Blog: Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:
1. Research a photo-book (select one you have looked at previously in your project) and describe what story/ narrative the book is telling – its subject-matter, genre, style, approach etc.
2. Who is the photographer? Why did he/she make it? (intentions/ reasons) Who is it for? (audience) How was it received? (any press, awards, legacy etc.)
E.gRobert Frank’s “The Americans” was conceived with the help of a scholarship that allowed Frank to go on road trips across America during a two year period. He wanted to portray American society in the post-war period and his book has influenced (and still influence) many photographers since and also contributed to a new poetic style and subjective approach to documentary photography. Why?
Read an article in The Guardian by Sean O’Hagan, Photography Critic
3. Deconstruct the narrative, concept and design of the book such as:
Book in hand: how does it feel? Smell, sniff the paper.
Paper and ink: use of different paper/ textures/ colour or B&W or both.
Format, size and orientation: portraiture/ landscape/ square/ A5, A4, A3 / number of pages.
Julian German: For Every Minute You Are Angry You Loose Sixty Seconds of Happiness
Rita Puig-Serra Costa: Where Mimosa Bloom
4. Look at BLURB online book making website, photo books from photographers or see previous books produced by Hautlieu students on the table in class.
5. Write a book specification and describe in detail what your book will be about in terms of narrative, concept and design. Produce a mood-board of design ideas and consider the following:
Narrative:What is your story?
Describe in:
3 words
A sentence
A paragraphs
Design: Consider the following
How you want your book to look and feel
Paper and ink
Format, size and orientation
Binding and cover
Title
Structure and architecture
Design and layout
Editing and sequencing
Images and text
Create a BLURB account using your school email address. With Blurb you have different options on how you design your book:
a) Using Lightroom to design your book which is integrated with BLURB. Only for use on school computers, unless you have LR at home on your own laptop.
b) Download Bookwright via Blurb onto your own laptop and work offline at home and you can work indecently of school. Here you have full control of layout/ design features. Once completed, you upload photo book design to Blurb
c) Choose online option if you want to work directly online. Very limited layout/design options (not recommended!)
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.
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.
Following on from your first task of Rule Breaking your next task is write your own manifesto with a set of rules that you follow creatively in making a new set of photographic images, experimental film-making or video art.
A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, government or an artistic movement.
In etymology (the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history), the word manifesto is derived from the Italian word manifesto, itself derived from the Latin manifestum, meaning clear or conspicuous.
Political manifestos from Britains three main parties, Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the last election in 2017.
Political Manifestos – in Jersey
Political parties makes a manifesto that sets out their political values and views on issues such as education, health, jobs, housing, environment, the economy etc and pledge a set of policies on what they would do if they got elected.
As you are all eligible to vote it makes sense to explore what manifestos exist in local politics. Unlike the UK, Jersey doesn’t have a political system with large parties, such as Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats and so on.
The parliamentary body responsible for adopting legislation and scrutinising the Council of Ministers is the Assembly of the States of Jersey. Forty-Nine elected members, 8 island-wide Senators, 29 Deputies and 12 Constables representing each parish sit in the assembly. There are also five non-elected, non-voting members appointed by the Crown (the Bailiff, the Lieutenant Governor, the Dean of Jersey, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General). Decisions in the States are taken by majority vote of the elected members present and voting.
Find out more here on the official Government website: gov.je
In Jersey there is only one small political party Reform Jersey (3 members). Some politicians, such as Senator Philip Ozouf,Senator Lyndon Farnham publish a manifesto in advance of an election so that the public can learn about their political views. During an election in Jersey hustings in each Parish are arranged in the month leading up to the election day, giving the public an opportunity to ask prospective candidates questions and listen to their policies.
Here a few examples of manifestos made by Jersey politicians
Futurism Manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was published in the French newspaper Le Figaro in 20 February 1909. In the manifesto Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy, Futurism, that was a rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry.
MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM
We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness.
Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry.
Up to now literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap.
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
The poet must spend himself with ardor, splendor, and generosity, to swell the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
Except in struggle, there is no more beauty. No work without an aggressive character can be a masterpiece. Poetry must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and prostrate them before man.
We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!… Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.
We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.
We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizon; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd.
In 1924 French Poet, Andre Breton published a Surrealist Manifesto which sets out specific terms on which to be creative and make art as a reaction against another art movement, Dadaism.
POEM
A burst of laughter
of sapphire in the island of Ceylon
The most beautiful straws
HAVE A FADED COLOR
UNDER THE LOCKS
on an isolated farm
FROM DAY TO DAY
the pleasant
grows worse
coffee
preaches for its saint
THE DAILY ARTISAN OF YOUR BEAUTY
MADAM,
a pair
of silk stockings
is not
A leap into space
A STAG
Love above all
Everything could be worked out so well
PARIS IS A BIG VILLAGE
Watch out for
the fire that covers
THE PRAYER
of fair weather
Know that
The ultraviolet rays
have finished their task
short and sweet
THE FIRST WHITE PAPER
OF CHANCE
Red will be
The wandering singer
WHERE IS HE?
in memory
in his house
AT THE SUITORS’ BALL
I do
as I dance
What people did, what they’re going to do
An example of a poem published as part of Breton’s Surrealist manifesto.
Tasks
Week 7: 15 – 22 Oct Write a Manifesto Complete the following blog posts
RESEARCH > PLANNING > RECORDING
Research and read at least one political manifesto and one manifesto from an artistic group or movement. Describe differences and similarities used in their use of language, metaphor and vision – 1 blog posts.
Analysis: from your chosen artistic manifesto, choose at least two key art works for further analysis that have been made as response to the rules/ aims/ objectives of the manifesto. Describe techniques used, interpret meaning/metaphor, evaluate aesthetic quality – 1 posts.
Planning: Write a manifesto with a set of rules (5-10) that provide a framework for your new shoots and overall project. Describe in detail how you are planning on developing your work and ideas in the next two weeks. Think about what you want to achieve, what you want to communicate, how your ideas relate to the theme of Political Landscapes – 1 blog post.
Record: Choose one rule and produce at least one shoot by Mon 22 Oct.
Experiment: Edit a selection of 5 images with annotation – 1 blog post.
Evaluate: Choose your best image and evaluate with reference to your manifesto and contextual references – 1 blog post.
Present:Print best image and prepare a 1 min presentation Wed 24 Oct
Photo Assignment 4:Make a photographic response to your Manifesto
Extension: Make a photographic response to What to photograph?
See link to manifesto in Wikipedia which has a hyperlinks to many manifestos, both political and artistic.
How to write a manifesto? Read more here
A manifesto is a statement where you can share your…
– Intentions (what you intend to do)
– Opinions (what you believe, your stance on a particular topic)
– Vision (the type of world that you dream about and wish to create.
Here are a list of artists/ photographers that may inspire you associated with the above art movements and isms:
Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Yves Klein, Bas Jan Ader, Erwin Wurm, Chris Arnatt, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Francis Alÿs, , Sophie Calle , Nikki S Lee, Claude Cahun, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Nauman, Allan Kaprow, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Marcel Duchamp and the Readymade, Andy Warhol’s film work, Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Marina Abramovic, PipilottiRist, Luis Bunuel/ Salvatore Dali: , Le ChienAndalou, Dziga Vertov: The Man with a Movie Camera
Saint Helier is Jersey’s capital town and the most populated of its 12 parishes. It is home to the States Chamber, where the island’s parliament meets, the Royal Court building and most major administrative departments. It also has the island’s main port, public markets, a number of major public parks, most of the important public monuments and statues. Although for some time before the development of St Helier Harbour, Saint Aubin was arguably the most important town in the island, St Helier has always been the capital, and since the early 19th century it has grown into a bustling town and commercial centre and, until the advent of air travel in the mid-20th century, the island’s principal gateway.
King Street is the heart of St Helier and its main shopping area. This was not always the case, because it was once a back street (Rue de derrière) with open marshland behind. Today it is a thriving commercial precinct, its Victorian properties commanding substantial rents.
The area given to me was the pink section, this area features roads such as Midvale Road and Val Plaisant and landmarks such as Springfield Stadium and St Thomas’s Church.
St Mark’s Church
St Mark’s Church, located on St Mark’s Road, was opened in 1844 after recognition of the need for a new church in the area by Francis Jeune, the dean of Jersey at the time.
The licence for the opening of the church read:
‘Know ye that whereas the population of the Town and Parish of St Helier has greatly increased and that many faithful persons are deterred from worshipping God…..certain members of the Church of England desirous of promoting the glory of God…..have at full cost erected and completed a suitable building by the name of St. Mark’s Church’
For the first fifty years of its existence, St. Mark’s was always full and often there was a waiting list of people anxious to secure seats. The Dean worked out all this and calculated that 70 shares of £50 each would provide a worthy building and at a meeting called on 16th May 1842 he laid out his plans. He offered to take up 16 shares (a considerable outlay for those days of £800) and to make the pews that came to him from six of those shares free. The plans were accepted; all the shares were disposed of in the next few weeks and, on 1st August the foundation stone was laid by the Lieutenant Governor.
A few weeks after its consecration by the Bishop of Winchester on 6th August 1846, the visit of Queen Victoria brought the church into the limelight. A triumphal arch of welcome was built across David Place.
>Members of St Mark’s Choir in 1953 and 1948
>Previous Vicars at St Mark’s Church
Springfield Stadium
Springfield opened in 1885 and began as the venue for agricultural shows, as well as hosting social and sporting events, including the Battle of Flowers. The Royal Jersey Militia used the ground as a parade ground from the early 20th century, and the hall was taken over by the military at the outbreak of the First World War. The Springfield Ballroom was venue for concerts in the 1960s for acts such as The Beatles and Rolling Stones. In Modern Use, Springfield’s main pitch is used mostly for football matches and is the headquarters of the Jersey Football Association.
>Island Cattle Shows taken place at Springfield.
>Springfield during the War.
St Thomas’s Church
St Thomas’s Church opened in 1887 but was consecrated in 1893.
St Thomas’ Church is constructed in the 13th century style and comprises nave, aisles, transepts with chapels forming the arms of the Cross, and a chancel. Two small chapels lengthening the lower sides westward have the appearance of chancels to either aisles. On each side of the tower are two other chapels with groined vaults of a very pleasing effect, that at the south end having a deep recess in the centre of which stands the baptismal font.
>An architect’s drawing of the church published to coincide with the laying of the foundation stone in September 1883
>Images of the church, including a frontal shot taken by Albert Smith
A master plan is a dynamic long-term planning document that provides a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development. Master planning is about making the connection between buildings, social settings, and their surrounding environments.
Masterplan’s of St Helier influence the development of more housing and apartments to cater for the growing population. They propose pedestrian improvements that allow for connections of streets and calmer traffic.
Above are two examples of masterplans for the David Place and Town Park Area.
