Guillaume Amat used old archival images from world war two and went to the locations where they were taken. He then digitally manipulated the images to add the archival images the into the same place in the image where they originally were. I believe he made this set of images as a reminder to people what happened in the war and how the scars of war are still there if you look hard enough.
This is work have recreated from my own images of the sand dunes and archival from the J.E.P archive. I chose the sand dunes (Blanches Banques) as my chosen area as it was used as a prisoner of war camp in war world two. I edited the images in three different ways: The first was in the style of Guillaume Amat’s images, where he roughly blends the two images together. In the second I laid the the old image over the new images with no manipulation to show the whole of the second image. The in the last of the experiments, I superimposed a frame around the archival image like my previous shoot but without the use of a model holding the frame.
Produce a detailed plan of 3 shoots for each idea in your specification that you are intending to do; how, who, when, where and why in the next 3 weeks?
Photo shoot one – For my first photo shoot I am planning to further develop my previous mirror shoot by doing a similar photo shoot be in a different location to add to this idea. For the location, I am planning to go to a beach/ rocky beach location. I am also going to try to use different size and shaped mirrors also using a model to hold the mirror. To complete the shoot I will use a tripod to make sure the photos are taken from exactly the same place each time.
Possible location in the southwest of Jersey (Photographing around the coast)
Photo shoot two – The next photo shoot will consist of taking a photo of the landscape, digitally manipulating it in some way, printing it out and then somehow rephotograph it in the landscape. This could be achieved by either going a model to hold the image in their hands or holding up the image myself behind the camera. The show differentiation in the images which will be printed out I plan to take them at a different weather condition or a different time of day which will change the lighting and shadows.
William Notman, rephotographed by Andrzej Maciejewski in 2002
Photo shoot Three – My third photo shoot will be similar to my second but instead of using images I have taken and rephotographing them back into the landscape, I will used archival images from public archive and rephotographing them back into the landscape. I could incorporate these images back into the landscape as previously stated in my second shoot. The idea behind these images is to show what changes have occurred in between the time when the two images have been taken.
Fady al-Sadik in Alleruzzo’s 2003 photo — orphaned by the war and was rife with crime.
Possible Photo Shoot Four – Another photo shoot I could conduct is taking paintings in frames and rephotographing them back into the landscape. The paintings could be cheaply purchased from a second shop. The idea of this shoot is too show the contrast between the painting and the surrounding landscape. The artworks would juxtapose the landscape (e.g. An smokey industrial painting in an idyllic country-side background)
Behind the lens was an expedition that focused on 1960s-70s Britain. This included pop culture, counter pop culture, sexual revolution and rock documentary. The expedition was by Mike McCartney, Rupert Truman and Carinthia West. The main focus of the gallery was on street photography style images were the subject didn’t know the image was going to be taken. The images captured the raw moments of music artists such as Paul McCartney working in there natural environment. The gallery also had images which were going to used as album covers for bands such as Pink Floyd.
Public and private – Pop Icons
Exhibiting artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield and Allen Jones. The gallery focused on British and American Pop artists showing there work. Emerging in the mid 1950’s in Britain and late 1950’s in America, Pop Art reached its peak in the 1960’s and went on to become the most recognisable art form of the 20th century. It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be.
Public and private – Being Human
The final exhibition we visited focused on female artwork. Being Human is an all-female art exhibition. The gallery holding the exhibition thought an all-female showcase needed to happen locally when they read the “Tate appears to have a 30% cap on the collection of female artists, with its allocation of annual budget is even worse, with as little as 13% spent on works by female artists in recent years.”
Sir Peter Blake – Babe Rainbow
Blake was commissioned by Dodo Designs to produce an enamel plaque that was issued in an edition of 10,000 and sold for £1. Due to a fault in the enameling process the work was eventually screen printed onto tin. Babe Rainbow was a fictional lady wrestler, the reverse of the work featured her biography. This was favorite artwork from all three exhibitions as I thought it best depicted its chosen art style which in this case was pop art. The artwork reminds me somewhat of a poster the way there is central figure in the image and the bold text writing.
This is my third photo shoot I conducted to experiment working with mirrors. To complete this shoot I used a tripod to mount my camera on, I then used a model to hold mirror up in the landscape. I took a photo of the landscape before the model stepped into frame and then took a photo with them in the frame. I used the cutting tool to cut and the middle of the mirror so the layer was clear there. I then put the image of the plain landscape behind this image to create the affect that the frame was clear but it also hid whatever was behind it (Like an invisibility cloak.)
To get the landscape (behind the mirror) in the image to look exactly the same and unaltered I made sure it was the right size and positioned in the right place.
These are my best final outcomes from shooting and experimenting in this style. The images are in a surrealist style which is something I could further explore. (This also links to the idea of the sublime which I could also explore.) The weather on this day also helped to add to the idea of the sublime as it was very foggy with golden light from the sun creating a mysterious atmosphere.
SPECIFICATION: Write a specification with 2-3 ideas about what you are planning to do; how, who, when, where and why? Use images to illustrate your ideas
Carry on experimenting with mirrors how I first started the task.
Use mirrors to create illusions.
Use mirrors to create social outlooks on what the image means.
Incorporating circles into my images with the work of john Baldessari and circle mirrors (maybe pop art).
Another task we performed on our out of classroom day was experimenting with archival images. In our pairs we were given two images between us, we then flipped a coin onto said image and cut around the coin with a Stanley knife. We then changed the outcome of the images by overlapping them in different formations. We also kept the off cuts to add to the images we had experimented with. Below are some different variations of the images we experimented with in my pair.
John Baldessari – “I think when I’m doing art, I’m questioning how to do it.”
John Baldessari is a leading Conceptual artist. In the early 1960s, when he emerged, painting was important in his work. He painted in a gestural style but by the end of the decade he had begun to introduce pre-existing images and text often creating riddles that highlighted some of the unspoken assumptions of contemporary painting and in the 1970s he abandoned painting altogether and instead made a large range of media (his interests generally still focused on the photographic image.)
Baldessari once said – “If you can’t see their face, you’re going to look at how they’re dressed, maybe their stance, their surroundings,”
We spend a lesson outside the classroom to do a an outdoor photo shoot task. In the lesson when started out in pairs throwing these yellow dodge balls up in the air and trying to frame and photograph them with no blur in the center of the view finder. The point of this task was to try and teach as how to photograph a moving object while ensuring the subject was framed correctly.
We then moved on to ‘Photo Boxing’. In this task we used a small portraiture lens on our cameras and tried to photograph our partner who was consistency moving around. This tasked also focused on moving objects and trying to capture them without motion blur.
John Baldessari’s image
This is an edit I created in the style of the original image were I used the paint brush tool to recreate the sky the same colour. I then cropped out the balls from my original image, turned then orange in colour and positioned them as i thought they should be.
In our final task we tried to recreate Baldessari’s image of three oranges in a straight line. He took the image by change after throwing the three oranges up in the air and capturing them in a line by chance. We tried to recreate this by our partner throwing up three tennis balls. I also created created a more abstract edit to experiment with the idea.
For my second photo shoot I when to the sand dunes to further develop my work inspired by Cody William Smith. These are my best photos from the shoot. I like the idea of using bigger mirrors and incorporating more elements of people into the images. An artist I could use to help develop these ideas is Guillaume Amat.
This is the work I was trying to recreate from Cody William Smith.
” Modernism was generally based on idealism and a utopian vision of human life and society and a belief in progress. It assumed that certain ultimate universal principles or truths such as those formulated by religion or science could be used to understand or explain reality. Modernist artists experimented with form, technique and processes rather than focusing on subjects, believing they could find a way of purely reflecting the modern world. ”
Modernism in art and photography was very showing things and portraying scenes in the way the photographer / artist thought they
Post-Modernism
“Post-Modernism collapsed the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, between art and everyday life. Because postmodernism broke the established rules about style, it introduced a new era of freedom and a sense that ‘anything goes’. Often funny, tongue-in-cheek or ludicrous; it can be confrontational and controversial, challenging the boundaries of taste; but most crucially, it reflects a self-awareness of style itself.”
Thomas Florschuetz is a German photographer who was born in 1957. His work has featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK) and the Galerie m Bochum. Thomas Florschuetz’s work has been offered at auction multiple times. Florschuetz’s images of the human body are quite abstract and show unnatural expressions.
Stuart Pearson wright
Stuart Pearson Wright went to school in Eastbourne, Sussex and graduated from Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London (1995–1999), receiving a B.A. in Fine Art. He is best known for his irreverent and detailed figurative portraits.
