CCA gallery
Bones – Rupet Truman – From the triplet Mirrors Scissors and Bones 
Mirrors – Rupet Truman – From the triplet Mirrors Scissors and Bones 
Three – Rupet Truman
The CCA Gallery was an expedition “showcasing the unseen aspects of photographing celebrities, from behind the lenses of Carinthia West, Rupert Truman (Storm Studios) and Mike McCartney.” The expedition also showed an insight into the lives of other 60’s icons such as Mick Jagger by showing their album covers.
The image that caught my attention however was “three”, an image that was on the front cover of Archideep and the Monkeyshakers’ taken by Rupet Truman. This work appeals to me as I feel it can link in with my work showing that not every one is the same and have different story’s shown by the masks similarly to how the car boot stalls tell my subjects story.
Although I like this image, much of his other work is quite bland and rarely links with my work. This can be shown in this work Bones and Mirrors, which is quite bland as it is just a tree with objects hanging off it.
Private Gallery
The Private Gallery was very different from the CCA Gallery as it contrasted greatly by showing pop art rather than the more abstract work of the CCA Gallery. The Gallery was called ‘Pop icons in the 20th century, Britain and American pop art’, which I believe it showed in the contrasting colours and abstract shapes in the work. The pop art movement was around in the 1950’s and peaked in the 60’s but is still widely recognized and practiced today. The work at this gallery had a very contemporary style to it – a lot of the work was art rather than photography but was still relevant as the themes and styles used can be transferred into photography.
One image that I liked was the ‘black bean soup’ image. this is because is is simplistic which appeals to me visually. This image was taken by Warhol in the early 60’s, the height of Pop art and followed a common theme of painting soup cans and cola bottles. Even though these were paintings rather than photographs they still apply the same rules of variation and similarity which I believe to be important.