PICTORIALISM

time period : 1880s to 1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions : Trying to make photographs look like paintings, Allegorical inspirations, spiritual and religious scenes+subject matter

Artists associated: Hugo Henneberg, Heinrich Kuhn, Hans Watcek (Vienna Camera Club), Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, Photo-Secession,

Key works: Equivalent (Alfred Stieglitz), What Remains (Sally Mann)

Methods/ techniques/ processes: soft focus, blurred and fuzzy imagery, long exposures

REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Time period: 1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions : accurate and descriptive records of the visual world, wanted too make photographs ‘photographic’ rather than ‘painterly’, Social Reform Photography,

Artists associated: Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, Jacob Riis, Lewis H. Hine

Key works: The Steerage (Alfred Stieglitz)

Methods/ techniques/ processes: crisp focus, wide depth of field

liberation childhood family separation archive Yoshikatsu Fujii Mateusz Sarello

How have concepts of family separation been explored in the photo books of Mateusz Sarello and Yoshikatsu Fujii?

Explore How both Mateusz Sarello and Yoshikatsu Fujii Convey the theme of separation and loss through their use of archive images.

Online article: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yoshikatsu-fujii-red-string

text in book

youtube interview

Examples

Bibliogrpahy;

Book

Pultz, J (1995) Photography and the body. London: The Orion Publishing Group

Website

O’Hagan, S (14th may 2014) Title. London: The Guardian. URL (date accessed)

Quotations;

Book

Author Pultz says; “Events from the life of Christ allegorize philosophical and ethical concerns” (Pultz 1995:63)

Website

“quote” (O’Hagan 2014) OR (URL)

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Mini Zine:

Evaluation:

The zine I will be looking at is ‘Redbridge’ by Christophe Le Toquin. After looking through several physical zines, I liked the simplicity of this particular one. The images are laid out interestingly on the pages, juxtaposing each other and some being placed the same. The full bleed double page spreads let the images really show their content and it looks very appealing. The orientation is portrait which i think is ideal for this type of small A5 zine. There doesn’t seem to be a particular narrative or sequence to the images only that’s they’re mostly all the nature of the Redbridge area of London. The cover is a wrap around image which I quite like. The book is made up mostly images and little if not no text. There are no other design elements which i like, the book is kept simple.

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My favourite page is where he has taken two photos and put them next to each other on different pages but it looks like its a panorama.

For my zine I have decided I want to do a Zine within a Zine. A Zine in a Zine is basically a single section Zine combining different paper sizes, which can be distributed in a variety of ways, either creating a smaller publication within a bigger one, or creating hidden flaps.

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I want the larger zine to be about the past and the war objects and also my photos of Hedley and Joyce, and the smaller zine to be modern objects and photos of my friends in todays age. I want it to make people think about what the past went through so we can be where we are today.

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With the images I gathered from the objects photo shoot i tried out different things such as putting the images into black and white. Other than that I didn’t really touch the images apart from some slight cropping and exposure/contrast adjustments. I did sharpen some of the images slightly to make the reflections more prominent. I really wanted the objects to stand out and really show their history and their age. The reason I didn’t really want to edit the images was because I thought the objects should be centre focus, they have a story to tell and any major editing would take away from it.

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