some of his work:

– Image Analysis.

1963

-Alfred Krupp is the man in the photo

Emotional-

• cold – lighting the building looks cold.
• intimidating- him staying at us almost thinking.
• harsh- white lighting
• I do like it, its intruiging.

Visual-

• dull
• train factory, looks broken down.
• man sat inside in the centre.
• daylight coming through glass sky pannels.
• looks like it goes far back
• looking up leaning on his hands angry looking.

Technical-

• natural lighting, coming through the roof.
• balanced compostion, by the 2 pillars either side holding him in.
• he is the point of focus and the further we go back the more detail we lose.
• organised and structered.
• light from above shine down with side lihgting which creates a gloomy effect.
• in a train station you would want good lighting
• triangular composition which is strong and harsh.
• makes us center and focus on i’m and his expression.
• similarity lighting to a church.
• lots of visual detail up close.

Conceptual-

• Jewish photographer Arnold Newman was commissioned by Newsweek to take a portrait of Alfred Krupp, a convicted Nazi war criminal. At first, Newman refused, but eventually, he decided to take the assignment as a form of personal revenge.
• Upon seeing the portrait, Krupp was furious. Nevertheless, the image was published and became one of Newman’s most famous works. The portrait served as a powerful reminder of the atrocities committed during World War II and the individuals who were responsible for them.
• Alfred Krupp designed and developed new machines, invented the spoon roll for making spoons and forks, and manufactured rolling mills for use in government mints.

Contextual-

• 1963
• Alfried Krupp, the son of Gustav Krupp, was born in Essen, Germany, on 13th August, 1907. After studying engineering in Munich and Berlin he joined his father’s company, Friedrich Krupp AG, that by the First World War was Germany’s largest armaments company.
• Krupp and his father were initially hostile to the Nazi Party. However, in 1930 they were persuaded by Hjalmar Schacht that Adolf Hitler would destroy the trade unions and the political left in Germany. Schacht also pointed out that a Hitler government would considerably increase expenditure on armaments. In 1933 Krupp joined the Schutzstaffel (SS).
• As a result of the terms of the Versailles Treaty the Krupp family had been forced to become producers of agricultural machinery after the First World War. However, in 1933, Krupp factories began producing tanks in what was officially part of the Agricultural Tractor Scheme. They also built submarines in Holland and new weapons were developed and tested in Sweden.
• During the Second World War Krupp ensured that a continuous supply of his firm’s tanks, munitions and armaments reached the German Army. He was also responsible for moving factories from occupied countries back to Germany where they were rebuilt by the Krupp company.
• Krupp also built factories in German occupied countries and used the labour of over 100,000 inmates of concentration camps. This included a fuse factory inside Auschwitz. Inmates were also moved to Silesia to build a howitzer factory. It is estimated that around 70,000 of those working for Krupp died as a result of the methods employed by the guards of the camps.
• In 1943 Adolf Hitler appointed Krupp as Minister of the War Economy. Later that year the SS gave him permission to employ 45,000 Russian civilians as forced labour in his steel factories as well as 120,000 prisoners of war in his coalmines.
• Arrested by the Canadian Army in 1945 Alfred Krupp was tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg. He was accused of plundering occupied territories and being responsible for the barbaric treatment of prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates. Documents showed that Krupp initiated the request for slave labour and signed detailed contracts with the SS, giving them responsibility for inflicting punishment on the workers.
• Krupp was eventually found guilty of being a major war criminal and sentenced to twelve years in prison and had all his wealth and property confiscated. Convicted and imprisoned with him were nine members of the Friedrich Krupp AG board of directors. However, Gustav Krupp, the former head of the company, was considered too old to stand trial and was released from custody

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what is environmental photography?

The surroundings or background is a key element in environmental portraiture, and is used to convey further information about the person being photographed.

Some environmental portrait photographers, like August Sander, create typologies. A typology is commonly a single photo or a body of work that shares a high level of consistency, like ideas in mind or angles or framing. In environmental portraiture, when each photo is taken with a similar idea/meaning, it emphasises comparison and analysis between photos.

Influential environmental photographers.

August Sander (1876 – 1964)

“If we can create portraits of subjects
that are true, we thereby in effect
create a mirror of the times.”

-August Sander

August Sander was a German Portrait and documentary photographer. He began his decades-long project People of the Twentieth Century. Though Sander never completed this exceptionally ambitious project, it includes over 600 photographs divided into seven volumes and nearly 50 portfolios.1 The seven volumes Sander used as his organizing principles were The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, The Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People.

some typology i picked up on here is how all the people are looking at the camera and centered this shows how each person photographed all had an equal experience.

Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were “away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes”

“she portrayed the street girls of Bombay (now Mumbai) in all their exoticism and ennui, as well as the often cramped and dirty spaces they were forced to work in. Her images were never vicarious or salacious, but always shot through with a sense of her own humanity.”

She returned to India to shoot travelling circuses,

-Another magazine

i made this photo grey form inspiration from walker evans as he documented things of the great depression and darren harvey regan focusing in on only the object itself and i think colour can be an influence so i made it grey.

this picture is in focus with a shallow depth of field, and the photo is a continous light, originally there was 2 continous lights coming from the side and i turned off one to enchance depth and shadows.

Walker Evans

American, 1903–1975

Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression.

He document the authentic, ordinary, and transitory details that he now saw in his homeland. Evans was among the first documentary photographers to display his work in the context of beautifully bound and expensively designed books.

Some of his most notable photos are from his project ‘Beauties of the Common Tool’

“Among low-priced, factory-produced goos, none is so appealing to the senses as the ordinary hand tool. Hence, a hardware store is a kind of offbeat museum show for the man who responds to good, clear ‘undesigned’ forms.”

– Walker Evans
The objects are framed in the middle photos with a lot of negative space. Without any context. so we appreciate them in their own right. he uses different shades of grey so that the whole focus is on the objects.

His work – analysis

– There is a warm white light on the right side of the photo.

• there is a lot of harsh lines and squares although those lines are complimented by the curve of the building
• all these lines have geometric qualities making me believe it is man made
• the darkness creeping in on each corner gives a dramatic effect.
• the windows are the only object we can see the whole of this shows how he may have been zoomed in or close to the building this also leaves us not knowing how big the building is.
• the curved left side of the building has many rectangles going up on the side like a harmonica and as the building gets higher the rectangles are getting smaller like the pitch in the music higher.
• The image also has many tones from very dark to very light. There are deep shadows but also mid tones. The photograph is monochrome but has a brownish old sort of tint.

Darren Harvey-Regan

united kingdom 1974

Harvey-Regan finds photography that photographs objects – whilst in itself being an object – interesting as a concept. “It’s a means of transposing material into other material, adding new meaning or thoughts in the process. I think photographing materials is a way to consider the means of creating meaning, and it’s a tactile process with which I feel involved. Touching and moving and making are my engagement with the world and my art”.

Darren Harvey-Regan saw the ‘beauties in the common tool’ and played on a similar concept translation and representation, but he took it a step further and reversed the usual directions on the photographs. He hybridised objects in reality, by buying, deconstructing, and reconstructing actual tools. he was also different because he was beginning with an image, then creating the object, before re-photographing it to complete his peculiar new photographs.

Darren Harvey-Reagen

The Erratics – analysis

• there are many harsh lines.
• dark geometric shapes.
• grey background to emphasises the black and white
• the darkness creates emphasis on the objects.

In geology, “erratic” refers to a rock that differs from its original environment because it was carried and deposited there by a long-gone glacier. Similarly, in his latest series, Darren Harvey-Regan deploys both photography and physical action to lift something out of context, playing with overlapping exposures and processes.

Lighting is a key factor in creating a successful image. Lighting determines not only brightness and darkness, but also tone, mood, and atmosphere.

playing with light, I did this by using a music stand with holes in and using the light behind it to create shadows and depth.

What is formalisim?

a description by maths or logic.

What is photo literacy?

Superficially, it can refer to the ability to “read” a photograph, to analyze its form and meanings. Photoliteracy is therefore a particular understanding that combines visual, linguistic, emotional and physical precision.

contemporary formalisim

Sea of artifacts by Mandy Barker

What is still life ?

Still life photogrpahy is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects.

Image analysis:

• There are 15 objects in the photo all placed together and arranged.
• There is darkness behind them which implies emptiness.
• There is a skull which represents death and the objects around are very random.
• it creates a sense of oldness with the feather and ink.
• The gold vase along with the gold key, coins and gold stripes on the book represnt wealth.
• all the objects are plastic
• There is hight created by the aragment of the objects correlates to being a higher class.
• it is a vanitas.

The start of still life.

The painting generally considered to be the first still life is a work by the Italian painter Jacopo de’Barbari painted 1504. The “golden age” of still-life painting occurred in the Lowlands during the 17th century.

main still life artists from 1571-1954

-Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 – 1610)
-Clara Peeters (1594 – 1657)
-Jacob Van Es (1596 – 1666)
-Pieter Claesz (1597 – 1661)
-Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750)
-Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906)
-Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903)
-Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954)

popular still life artist nowadays.

Michaël Borremans

Johnathon knowles

what is vanitas?

A vanitas contains a collection of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures.

response picture.

what is Memento Mori?

memento mori translation form latin means  “Remember that you must die.”A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers.it is similar to a vanitas.

metaphors and symbols in still life.

FRUIT: Varying Symbolism In Still Life Paintings

SKULLS: The Certainty Of Mortality.

CANDLES: The Passing Of Time. 

FLOWERS: Symbols Of Life And Growth.

SEASHELLS: Birth, Purity, And Fertility.

BIRDS: represent the resurrection of the soul after death.

BOOKS: they mean learning or transmitting knowledge.

Johnathon Knowles response shoot.