Cubism:

August 6, 2015 2873 Claudia Viveiros Leave a comment

Cubism first appeared in 1907 and this amazing concept continued until 1916. It was the beginning of Modernism. It was another way in which photographers could exhibit their great thinking processes and express themselves. Cubism consisted of showing present moments in time. It didn’t depict any kind of religious stories. Many works from cubism only showed the artists mental view on the subject matter. The mental beliefs and views were much more in depth and they avoided showing a naturalistic observation. A naturalistic observation is defined as looking at something in it’s natural environment.

Cubism, is very different. Instead it focuses on unrealistic qualities, hence the mental beliefs, which are useful here. The elements which are intertwined into the photograph are purely aesthetical and mostly ‘out of the blue’.

Pablo Picasso created many cubism paintings. Here are some examples:

Pablo Picasso - cubism — Pablo Picasso – cubism

Spanish - Oil on Canvas - 1881 - 1973. — Spanish – Oil on Canvas – 1881 – 1973.

Research

Photomontage

August 6, 2015 2873 Claudia Viveiros Leave a comment

Photomontages were first created to create a new, fresh and different presentation of photographs. Since the conventional style was becoming too boring and typical. A photomontage is made by chopping up photographs and then composing them together again in different manners. During the time that the concept of photomontage was first created, the world was going through the war, big revolutions and large political struggles. This concept became an outcome of all of this commotion.

The montages exuded the chaos of the war age and showed the negative sides of the revolution as well. It was always very unique and each photomontage would show the many strange and different views. In result, many different concepts were thought of. An example was the concept of juxtaposing photographic banalities.

John Heartfield - photomontage - Adolf, Der Ubermensch. — John Heartfield – photomontage – Adolf, Der Ubermensch.

Evaluation

EVALUATION

August 3, 2015 Emily Vetier Leave a comment

Over the past time of working with the project Chance, Challenge and Change i think that it has been interesting to find out different ways of seeing how photographs to be taken, as before starting this project i would of never said that a video could be classed as a photography, but seeing as each frame/second of the video is a photo, i think that it can be classed as photography. I think that when learning about the idea of performance photography it is interesting to see how artists like Tom Pope chooses to take his images, using the idea of change, challenge and change but also with theories such as Psychogeography, and i think this makes you think about it when you are taking photographs. When going through this project i found it quite hard to relate to it and to become interested in it, as i think that some of the performance videos/photos are a bit boring and pointless. However i can see how some people would find it fun and enjoyable to play with different aspects of performance when making photography. I think that if i was to do this project again i would try and be more engaged in taking photographs and try make more of an effort to see what aspects of performance photography i would like.

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GILLIAN WEARING

August 1, 2015 Emily Vetier Leave a comment

Gillian Wearing uses the idea of chance, challenge and change which she uses in a video she made called ‘Dancing in Peckham’, in this video it is just of a lady dancing, with no music in the middle of what looks like shopping centre, in this video there are people walking past at all different times within this video, with different facial expressions which makes them keep a distance from her, whether this is because they think it is strange or they have seen the camera and they do not want to have photographs taken of them. Gillian Wearing was born in 1963 and made 70’s television into fine art and because of this TV programme makers and advertisers have copied her. Wearing works with video recordings of performances but also photography, she characterises her art as a ‘kind of portraiture’. http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/03/art

In some of Wearing work she has tried to use the idea of challenge and change by using masks and other disguises to remove her face so there is no visual of the person, some say that this is as if she ‘distrusts the face’. One of Wearing’s projects was when she walked down Walworth Road and bandaged her face and videoed herself walking down the street while she had people tell their secrets, as she had a mask on and so did the people, this removed their identity, and the idea of wearing a mask i think plays with the idea of performance photography. In the video of Wearing dancing in the shopping centre…

William Blake – “The most sublime act is to set another before you.” This portrait is an attempt to become, rather than to paint, another person.

When Wearing went to take this video she first saw in the distant there was a lady who was dancing to some jazz music where she was dancing completely out of time and it looked as if she didn’t care as she was ‘caught in the moment’ but this women caught Wearings eye as she was away from everyone else in her own little world. So in Wearings video she sets out to recreate the idea that she saw of this lady in the Royal Festival Hall who was caught in the moment by dancing completely out of sync to the music, but enjoying herself so much.

“Dancing in Peckham is a 25-minute video that shows on an ordinary television monitor. The dancer, Gillian Wearing, under the vaulted glass roof, on the shiny pavement, has a look of intense seriousness on her face. She throws her hair about, shakes, gets down. She looks ridiculous, in a public place in broad daylight. She is not dancing to a Walkman, just to sounds in her head. Before making the video she practised dancing to some of her favourite music – Nirvana, Queen, Gloria Gaynor.” http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/03/art

Record / Photoshoot

Croatia

July 28, 2015 Sian Cumming Leave a comment

For the last 10 days, I visited Croatia, in Dubrovnik for a family holiday and wanted to present some photographs I took of the beautiful country and explain some of the history behind some of the architect. I took most of the photographs on my iPhone, so the quality of the photographs aren’t to a very high standard if I wanted to print them out. I also took some photographs on my GoPro Hero 3 which give the photographs more of a fish eye effect to them.

We went up on the cable car in Dubrovnik to get a greater view of the old city. This blurred photograph happens to be one of my favourite just because the colours running through the photographs are beautiful and the streams of lights shows the direction of travel with the camera as i was trying to achieve movement in the photograph.

Walking down the stairs to the main street of the old city of Dubrovnik

This photograph was taken in the ‘blue cave’ it is called that because the water was such a vibrant blue and it was so clear, I got the chance to swim in it. So I used the GoPro to get a picture of this boat in the cave by putting it half way between the water and the surface to get the boat and underneath the boat. Unfortunately it came out blurry but I like how you can still notice how blue the water is. This was on our way to Montenegro.

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Performance Photography: Self Evaluation

July 17, 2015 Shannon O'Donnell Leave a comment

Overall, I don’t think that I have produced enough work which is why I am going to carry on working on this project for a while over summer. I just don’t think that I have done enough of my own work other than the day trip to St Malo, a few experimentation’s inspired by other photographers and one of my own shoots. This week I am going to carry on working on my Invisibility Cloak project to try and produce some more good work as I like the idea behind it and think that there is plenty of room for a lot more development. I want to develop this over the summer as well as get started on some research and planning [and shoots] for the next term of documentary photography which I think will be very interesting. I’m not sure how well I will do on this but I will obviously try my best and get to work over the summer period.

I don’t yet have a favourite final outcome from my individual shoot of Invisibility Cloak as I have quite a few and I still want to create more during summer. I have decided on some final outcomes but I don’t actually prefer any over the other as I think they are all basically on the same level and get my message across. I do however like the stranger ones as it makes the spectator think and wonder what is actually going on in the photograph. Below are four of the images taken from my Invisibility Cloak shoot.

Over the summer I will be working on a new location at the beach and I think I want to develop some experiments on John Baldessari with beach shots, having a load of people on the beach but everyone of them being anonymous with the different coloured dots in front of their faces as well as it being in black and white.

Evaluation

Project Evaluation

July 17, 2015 Jessica Freire Leave a comment

At first when I was introduced to this project I found it hard to understand the concept and the meaning behind Tom Pope’s work as there was no explanation and most of his videos were in silent of him doing a repetitive performance. However after the day at the Societe where Tom explained what he was trying to achieve,I got a better understanding of the idea of pushing boundries and his videos made more sense to me. I found this project interesting because it was something I hadn’t given much thought to or questioned before. I like that through photography you can uncover different topics and we were able to ‘dig’ into the past and the history of Jersey through the archive. I think it was challenging to think outside the box and think of ideas which would challenge society but at the same time be legal however the more the more you think about it the easier it becomes. In France I was able to do most of the ideas that I had planned to do and I was pleased with the outcomes, to improve my project I think I needed to think of more ideas where we could engage with the public a bit more and take more photographs.

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Final Outcome 4

July 17, 2015 Max Le Feuvre Leave a comment

Experimentation

Subversion Experiment