New Topographic means a radical shift by reviewing the concern that surrounded landscape pictures as a fabricated environment.
New topographic was invented by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers. (such as Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz) whose pictures had a similar aesthetic. They were formal, mostly black and white prints of the urban landscapes.
What was the new topographic a reaction to?
Their stark, beautifully printed images of this mundane but oddly fascinating topography was both a reflection of the increasingly suburbanised world around them, and a reaction to the tyranny of idealised landscape photography that elevated the natural and the elemental. In one way, they had been photographing in opposition to the subculture of nature images that the likes of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston had created.
Who are the photographers like Robert Adams?
Many of the photographers associated with new topographic including Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Nicholas Nixon and Bernd and Hiller Becher, were inspired by the man-made, selecting subject matter that was matter-of-fact.
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal. The term “landscape” actually derives from the Dutch phrase landscape, which at the beginning meant “region, tract of land” however obtained the artistic connotation, “a image depicting surroundings on land” in the early 1500s (American Heritage Dictionary, 2000). landscape painting, the depiction of natural surroundings in art. Landscape art work may also capture mountains, valleys, our bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts and might or might not include man-made structures as well as people.
When did landscape photography originate?
The earliest known evidence of a landscape photograph was taken between the years of 1826 and 1827. It was an urban landscape photo taken by a French inventor by the name of Nicephore Niepce.
16th Century
After the autumn of the Roman Empire, the culture of depicting natural landscapes declined, and the landscape become visible only as a setting for religious and figural scenes. This culture endured till the 16th century while artists started to view the landscape as a topic in its very own right.
17th Century
In the 17th century the classical landscape was born. These landscapes have been inspired by classical antiquity and sought to demonstrate a super landscape recalling Arcadia, a legendary area in historical Greece recognised for its quiet pastoral beauty. Portraits, genre (scenes of everyday life), still life, and landscapes have been visible as inferior topics for painting. Even as landscapes have become suited as topics in the 17th century, they have been still regularly created simply as settings for biblical, mythological, or historical scenes.
Late 18th Century into 19th Century
Landscape painting eventually gained prominence in the late 18th – 19th century with the rise of Romanticism, and often continued to carry a religious significance. Additionally, it became a method of self-expression, with the emotions of the painter and their appreciation of nature demonstrated in the painting.
20th Century
As the 20th century rolled in, the artwork of Landscape pictures turned into led through American photographers who had a sizeable and sundry landscape to play with. Their have an effect on can also had been because of the developing have an effect on of American cultural production and the frontier myths of appear destiny.
There are loads of different types of landscapes such as
Mountain landscapes. We can see mountains, with narrow rivers, forests, villages and steep roads.
Flat landscapes. We can see flat land, wide rivers, farms, cities and motorways.
Coastal landscapes. We can see cliffs, the sea and tourist towns.
the top five basic elements of landscape is, line, form, texture, colour and scale.
Romanticism was born as a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Romanticism is identified by a focus on emotion, imagination, and individualism, as well as a rejection of the rationalism and restraint of the Enlightenment. It also placed a strong importance on creative freedom and individual expression, as well as a celebration of nature and the wonders of the natural world. Romantic artists explored the sublime through paintings of the imagination, which could often turn into nightmares, and natural landscapes, which were mighty and beautiful but always dangerous. Romanticism first showed itself in landscape painting, where from as early as the 1760s British artists began to turn to wilder landscapes and storms, and gothic architecture, even if they had to make do with Wales as a setting. Caspar David Friederich and J.M.W. Turner were born less than a year apart in 1774 and 1775 respectively and were to take German and English landscape painting to their extremes of Romanticism.
Characteristics of romanticism:
Emotion
Individualism
Nature
Celebration of isolation
Emphasis on women
High imagination
Romanticism
Emphasis on aesthetic beauty
Celebration of artistic and creativity and imagination
Sublime
The Sublime is a western aesthetic concept of ‘the exalted’ of ‘beauty that is grand and dangerous’. The Sublime refers to the wild, unbounded grandeur of nature. Theory began with Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, where he defined sublime art as art that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
Mood board:
What is Romanticism technique?
One technique employed by many Romantic painters was the use of small, close strokes of complementary colours to create brilliance and vivid visual effect. This approach become later followed with the aid of using the Impressionists, who introduced their very own interpretation of the method.
The photos above are the pictures I took of the damages from the storm Ciaran near peoples park.
best image:
I choose the image above as the best picture because it shows a lot more damages and how bad the storm was and also the black and white setting suits best than all the other images.
For my first photoshoot I chose this image because it reminds me of Cindy Sherman photos of her getting ready and that’s exactly what my mate is doing in this image as well.
For my second photoshoot I decided to cpoy a bit the first photoshoot but this time she is more concetrated on doing her make up and i used different lighting.
For my second photoshoot I decided to pick this image because most people would say that motorbikes are very masculine and not feminine at all but this photo is trying to prove that even girls can have a motorbike not just boys.
For my first photoshoot I am going to take pictures of my friend putting make up on since it is similar to one of Cindy Sherman photoshoots getting ready. Below is the inspiration photoshoot from Cindy Sherman.
My photoshoot isn’t going be the exactly same thing at Cindy Sherman’s photoshoot above but it will be the same back story which is her getting ready.
2rd photoshoot:
For my second photoshoot I have decided to take a photoshoot a bit similar to Cindy Sherman’s picture below. My mate is going to either pose looking at the mirror, look at the mirror and put perfume or staring at jewellery.
3nd photoshoot:
For my third photoshoot, its not related to cindy cherman but it is something that has to do with masculinity and femininity. I am going to take photoshoots of girls with things that people thing are more masculine such as a helmet or driving a motorbike.
Storm Ciarán was a European windstorm that severely affected parts of Europe from late October to early November 2023. Part of the 2023-24 European windstorm season, Ciarán impacted north-western Europe and killed 21 people, eleven of whom were in Italy and four in France. It also caused mass disruption to transport. Widespread damage from 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) winds were reported in the Channel Islands, while 1.2 million French households were left without electricity. In Jersey it hit 167km/h (104mph). Storm Ciarán changed into named with the aid of using the United Kingdom`s Met Office on 29 October, even as the Free University of Berlin in Germany named the gadget Emir on 30 October. It changed into anticipated to convey winds of ninety to one hundred twenty km/h (60 to 70 mph) broadly with >a hundred thirty km/h (>eighty mph) on a few coasts. More heavy rainfall changed into anticipated to fall which might exacerbate the flooding from Storm Babet per week prior. The Met Office’s long-variety forecast said that Storm Ciarán might flow away on three November, with many locations nevertheless with blistering winds and rain spells. The Channel Islands have been because of be hit with gusts round ninety five mph (153 km/h) with colleges closed and a crimson climate caution in place. On 1 November, this changed into up to date to a Force eleven violent typhoon, with the Met Office pointing out that Storm Ciarán changed into present process explosive cyclogenesis. The typhoon might effect the Netherlands on 2 November. The typhoon particularly affected the Isle of Jersey, in which a robust thunderstorm fashioned a twister along the golfing ball sized hail with windspeeds of the typhoon accomplishing over a hundred mph (one hundred sixty km/h).
The damages caused by the Storm Ciarán in Jersey was similar to that seen with the severe ‘Great Storm’ in 1987. The great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in the United Kingdom, France, and the Channel islands as a severe depression in the Bay of Biscay moved northeast. Forests, parks, roads, and railways have been strewn with fallen bushes and faculties have been closed. The British National Grid suffered heavy damage, leaving heaps with out power. At least 22 human beings have been killed in England and France. The maximum measured gust of a hundred thirty five miles in line with hour; 217 kilometres in line with hour (117 km) became recorded at Pointe Du Roc, Granville, France and the very best gust within side the UK of one hundred twenty mph; one hundred ninety km/h (one hundred km) became recorded at Shoreham, West Sussex. The hurricane has been termed a climate bomb because of its speedy development.
