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ANYLSIS: This shoot of Chaos, was once again one of my three main original starting points. I wanted to still experiment within the theme of chaos for a short period, as I belive it is fascinating the reactions and effect of the hypodermic needle is to audiences, and how one persons actions can effect the actions of so many more. The influence of what we see within the media and how this not only influences our own acts, but the influence of our mind set is significant. With the continuous promotion of only negative news, their comes a time where this negativity creates an illusion that this is the whole premis of what their is within the world, and a false reality of the vast majority of the world is a bad place filled with bad people. Hovwer I want to break free form this idea and create a sense of emotional vulnerability within these images. I have spoken previously about exploring a sense of exposing the true emotions and feeling of myself and others, considering what we fine beautiful and what we view most important with others and ourselves. I belive many people hide their emotional state and have a tendency to only show a false sense of their feelings, especially towards the news. The news and chaos within the media is to my mind a from of the elephant in the room, we know it is their and we justify its news given yet I do feel it negatively effects us as a collective. This is a set of images where I wanted to cover each image with many others all expressing a different over- exaggeration of emotions, in order to create an aspect of importance and relevance to our justify our feelings. The effect of the editing of the amount of opulence you se in each image and how you are able to see all the layers and feel a movement to the image, almost personifies the world chaos into an image itself. I belive this Is why I find this shoot so interesting, not just the outcomes, but the original importance of the shoot itself. I could create a juxtaposition from these images and how what we should see and feel in the world with an accurate representation of emotions for people. A contrast of hate to love, and negativity to positivity. Life should not be so concentrated by a monopoly of negative issues, but a celebration of the beauty and experience others are having in the world around us.

August Sander, born 17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964, was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander’s first book Face of our time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as “the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century.”

Sander was born in Herdorf, the son of a carpenter working in the mining industry. While working at a local mine, Sander first learned about photography by assisting a photographer who was working for a mining company. With financial support from his uncle, he bought photographic equipment and set up his own darkroom.

He spent his military service (1897–99) as a photographer’s assistant and the next years wandering across Germany. In 1901, he started working for a photo studio in Linz, Austria, eventually becoming a partner (1902), and then its sole proprietor (1904). He left Linz at the end of 1909 and set up a new studio in Cologne.

In 1911, Sander began with the first series of portraits for his work People of the 20th Century.

His work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series People of the 20th Century. In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Wiemar Republic. The series is divided into seven sections: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (homeless persons, veterans, etc.). By 1945, Sander’s archive included over 40,000 images.

Image Analysis

I haven chosen this photograph of Sanders to analyse because this photograph is a similar style to the type I want to photograph in my third photoshoot, a model in a open natural landscape. I like this photograph because the backdrop of the fields creates an interesting effect in the way that the fields create a very nateral backdrop, its very simple and allows as much attention on its self as the model, creating a perfect balance. The model is an interesting factor in the photograph, oppose to being stood still, lifeless, he is stood in an intriguing pose, creating a more engaging photograph. The texture of the mud creates a noticeable contrast within its self and the model and fields, dividing the photograph into sections, allowing there to be more to look at within the photograph. In conclusion this photograph is simple but engaging and similar to what I hope to photograph myself for my project.

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INSPIRATION: My inspiration for this shoot was both the combination of William ye, which is evident, And how he uses a large jar and conceptually takes images of people through it in order to extend and manipulate their faces and make a more abstract representation of people and their emotional wellbeing. However, my other inspiration is a much more abstract and once again fine art related artist, who presses faces up against jars, and then paints and manipulates the images themselves in order to create a much more worked into and unique colour and composition.

WHERE NEXT: As this artist, clearly works and edit more into their work, I believe next I should experiment with developing these images further, and possibly even doing so with the intent of creating a small representation and grid of the images similar to above. Due to these shoots being a-lot more dark and brutal to my current theme exploring the essence of beauty, I belive I should connect this shoot with the media and the relation of emotional well being linking to chaos in the news. And how we should ignore this to see the beauty within the world.

POST-MODERNISM AND MODERNISM

Postmodernism was a reaction against modernism. 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. It is generally very simple and non decorative. Modern art rejected tradition so it looked very different to anything anyone had seen before.

While modernism was based on idealism and reason, postmodernism was born of scepticism and a suspicion of reason. It challenged the notion that there are universal certainties or truths. Postmodern art drew on philosophy of the mid to late twentieth century, and advocated that individual experience and interpretation of our experience was more concrete than abstract principles. While the modernists championed clarity and simplicity; postmodernism embraced complex and often contradictory layers of meaning. Cultural identity was a big part of postmodernism, with people realizing that modernism was dominated by straight white men. Within post modern art, it is popular to include quotes or words on their art since it fits with the idea of questioning things. There are no rules about what postmodern art is but there tends to be a lot of contrasting and questioning. The works of post modernism are often abstract and somewhat strange. There is an objective to display that everyone has different reality and there is such thing as human nature instead of nurture.

The modernist approach links to my previous studies of Sugimoto and Monet’s Hay Stacks that focus on mainly the depiction of light and how it shapes the environment. Rather than focusing on subjects these artists use lighting and textures as a way of reflecting the modern world.

Modern Art

Time Period – From 1450 – 1960

Gender Spread – Most of the artists in the modern times were male

Mindset – Go with the ideas in every way

Influence – Political and society pressure

Postmodern Art

Time Period – From 1960 to present

Gender Spread – Mixture of both

Mindset – Question the changes and movinf towards new ones quickly

Influence – Free of any pressures

In the Modern work, whatever the meaning was given by the writer was considered to be the only meaning but in postmodern times, people tend to make their own mind and deduce the idea according to their will. In modern era people tended to enjoy the modernism but in the postmodern era, people are questioning the changes and moving towards new ones quickly. Arts in the modern times was influenced by political and society pressure while the postmodern art is free from all those factors.