Lois Greenfield

Diane Arbus

Bill Brandt

Chronophotography

Eadweard Muybridge

Étienne-Jules Marey

Experimenting

To experiment with chronophotography, looking at both Edward Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey, I took images of a dancer, showing the motion of a dance movement. I used the images below, creating layers and adjusting the opacity to make it look like the movement. To improve this I would use a tripod to ensure all the images are from the exact same position, ensuring a more accurate and clean image where they all lined up. I would also take more images closer together, enabling a flow of motion creating an appealing image.

I have decided to focus on one specific person and their hobby to enable a clear view of the freedom and limitations of that one particular activity. This will also create a more personal/ meaningful approach focussing on an individual and their life. I have chosen to focus on artistic rollerskating as the hobby. I will show the time and dedication and the different aspects that impact life and this hobby. I will present my work as a photo book, creating a book on the life of the individual and their journey through roller skating, showing how they have progressed over the years.

• I want my book to have standard paper, and for the images to be in both black and white and colour.
• I want my book to be a square book, as I think it will look quite different, and can allow for a different look for the images and how they sit on the pages.
• My book is going to be a hard back, with a dust jacket. I am doing this because I want the book to be sturdy.
• The dust jacket is going to be an image, with the title and my name hand written on the front.
• ‘maybe its myself’, its my limitation, and is easy to interpret, explains my whole book but is also intriguing.
• Narrative: what is the story/ subject-matter. How is it told? the subject matter is of what limits and makes people feel free, mixed together with my personal feelings on the subject. The subject matter is told through various different things, portraits, self portraits, landscapes, abstract images, and written words.
• There is going to be no real theme running through the book, as while creating the book I am just going to put images where I feel they fit, to relate to ‘freedom’.

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