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My Manifesto, of the creative and surreal mind.

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5-10 manifesto rules inspired by surrealism.
  1. To convey a clear methodology of abstract, creative and surreal qualities of a dreamatic identity.
  2. Free one’s mind from the past and from everyday reality to arrive at truths one has never known.
  3. liberate one’s psyche from traditional education, feel an empowerment through the creative mind rather than analytical.
  4. Do not stifle your imagination, break down tradition and become the create space around yourself.
  5. Become an explorer of your own narrative, become who you are and who you aspire to be.
  6. Do not hide your emotions but express them in passion. Do not be silenced by the government but uplift your own political power.
  7. Be unique through your past, your truth, your dreams and express this is such a way to uplift other and not as a example of bitterness towards them.
  8. Evoke a consciousness from those in power, use a voice of positivity for change to better the future.
  9. Be expressive not only through yourself but the environment, view the world as something to composed and to create beauty for others.
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Anylsis: Manifesto on surrealism: Artist:2 ,Sophie Calle

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Sophie Calle  was Born in 1953 in Paris, Sophie Calle is a French artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. she would describe herself as a conceptual artist,photoghroher and movie director and sometimes goes as far to say she is a detective. She has developed a practice that is instantly recognisable. Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo.  Her distinct narrative and frequent combination of images wihtin a text. exhibit of her projects she uses in order to capture a chapter of system references and is said to ‘echoes where Calle often blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life.’ Since the 70’s she has merged in the unveiling of what is reality and her own controlled chance of reality how allocated reality is to herself.  Her deceptions of human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy recognises the ability to investigate in private lives.She now teaches as professor of ilm and photography in Switzerland and has lectured in many schools across the state.

Calle’s views the ending of a suffering relationship a point of glee and unconfined positivity. The worse the break up the better the art, through experiencing pain you allow yourself to start calculating how best to exploit it. she has a Frame of work called Exquisite Pain, it contains a period of images and grief experienced over many years. She wanted to point out how she associated every bad relationship with the society around her and the way in which the untouched box was her tough harsh memories or the relationship and when she was ready to deal with it she exploited her harmful past thoughts into art.Her work contains love letters, air tickets and remembered conversations from her and her past relationships, her work shows an evolution taking the observer through 92 days leading up to her being abandonment and then the recovery after the break-up itself. she took a physical trip in order to show the physicality of leaving her boyfriend behind. she made complicated relationships of where to travel. This was relevant as she was left for someone else while he was away on holiday. She wants to portray her methods of getting over ‘shock’ by recounting her misery with everyone she meets, and how this emotion gradually diminishes. the words seen over herself in the above image are from the all the taped words of the gloomy and outpouring relationships she had with friends and strangers. It was said. ‘For the Paris exhibition on which the book is based, she had the texts embroidered on to large wall hangings, which were placed next to her photographs and her assorted bits of break-up memorabilia (images of the clothes she was wearing on that day, the red telephone he called her on to say she was no longer the one’

I believe I can use her influences of her work through the way she conceptual words to be formed into images of herself, her reality it her pain and yet how she exploits it to others in order to get feedback fo her situation. I think this is fascinating as you get opinions of yourself from strangers. This to me shows her aims of surrealism as this is a clearly coal from of feeling projected to the physicality of someone themselves.

Her work links to surrealism through the disposition of of objects feelings and people. Her main purpose is the way in which people feel emotions between people. I find it interesting how she started through the aim of using tapes to then link to more abstract thoughts of using objects to link to the history and past of people. this from of reality,politics and her main manifesto inspiration of surrealism really contributes to making such simplicity yet beauty In the new contemporary arts. Within this set of images she want sot relate objects to people and form a sense of identity through this. This to me has an almost typological reference to it. The images convey the personality of a person yet without showing who they are directly themselves. Although her worksheet would not say is done in order to signify a suggestion of self help, it does through the narrative create a less hysterical and more detached as the weeks pass is a soothing demonstration of how misery fades. Her stories of how stories of peoples distress are captivating and beautifully shown through the writing written across themselves.The project from being merely contrived and pretentious, or an exercise in self-indulgence. She has said that “Anybody who stopped to ask me why I was crying, I would tell them,” she says. “My friends were all asking about the exotic trip that I had been on, but all I wanted to talk about was the end of my relationship. Sometimes I would be crying alone in a bar and someone would ask me what was wrong, and I’d explain to them, and I’d get talking.” her work has such a clear narrative yet still has access to so many relevant and successful themes throughout. I will definitely experiment within hertechniwues of using text, tapes and possible objects in order to connote a feeling and story that has happened to a person. The could be further indulged to me possible using a family member. Her aspect of reality is also connected to my work already and I think this is relevant as it allows myself to bend the truth as no ones reality is similar.

when comparing the artists her work has such a strong juxtaposition to my previous artist Rits, as her work is not meant to be seen as a romanticism of the world we live in and echoed as a dream, but a subsided from the reality of words covering us and explaining what our identity is said to be. Both artists however use the use of projections throughout their work, both be it is completely different styles and circumstances but both in order to connote a story wether that is just beauty or an emotional narrative such as Calle. I think he combination of these two very separate artists will result in an interesting manifesto which will then lead me to a interesting shoot.

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Anylsis: Manifesto on surrealism: Artist:Pipilotti Rist

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Pipilotti Rist

Is a visual artists. she is best known for creating experimental video art and installations of art often in order to portray self portraits and singing. Her work is described to be surreal and intimate as having preoccupations with the female body and a combined dysmorphia of forged abstract art. Her artwork is often categorized as feminist art. In a 2011 Guardian exhibition review article, Rist describes her feminism: “Politically,” she says, “I am a feminist, but personally, I am not. For me, the image of a woman in my art does not stand just for women: she stands for all humans. I hope a young guy can take just as much from my art as any woman.Rist first gained international attention following her selection for the influential Aperto’93, an exhibition curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi for Achille Bonito Oliva’s 1993 Venice Biennale. Her early projection works emerged from her studies in audiovisual design in Basel, which in turn had led to animated cartoons and stage sets for music videos, made in tandem with her career as the drummer with the all-girl band called Les Reines Prochaines (The Next Queens).

In 2009 Risk made a speech about why she think surrealism is so important and this is what she had to say: She believes many people are artists dn cultural people and asks why we repreadtly creates art and ewwhy use so much effort to from a. Cultural piece of art?? She is convinced arts task is to contribute to evolution  art has to ,.. the head…art has to encourage the mind art has to garuntee a detaches view of social changes. Art has to conjure up positive energy art has to create sensuousness, ears eyes and feelings. And it should make us feel better art has to reconcile reason and insctint. We are has human or made we are also animals.To reconcile our ethics with our instincts art has to reasearchnewe possibilities and most importantly art has to destroy cliche and prejudices.I believe Her work links so well into investigating the surrealism manifestos as she uses her art to portray a dream. Her work struck to me with any doubt such creativity and boundless imagination fo the mind.Her work inspired through the light and sense, her work is not defined by limits she sets herself to.She is never concerned with where it will take her but living as she does not know where she will end up through her work. She wants to inspire, and I do believe her work successful conveys this.

To me this work named ;pixel forest’ is they most comprehensive presentation of lists work to date. Her work includes influence spanning over the artists entire career,using inspirations from her early single channel videos of the 1980’s, exploring the human female body in pop culture to the expansion of video instillations. Her work transoms just a space into a architectural demonstration of masses of dreamlike environments which emphasis a hypnotic musical scores. she has created a new instillation for this exhibition in order to reveal connections between development of her art to the evolution of technology. I believe this such of nature,nuture and new found technology in order o create a surrealism dream life state in unlike anything else and is a huge movement for contemporary arts. it is said to be’ Ranging from the television monitor to the cinema screen, and from the intimacy of the smartphone to the communal experience of immersive images and soundscapes, this survey charts the ways in which Rist’s work fuses the biological with the electronic in the ecstasy of communication.’

these videos are captured and filmed in such a way to be a piece of art, they evoke such beauty ,passion and colour it combines the life of a daydreamer of surrealism combines with the aspirations of living stye hold to be so true. Her focus being that of video/audio instillations, she does this because there is a room in them for everything  (painting, technology, language, music, movement, flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex and friendliness) to her art is something we have to contribute tot should be seen as a task in order for it to evolve.  Art should encourage the mind to change social perseptions and garunetee a detached view of social changes. Her work should allow yourself to conjure up positive engery in order to create a sensuousness, in order to reconcile a reason of instinct. She wishes to destroy oredujice throughout her work and cliches. This is what I love about her work. This is what I find successful about her style. she uses the surrealism as a sense of escapism through her art form, allowing the manifesto to be freedom through her work. Because of this her art has been widely exhibited at international museums and festivals, all over the world. this lush seductive imagery employs the idiom of commercial advertising and music videos in order to create such abstract art in her own individual artistic language which is informed by her past experiences. Due to her use to being in a music group music has such a strong influence upon her work, the abstract from of sense from shapes of vibrations to which she can make art with. Her work is extended beyond boundaries of the normal monitor incorporated video into an architectural exhibition through th eproejction of space. She uses all her surroundings and space in order influence and help emphasis her work to be more successful. Since her exbitiohns she has become known for producing immersive instillations which she has done with the intentions to create a transformative experience for viewers with fluid and hypnotic imagery. This often uses her inspiration of nature and also a fundamental use of technology. She is unwise in the way to which she views the beauty in nature yet values the progression of technology and uses so to enhance her Art form. Some of her work even goes so far to place the audience wihtin the screen itself, surrounded by thousands of lights.

 

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research: Comparison of manifesto, animal farm and surrealism Andre Breton

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what is a manifesto? a manifesto is. verbal declaration of intentions, motives,views and issuer, this could be seen within creativity making  a creative video of art, or either a political party and a governmental movement. It is derived from the meaning of clear and conspicuous. This to my mind means my manifesto has to have clear cut conventions and portray a clear and genuine state of mind. There are many art movements that contextually produces a variety of opinions and aims.

political manifesto: The political manifesto that I have researched into is ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell’ Animal farm is a paradigm-changing novel written by the democratic socialist and observer writer George Orwell is a satire aimed at undermining Stalin and, as crucially, the admiration in which he was held by many in the British intelligentsia. The story is led by two pigs napoleon and snowball, they have the intentions to take over major farm with the act of revolution in order to run so in a new name of equality. Napolean is seen to drive away Snowball and strive through abandoning their previous pans of social improvement. He starts to work other animals to dust and is soon seen to be a direct carbon copy of that of the farmer. The key phrase of the book is when it is displaced that “all animals are equal” , “but some are more equal than others” . This story It highlights the morals of byword for how Stalinism worked and was practised. And due to this manifesto it snuffed the political chances of the British communist party of being a large political force.

It is interesting because although animal farm was not written in the form of a normal political manifesto,but a novella short story. Yet it was still written in order to compare the ideals expressed in the novellas compared with the fundamentals of communist manifesto written by Karl Marx. The story reflects a period during Stalin era in Russia. Many of marx’s ideas can be found in Orwells character, this is because Orwell had an influence wihtin Marx’s text. Karl Marxs manifesto Is said to be ‘worlds most influential political manifesto ever created’. this has been said as it argues:the lower classes are under pressure of their owners and that the lower class can be able to achieve their goals to overcome their problems by the formation of unions or riots. It also states the capitalism should be overthrown because communision is the only way for equality among the people. In the third section of the Communist Manifesto, “Socialist and Communist Literature,” the authors discuss the differences of communism and other socioeconomic systems. In their conclusion, “Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Opposition Parties,”The Communist Manifesto is divided into a preamble and four sections.  the main issues wihtin the manifesto was: In capitalism, the industrial working class, or proletariat, engage in class struggle against the owners of the means of production, the bourgaeaie As before, this struggle will end in a revolution that restructures society, or the “common ruin of the contending classes” HIs views on political issues to summerssise where how if poor pope;le keep being treated and overpower by the corrupt and Conservative party,they will rebell in order to abolish the class system. he believed the idea of equality and founded Communism,yet his theories were seen distorted by those in high class powers making no real change to those who needed it.

now the comparison of animal farm and Karls manifesto is evident. and clear seen below:

RUSSIAN   REVOLUTION 

1) Oppressed by the Russian Empire before the Russian Revolution
2) Karl Marx was widely recognized by his knowledge and philosophies3) Marx wrote the “Communist Manifesto” which recorded his principals and theories of abolishing the class system.
4) Marx’s “Communist Manifest” is convinced to be what Communism is based on. The idea of equality motivated Stalin and Lenin to start the Russian Revolution, which overpowered the Russian Empire.
5) However Karl Marx did not live to see the Russian Revolution that took place in 1917. He was then buried in Highgate Cemetery, North London. 
6) After the Russian Revolution, Karl Marx’s theories were distorted by Stalin, the Soviet dictator. He manipulated the people of the Soviet Union with violence and cruelty. 

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ANIMAL FARM

1) Oppressed by Mr Jones before the rebellion of the animals on Maor Farm
2) Old Major was a ‘highly respected’ boar by all the animals in the farm. 
3) Old Major expressed his initial idea  for all animals to rule and live freely through his speech in the ‘big barn’ 
4) Animalism convinced the animals that they are being oppressed by humans, and roared with their “wildest excitement”  Major’s speech then inspired Snowball and Napoleon to initiate the rebellion against Mr Jones.
5) Old Major died ‘three nights later’  without having the chance to witness the animal’s revolution. The animals buried his body at ‘the foot of the orchard’
6) After the animal’s revolution against Mr Jones, Napoleon took charge of the Animal Farm. He abandoned the initial ideas that Old Major proposed, and corrupt the principles of Animalism. 

Now this was the most influential political manifesto ever to be created, yet was still abolished and twisted due to governmental powers guaranteeing a set of rules and yet not being compliant. This to me purposes the overall ideal that political manifestos are what the people want to be done yet are not taken into action. I believe when comparing to my more creative art manifesto this will be the large difference; that being the outcome and if the manifesto becomes a reality.

artistic manifesto: As I myself view art as my passion dn would hope to see a future career wihtin it, I personally believe artistic manifestos should be held to the same level of important as those of political manifestos. When researching two features of contextual art movements instantly stood out and these were, surrealism and futurism.The manifesto of surrealism is was written in 1924 by Andre Breton, and comatained 5 main aims and contextual ideas wihtin so. This consisted of:

  • how  not to be bored in company
  • how to make speeches
  • how to write false novels
  • how to catch the eye of a woman on the street
  • against death

He believed that belief in life is the most precious aspect of life itself, by which is meant for real life. He lived people were inveterate dreamers who were disconnected by operating of fate and how no matter his efforts he has been consented to labour. he images surrealism  to be a man who ‘remains in this respect a new-born babe, and as for the consent of his moral conscience, I admit that he does very well without it. If he retains any degree of lucidity, he can do no more than turn to his childhood, which ruined as it has been by his teachers’ pains, seems to him nonetheless full of charm.’Breton is said to say’ Dear imagination, what I love most about you, is your unforgiving nature.’

this artist has four main reasons to which he operates and why he created his manifesto, 1, within the bounds in which they operate dreams continuously show a sign of order. Memory arrogates and it is important to ignore these transitions. We must have many dreams, a series of dreams and represent ourselves through a dream itself. Secondly being awake should be considered a phenomenon. Not one  he has said’Not only does the mind display, in this state, a strange tendency towards disorientation (a tale of lapses and errors of all sorts the secret of which is beginning to be revealed) but what is more it seems that when the mind is functioning normally it does no more than respond to suggestions which come to it from the depths of that night to which I commend it.’ Thirdly, our spirit of those who dreams is content with that which happens to him. you need to live, fly and love to your herts content. If you die you do not know what will happen,re you certain to wake among the dead? we haven name we should be led. And lastly if someone fails it is because they have led to accept an impoverished idea of expiation. mystery and moment should be in san and make a future resolution. ]The artists then makes many poems about his work which I will further look into with future analysis.

comparison:

The differences to me between a political and artist manifesto is the way in which the intentions are written and carried about, On the political side they are said to point out injustice and make a claim to help change and create a new world. Whereas art is an exploration of who we all are,Not just negative but who we want to be and how we should go about doing so. It is written more so as a conceptual brainstorm of our imagination of the people who we would like to see ourselves as. To my mind, art is about changing yourself and not the opinions of others around yours to me I feel is less corrupt and more likely be be accomplished, rather than the broken promises of the political manifestos. However I will still in a similar way to those of political manifesto ideals but I will carry on the surrealism promises that I have been previously discussing.

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Photoshoot- Breaking the Rules

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To interpret Stephen Gills style of work I visited Le Hocq beach and found an area that was surrounded by rocks and sea and focused on close up on certain sections with interesting patterns. I used pieces of red string in front of the lens to break the rule of manipulation by physically manipulating the lens so what the image is portraying is not what’s there in real life. I purposefully made  some photos out of focus to create a blurry effect that some of Stephen Gills work has where he dipped his lens into the pond water he was documenting. I think this was effective in some images like the images where I experimented with string, but not others where I used plastic in front of the lens which is why I haven’t displayed them down below or edited any.

I displayed these two images together as the string is a similar shape in both,  but the different backgrounds make them contrast one another. The photo on the left has a darker background making the red in the foreground stand out more than the right image. Both of the backgrounds of the images are slightly out of focus which i did to try and interpret the blurriness in some of Stephen Gills work. In my next photoshoot i will experiment by focusing the camera to see if the images are more effective. I chose these two backgrounds to photograph the string against as i like the different detailed patterns. The right image has yellow/brown tone grains of sand and rocks out of focus which is contrasted to the left image with the darker brown tones of seaweed that represent the flow of movement. The movement of the seaweed is similar to the string creating similar shapes and lines making a more interesting image. In the right image the shape of the string is contrasted to the background creating a more juxtaposed image.

 

Experiment

 When  first experimenting I edited some images in black and white to see if they were more effective. This emphasises the darker and lighter tones in the image and eliminates the mismatch of colours in the background.

Stephen Gills images:

I think this is a good interpretation of Stephen Gills work, especially to the images displayed above, as it has a similar flow of movement with similar lines and curves. Although Stephen Gills photography may have more details in the layering of the different materials and the way the materials fit in with the background, I think I captured his style of work and made it my own.

I also experimented by changing the main colours of the string to see if another colour was more effective. I chose to change red to yellow as in Stephen Gills images above there are many yellow and green tones. On the right image i edited the background even more out of focus as in some of Stephen Gills images he uses a blurred effect. I still kept some of the rocks on the edge of the image in focus so only the water blurred so there is contrasting patterns.

I think this image is more effective edited in black and white as the red colour of the string isn’t as overpowering and it fits in more with the background making a more aesthetically pleasing image.

I edited these images in black and white to create a more formal appearance. This makes it harder to tell what the photos are portraying and emphases the combination of detailed patterns.I displayed these two images together as the shape the string is making in both are very similar, but the different patterns in he background makes them juxtapose one another. In this edit, the darker point in the seaweed in the left image are darken and creates a bigger contrast to the string in the foreground, making the lighter points stand out more.

Evaluation:

I will revisit this area again for my second photoshoot and try different way of experimenting like adding different colours of string in front of the lens and maybe placing materials into the landscape making the image in focus to try a different approach. I will work on making the images where plastic is placed in front of the image better as well. I also want to look at my personal archive and interpret some of Stephen gills portrait work from the series ‘Coexistence’ where he dipped the lens in the pond water before taking the portrait creating a blurred effect.

I also want to further manipulate the images in my next shoot by printing them out and adding objects on top to create a collage like image that has aspects that weren’t there when the image was taken.

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2nd photoshoot on reality

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As said in my previous post I wanted to capture a almost less sentimental type of reality and include my next three main interests of, circumstances,dependency and chance. I wanted to use these conceptual ideas to relate to both my previously project on family and then also have a stronger level of signification to that of political landscape. My main original aims of this shoot was to show how to capture the movement of water as this contains many elements of the three words I am focusing on. I wanted to communicate many different angles and places which I would normally not venture. I decided it would be interesting to flip images and add lines into the images to add contextual methods into it.

shoot:

edits:

I wanted to add in these small white dots as this is what I have done previously experimented with in my political landscape alternate conceptual editing. 

within here I found a really interesting old structure of bars in a highly interesting composition,Additonally I found a water covered web of water which I thought created an area of interest.

within these water shots I wanted to capture the movement of the water itself, and sometimes even repeatedly showing the drop of water repeatedly dropping. I decided to edit these images into black and white as I did not want the colour to be a distraction of the composition of the images itself. 

This is my third image where I mirrored and flipped the image itself, I wanted to do this as I think the final outcome it produces has an interest of simplicity yet intrigue. I wanted to capture this image originally as I though the suture of the plant was so repetitive and structurally well formed, and how this contrasted against the background,and the light tonal sky. 

anylsis:Overall this shoot was less so capturing a direct narrative and more about trying to communicate ideas of form and how to edit in interesting mannerisms to capture the conceptual of reality.

with this project I had two main artist inspirations of…one fo which was very family and pain orientated,it was quite philosophical in the questioning of no on knows what reality really is as we all have a different concept and view of our own lives and own realities. However the second artists wanted to create images which she wanted to happen or was surprised that was happening somewhere in the world in the modern 20th century, She purpose how large companies would demonstrate a country as being modern and forward thinking and ignoring the true reality of factors such as poverty and starvation.  Because of these two clear divisions of ideas of family and not knowing the reality of what people are feeling and they way in which trauma can effect you, to how chance and reality can be predicted.Although I wanted to add my won these into both shoot so using archival images from my past family and then forming reality,around my house and capturing the dependency and effector different relates and possibly adding in themes if conceptual manipulation. from this I decided to brainstorm and experiment with what I think breaking reality means to me.I then got the three main ideas of, dependancy, possibility and chance. I think my first shoot was successful, I think I successful recreated the structure of the artists form and also conceptually edited my photos and to have and area of interest wihtin them. My second shoot was much more conceptual wihtin the thought of the structure and an essence of abstract structure I order to strip away any sense of reality.

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breaking the rules: reality, planning for shoot

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Development:

For my shoot I decided I would go down the road of peter Watkins ideas and I think they Are more possible to communicate in the environment I am in. However I do think It would beneficial if I did present a certain narrative and experimented within a minority of representations seen within school,Or even an experimentation with the prediction fo what will happen in the future, how and the Over not everyone will be interested or know about these events as they would be subject relevance to me and not of relevance to those people I am studying.For my second shoot I want to take a possible studio tablo type shoot and present political  issues such as (hospital in jersey, or political governmental issues in jersey).

 

Shoot images:

 

 

Edits:

Within this image I wanted to capture  a simplicity and delicacy to the image in order to mimic the young and innocent age of my brother at the time. I thought I would enhance the photo by using as tape as this too develops a story and narrative to the image and holds past realities and truths. This narrative is highly interesting to me and is purposes the possible narrative of my family never having me in it. It shows the relationships there before myself and me and the destruction of the truth and reality of what my family was previous.

I used this image as i had no connection with any of the people within this image. These were my grandparents when they were young who I never met.

I believe the  editing within this images purposes a question of the relativity of relationships and when they are formed and how they can easily be broken. The reality is of the division is a connotation of the physical emotional differences all of these people had.

As previously said my main inspiration or this first breaking the rules shoot was inspired by peter Watkins. I thought I would focus on the reality of my parents lives and hw what i think their lives are currently only consists f me being in it, However the majority of their life was with me absent from it. Because of this is used images of their wedding day and my brother who is 4 years older then myself. I wanted to use the same editing technique with repeating different sections of images throughout. I decided the majority of my images work more successful when in black and white as they concentrate on the character themselves. I have recently read the book ‘Camera lucida’ by  Stuart hall and he said something about photography that stuck with me. It is that the punctum is never the most obvious sections within an image. I believe that within my images This power is often metonymic, this means t be that the thinking eye will dd something to the image  itself, this could be a false sense  of reality and adding your own narrative to an image. What a stubbornly sees is different small section, with showing only these small contexts of the images it allows chemical reactions t develop an essence of the wound and memory from the photo itself. What we cannot be repeated but only transformed but only repeated under the instances of insistence. With moving image you aren’t allowed to shut your eyes as the movement goes quickly and you are unable to see the details. But within this shoot I want to discover a different image every-time  I look at the same photo. I believe the concept of reality in this shot is the different truths and stories each would tell who are in the same image. Images such as this also question the future of what will happen, as said previously you cannot predict the future as what you think will be true can ch age in an instance. I will further develop the concept of instances and who a small change can effect the future and impact of a person or being. 

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The Rule of Technicality – My Response

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In this shoot I will be responding to the rule of technicality and taking inspiration from the works of Henrik Malmstrom – particularly his work on ‘A Minor Wrongdoing‘ in which he would photograph people that he saw from the window of his living room using a cheap digital camera. The idea of this book was to create grainy surveillance-type photographs that are unconventional and unique. He would do this through using dark environments along with high ISO’s which I will be replicating in my shoot to show the different people within St. Helier and what they get up to when it appears that nobody is watching them. I will be using an ISO of 6400 on all of my photographs in this shoot to achieve a grainy effect and a shutter speed of 1/30-1/80. I will attempt to create a fusion of documentary and street photography within this photoshoot.

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Edits

In the below edits I have taken photographs of people within St. Helier with a high zoom and ISO in order to create surveillance style photographs. I have then used lightroom to crop these photographs to close in on the subjects and further improve the effect of surveillance. I also added a black and white filter to these photographs and reduced contrast to create conventionally grey images that contrast with ordinary dramatic contrasting black and white photographs.

Analysis

In this photograph I have used the artificial light from town at night to create a dimly lit photograph with little contrast in it.  The lack of light within the setting allowed for a contrasting bright light from a car to illuminate parts of the photograph and create a glare in the camera which creates a mysterious and intriguing subject at which the man in the photograph is looking.  If it was not for the glaring bright light, there would not be a very wide tonal range within the photograph as there would be no major source of light so the photograph is dark grey tones throughout except for this one spark of white.  I think that this white tone within the dark tones of grey add to the photograph by providing another viewpoint and provides a sense of confusion and distortion.  I used a deep depth of field in this photograph to ensure that the entirety of the photograph was in focus but this cannot be seen due to the glare of the car light distracting the viewing eye.  To capture this photograph with a grainy surveillance effect I used a shutter speed of 1/30-1/60 in order to allow some light to enter the lens from the dark environment.  I also used a very high ISO of 6400 to create the grain and conventionally bad quality of the photograph to create a unique composition.

There is no colour in this photograph due to the black and white filter that I have used. I have removed all colour from this photograph in order to convey the theme of surveillance and discretion within the photographs. The use of a high ISO mixed with the black and white effect allows for quite grey and documentary style tones which adds more mystery to the photograph as it is not very clear what the light is or what is going on in the composition. The grainy texture makes the photograph seem as if it was taken poorly, which is the aim of this shoot. The grainy texture creates character and feeling of a dark and disorientating environment to fit in with the surveillance theme. There is a slight 3D effect to the photograph due to the glare of the light separating the man in the foreground from the car in the background – this beam of light surrounding the man further creates a disorientating effect for the viewer, resulting in a slightly abstract composition.  Although I am breaking rules of technicality within this photograph, the man is placed along a vertical line of the rule of thirds but the main viewpoint, being the glaring light, is slightly offset from the centre which adds to the disorientating composition.

This photograph takes lots of inspiration from the work of Henrik Malmstrom’s ‘A Minor Wrongdoing‘ in which he photographs people in the streets using a very high ISO along with a cheap camera to create grainy surveillance-type photographs that are different to the conventional standards of a good photograph.  The photographs that would result from this are similar to mine in the sense that they are dark, grainy and have a sense of mystery and secrecy around them.  Lewis Bush once said that that “the camera technology of today means the real skill and the real statement sometimes lies in taking a wilfully ‘bad’ image”, which is exactly what I am attempting to do with this photograph – create a photograph which is interesting and unique but does not sit within the conventions of photography technicalities.

As with what I think that Malmstrom is trying to convey throughhis photographs, I am questioning whether the technicalities and conventions of society, photography and day-to-day life are necessary and whether people stick to them when it appears that no one is watching them. In this photograph I have photographed a man without revealing his identity, suggesting that he represents society and everyones ongoing ordinary lives.  The photograph observes how society moves and composes itself whilst getting from A to B and also how society presents itself and reacts to certain situations – such as the man staring into the glaring headlights.  This photograph is my attempt of showing people in their own world minding their own business but being watched and recorded without knowing – which can also link to controversy about how closely society is being watched by organisations such as the government.

A2 Personal Investigation, AO3 Record Ideas

Manipulation shoot

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Concept: Using digital manipulation, I will create a landscape that demonstrates visual pollution through  Industrialisation

Lighting: Natural daylight

Location: The area of La Collette featuring the Aggregate Recycling Centre, I will also need to capture a vast and empty beach.

Camera settings: I aim to improve my image through digital manipulation therefore camera settings do not matter as much.

AO3 Record Ideas, AO4 Present Ideas, Coursework

Experimentation with shutter speed and conceptual ideas.

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My main purpose for this shoot is to concentrate on the following two concepts: Night traces of light within a landscape, and mirrors over faces and using fire. I have chosen this as I was inspired by the artist: I have chosen this as I think these additional camera effects will add a dramatised effect to my photos. I think fire emphasises the ideology of pain and anger and will create. I believe will will open us a new concept that allows my images to be more shocking, and possibly connecting more of the sublime which I really want to emphasis. Due to the shoot being based in town I will concentrate the political issues to surrounding the lack of community within town and the amount of crime and poverty being highlighted.

I want to use light capture in order to capture the life and reflect a reality within the movement of people within the town. The place I am taking these photos is right outside the hospital and on peoples park. This is politically interesting as where  I am in jersey. This is the governmental debate as to where to place the new hospital and wether it should be on peoples park.  This could clearly communicate the anger within people who live in town and next to the park and feeling as tho there voices have been diminished as others are making their decision of their future. In my previous shoot I focused on a love and connection within the area and an anger for the castle as it was a clear presentative for the past place they lived and being discriminated against as they did not have as much money as the others controlling their decisions.

Shoot images, for experimentation.

I do need to further develop this shoot as many of the images I do not think I can develop in such a way as I would like. I think shoot works for a quick experimentation but I need to come back to this shoot and area and really further develop this shoot as a whole.