Fay Godwin

Goodwin was born in Berlin,and was the daughter of a British diplomat who was married to an american artist.In her later work of photographing writers she too married one called Tony Goodwin,and then later had two sons.later on in her life she become very ill in which she blamed drugs making her weaker every day. Goodwin then died on 27th May in 2005 at the age of 74

Fay Goodwin is the artist in which I am going to focus my attention of methods onto .Goodwin moved to London in order to become a portrait artist and even more significantly in order to capture famous artists and writers.Typically she captured the people in her own home and even soon herself became a published author.Her book was based upon the oldest road and ridge-way and so making her also a prolific landscape and the nations best known landscape photographer and was critically acclaimed for her early and mature work by the sens of ecological crisis present and how it made a Adriatic difference in the 1970’s. Later in her career she also started taking many images of natural forms and had many major exhibitions that toured nay areas around the world.

I chose Goodwin due to her stunning black and white landscapes of the coast and countryside and how this would be achievable to re-create and expand on in jersey.she was continually inspired when walking around and her pursuit of landscapes have taken her to highly remote areas of the British landscape but no doubt producing many beautiful pastoral scenes and contrasting urban landscapes.To me the way in which captures color and light within her images.Many of her work are captured within woods or well known british landscapes.

This is my favourite piece that Godwin has produced.I chose this piece due to the way in which the light captures the presence of nature and highlights the detailed aspect of the image,  furthermore the way in which the light also has a sense of structure in the image itself.You are able to see the contradictions line wihtin the tress that form a delicacy to the piece and how this is juxtaposing to the more rugged and textured floor but how this then continues to operate into the light, it purposes almost a path to the image that is highly successful.

contextually,the artists within this image had a scenic is to capture the light within what is stereotypically perceived as a dark and fluently feared section of a wood, she wanted to demonstrate the natural beauty in hick we live and the landscape that had a man made gate but how this has a removal from the relationship within nature and society.It emphasis how we should be placed together and how this would create a world with much light and jovial living.Techniqually:the piece was taken very accurately in order to capture the light to cover and produce lines over the whole of the image.The purpose, it was taken to show the natural beauty within landscapes and how people have to look to find the beauty in which they are continuously surrounded by

mind map:I chose the following images because I thought they successfully reprinted the way in which the photgoher capture the beauty and essence of landscapes but also the drama of Romanism wihtin the sky.She continually has an interesting main fetaure of the image weather that be lines or circles or a large dark juxtaposing tone.

Ideas I want to use in my work:

throughout my work I too want to capture the way in which she uses light to create a from and also enhance the image throughout its detail and overall finish the composition as a piece.Secondly I want to so many of her works the have a long lead of extension and a road but show a tree or an obstacle in the way, this is due to the way in which it draws attention to a specific aspect the piece but also shows a dynamic sense of dynamic composition  of lines and thirds within the piece. Much like my previous  artist Ansel Adams I will to edit the images to have the same contrasting tones of darker and lighter throughout.

 

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