Fore this Zine which I have made, I had to make some difficult decision, For example when I came to add the text to go incise with the images I choose, I found it very difficult as I would have to experiment with different text to see what phrase would fit best. For the layout of the actual zine I decided to
Below are the 3 different variations of a double spread for the newspaper. Most of the images I have used are Occupation related or have a relation to something we have worked on in this unit, such as the montage of the Emile Guiton auto-chrome rose. I’ve chosen a light pink, black and blue/green theme for all these images as I think they go well together but also work well on their own. I’ve also inverted 3 of my montages in Photoshop as I think it gives an interesting effect and matches the colour scheme well.
Stephen Shore:
Stephen Shore’s work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty-five years. He was the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier. He has also had one-man shows at George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art opened a major retrospective spanning Stephen Shore’s entire career. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work.
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/shore-stephen/
More than 25 books have been published of Stephen Shore’s photographs including Uncommon Places: The Complete Works; American Surfaces; Stephen Shore, a retrospective monograph in Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists series; Stephen Shore: Survey and most recently, Factory: Andy Warhol and Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art published Stephen Shore in conjunction with their retrospective of his photographic career. Stephen also wrote The Nature of Photographs, published by Phaidon Press, which addresses how a photograph functions visually. His work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, London and Berlin. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
“I’d thought about this in a certain way before – about this idea of how to make a picture look natural. In a way I deconstructed all of that over a period of years and made pictures that were almost the opposite, very intensely structured.”
Key Ideas:
Shore’s photographs often appear as unstudied snapshots before revealing themselves, on closer examination, to be carefully calculated and balanced. His images show a deep consideration of framing, with lines and colors chosen to emphasize the formal qualities of the places or objects within the frame, heightening the viewer’s focus.
Shore’s images are structured around the experience of seeing, seeking to communicate the way in which the everyday might register to an outsider. He has regularly used his work as a form of visual diary, communicating his own experiences through his photographs. Shore’s photographic choices suggest emotional states to the audience, often drawing power through the ways in which light and composition evoke feelings that the viewer cannot name.
My zine has been influenced by The First March of Gentlemen by Rafal Milach. I have detached figures from the Société Jersiaise archival imagery and placed them onto my still life photographs of Occupation objects. Several figures in the zine are caged in geometric shapes as a metaphor of the restrictions the German’s introduced into Jersey when it was Occupied
I love the bold, vivid colour scheme of my zine since it juxtaposes with the historical, black and white images of the soldiers. The colourful aspect of the zine camouflages the serious subject matter of World War 2. I have also included typography inside to add a pop of colour, so there would be a constant colour scheme running throughout my zine.
The theme of the zine is looking at the different topics that we have explored during the Occupation vs Liberation project. These include portraiture, still life and photomontage. The majority of the images in my zine are montages since I wanted to present my photos in a creative way, however there is a double page that includes a portrait of Joan Tapley and two still life’s from the Jersey War Tunnels.
The front cover includes all the archival figures that can be seen inside the zine. I used the font TitlingGothicFB Skyline as the title since it’s bold and will most likely capture the viewers attention. Previously, I had the title in the colour black but decided to change it to white since there is greater contrast between the lettering and the “candy” coloured background. The background from the front continues to the back cover, where a newspaper from the Jersey Weekly Post is depicted stating “Liberation Supplement”. This was published in 1945 and shows Jersey’s Liberation from the German Occupation, creating a pleasant ending to this zine.
