For this photoshoot it was inspired by Mandy Barker and her work with plastic objects which she finds washed up on the beaches, i used toy cars for this shoot and placed them randomly on the backdrop i used a black backdrop as i thought it would bring out the vibrancy of the cars more i am pleased that i did as i really like the outcomes of these photos.
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is widely recognised for his depictions of global industrial landscapes and his work is included in the collections of over 60 major museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London.
Burtynsky first encountered the term “Anthropocene” when he was invited to contribute to a special issue of National Geographic in 2008. At the time, a small but growing band of scientists began to conclude that humanity had altered the planet to the extent that we had entered a new geologic time scale.
For Burtynsky, defining the Anthropocene is a matter of urgency. Once formalised, he believes it will act as a body of evidence that policymakers can use to promote and enact changes that could slow or reverse climate change. He worries that we might be nearing the point of no return.
Le Gray was born in 1820 near Paris and trained there as a painter. Around 1847 he took up photography. Before making the marine images, he became one of the most renowned pioneers of the new art. His architectural, landscape and portrait photographs, his writings, teaching and inventions were all highly influential.
His most famous photographs was The Great Wave, which is a dramatic piece due to the multiple techniques he used to create it, he took two negatives to create one photograph.He took the view on the Mediterranean coast near Montpellier. At the horizon, the clouds are cut off where they meet the sea. This indicates the join between two separate negatives. The combination of two negatives allowed Le Gray to achieve tonal balance between sea and sky on the final print. It gives a more truthful sense of how the eye, rather than the camera, perceives nature.
Talmor is a London based photographer who practices encompasses photography, spatial interventions, curation and collaborations.
She creates her work by using two different negatives and cutting them up with a scalpel to merge the photos together when developing them. Talmor combines colour negatives of landscapes that she has been collecting for years and transforms them into visually striking compositions that are devoid of man made structures.
Both the artistes refer to their work as compositions of man made structures and land, its also both described as constructed landscapes as the photo doesn’t show the truth of the content in the photo.
The similarities in both their work is that they both have cut up film negatives to create a creative collage to create one photo.
Differences within the two photographers is that Le Grays combination of the two negatives he has used has a clean finish and there is not an obvious mark of the merge of the photographs, compared to Talmor her work shows the obvious marks of the film cut up’s.
I would describe these photos as artistic, abnormal and unique due to the irregular technique used to create the photos.
If i was to choose where to live out of the two photos i would choose to live in the first one, Talmors work due to the clam water and hoe the sky is less cloudy, it seems a lot more peaceful compared to Le Grays photo as the sea is rough implying bad weather and the clouds are darker.
What is it?
Period of time during which human activities have impacted the environment enough to constitute a distinct geological change.
The word combines the root “anthropo”, meaning “human” with the root “-cene”, the standard suffix for “epoch” in geologic time.
Anthropocene could be used to map out social landscape and collect evidence of spatial and social engagements. Photography is important in Anthropocene Photographs and photography act as vital ciphers and prisms for a wide range of anthropological concerns, and serve as increasingly complex forms of evidence, premised not on content alone.
Mandy Barker is an award winning photographer who focuses her work on marine plastic which gets washed up onto beaches all around the world, she has focusing on this for more than 13 years. Barkers aim is to show the powerful affect of marine life and plastic pollution, marine life and climate change.
She started her journey by taking photos of plastic how she found it on beaches but didn’t think she was getting a much of an emotional response or getting peoples attention, so she turned to making collage out of the materials she collected.
Mandy Barker created a series called Shelf Life which shows objects which was washed up of the UNESCO world heritage site of uninhabited Henderson Island, isolated in the middle of the South Pacific, and more than 5,000km from the nearest landmass, which showed the impact that we have, that us as humans aren’t just impacting the place we live but the whole world. The images in this series are inspired by the incredible coral reefs that surround Henderson, represented by the plastic objects that pass over them, and threaten their very existence. Each image is titled with a barcode – found on the objects recovered, to emphasise the LIFE of plastic that has travelled from SHELF to SHELF.
Theses are some photos which have inspired me for my typologies photoshoot i am planning on doing. I plan on going to the high street and taking photos of window shops when its dark outside, i am also going to take photos in town of house window i will do this on a cloudy day so i wouldn’t get the reflection of the sun in the window,
A photographic typology is a single photograph or more commonly a body of photographic work, that shares a high level of consistency.
The German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their “typologies”—grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure.
The term ‘Typology’ was first used to describe a style of photography when Bernd and Hilla Becher began documenting dilapidated German industrial architecture in 1959. The couple described their subjects as ‘buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style’.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
They were often labelled as conceptual artists and influenced minimalist and conceptual artists like Ed Ruscha, Carl Andre and Douglas Huebler.
As professors of The Dusseldorf School of Photography, they influenced a generation of German photographers who were their students (including Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.)
Overlooked beauty and the relationship between form and function. Both subjects addressed the effect of industry on economy and the environment.
In my opinion typologies is an interesting topic due to you being able to see different versions of the same thing and how one thing can be interpreted differently but they are still so similar in their ways from their looks to the functions they do, they all do the same thing but the architecture is different.
