Mishka Henner, Edward Burtynsky, The Boyle Family and Psycho-Geographies

Mishka Henner

Mishka Henner (born 1976) is a Belgian artist working and living in Manchester. His work has featured in several surveys of contemporary artists working with photographers in the internet age. Henner uses technologies such as Google Earth, Google Street View, and YouTube in his work.

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Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky (born 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His work is kept in more than 50 museums including the Guggenheim Museum. Nature transformed through industry is a constant theme in his work.  He uses subjects that are rich in detail and scale but they are open in their meaning. The images produced are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear.

The Boyle Family

The Boyle family is a group of collaborative artists based in London. It consists of the couple Joan Hills and their children. The Boyle family work across a wide range of media (painting, photography, sculpture, film and more) but they are most known for their Earth studies. They recreate randomly chosen areas of the Earth’s surface using resin and fibreglass.

Typology Homework Assignment

Planning

Task: Take 100+ photos that explore the concept of typologies

Camera settings: I will be using an ISO of 100 with a shutter speed of 1/20 mainly in order to allow the image to be as high quality as possible but this may have to be adapted slightly for darker environments.

Lighting: I will be using daylight for the majority of my photographs but photographs taken inside the car park may be captured with flash or with the car park lights.

Location: Waterfront underground car park and Jacksons car centre.

Context: I will be taking photographs with the work of Typologists in mind.

My Photographs

My Edits

My Favourite Photograph

In this photograph I used the artificial lighting the waterfront underground car park. This lighting allowed the photograph to be contrasted with the correct amount of exposure. An aperture of f18 was used for this photograph to ensure that the whole of the photograph was in focus with a deep depth of field. I used a shutter speed of 1/20 along with an ISO of 200 to allow enough light to enter the lens whilst keeping the quality of the photograph as best as possible.

There is no colour in this photograph – only black and white. This creates a rustic/old-fashioned styled photograph. There is not a massively wide tonal range in the photograph but the contrasting tones are right next to eachother so it gives a more dramatic effect. It is quite a 2D photograph as it only has one close-up subject with no foreground or background.

This photograph is part of a collection of typology photographs that I took which include the fronts of cars up close in order to show the differences between similar structures on the Earth. I took inspiration for the style of photograph (rustic) from the Bechers’ but instead of photographing the same subjects as them I decided to choose my own typology whilst taking inspiration from their style.

Psycho-Geography

Psycho-geography describes the effect of a geographical location on the emotions and behaviour of individuals, it is often recorded through photography which shows a journey or exploration and a location. it is a mixture of photography and geography in which the photographers drifts or wonders around an urban environment documenting it in various ways. photos, time lapses, scrapbooks or even drone footage can be used to show the location and urban environment being explored. Guy Debord a theorist in the 20th century described psycho-geography as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.”

the idea is that photographer explore and go off the path they take everyday, by doing this you may discover new thing which have always been in a familiar area but have never been photographed or looked at in detail. In our everyday lives we are constantly on the go  and not paying attention to where we are. By putting your mind on your location and focusing on everything around you we can find new things or see familiar ones in a new light raising awareness of urban areas in our everyday life

Lewis Baltz – Typologies

I am going to use the idea of typologies to present my photos from my last shoot inspired by Lewis Baltz.  I have already studied his photography of urban landscapes linking to new topographic so i will use these photos and select and display them in the form of typologies.

San Quentin Point 1982 Lewis Baltz born 1945 Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Acquisitions Committee 2011 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P79978

I like the way these photos by Lewis Baltz have been displayed his photos in frames with wide white boarders, and hung them in a group on the wall.

using my photos from this shoot I selected the photos of walls and edited them into black and white. I then arranged them into a grid format which helped to show the pattern in the geometric shapes in each wall.