Why its called Anthropocene- “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new” because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans and altered the atmosphere, among other lasting impacts. Anthropocene is the period of time during which human activities have impacted the environment engendered by the greed of mankind enough to constitute a distinct geological change.
The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth. It emphasizes how humans actions shape the environment in all its physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. Anthropocene is also known as the age of humans. Their argument is that humans have become the single most defining force on the planet and that the evidence for this is overwhelming. Terraforming of the earth through mining, urbanization, industrialization and agriculture.
Stephanie Jung is a 26 year old that has been a freelance photographer based in Berlin since 2012. Stephine Jung has focused on fine art photographer as well as portrait photography. Stephine Jung first tries started back in 2009, she was on a school trip to Paris where she was fascinated by the business district. In 2010 she went to Japan and took her first multiple exposure series and turned into her major project.
What does she do?
She is known for her multiple exposures. Her extraordinary shots show cities that depict reality but nonetheless lead to a different, surreal dimension apart from our real world. Stephine shoots some multiple exposures directly with the camera, other pictures are created afterward with image processing. Sometimes she combines those two methods or decide spontaneously.
how will this inspire me and where will I go
The photos I’m going to take will be of any busy places with people or buildings around, I will then use photoshop to blur the image to create the same effect Stephine Jung did. I will be photographing buildings, roads, crowds, town etc. I will be using these two photos as inspiration and what I will be trying to aim for.
Frank Hallam Day was born in 1948, living and working in Washington DC, USA. He has been active as a fine art photographer for many years. He has taught photography at Photoworks, at the Washington Center for Photography, and at the Smithsonian Institution. His work has been shown in many international exhibitions and is found in numerous museums and private collections. His work is in numerous museums and private collections in the United States and abroad, including the State Museum of Berlin, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
what does he do?
Frank Hallam Day’s work focuses on people and nature, and the dysfunctional relationship between the two. Frank Hallam Day depicts the phenomenon of man and his environment in a unique manner, and makes RVs ultra-modern, high-tech and luxury homes on wheels the brightly lit and dazzling stars of his pictures. They seem to be inextricably entwined in the jungle landscapes of Florida at night, and appear as essential islands of security in a dark and hostile environment. They protect their owners with a feeling of safety and comfort in the lap of luxury. Of course, this no longer has much to do with the love of nature, relinquishing everyday luxuries or winding down.
Frank Hallam Day’s work is concerned with culture and social history, as in his series on the impact of globalization on African culture, and on the erasure of cultural, political and personal memory in the rebuilding of East Berlin in the 1990‘s. His work has also been concerned with the fraught relationship between man and nature, as in the Florida series and earlier work on the manmade landscape along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. His multi-year work on Bangkok at night dealt with obsolescence, the passing of time, and the transient nature of progress as well as life itself.
how will this inspire me and where will I go
The photos I’m going to take will be of buildings, boats, cars or anything that’s rusting, rotting, breaking or has graffiti on it as this is the theme that Frank Hallam Day was looking into. I will be going to run down places and the harbour as these places will have stuff decaying and rusting. I will be using these two photos as inspiration and what I will be trying to aim for.
The term typologies was first used to describe a style of photography when Bernd and Hilla Becher became documenting dilapidated German industrial architecture in 1959. The couple described their subjects as ‘buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style’.
Typology is a single photograph or more commonly a body of photographic work, that shares a high level of consistency. This consistency is usually found within the subjects, environment, photographic process, and presentation or direction of the subject
who is Bernd and Hilla?
Bernhard “Bernd” Becher (20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007) and Hilla Becher (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015) were German conceptual artists and photographer working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings, architecture, structures including water towers, coal bunkers, gas towers and factories around Europe and North America and are well known for putting their images in grids, this was to highlight the formal similarities of each structure. They have been awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award. They have been collaborating together as a duo since 1959 after meeting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957.
The common themes they used was overlooked beauty and the relationship between form and function. Both subjects addressed the effect of industry on economy and the environment.
Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902, San Francisco, United States and passed away April 22, 1984. He was an American landscape photographer and was known for his black-and-white images of the American West (Grand Canyon in Arizona and, his favourite, Yosemite National Park). Distinguished by extraordinary clarity and profundity, his photographs are amongst the most recognizable images in the world, reprinted in numerous magazines, journals, and wallpapers. Since an early age Ansel had shown some interest in spending majority of his time outdoors considering he was home schooled. Until he was eighteen years old he considered himself a musician, but later swapped his career in music with photography.
The morning of April 10th, 1927, Ansel Adams set out along Yosemite’s LeConte Gully to capture an image of the striking sheer face of Half Dome, one of Yosemite National Park’s most iconic natural features
When the group reached the Diving Board, a steep outcropping more than 3,500 feet above Yosemite Valley, Ansel knew this was the perfect vista from which to capture Half Dome’s sheer face. The photograph he made, “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome,” shows the mountain rising from an ink-black sky, its face illuminated by a dazzling midday sun just out of frame.
Monolith, the face of Half Dome, 1927
Group f/64
The group’s name (Group f/64) derives from a small aperture setting on a large format camera, which secures great depth of field and renders a photograph evenly sharp from foreground to background.
During the Great Depression, the citizens of America looked towards the West and the opportunities it offered, particularly through massive public works projects. This is why it was important for individuals likeAnsel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, Henry Swift, John Paul Edwards, Brett Weston, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Sonya Noskowiak, and Preston Holder, who were the original f64 group members, to present it to the rest of the country in the most realistic, revealing way.
Edward Weston
From 1934 through to 1948 Edward Weston explored his favourite subject matter which contained natural forms, landscape, nudes and people.
photography is basically capturing light with a camera, the word photography means “drawing with light”. Which derives from the Greek photo, meaning light and graph, meaning to draw. Photography is the art application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically (image sensor) chemically (light-sensitive material such as photographic film).
Photography isn’t only used to present photos but to express the different feelings that the photographer has captured.
The first permanent photograph was captured in France 1826 when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took a photo outside his window which shows the roof of a building lit by the sun.
LEAP INTO THE VOID
THE DAY NOBODY DIED
‘photographs confuse as much as fascinate, conceal as much as reveal, distract as much as compel. They are unpredictable communicators.’
A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism
Shutter speed is the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes (the amount of light the camera takes in).
A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure. If less light reaches the sensor the image is darker, which creates a clear frozen action. When using a fast shutter speed, you can eliminate motion from fast moving objects, for example cars driving past on a busy road or dancers performing on stage.
A slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure; the more light that strikes the sensor results in a brighter image, creating a more blurred action. When you use a slow shutter speed you expose your sensor for a significant period of time (which can result in motion blur). If your shutter speed is long the moving subjects in your photo will appear blurred in the direction of motion. This is useful when photographers want to create energy and movement in their images.
Overall a quick shutter speed creates a frozen action, while long shutter speed creates an effect of motion when you photograph moving objects.
Shutter speeds are typically measured in fractions of a second.
John Baldessari
John Baldessari was known as an American conceptual artist known for his pioneering use of appropriated imagery (reusing objects or images in their art). By blending photography, painting, and text, Baldessari’s work examines the plastic nature of artistic media while offering a commentary on our contemporary culture.
In 1973 John Baldessari attempted throwing 3 balls at once trying to line them up in midair (which took thirty-six attempts).
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)
