John Baldessari, born on the 17th of June 1931 in California, is a photographer, artist and teacher of the arts. Since the 1950’s he has been creating artwork by using techniques from various subjects such as painting, photography, montaging and text to create his own meaning behind his art.

As he was born in National City, California, he has a key artist within the west coast, as he himself and his style was completely different from other uprising artists from the same area as him.

Baldessari’s main goal was to challenge the standard ideas of art, by using imagery from films and advertisements, and using in your face contrasting shapes or textures, and covering photos, with shapes in appropriate places to fragment the photos.

For my response to the Civil war Stereographs I will be using this photo as reference and I will be using these images for the edits.

To create these stereographs I used an application called XstereO Player, it allows you to use red and blue, or green and magenta. I used photos that I took on a snow day a while back. The image shapes you can get are a standard portrait, or a wider landscape.

The American Civil war started 158 years ago, and back in 2011, it was its 150th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, The Atlantic made a special issue featuring photographs from the civil war itself.

These photos were taken by war correspondents to bring the ugly visuals of the frontlines to those at home, in a realistic and modern way of viewing them.

This new way of viewing and photography process was called stereo photography, also known as stereography. This was one of the first uses of a type of three dimension photography that was accessible to the public, providing they had access to a stereoscopic viewer, which is what created the 3D effect that has been kept alive and modernised through the years.

Also as these photos were taken over 150 years ago, they were taken with plate cameras so you can see the lens edges and exposure lines on the sides.

Dafna Talmor created a project called Contructed Landscapes in which she used multiple photographs from many shoots to create her own constructed landscape, she did this by creating her own edges, filtering through photos on top of each other and using different colour filters on top.

To create a response to her work, I have used a selection of images from my trip to Ireland, in which hills, trees, and lakes are featured.

To work with these photos, I put them into black and white and increased the contrast to full, and used the brightness tool accordingly to make them all look a similar tone.

I then got to work on cutting up parts of the images on photoshop using the magic wand tool and moving the cut out parts onto an empty black landscape template to create my own bold edges to the image.

After placing all of the cut out parts on the black template, I used the colour balance tool to put in the red and yellow tones within shadows, mid-tones and highlights.

After that I then used two of the black and white images, and colour balanced them in the same way and overlay them on top of the image I had made using a hard light overlay and made a second with pin light overlay.

Dafna Talmor is a photographer, artist and lecturer who is based in London. She works with photography, video, and collaborations with other artists. Some of her work is displayed in in public galleries like Hiscox, Deutsche Bank and many private collections across the world. Her work work is also included in Robert Shores book, Post Photography: The artist with the camera, also Brady Wilks book, Alternative Photographic Processes: Crafting handmade images and been featured in many publications from Elephant Magazine, 1000 words, ArtReview and more.

Talmor’s most recent commission was from the FT weekend magazine for their supplement of Photo London 2018. Her most recent work includes that of Constructed Landscapes at the the TOBE Gallery in Budapest, 2018, and Photofusion in London a year earlier.

Talmor is also a associate Lecturer for the fine art course at Solent University in Southampton, and also leads the yearly summer school of fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also works freelance as an international lecturer, and has run multiple workshops.

Similarity

1. An aspect, trait, or feature like or resembling another or another’s
2. The fact that people or thing look or are the same.

some common synonyms for similarity are:

Closeness, comparison, analogy, likeness, association, conformity, homogeneity, identity, parallelism, proportion, relation, similitude, synonymity.

Variation

1. A different form of something; variant.
2. amount, rate, extent; or degree of change.
3. The act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree.
4. The transformation of a melody or theme with changes or elaborations in harmony, rhythm, and melody.
5. A varied form of a melody or theme, especially one of a series of such forms developing the capacities of the subject.
6. Ballet, a solo dance, especially one forming a section of a pas de deux.

some common synonyms for variation are:

deviation, variety, fluctuation, diversity, alteration, change, alteration, abnormality, contrast, modification, distinction, dissimilarity, novelty, unconformity.