Throughout the portrait project I mostly wanted to achieve the theme of ‘loss of identity’.To do this I focused on a mirror shoot, then a colour shoot using projections and lastly a black and white shoot with the scratching removal of a face. All of which I want to show a removal or cover of their own identity of a different reflections of themselves to what other people would see.My most effective shoot was the mirror shoot, this is due to the way in which the there was dynamic shots that were very creative in showing many sides to a person and illusion to show multiple faces within one. I chose my final images from all three shoots and displayed them suiting to the colour and theme of shoot.Overall I focused more upon three creative shoots and only experimental ideas fro tableau photography,I chose this because I thought my ideas were less suited to tableau. Although the tableau 7 sins idea would be effective so possibly there would be more experimentation throughout that in the future. Altogether this project had many ideas they all came under the theme of loss of identity when thinking about creative photography and overall it worked as a whole.
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Pioneers Of Landscape Photography
Carleton Watkins
He was perhaps America’s greatest 19th century landscape photographer yet today he’s largely unknown. His breathtaking landscapes of the Yosemite Valley were instrumental in preserving the valley for future generations and paving the way for both the National Parks system and the environmental movement.
Among the people who had Watkins’ prints was a U.S. Senator from California, John Conness. He showed them to his fellow lawmakers as part of his effort to save Yosemite from the development and tourism that was already encroaching on the valley. When President Abraham Lincoln saw them, it helped convince him to sign a bill in 1864 declaring Yosemite Valley “inviolable.”
It was the beginning of America’s environmental movement and the National Parks system. And if not for Watkins, there might not have been a pristine Yosemite Valley for photographers like Ansel Adams to photograph.
Ansel Adams
Though 50 years of work preceded him, Ansel Adams is the spiritual father of American landscape photography. Not only is he perhaps the most recognizable name in all of photography, but his work transcended art and science to make him an icon of popular culture as well.
“It’s rare to find a landscape photographer,” says Carr Clifton, “or any photographer who hasn’t been touched by Ansel Adams’ black-and-white work of the exquisite landscapes of the American West.”
Like Carton Watkins (above) before him, Adams made many famous photographs of Yosemite National Park. What set him apart was his work’s timeless quality. Technologically innovative and advanced enough to surpass much of the printing done today, Adams’ photography was simple enough to maintain a direct connection to the earliest pioneers of the medium.