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Natural Landscapes Photoshoot

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Photoshoot Plan 

Concept:  After researching romanticism in natural landscapes and the photographer Edward weston I am going to take inspiration from the style of their work and apply it to my own photos.

Location: I am going to take photos in on the sand dunes where the is a range of natural settings I can make use off such as a large pond and trees.

Lighting: I will use natural lighting to take these photos and i will take them in the afternoon to avoid over exposed images with light flares.

Camera settings: I will take the photos using the manual  expose setting and the manual focus setting on my lens so i can change them both for each photo to get the best quality.

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Robert Adams

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Robert Adams

Adams was an American photographer who had a significant focus upon changing landscape of the American west,his work first started to become relevant within the 1970’s due to the success of his book ‘the new west’.The artist brown on May 8th,1937 was part of a family having himself a brother and sister,when he was younger he was infected with polio and had harm to the left side of his area and hand but soon recovered, but later in life suffered form other medical problems due to the previous illness. he had a very nature enforced childhood going on many walks accompanying his father, he also worked in a mountain national park in Colorado,and went mountain climbing and then so start visiting art museum with his sister.Not knowing what he wanted  to do he continued to take English and get his ph. D in English In 1965,he soon married to Kirsten who too and similar interests whiten art and nature. he taught English in Colorado college ad then soon as able to buy his first camera.

He mainly focus more upon taking many images of landscapes of nature and architecture. he learned many of his  photography knowledge form a professional photographer local to him named ‘Myron Wood’.Soon his love for photography spread and he became a full time photographer.His subject matter was ‘vastness,its sparse beauty and its ecological fragility’ manner of his work was produced throughout varying shades if grey and what has been lost remains, and a brilliant subtext to everything.

favorite image analysis

I chose this image due to the intriguing way in which Adams was able to capture the  strength and dominance within the clouds and the deep contrasting tones from within the background trees.you are clearly able to see the way in which people or  juxtaposing to the man made metal equipment. There is a sense of irony with the nature in the background and the way in which the people are more occupied within the pool and not the natural lakes and such.There is also almost a theme of segregation within the communities and the continuation of fences and boarder in which they are surrounded.The close up gate allows a redistricted in which we are viewing the people. All the over exposed lighter tones also have connotations to a more harsh lined  industrial area and shows elements of possibly not being safe.It shows a strong contrast within the beauty of nature and the urban life in which these people are living and choosing to do so.I think it is interesting in how the photographer chose to take the image when no one is in the pool,it shows a sense of reason to the image and the joy they should be having being in the pool but the rugged nature of pool is perhaps a preventative,perhaps this is to demonstrate the gradual separation between people and nature.

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Many of his works shows a strong industrial structure  presents in the foreground and a gradual deterioration into the nature based areas of his work. There is also a large surrounding space to present that their is an effect go nothingness without human evolution to buildings  and Inhabitance.

Ideas that will use in my work:

My main attraction to his work is how he has many layers of attention to the image itself and how it consistently evolves to create many interesting aspects throughout the original image,secondly I would want to expand on the use of persona and what people are doingerive attention to the image itself,and what the meaning of the contrast to nature would in fact be

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The New Topographics

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What is the new topographic?

Influential movement of many artists, many of their works documented the handling and evolving of the natural landscape to be perceived as more mediated urban landscapes. New topographic  was a term colonized by William Jenkins in 1975,it was created in order to describe a group of American photographers such as Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, these are people whose images all had a sniper-like banal aesthetic in that they were formal,mostly black and white print of urban landscape. All the photographers within this movement were inspired by man made  subject matter; this included parking lots, suburban housing and warehouses and were all depicted with beautiful austerity.they were trying to find the beauty within man made landscape and urban areas which were not commonly at the time published.

What is the meaning of this movement?

The eroding of natural landscapes and demonstrating an unease of industrial development within the world. The movement started with an exhibition o this urban work to have a large ripple effect on the whole medium and genre of landscape photography,the wanted to emulate a spirit and atheistic throughout their world, three of the artists within this moment had such a significant impact beyond just within America they  were later  commissioned by the French government. Their work was said to capture “stopped of any artistic frills and reduce to an essentially  topographic state, conveying substantial amount is visual information but eschewing entirely the aspects of beauty,emotion and opinion.”

What is the movement a reaction to?

They wanted to present a critical eye on what American society had become and depicted urban and suburban realities under changes in a detached approach.

How has photography  responded to this moment?

There was a mass movement that evolved from natural landscapes to  capture urban cities and the underlining meaning of the people and aesthetic within this area.It shows how society was continuously changing from beautiful to man made  objects. It presents a literal movement and due to this continuation of movement and cityscape it enables the movement to continually inspire documentation.

What is the sense of beauty in the banal ugliness functional land use?

The functional land use presents an angle of pure unedited sense of beauty and a piece of art which is consciously existing within a community of people and nature.It captures a reflection of people and where they live and a sense of belonging of this importance. Every image conveys information about the area and why it is important to the people present.

 

History and Theory

The New Topographics

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Many of the photographers associated with new topographics  were inspired by the man-made. Parking lots, suburban housing and warehouses were all depicted with a beautiful stark harshness, almost in the way early photographers documented the natural landscape. These photographers included Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, Joe Deal, Henry Wessel and Stephen Short and have influenced photographic practices regarding landscape around the world

Robert Adamas pointed his camera at eerily empty streets, pristine trailer parks and the steady creep of suburban development in all its regulated uniformity.

All the pictures had a similar banal aesthetic, in that they were formal, mostly black and white prints of the urban landscape

-Lewis Baltz made stark photographs of the walls of office buildings and warehouses on industrial sites in Orange County.

“New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” was an exhibition that epitomized a key moment in American landscape photography. The exhibition was at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, New York, and remained open to the public from October 1975 until February 1976 featuring photographers showing the growing unease about how the natural landscape was being eroded by industrial development.  In one way, they were photographing against the tradition of nature photography that the likes of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston had created.

Each photographer in the New Topographics exhibition was represented by 10 prints. All but Stephen Shore worked in black and white. It seemed to heighten the sense of detachment in Shore’s photographs of anonymous intersections and streets.

-Nixon concentrated on innercity development: skyscrapers that dwarfed period buildings, freeways and gridded streets