was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist, most known for his black-and-white images taken in Yosemite National Park. He was born in February 20, 1902, he later died in April 22, 1984. he became a founder of f/64 group this group advocated ‘pure’ photography, this type of photography with sharp focus and a full tonal range.
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
He is most famous for this image, On the chilly spring morning of April 10th, 1927, Ansel Adams set out through Yosemite’s LeConte Gully to capture an image of Half Dome, one of Yosemite National Park’s most iconic natural features.
Lewis Baltz was visual artist and photographer he then became a important figure in the new topographic movement. born September 12, 1945, died November 22, 2014, he was manly based in Europe from 1980 but did travel frequently. Lewis Baltz focused on architecture of tract housing, office parking lots, and industrial parks.
“But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centres, and gas stations” this is a quote form Lewis Baltz that explains why he didn’t fall into the traditional landscapes because he wanted to show the beauty that everyone can see and don’t have to travel miles.
The sharpness of this images highlights the beauty in the normal everyday. i think this image was taken to highlight the beauty in the mundane and show that there is beauty everywhere not just 1000 of miles away.
‘Monterey, 1967’ by Lewis Baltz
this photo shows a light car positioned on a very dark background this looks like a shoot but to the left of the frame the dark wall stops and the road continues showing that this isnt just a car on a black backgroubd perfectly postioned in a studio it has natural beauty which is what Lewis Baltz and the whole new topographical movement is about.
i edited this image until i was happy with how it looked then i made a virtual copy and changed the copy to black and white to see which one would be better because a lot of the examples i looked at where black and white.
this images was taken along the grosnez coast line which has the tallest cliffs in jersey. i also experimented with putting this in black and white aswell
this image is of the pinacle in gorsnez i used the gourse bush to give depth to the images with a forground a mid ground and the swell breaking in the background. i also experimented with putting this image in black and white
this image is of white rock with the vibrance turned up to show of the beatiful blues in the background of the image. the forgroun of the headland gives depth to the image and the swell around the rock outline the focal point and the pointey shape of the rock brings your focal pooitn from the bottom up to the white rock on the top.
this mages shows the the beach of le Braie in the foreground the Hedland in the midground and Corriere lighthouse in the background. I liked the effect the sea spray created mist around the headland and the lighthouse. I edited this image bring out a wider range of colours in the sky to highlight the paragliders.
i experimented with a similar image taken in landscape, that I put in two tones because I looked the effect it gave between the darker bottom of the image and the lighter tones in the sky.
i think this is my best image from rural landscapes bec asue it captures the a large expanse with the focal point of the image goes to the larger boulder in the center of the frame the bunker in the background also helps add depth to the image with a background and midground and forground.
new topographical photography show the beauty in the mundane, reflection of the increasingly suburbanised world. reaction to the tyranny of idealised landscape photography that elevated the natural and the elemental.
Robert Adams, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel Jr are all the people that started the new topographical movement. 1975 exhibition New Topographic signalled a radical shift away from traditional landscapes.
Robert Adams -Mobile-Homes-1973
This image was taken by Robert Adam and I like the juxtaposition between the foreground of the man made harsh white boxes and the background of the rolling hills with smooth organic shapes along the horizon. image is like a before and after because it shows the earth as it was the unnatural shapes humans have produced that litter the earth.
John Schott: Mobile Homes 1975-1976
This image has a wider angle which shows more of the organic environment which makes the sea of white boxes look out of place. this images shows the natural foreground with a man made midground and a natural background which greatest a sandwiching affect which makes the mobile homes look even more out of place.
This is my mood bored of different new topographic images that will inspire me to take images around Jersey
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from. This period depicted more emotions such as trepidation, horror, and wild untamed nature.
The earliest known landscape photograph was in 1826 taken by a French inventor by the name of Nicephore Niepce.
The Age of Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment) was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects.
Sublime is a aesthetic concept of ‘beauty that is big and dangerous’. Sublime refers to the wildness of nature. In history of ideas it has a deeper meaning, an ideal that artists have long pursued. Taking inspiration from the rediscovery of the ‘Pseudo-Longinus’ and Edmund Burke, British artists and writers on art have explored the sublime for over four hundred years. In the introductory essay Christine Riding and Nigel Llewellyn trace the relationship between British art and the sublime, discussing ideas and definitions of the sublime used in the Baroque, Romantic, Victorian periods and modern periods. The accompanying piece by Ben Quash considers an intractable problem for Christian art – the notion of a separation between the sublime and the beautiful in God’s creation.
Juxtaposition is positioning two images together to show contrast or similarities. this could be done by adjusting the composition, to convey the contrasts in the picture.
To juxtapose an image means to place them next to each other. When those things are notably dissimilar, the juxtaposition highlights the differences between them and creates a sense of contrast. When we get it right, that contrast can be very powerful aesthetically, conceptually or both.
these images are similar because they are take in the same place, they re dissimilar because they weren’t taken in the same time. his shows the effect of time on out island.
Thomas Ruff is a German photographer born February 10, 1958. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
THE DEADPAN AESTHETIC
According to source the origins of the word “Deadpan” can be traced to 1927 when Vanity Fair Magazine compounded the words dead and pan, a slang word for a face, and used it as a noun. In 1928 the New York Times used it as adjective to describe the work of Buster Keaton.
It is less clear when it was first used to describe the style of photography associated with Edward Ruscha, Alec Soth, Thomas Ruff and many others. Charlotte Cotton devotes a complete chapter to Deadpan in the photography as contemporary art and much that has been written since references that essay.
In summary Deadpan photography is a cool, detached, and unemotional presentation and, when used in a series, usually follows a pre-defined set of compositional and lighting rules.
He decided he would like to mimic a passport photo set up. he used this criteria to make his passport images.
This image meets the critria of a passport photot eyes open, neutral face, whole face in image, face and shoulders centered in image, no hair covering the eyes, no hats, no shadows on the face and natural skin tone.
FACE:
eyes must be open and clearly visible, with no flash reflections and no ‘red eye’
facial expression must be neutral (neither frowning nor smiling), with the mouth closed
photos must show both edges of the face clearly
photos must show a full front view of face and shoulders, squared to the camera
the face and shoulder image must be centred in the photo; the subject must not be looking over one shoulder (portrait style), or tilting their head to one side or backwards or forwards
there must be no hair across the eyes
hats or head coverings are not permitted except when worn for religious reasons and only if the full facial features are clearly visible
photos with shadows on the face are unacceptable
photos must reflect/represent natural skin tone
BACKGROUND:
Photos must have a background which:
has no shadows
has uniform lighting, with no shadows or flash reflection on the face and head
shows a plain, uniform, light grey or cream background (5% to 10% grey is recommended)
Deadpan
a deadpan image can be described as a photograph that is devoid of emotion the subject is cantered in the image and the camera should be positioned straight on to the subject.
this image is of a stool I chose to use a stool because it would be easier for a stool to not show emotion than a person. the stool is centred in the frame, I positioned myself straight on from the stool to take this photograph.
Diamond cameo photographs where first patented by F.R. window of London in 1864. each image is a portrait of the same person indifferent positions. A special camera which was made by Dallmeyer was used, the one glass negative was moved to a new position in the back of camera after each portrait had been taken, when the paper print had been transferred on the card a special press was used to punch the four portraits up into a convex cameo shape.
Henry Mullin was a London photographer in 1840, he then moved to Jersey in July 1848. setting up a studio known as the Royal Saloon, at 7 Royal Square. he started with his partner Mr Millward, about whom very little is known. By the following year he was working alone and he continued to work out of the same studio for another 26 years.
I used four portraits, two in black and white to create contrast between the images. i used a flash light against a black background to give a clear background and foreground.
I chose Andy Le Gresley as my artist reference he is most famous for his land scape photography of jerseys coastlines. my images are on the left and Andy Le Gresley’s images on the right.
I think i have linked my images to my artist reference quite well.
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