Analysis of the shoot: Viola uses water in such methods as to not directly represent water as being a solid from but as an entity for life and an expression of being. Because of this I wanted to use water in such a way it would evoke life itself, giving it a literal motion and abstract thought of its own. I wanted to take angles and compositions which would typically be very unusually and difficult angles to take of a person, many of which I placed the person themselves behind the water in order to capture the layers that I wanted to show. I do belive these images so far work well and successful within the rest of my work, but still need to take one more shoot inspired by this artists underwater, and then including more siren qualities of movement, This would be the inclusion of the whole body, and also the elements of skin ,scales, feathers…e.t.c. I think if I take another shoot of body texture, underwater photograph, and then the rest being more landscape shots, that I will finally have enough variation and also a narrative construct to be able to successful from a book with a successful narrative. I do think these images are successful and will support my new objective and still shows the combination of a reality, causation, reaction and the sublime and these images showing a real life significance and influence upon a person within the suspense of the water itself.
Contact sheet, more possible images not edited :
Following on from our talk earlier I have left 3 books for now that I like you to read passages from – I have left yellow stickers.
Also continue to do your own independent research and find relevant sources in relation to your subject.
I will still continue to find relevant text for you to read as the essay develops.
Here is a good article with links to further texts also
https://www.timwalkerphotography.com/articles/the-wonderful-world-of-tim-walker
and an interview: https://www.timwalkerphotography.com/articles/interview-with-tim-walker
Essentially you need to re-direct the essay as follows:
Main focus and analysis of Tim Walker + your own images/responses and how you can ‘read’ his images in relation to elements from Romanticism, Pictorialism and Surrealism
Essay Question
Opening quote; use your quote from Burke for now
Intro: re-write introduction in light of new direction. Read book on Romanticism (you borrowed earlier) and the above before writing anything new.
Pg 1: Tim Walker and how his work can be viewed within the prism Romanticism and apply aesthethic theory of the Sublime – if relevant
Choose one example this period ( a painting ) and analyse in depth
Do a comparison with an image from TW
And example from your own response
Pg2: same structure as above but this time you analyse in relation to Pictorialism and its use of allegory/symbolism
Pg 3: same structure as above in relation to Surrealism and its representation of the female form/naked figure – apply theory of the male gaze as discussed in your Media studies (Laura Mulvey essay on ‘Visual Pleasure’ etc)
Its only good that you can use an interdisciplinary approach (ie. draw on knowledge from other disciplines, mediums, historical periods etc)
Conclusion; summarise similarities/ differences
Bibliography: list all sources and use Harvard system of reference through out., Aim for at least 1-2 quotes per paragraph.
Once you have digested all the above and read new text/sources try and re-write a new essay introduction – show me next week