be very intimate and more personal just as Maisel's canisters are.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Specifically photographing buildings after certain events when the times of the event and the time of the photograph being taken are known, relates to the 'rate' of the decay. As well as decay, the theme of consumption could be portrayed through photographs of commercial interiors such as shops and supermarkets. Utilising a long exposure time and therefore blurring movement of people could represent the rate of consumption also.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>What visual tools would you use to represent the concept (what would the viewer encounter in your image)?</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I would personally use a large DOF to include all the detail of the scenes and to equalise it; just as Maisel and Polidori to avoid isolating importance to certain parts of the focus. I would most likely use a large format camera with a wide-angle lens for optimum detail.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">This would depend mainly on whether the theme of decay or consumption is chosen. I feel taking a similar approach to Gursky and photographing consumer related interiors relates well to the specific rate of things occurring (such as consumption). In this case I would try to include as many materialistic objects like food and general shopping items into my photographs as possible.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">However, I think the rate of decay is even more interesting. The rate specifically of decay may be hard to represent. Possibly just the theory of decay due to certain circumstances would also work. These circumstances being things like natural disasters that Polidori works with.<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>What would be your visual choices in the images (focus, distance, lighting, camera position etc.)?</b><b><o:p> </o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><ul><li>I would choose to use a large DOF as I’ve already mentioned and have the whole photograph in focus.</li>
<li>I would take the photographs from a medium distance if working with decay to involve much of the scene. It is not a macro image but in the case of the rate of consumerism, a further distance away would work a lot better to include as much repetitiveness of objects (and possibly people) as possible in the images.</li>
<li>I love the look of the natural looking light if taking the route of the abandoned and decaying urban buildings – it contrasts so greatly. Artificial lighting seems to relate very well to the concept of consumerism.</li>
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</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-40317239160035298342012-02-20T10:00:00.001-08:002012-02-28T12:07:21.284-08:00Fashion: constructed image - Our Concept (updated)<i>Originally written by Joe Borsos.</i><br />
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</div><div>For our constructed image we decided that we wanted to look at the element of duality. We started with this idea so that we could construct a more complex narrative to portray interlaced binary opposites. This lead us to construct our narrative around the ‘American Dream’.<br />
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The concept of showing this idea of a duality to the American Dream, is to use the stereotypical signifiers of the ‘perfect American lifestyle’ but our narrative would subtly also portray the extreme ‘dark side’ to this concept of ‘American Perfection’.<br />
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The visual focus of this shoot will be tailored predominately to the 1950’s America. We made this choice as the high point of the American Dream and it’s most iconic propaganda campaigns are post world war II, starting in the late 40’s and 50’s.<br />
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Our set build will be of the typical 1950’s family dining room, as the dining room is the heart of the family life. It is where the family meet every day, to share their home cooked meal and bond together.<br />
Looking at the concept of ‘Blue Velvet’, there is the idea that behind the white picket fence, past the perfect mowed lawn, there exists an incredibly dark and twisted life that is hidden from the world behind this mask of consumerism.</div><div><br />
Our narrative will look at the American mother, as the mother is the one that keeps the house clean and in perfect order and prepares the meal to hold the family together. Our perfect American mother however, will be replaced by a lonely woman gone insane and delusional through her obsession with the ‘American Dream’; desperately attempting to pursue this. She has set up the full family dining room ready for dinner but she has no family. She has masked herself and life in the products of the American Dream to the extent where even her skin and posture will appear fake, and constructed, to show a loss of the human side to this consumerists’ dream.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Looking at other films like ‘American Beauty’, ‘The Truman Show’ and ‘Fight Club, we wish to take their concepts of obsession with possessions, with the material objects, and in this action the possessions consume the consumer, and they lose sight of meaning in their self identity until they are no longer human. Another visual and concept film reference is 'Donnie Darko' for it's physiological aspects much like that of 'Fight Club'.</div><div><br />
We will move away from the concepts of photographer’s like Gregory Crewdson and take elements of the lighting concepts of Finaly Mckay, where everything is lit meticulously to eliminate all shadows, making the person appear plastic.</div></div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-25837046348985904692012-02-08T08:33:00.001-08:002012-02-28T12:06:34.027-08:00'The Portrait Issue' Research Task<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Changing Pace, David Weir', Finlay MacKay</span><br />
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<a href="http://roadto2012.npg.org.uk/images/fm_2011_05_12_weir_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://roadto2012.npg.org.uk/images/fm_2011_05_12_weir_0.jpg" width="400" /></a>Aesthetically, this image of David Weir, photographed by Finlay MacKay is very vibrant in colour. There is a great sense of movement in the photograph which is created by many things: the left leaning tree; the shape of the winding road expanding in the foreground; the posture of Weir, leaning into the speed. This is an effective element of the photograph due to the fact that it is part of a commission for the 2012 Olympics. The theme fits in very well.<br />
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Judging by the shadow, the photograph was probably taken late afternoon. MacKay has used strobe lighting which casts strong light over his subject causing him to stand out. This method means the viewer can pick him out of the photograph as important which he rightly is. The tonal range is great, with the highlights on the subject down to the dark trunks and shadows beneath the trees in the background. The DOF is large as most of the image is sharp. I might have expected a shallower depth of field to pick out Weir from the image so the viewer can focus more of their attention on him.<br />
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The photograph has been taken from a regular eye level view, from a point not too far ahead of Weir so in a sense we see him approaching us - further adding to the sense of movement evident in the image already. MacKay favours 80mm and 50mm lenses. This particular photograph has most likely been taken with an 80mm lens.<br />
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MacKay's photographic technique is creative because he has stitched together multiple digital images to make this final photograph. Similarly, for his first commercial campaign which was in 2002, MacKay used multiple negatives to produce his final image.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Actual Life', Toby Glanville</span><br />
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The concept of the image seems to be a portrayal of a 'real' woman, caught as she's doing what she does every day, therefore it is 'actual life'. Judging by her clothing and the environment and context of the photograph, it looks like this woman is a teacher.<br />
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Glanville's single subject stands almost completely in the middle of his frame, just as MacKay's subject is. She is looking straight into the camera which Glanville obviously has held to his face for us as a viewer to see this woman with equality. There are no feelings on either side of superiority or inferiority. The expression on her face is natural and friendly and her pose seems her own.<br />
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The lighting in the photograph looks very natural, coming in though the window on the right. We can see the shadow of the window and blinds projected into the board behind the woman which is joined by her shadow. This and the highlight on the side of her face prove a good tonal range although the shadows aren't extremely dark or the highlights extremely bright. The soft lighting seems to relate well to Glanville's subject and the idea she is portraying of herself through her pose and expression. The depth of field is also quite large, like MacKay's. Both images portray a lot of detail to the viewer.<br />
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<div style="direction: ltr;">A big difference between the two images of Glanville's and MacKay's which jumps out at me is that of the camera position and how although the movement in the first seems to guide the subject towards us, we have no real connection to him like we do in Glanville's where the woman is making eye contact. This may cause some people to feel a lot more like they can relate to her with this connection and I think any other pose wouldn't work as well or be as effective as this one. This leads me to believe that the visual approach Glanville has employed means the viewer can read into the image in their own way; based on agenda background and identity more so than MacKay's or Gebert's.</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br />
</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: large;">'Freischneider', Ulrich Gebert</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amerika-berlin.de/uploads/tx_gsislideshow/UG_Freischneider4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.amerika-berlin.de/uploads/tx_gsislideshow/UG_Freischneider4.jpg" width="345" /></a></div><div style="direction: ltr;">This is a portrait of a hedge cutter in his uniform and protective clothing out of context from his 'garden' as such. The significance of this separation is that "physical confrontation between man and nature is hardly necessary anymore to validate the claim to power". However, it also causes some confusion because the man has been taken out of context.<br />
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The prime similarities between the three photographs are the use of a single subject and the use of colour.</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br />
</div><div style="direction: ltr;">The gaze of the subject is very different in each. We only have eye contact with Glanville's subject like a traditional portrait which makes the photograph have a more emotional outreach to the viewer. And Glanville is fond of the traditional. The gaze of MacKay's subject is very much concentrated on his task which is what we notice about the photograph - what he is doing and how. Lastly, the gaze of Gebert's subject is elsewhere like he has been snapped unaware. He has a very focussed expression on his face.</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br />
</div><div style="direction: ltr;">The framing of Gebert's image is not at all like MacKay's and Glanville's who do not take their subject out of context as Gebert has done. We wonder what the subject is looking at. The camera position is quite close to the subject, much closer than Glanville's and MacKay's who are appearing to have more similarities. The depth of field is large - just as in the previous two photographs and we can see all the detail in the face of the man and his clothing. The photograph has been taken using a flash which creates the bright highlights. There are some shadows however and the tonal range is about average.</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-43844547760575914482012-02-07T10:35:00.001-08:002012-02-28T12:04:57.259-08:00'Waste' Brainstorming and Initial Ideas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Brainstorming ideas for our current 'Waste' project</u></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">After our lecture about our new project in which I took down general notes about waste, names of photographers linked to photographing waste and some definitions of the word, I put these together in a diagram along with some random ideas I could use for the project.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Through writing down all my notes and additional research I did in one place I was able to look at it all together and draw links between things which I have highlighted in yellow. I also highlighted the photographers who's work I admired the most.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">How I came to my idea...</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">I considered waste more metaphorically like 'a waste of space' or a 'waste of time' and considered finding uncultivated land to take a series of landscapes of which could be given more purpose; it being a waste of space just as it is.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>While also planning on going to my local tip and photographing the organisation of waste and recycling I suddenly imagined an empty field accompanied by a living set up - an old sofa and chair, old television and rug etc., some things which you might find in a tip that people have got rid of for whatever reason. They will be arranged as if they are in a real room and they are in use but there will be no physical room (no walls, roof or floor). A set made up of things people discard because they don't want them anymore despite the fact they can still serve a purpose. I want the significance of them being out of place - in a field - to represent how things can be put to use somewhere else if they are unwanted in one place, no matter where. Taking the objects out of context highlights how their purpose is versatile. "One man's trash is another man's treasure" after all. This also links well with the fact that waste is directly linked to human development.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Other concepts I was interested in</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought about using recyclable objects or general scrap to build something useful - something like a dog kennel, and photograph this. This would show the versatile aspect of things people throw away.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also liked the idea of 'waste' being defined as a noun, particularly: "to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health or strength" which considers the idea of waste more metaphorically.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-53376753803979872742012-02-07T06:15:00.001-08:002012-02-28T12:04:23.651-08:00Fashion: constructed image - Our Concept (Film)Since being assigned the brief for our constructed fashion image project, we have been developing our idea and researching concepts for a week now.<br />
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We spent 2 days producing A2 mood boards full of visual references that related to our chosen category - film. We had a range of images involved in our findings from black and white surrealist film stills to fashion images of Tim Walkers' to a number of images involving hoarding and collections dealing with the obsessive side of personalities. Having such a vast range of references was good and bad. We had a bigger choice but then we had to narrow it down a lot to what we really wanted our image to be about.<br />
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Upon displaying our presentation on Friday, we have realised we still need to make a lot of decisions about our narrative, aesthetics and the general photographic choices we will employ for our final image. We will also refine our idea, which is explained in our presentation below:<br />
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video comingChristine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-79133334749362205072012-01-26T09:22:00.001-08:002012-02-28T12:03:45.774-08:00Fashion: constructed image - Task 2<div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Task Two</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Carry out a simple 'street' casting of a chosen character or model.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">I chose to photograph my brother for this task. I felt taking his portrait rather than a strangers was a better decision based on portraying the person's character. I placed my model in relative context - outside a music shop. This fit in very well with his own choice of music-related branded clothing and (with a deeper understanding of his character as I have) the fact that he is a musician.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am inspired by his look through our shared love of music and instruments.<br />
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Most importantly, I have showcased a character who rests outside of what the mainstream media may consider the norm, as the brief describes, and what I relate to more so than mainstream fashion.</div>Christine Sandersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01394191736225308987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109560875040429338.post-15806685406974029232012-01-26T08:38:00.001-08:002012-02-28T12:03:29.977-08:00Fashion: constructed image - Task 1<div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Task One</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Research, analyse and deconstruct what you consider to be an 'iconic' fashion image.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have chosen this black and white photograph of Twiggy for the task. The reason I feel this is an iconic fashion image is because I feel for the photograph itself to be iconic, it must feature an icon - Twiggy is best recognised as a great fashion icon of the 60's, and therefore she makes this photograph an iconic fashion image. It is also the most famous photograph of her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br />
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</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Clothing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The model wears (from what we can see) a simple looking garment but with a complex fair isle design which seems a juxtaposition. The repeated pattern and simple neckline first draws attention from an audience but does not distract from the model herself too much. Any additional clothing, such as a hat or hair piece would impinge upon one of the models most famous features - her short hair.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Hair and make up</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Other elements of her appearance that the model was well known for were her big eyes and long eyelashes - part of her androgynous look (a combination of male and female characterisations). In this photograph this is evident with the use of very dark, long separated false eyelashes and eyelashes painted on which emphasise her large eyes. They stand out against her pale skin and the dark eyeshadow applied in the creases of her eyelids emphasise their size even more. Other than her eye make-up she seems to be styles quite naturally - nothing on her skin or lips.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Her short hair cut into a crop has been styled smoothly with a side parting on her left side. The short length, shine, and lack of further styling does not distract the viewer from anything important but seems a contrast to the complexity of her clothing design.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Lighting and photographic techniques</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lategan talks of being inspired by the renaissance and impressionists who posed their models similarly to how he has done. He faced his camera at her eye level "so that she was looking on equality". The photograph is side lit as there is shadow only on the left side of her face and neck. This gives the shine to the opposite side of her hair. It seems there is a front fill light used in the set up also to avoid shadow on the front of the models face meaning no important information is lost.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Setting and context</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is unknown from just looking at the photograph, for the simple fact we see nothing in the image other than the models head and shoulders. This has allowed me to focus entirely on the model in the image who provides the 'iconic' I am deconstructing. However, having done research, the setting and context is very interesting and surprising!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<b> Brassai</b> - 'Paris after dark' My pastiche<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Having changed my idea at a late stage, I did not have much influence other than my surroundings and how I perceived them but John Davies’ work documenting Britain’s industrialisation with a similar concept to my own would have most likely inspired me to document urban space in Britain like I have. An issue that could have arisen within this project would have been making sure each photograph compliments the others and they all work together. I’ve approached this by making each image correspond to the next as my series documents on topic and its change over time.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">My photographic choices concerning the visual elements of the series were: to photograph in black and white which suits the topic more in my opinion; to use a large depth of field to include a lot of detail in my work because I wasn’t isolating anything in particular but photographing whole scenes; and to use the right angle for each image to showcase it best such as slightly elevated for the first image of wasteland and from a street level looking upwards for the middle image to show the scaffolding as I saw it.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">For this project specifically I think I need to reflect upon managing my studies better and give myself the maximum amount of time to allow for changes. The most significant challenge in this unit was drawing inspiration from other work, as I seemed to simply perceive the urban space and visualise my photographs straight away so my work lacks input from others. However, I am happy with how my series works.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
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