inspired by Mary-ellen Bartley I created some images of my own:

I then edited some of the images on lightroom to make them look more like Mary-Ellen Bartley’s outcomes:

Mary Ellen Bartley is known for her photographs looking at the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book, she photographs stacked paperback books that are minimal minimal and can be used as sculptures. 

inspired by her unique aesthetic I decided to try and recreate our own version inspired her style:

These are my favourite montages – physical and using photoshop

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Physical:

Here are some images I printed out and used techniques such as cutting, ripping, taping, gluing etc to piece them together into a montage.

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Using Photoshop:

The images below show some images I compiled and layered next to/on-top of each other:

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Then I played around with the OPACITY on Photoshop to layer the images i a different way which gave them a more artistic and abstract feel to the photos:

From all of my edits these are my final images:

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These are some images I took of single objects before editing:

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Walker Evans

Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist well known for documenting the effects of the Great Depression however he also published a collection of images of different tools – usually displaying only one tool per image he wanted the tools to be the focal point ensuring the viewers full attention was on the detail and sometimes simplicity of the tools.

Darren Harvey-Regan

Darren Harvey-Regan is known for his images of sculptures, by creating mostly monochrome pieces he allows the shadow and light to be the contrasting features and ‘The Erratics’ has been described as a ‘thoughtful photographic interpretation of a geological phenomenon’ due to its literal meaning of the name as an erratic is a rock that has been carried hundreds of thousands of kilometers on glacial ice therefore draws upon this idea that it is both literal and abstract.

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The New Objectivity movement began in Germany and arose during the 1920’s as a reaction against expressionism and was used to characterise German paintings and architecture whilst also producing exciting and innovative results in photography.

The movement was versatile allowing photographers to take different approaches, Albert Renger-Patzsch, focused more upon capturing the simplicity and beauty of objects. Whereas, August Sander, focused more upon portraying the people of Germany to show the truth about German society.