Presentation - I want my final images to be simple so the focus is concentrated on the images themselves [the complex structures of my pieces inspired by Beomsik Won] and to also fit in with The New Topographics as the types of photographs are simple and stripped from any beauty or nature. I have given myself three choices; no boarder, a slim boarder or a wider boarder
I think my images look best as simple as I can make them and I have decided to go with no boarder so there is complete focus on the image.
My final images -
Evaluation - I think I have been successful with my final images, I am particularly happy with my responses to Beomsik Won. The editing was very slow and intricate but it allowed me to compose a landscape the way I wanted to see it, when in photography in general, the composition of a piece is usually done before shooting the image however, I was able to have complete control over my final images. The way in which I was able to create a photograph feels more creative and artistic and I feel I was able to convey work that reflects what I wanted display. During the editing process, I began to think of more ideas and things I could add to my pieces that required me to take more photos. I didn't and I wish I did as I think it would of made my images stronger. Next topic I will take as many pictures as I can that are good quality so I am not short of material.
To start my edits I chose the foundations for my pieces. I chose industrial bases because I wanted start them with interesting objects that would frame the rest of the made up monuments. Also to keep a contrast between elements of churches and shops.
first I had to cut away pieces of the original image so i could place other images inside, and one by one I cut up objects and buildings from my photos and placed them in the tower. The final edit I had was to add more sky to make it a continuous photo. Using the brush tool to blend another picture of sky I came to my concluded image.
Bemosik Won - Born in South Korea, studied photography and metals & jewelry design in Seoul and then moved to London where he completed a degree in fine art media. He has already been featured in many exhibitions including Hollywood, Seoul, London and Paris.Technical - Won's pieces are assembled from dozens of cut-up black and white photographs in a process of deconstruction and reconstruction which ultimately creates new monuments from the buildings of London in his own digital sculptures made through the art of photography. The pieces may take hours to construct with digitally combining all the pieces in his puzzles in comparison to one quick snapshot taken in a spontaneous moment, with each part of his pieces cut up and placed to look like they actually exist in the world.
Visual - His work is constantly inspired through the city of London, with many of his pieces featuring famous monuments and buildings taken from our everyday landscape - the car park and escalators weaved into this image holds a sense of reality in a surreal landscape. His pieces defy laws of statics making them more surreal and monumental/sculptural. From architectural photographs and collages he creates urban mirages set in familiar landscapes which is perhaps is the only thing that connects the audience to the monuments.
Conceptual - His made-up monuments are glorified with the combined everyday constructions and artistically generated sculptures that tower above their landscapes which creates an idea of powerful inhuman forces. His work questions the understanding of contemporary photography and human perception.
Photoshoot - I planned to exlpore around La collette and any other industrial or constructional places in town [the gas tower] and churches as they have many towers and turrets with intricate designs. This was to collect enough images of buildings to finally create a digital sculpture based on Beomsik Won's work.
Psychogeography - the exploration of urban environments to explore and examine the architecture and spaces in an area, anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable path. The term was invented by Guy Debord, he wanted a revolutionary approach to architecture that was less functional and more open to exploration.
Psychogeography gained popularity in the 1990s when artists, writers and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Patrick Keiller began using the idea to create works based on exploring locations by walking.
I want to explore Kensington place and lewis street because most of the buildings on the streets are run down but still functional.
Photoshoot - I planned one afternoon to go out into town and photograph as much as I could. In my chosen area i didn't find as many interesting places to photograph so I carried my photo shoot out even further around town. However, from my chosen place I did find a few interesting places to photograph.
my three best images -
These images were based on The New Topographics while I didn't document everything in the area, only what i found interesting and ultimately, avoiding the point of psychogeography.
Lewis Baltz was a visual artist and photographer who was a significant figure in the new topographics movement. His work has appeared in museums, exhibitions and has been published in books.
Technical - The choice of black and white is repeated throughout this movement, it creates depth in the photograph as it has reduced the colours to shades which changes the direction of focus onto the tones in the photograph. The high resolution and natural daylight captures every detail in a bland scene and exaggerates the dullness and precise form of man made structures.
Visual - The photographs serves an aesthetic quality through the minimal shapes and lack of subjects which allows the viewer to concentrate on the straight and rigid lines that contrast with broken and curved wires. Black and white adds to the minimal theme with basic shades.
Conceptual - The photo reflects the movement away from natural landscapes with its banal and ugly qualities yet it finds satisfaction through its minimal style. It also highlights the reality of the progress of man, and the destruction of natural landscapes that have been replaced with flat concrete streets and rectangular buildings infested with wires, pipes, plastic and metal. It could be argued that the concept of the photograph is accepting this development of order and convenience.
Photo shoot - When I went out for this photo shoot I stuck to old run down buildings with interesting characteristics, colours and objects within them with rigid lines and edges.
final images -
I've chosen pictures that have a lot of simple basic shapes in them, some more than others. Each photo has ugly and banal features, especially in the buildings as they have been stripped and worn down to what this society perceive as ugly. This statement is reinforced in the last image where it has hazard and construction signs, signalling that it has no uses and only dangerous qualities to it. I reduced the colours in each picture, most to just black and white to reinforce the simplicity that the structure of each picture reflects.
Contextual - https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/18753/archive-fever-edward-weston.htmlWeston was a 20th century American photographer. He captured images of landscapes, still life, nudes, genre scenes and whimsical parodies. Technical - In the foreground of the image the contrast is high between the dirt and the crops - black and white accentuates this - yet the tonal range is small until the focus is brought to the sky and further hills in the background where lighter and softer tones. The photograph has sharp details - fast shutter speed.
The deep depth of field gives the field a greater distance - the lines of the crops also exaggerate this as some of them fade into the distance.
Visual - Weston has captured what people would have seen as a seemingly mundane scene and has composed a photograph that incorporates pattern, contrast and depth. His approach to taking photographs as he says is 'To make the common place unusual'. The aesthetics of the austere landscape has been brought to a focus through Weston's photographs.
Conceptual - The purpose of Weston's photograph could be to reinforce the beauty in nature and to perhaps conserve the natural landscape through photographs. The subject of a tomato field is also an insight to the natural order man creates in society and life.
The New Topographics - a 1975 exhibition called 'Man Altered Landscape' that started a radical shift away from which landscapes were taken - traditional depictions of romanticized landscapes to banal and stark industrial landscapes of mundane scenes, that never had a second glance. These images act like the acceptance of a world changing by man and they present the beauty and aesthetic of dull, ugly, rigid structures, scenes and streets.
for example Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher were part of The New Topographics group and were influential photographers in the practice of landscape photography around the world.
The new topographics signifies a reaction to the growing unease of the natural landscape being eroded by industrial development and the spread of cities.
Romanticism - was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
In photography, a romantic landscape's purpose is to evoke strong feelings of mainly aw and rapture. The aim is capturing an image that celebrates nature and or shows strong feelings and emotions through weather and landscape that convey exaggerated beauty and power.
https://www.artlimited.net/image/en/635966Photoshoot - my response to Romanticism didn't go to plan. I tried to take sea landscapes with a slow shutter speed without a tripod which led to my images to be shaky and blurry combined with the natural light getting darker and darker which also led to my photos being under or over exposed. Personally I don't like the aesthetic of Romanticism which didn't help for me to be inspired by any particular artist or photograph.
However, with the blurred images I had, I managed to create a response to the photographer Idris Khan who layers on photographs to get the desired effect of an out of focus image that almost looks like a pencil sketch.
Idris Khan
With the few pictures I managed to salvage a fairly okay image in response to Idris Khan of the oil tower. I used Photoshop to layer on the different photographs and reduce the opacity so each image was visible in one photograph. I then edited it to black and white like Khan's work.
Wang Wei is a fashion photographer based in Bejing who specializes in analog photography. Each of his photos are highly expressive and colourful. Wei's photos mainly capture realistic and completely unadulterated scenes of todays youth.Wei's photos are diverse in themes of identity, some of his photos hide it through the use of blur, mirrors, light and shadow. Others express and exhibit someones identity in a photograph through the use colour and tableau. The use of strong colour on certain photographs conveys the strong personalities of youth.
Youth
I chose to compose my image like this because I felt that it reflects Youth now. I played with hue and saturation to play with the colours in the photo.
I think my images look best as simple as I can make them and I have decided to go with no boarder so there is complete focus on the image. My final images -
Evaluation - I think I have been successful with my final images, I am particularly happy with my responses to Beomsik Won. The editing was very slow and intricate but it allowed me to compose a landscape the way I wanted to see it, when in photography in general, the composition of a piece is usually done before shooting the image however, I was able to have complete control over my final images. The way in which I was able to create a photograph feels more creative and artistic and I feel I was able to convey work that reflects what I wanted display. During the editing process, I began to think of more ideas and things I could add to my pieces that required me to take more photos. I didn't and I wish I did as I think it would of made my images stronger. Next topic I will take as many pictures as I can that are good quality so I am not short of material.
first I had to cut away pieces of the original image so i could place other images inside, and one by one I cut up objects and buildings from my photos and placed them in the tower.
The final edit I had was to add more sky to make it a continuous photo. Using the brush tool to blend another picture of sky I came to my concluded image.
Technical - Won's pieces are assembled from dozens of cut-up black and white photographs in a process of deconstruction and reconstruction which ultimately creates new monuments from the buildings of London in his own digital sculptures made through the art of photography. The pieces may take hours to construct with digitally combining all the pieces in his puzzles in comparison to one quick snapshot taken in a spontaneous moment, with each part of his pieces cut up and placed to look like they actually exist in the world. Visual - His work is constantly inspired through the city of London, with many of his pieces featuring famous monuments and buildings taken from our everyday landscape - the car park and escalators weaved into this image holds a sense of reality in a surreal landscape. His pieces defy laws of statics making them more surreal and monumental/sculptural. From architectural photographs and collages he creates urban mirages set in familiar landscapes which is perhaps is the only thing that connects the audience to the monuments. Conceptual - His made-up monuments are glorified with the combined everyday constructions and artistically generated sculptures that tower above their landscapes which creates an idea of powerful inhuman forces. His work questions the understanding of contemporary photography and human perception. Photoshoot - I planned to exlpore around La collette and any other industrial or constructional places in town [the gas tower] and churches as they have many towers and turrets with intricate designs. This was to collect enough images of buildings to finally create a digital sculpture based on Beomsik Won's work.
I want to explore Kensington place and lewis street because most of the buildings on the streets are run down but still functional. Photoshoot - I planned one afternoon to go out into town and photograph as much as I could. In my chosen area i didn't find as many interesting places to photograph so I carried my photo shoot out even further around town. However, from my chosen place I did find a few interesting places to photograph.
my three best images -
These images were based on The New Topographics while I didn't document everything in the area, only what i found interesting and ultimately, avoiding the point of psychogeography.
Lewis Baltz was a visual artist and photographer who was a significant figure in the new topographics movement. His work has appeared in museums, exhibitions and has been published in books. Technical - The choice of black and white is repeated throughout this movement, it creates depth in the photograph as it has reduced the colours to shades which changes the direction of focus onto the tones in the photograph. The high resolution and natural daylight captures every detail in a bland scene and exaggerates the dullness and precise form of man made structures. Visual - The photographs serves an aesthetic quality through the minimal shapes and lack of subjects which allows the viewer to concentrate on the straight and rigid lines that contrast with broken and curved wires. Black and white adds to the minimal theme with basic shades. Conceptual - The photo reflects the movement away from natural landscapes with its banal and ugly qualities yet it finds satisfaction through its minimal style. It also highlights the reality of the progress of man, and the destruction of natural landscapes that have been replaced with flat concrete streets and rectangular buildings infested with wires, pipes, plastic and metal. It could be argued that the concept of the photograph is accepting this development of order and convenience. Photo shoot - When I went out for this photo shoot I stuck to old run down buildings with interesting characteristics, colours and objects within them with rigid lines and edges.
final images -
I've chosen pictures that have a lot of simple basic shapes in them, some more than others. Each photo has ugly and banal features, especially in the buildings as they have been stripped and worn down to what this society perceive as ugly. This statement is reinforced in the last image where it has hazard and construction signs, signalling that it has no uses and only dangerous qualities to it. I reduced the colours in each picture, most to just black and white to reinforce the simplicity that the structure of each picture reflects.
Technical - In the foreground of the image the contrast is high between the dirt and the crops - black and white accentuates this - yet the tonal range is small until the focus is brought to the sky and further hills in the background where lighter and softer tones. The photograph has sharp details - fast shutter speed. The deep depth of field gives the field a greater distance - the lines of the crops also exaggerate this as some of them fade into the distance. Visual - Weston has captured what people would have seen as a seemingly mundane scene and has composed a photograph that incorporates pattern, contrast and depth. His approach to taking photographs as he says is 'To make the common place unusual'. The aesthetics of the austere landscape has been brought to a focus through Weston's photographs. Conceptual - The purpose of Weston's photograph could be to reinforce the beauty in nature and to perhaps conserve the natural landscape through photographs. The subject of a tomato field is also an insight to the natural order man creates in society and life.
Photoshoot - my response to Romanticism didn't go to plan. I tried to take sea landscapes with a slow shutter speed without a tripod which led to my images to be shaky and blurry combined with the natural light getting darker and darker which also led to my photos being under or over exposed. Personally I don't like the aesthetic of Romanticism which didn't help for me to be inspired by any particular artist or photograph.
However, with the blurred images I had, I managed to create a response to the photographer Idris Khan who layers on photographs to get the desired effect of an out of focus image that almost looks like a pencil sketch.
Idris Khan With the few pictures I managed to salvage a fairly okay image in response to Idris Khan of the oil tower. I used Photoshop to layer on the different photographs and reduce the opacity so each image was visible in one photograph. I then edited it to black and white like Khan's work.
Wang Wei is a fashion photographer based in Bejing who specializes in analog photography. Each of his photos are highly expressive and colourful. Wei's photos mainly capture realistic and completely unadulterated scenes of todays youth.
Wei's photos are diverse in themes of identity, some of his photos hide it through the use of blur, mirrors, light and shadow. Others express and exhibit someones identity in a photograph through the use colour and tableau. The use of strong colour on certain photographs conveys the strong personalities of youth.
I played with hue and saturation to play with the colours in the photo.
