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Mindmap and Moodboard

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I’ve decided to focus my personal project of Socio-political ideas.

Possible Photographers

Peter Kennard

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Kennard’s images focus on politics and the environment. He uses his work to criticise the Britsh government and other countries along with criticises armaments.

Sheila Pree Bright

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Bright focuses on unrealistic body and beauty expectations specifically the unrealistic and lack of representation of Africa American women in dolls. She uses editing to combine images of dolls and real images to highlight the obvious unrealisticness of the doll and to show how unrealistic the proportions of the dolls are.

Laurie Simmons

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Simmons uses her photography to comment on the patriarchy and the role of women in the eyes of society. The specific image above was taken in the ’70s during the second wave feminist movements.

Which Photographers should I take inspiration from and analyse in my essay?

I’ve decided I’m going to look at Bright and Simmons rather than Kennard because they have similar feminist messages that they try to convey through their work. Also, the ways that they try to convey their message is similar in the way that they set up dolls and take images. However, Simmons sets up a whole dollhouse setting with a narrative whereas bright using her editing more to convey her message. If I combine both ways I should have an eclectic mix of images with a lot of variety.

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Personal Study: Planning

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After making my statement of intent, I went on to further develop the plan for my personal study, forming ideas and taking inspiration from other works that I will likely take inspiration from:

Above is a Mind map that I produced showing how I interpret the theme of Occupation and Liberation now, incorporating my own concept into the meaning.

I created a mind map in order to arrange my ideas, and in doing so developed some ideas for a photo-shoot that I could use to begin the process of creating images around the concept of the historical context of gender roles, and the way they have changed and developed over time. I want to be able to show a contrast between “now” and “then”, incorporating aspects of different periods in time such as clothing styles and typical gendered-jobs into each image.

I then created a mood board, incorporating inspiration from different images and concepts to do with identifying and breaking gender stereotypes, with some of the images showing the vulnerability of men, and others showing stereotypes being both broken and adhered to.

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Artist Reference: Historical

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a french photographer whom many have credited as being one of the founding fathers of street photography. Born on the 22nd February 1908, Bresson came from a wealthy family, with his father being a wealthy textile owner and his mother a landowner herself. This in turn allowed for his education and pursuit of photography to be entirely funded by his parents.

in 1929 after being placed under house arrest for hunting without a license, Bresson was introduced to an American Expatriate by the name of Harry Crosby. Crosby learned of Bressons interest and passion for photography, and therefore issued him with his first camera. Bresson had a long term affair with Crosby’s wife, which, upon ending in 1931 two years after Crosby committed suicide, made him move to Cote D’ivoire in West Africa where he lived for several years hunting and selling game to locals. Upon returning to france in late 1931, Bresson found insipration from the surrealist movement and this sparked his desire to take photography seriously and persue his career as a professional

Notable Works

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Allee Du Prado, which simply translates to Prado alley is an image depicting a man in a long trench coat and bowler hat smoking a long cigarette. At the time, this person was seen to be someone of higher class and power and typically quite wealthy, so therefore the dead trees in the background provide a contrast between the clean cut image portrayed by the male in the foreground and the trees themselves.
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Bressons most well known image, Rue Mouffetard, Depicts a man outside of a train station seemingly running to catch a train. However, Bresson captured the image at the exact moment both of the subjects feet had left the floor, giving the appearance that the subject is floating. This affect is amplified in terms of effectiveness by the reflection of the subject in the water on the ground. This image is a defining one in the surrealist genre as it finely depicts the crossover between real life and surreal ideas

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In this image, Bresson has captured an avenue of trees leading down a path. The image features the first trees and then the avenue continues snaking around to the left of the image in the background. The completely white sky can help in providing a contrast within the image as the darker colours of the trees highlight the prominence of the feature within the image.

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Rafal Milach

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Rafal Milach was born in Gliwice, Poland in 1978. He is a photographer, visual artist, and author of multiple photo books.

His works have been exhibited in Poland and worldwide, and can be found in the collections of the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the ING Polish Art Foundation, Kiyasato, the Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, and the Brandts in Odense in Denmark.

In his photo book, The First March Of Gentlemen, he focuses on using bright backgrounds with objects and cut outs of archive images. He takes two sheets of coloured paper, one for the floor and one for the wall, and places them on a table against a wall. He then chooses an object and places it on the coloured paper, and takes images of it. During editing, he chooses archive images which feature people in black and white, cuts them out, and chooses places to put them around the objects to make the people look like they’re interacting with the objects.

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In this image you are immediately drawn to the colours which have been chosen for this image. A dark green against a pinkish-purple with emerald green pyramids placed in the middle. There are cut-outs of people from images which seem to be from the archives, of two young boys and four soldiers. The boys seem to be possible hiding from the soliders from behind the pyramids.