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Case Study William Eggleston

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William Eggleston born 1939 is an American Photographer who is highly credited for the population of colour photography as a legitimate artistic medium to be displayed in art galleries
.From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media, and reportedly enjoyed buying postcards and cutting out pictures from magazines.ggleston’s early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, and by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson’s book, The Decisive Moment. Eggleston later recalled that the book was “the first serious book I found, from many awful books…I didn’t understand it a bit, and then it sank in, and I realized, my God, this is a great one.”[1] First photographing in black-and-white, Eggleston began experimenting with color in 1965 and 1966 after being introduced to the medium by William Christenberry. Color transparency film became his dominant medium in the later 1960s. Eggleston’s development as a photographer seems to have taken place in relative isolation from other artists.

 

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In this image Eggelstion has used the natural day light to highlight this image, could have been taken during the ;golden hour’ as the overall image was warm orange to which can normally only be found during these hours. The shadows that have been created due to the placement of the sun have help to create contrast within the image. A deep depth of field looks like it has been used as the whole of the image is in focus .A fast shutter speed would have been used so large amount of light wouldn’t be able to get into he camera and make the image too-overexposed. The colour palette is made up of bright and pastel colors such as pink,yellow,blue and grey theses colour created a bright and playful tone for the image. The image is entitled ‘Untilted’ from his project The Democratic Forest 1983

Externally Set Assignment AS

Lewis Bush

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Who is Lewis Bush?

Lewis Bush  was born in 1988 and is a British photographer, writer, curator and educator. He aims to draw attention to many forms of power that operate in the world as he believes it is by nature always “abusive, arbitrary and untransparent”.

Bush  studied history at the University of Warwick and gained a master’s degree in documentary photography from London College of Communication.  He also lectures on photojournalism and documentary photography at LCC.

From 2011 to 2016 he wrote and edited a blog about photography, Disphotic. Its tagline was “Exploring photography and it’s [sic] intersections with journalism, art, and history.”

In 2012, for The Memory of History, Bush travelled through ten European Union countries to examine the effects of the European debt crisis, in the context of Europe’s turbulent history of crises that are forgotten, only later to reappear. Bush’s intentions were to show the process happening again, where unresolved history is reappearing “with the economic pain of the present”, using photographs that show “connections between history and the present”.

Bush has  also worked on numerous of other projects for example ‘The Camera Obscured’ where he set up cameras outside sensitive sites around London where he was therefore challenged by security guards. He completed these projects to capture the boundaries that were preventing people from accomplishing things and also the struggles of everyday things.

A selection of Lewis Bush’s images

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Analysis, AO2 Explore Ideas, AO3 Record Ideas, AO4 Present Ideas, Externally Set Assignment AS

Evaluation and idea artist comparison

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For my chosen final pieces I was mainly inspired by two artist being:

 Midori Harima

Comparison between artists work and mine:Harimas work is based around creating a 3d collage being a print off of her own image and wrapping this around a head structure to form a sculptor,I interpreted this as cutting up pieces from my portrait images and making this into a collage and then forming it in a curved manner to look 3d,I think it is quite evident to see the similarities between the pieces.And that my inspired piece works well with the techniques used.

conceptually it is an interesting piece as is symbolises different aspects of human emotion, the lighting to form a shadow is also effective as it further enhanced the three dimensional feel to the piece itself.

 

Connie imboden

Second comparison:My main inspiration for this was themes of isolation from the behaviour of water, my image is a lot more abstract with a strong essence of movement, yet still has a similar composition and a similar facial expression to the artists work.Due to the unreliability of how the sea would be I think this is the most accurate presentation I could have to the artist. My other images all still carry the same concept of her work throughout.

Overall evaluation of project and final display:

Overall I think this project is very different to any work I have done before and very diverse within itself which using collage, themes of nature and behaviour; and finally  mirroring and editing techniques to remove features of a persons identity.I am happy with the final images I am left with and think they do reflect what I originally wanted to show through my work from the start. My work is clearly inspired by my artists but not a complete carbon copy,making  sure to add my own technique or additional themes of  human behaviour, isolation or loss of identity. when focusing on the words of:codes,conevtnions and secrets I feel as though I have touched on them all, being the ‘conventions’ of human behaviour and how we as humans are influenced through others behaviours,and also the unreliable behaviour of nature. Secondly ‘secrets’ is seen through the loss of identity and removal of features alongside the lack of presentation to people we think we know. lastly ‘codes’ is seen through the repetition of these characteristics  throughout many groups of people as if it is a code to be followed. There is a large range of editing between each shoot, the shoots are more concentrated on removal of identity I edited out significant features and used this to enhance the images.I also used photo techniques of mirroring and collage ,so overall using a large combination of many different ideas.The majority of my work is purely tonal shades of black and white, this is due to this being more appropriate to the pieces and themes behind them. At the beginning of the project I wanted to focus more on surrealism and I do think I have incorporated  some of these themes into my work, although I do think it has come out more of a direct portraiture observation,but with a complex presention and still does not fit wihtin the generic conventions of portraiture work.Overall I think this project is very unique and does apply to my themes and the outcomes I think all work well together.