IDEAS:
With the title journeys and pathways, I feel that there are 4 main subject areas which I would be able to tackle. Landscape, abstract, portraiture and photo-montage are the areas which would be appropriate to go down as they are able to portray journeys and pathways in an understandable way.
Psycho-geography is a hybrid of photography and geography that emphasizes playfulness and “drifting” around urban environments. It has links to the Situationist International.
Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.”
Another definition is “a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities… just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape
The originator of what became known as unitary urbanism, psychogeography, and the dérive was Ivan Chtcheglov, in his highly influential 1953 essay “Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau” (“Formulary for a New Urbanism”).
It has roots in Dadaism and Surrealism.
The idea of urban wandering relates to the older concept of the flâneur, theorized by Charles Baudelaire…and is similar to STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
PETAPIXEL definition of PsychoGeography CLICK HERE
The Boyle Family : The ground we walk on
http://www.boylefamily.co.uk/boyle/about/index.html
Mishka Henner : Aerial Imagery in the digital age
Luke Fowler: Two-Frame Film | Juxtapostions
http://www.photopedagogy.com/two-frame-films.html
Stephen Gill : “in-camera photograms”
Superflux : explore over-surveillance and the prospect of intrusion in our everyday lives…has the concept of psycho-geographies evolved into something dystopian-like and Orwellian (1984- “Big brother”)…governments, town planners and the authorities design how we live, where we live and essentially control popluations of towns and cities.
Marcus Desieno creates de-humanised landscape photography by hacking surveillance camera networks…but avoids privacy problems normally associated with urban and residential areas…
Brainstorm of intial ideas in response to ‘Journeys and Pathways’.
Day 1= Edit and finalise final images for “Journeys and Pathways”
Day 2=Frame, mount, present and display final prints
Week 1 Mon Feb 4th = Mindmaps, moodboards, research / case studies plan and carry out Photoshoot 1
Week 2 Mon Feb 11th = Edit and experiment with images from Photoshoot 1
Feb Half Term = take more photos!
Week 3 Mon Feb 25th = edit and experiment with initial images / responses
Week 4 Mon March 4th = move onto idea 2 / refine initial idea / plan photo-shoot 2
Week 5 Mon March 11th = edit and experiment with images from second photo-shoot
Week 6 Mon March 18th = review and refine progress…change plan if necessary
Week 7 Mon March 25th= develop and plan ideas for final photo-shoot
Week 8 Mon April 1st = explore display and presentation ideas, complete all available blog posts and drafts
Easter
Week 9 Mon 23rd April = Exam Week 1
Week 10 Mon 30th April = Exam Week 2
