AO1-AO3 Presenting work in a creative way

• Interesting layout
• Images stand out over writing
• Black background make images pop
• Use of drawings included
• Clear house style 
• Consistent themes 
• Creative
• Artistic 
• Art and design
• No structure
• Use of mixed media
• Photographs stuck on black paper stock on white paper
• Paint used

* Impressionism Edit (2)

This is my impressionism edit. It denotes movement in the form of flowing water

* Impressionism

Impressionism

• Capturing real life
• Originates from France
• With the development of photography, the first black and white photograph being take in 1826, nineteenth century painters were challenged wot setting themselves apart from the medium.
• Pictures not posed and taken outside, not in a studio
• Real life
• The term impressionism comes from a painting by Claude Monet
• "simply impressions of life"
• Pierre Renoir
• Alfred Sisley
• Edgar Degas
• Eduard Mamet
• Black is avoided
• short, thick strokes
• "impasto"
• Textured acrylic paint
• vivid colour
• simultaneous contrast
• Natural light is emphasised 
• close attention is payed for reflection of light
• bouncing light
• Soft focus to make images to lookalike a painting
• isolating subject
• Karl Struss
• Stieglitz Winter
• Steven d'Agnostino
• Eva Polak
• Kat Clay
• Christopher Dysldjk
• Modern impressionist photography is called Photo impressionism
• it is meant to go one step further than traditional documentary photography and express the energy and movement

Techniques of Photo impressionism

• Camera shaking and panning
• Long exposure
• Selective focus on wide aperture
• Zoom and long shutter speed
• Taking pictures through glass/water
• A technique can include layers for multiple photos and opacity blending in photoshop to create the desired effect. 

Why style of photography does impressionism relate to?

• Realism 
• Documentary photography

Eva Polak

* Cubism Edit (2)

This is my cubism edit. I created this on photoshop by using 2 different images. I created the effect by layering, there is the use of 2 different images in my edit, the colour one and the black and white one. The colour photograph is unedited and just used as a background where as the other image has been turned into black and white. This is then made into quadrilateral by using the select tool and dragging the image onto the first layer. I tried to line up the pieces of image so that it created the cubist effect. My edit is in the style of , they are a cubist photographer and photograph pictures of landscapes and cityscapes. My images were taken in Dubrovnik Old Town, Croatia.

* Brutalism Edit (2)

This is my brutalism edit. It is

* Light and Shadow

The theme I have chosen is "Light and Shadow". I am going to capture this theme through portraiture photography. I intend to use portrait photography as a way of using a subject to contrast with an object and background that you wouldn't expect. By using light and shadows, I will use subjects to create a juxtaposition with a model.

This is a moodboard based with images based on what I would like to do in relation to the theme.

Brandon Woelfel

A New York based photographer who has gained a massive followibng from his social media, especially through the app Instagram. His work includes uses of light or colour in most of his photos and he edits them in a very distinctive way. Across all images is editing is consistant, enhancing his nightime portraits to be lighter and creating a more whimsical feel through the use of his editing of lights. Brandon Woelfel spends a lot more time during post-production to create the types of images that he likes. He uses colour correcting methods in his work to create his own individual style. Lightng is a reaccurance throughout much of his work, he uses backlit images, fairy lights or anyother type of thing that he can to create light and shadows in his images. Much if his focus is on portraiture photography and how the lighintng sources he has, has an effect on the subjects face and how they look. Much of the light he uses in his work is edited in post production to appear much brighter and give a different effect on his work. Brandon's images also have a blue tint which is added to his images through changing the colour balance in post-production.

I like Brandon Woelfel's work as it has many elements of what I would like in my work in order to link to my theme. I love how he focusses on light but does this in more than one different way. His post-production editing of changing colour balances and emphasising different parts of the image to create a different look is something that I would like to try and recreate with my own take on it. I like how his portraitures are simple however they use of light distorts how the face of the subject is seen slightly. The shadows create a darkness on places of the face and these in turn can tell their own story. However the composition of some of his photographs are something that I would change when recreating work in his style. He uses large objects and these are sometimes more of a focus of the photograph than the model themselves. I would prefer to have a focus on the model and tell a story through the way that light is used to reflect different feelings and emotions.

Sølve Sundsbø

A Norwegian fashion photographer based in London. His images are very different to many of the photographers who work in the fashion industry. Sølve is quite experimental in his imagery and has how pictures which show the contrast between light and dark. The shadows in this work seem to give a pop-art effect to it, this style off photography is quite post-modernism and almost has an aspect of film-noir. The series of images where he uses this contrast in light and shadow is called "Points a la Ligne" this means "points to the line". The images have a simple concept and are simple to look at. They are powerful however due to the contrasts shown between the very pale skin of the model and the darkness if the patterns that the shadows are casting. The images could be said to be almost abstract and look painted however Sølve Sundsbø’s has managed to capture this as a photograph.

I really like his work as I love the dark and light showing large contrasts. This links to my theme of light and shadow very well. In my work I will try to recreate his uses of shadows as this  is something that gives an individual look to the model and shows them in a way that you wouldnt expect. I like the way that the image looks like a painting however I feel as if this is not the image that I am going for in my work as I would like it to have a less futuristic feel to it. I do however like how  Sølve Sundsbø has managed to create such a dark contrast and shadow in his image without putting a black and white effect on it in post production as the use of colour in the photograph, like on the models lips, is something that gives the image some extra definion.

Creating a Theme

* Cubism

Cubism

• Art movement 
• Cutting up the pictures and sticking them differently
• Editing process
• Disjointed image
• Real scene over layered in a geometric shape format
• Geometric- lines
• Famous Cubists - David Hockney, Pablo Picasso and George Braques
• Not just landscape- also portrait
• Photograph sliced up to create a new message
• French art critic Louis Vauxcelles called the geometric form in the highly abstracted work "cubes"
• Picasso- African tribal colours
• Cubism was the first style of abstract art which evolved the beginning go the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed
• Fully abstract
• Brighter colours
• Simpler lines and shape
• collage is used alongside paint
• Broken objects down to a Grif
• Flat Geometric Sha[es
• A range of textures - collage, cubist artist and photographers uses a wider range go painted, digital and mixed media elements

Artists Work

Marcel Duchamp

Pablo Picasso

George Braques

Jean Metzinger

Albert Gleizes

Cubism Photography

Steven McNally

David Hockney

Diego Kuffer

Steven McNally

Steven McNally is an English-based fine art photographer. He specialises in landscape and street photograph. T

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Postmodernism Edit (1)

* Brutalist Photography

Brutalism

• Architecture of a particular style
• Concrete with hard edged shapes - defining feature
• Purely based on photographing a style of buildings or architecture
• Metal
• Grouped together to he a whole
• New style of building in 20th century
• Raw concerte

Sheffield brutalist architecture: 

• Park hill flats
• Odeon
• Eggbox

Photography of Brutalist buildings include: 

• Low angles
• Leading lines
• Symmetry
• Using the rule of thirds
• Deep depth of field

connotations of brutalist photography

• Stark 
• Had an impact
• lack of empathy - no narrative or emotion
• Lack of joy, love or caring for others
• Working class culture
• Bleakness of working class estates
• Poverty
• Emptiness
• Communism 
• Utopia and the future
• Science fiction
• Post WWII "concretopia"
• Distopia 

Brutalist photographers

• Simon Phipps
• Nick Rochowski

Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps is a 

Portrait Edit

Surrealism Edit (1)

On the left are the two photographs I used to edit my picture. This is in the style of Wanda Wenz. Wanda takes photos of cats and photographs of humans and combines them together to create a surrealist image. I created this image on photoshop by layering two different pictures. I used the magnetic lasso tool to remove the body from the cat so therefore I could just layer and manipulate the cats head to create the effect on the subject. I also lowered the opacity of this layer so that you could still see the features of the model such as the human nose but then also see the cats fetures like the yellow eyes. This is a surreal effect as it combines two things with each other that you wouldn't expect to see like that. Surrealism is showing an illogical scene and you don't see a cat with a human body or a human with the face of a cat.  

* Postmodernism

Postmodernism

• "After modernism"
• Started in the 1950's
• Reuse culture
• Reusing things to create something
• Slightly surrealist
• Nothing is new
• Collection of materials
• Modernism is classic art
• Post modernism is new art
• Could be a criticism of modernism and its classical style
• Shows things changing over time
• Object stay the same there is a new meaning that develops
• Looking through a window into the past
• Post modernism is categorised by deliberate intertextuality 
• Intertextuality - When one media text references another to create meaning 
• Simulacrum - Photographs make some sort of social commentary 
• Andy Warhol is a pop-artist, some of his work is postmodernism and includes intertextuality

Nigel Tomm

Nigel Tomm is an american photographer and artist. His work is often scientific and a study of human emotion and behaviour. This can be seen in a lot of his work, his pieces focus on the use of a human subject. He works in portraiture photography and all of his pieces are seen to be distorted due to the destrutction of the pieces. His images show crumpled up photographs, these could be in order to show a statement about stereotyping at the time in relation to body image and seld worth. The wau that the photographs are destroyed could be to show how many people self image today has in itself been destroyed aswell. However it could also be to show how he is destroying this image of perfection and what is deemed to perfection. This image is postmodernism as it takes something that we all would recognise and know, just a generic person and then changes how they look to have a new meaning. Postmodernism is a critiqie of modernism and its classical style which could link to how the destruction shown in his work is a critique of classical opinions.

Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler is an American artist who works in photography and photo text. Her work is centred on everyday life with a focus on how life is from a womens perspective. A lot of her work addresses current issues and concerns such as the media and war. Her photography

* Portrait Photography

What makes the subject of a portait interesting?

• Emotion
• Props
• Facial geomatry
• Makeup or face paint
• Editing
• Disortion

Factors that affect how a portrait photo looks

• Depth of field 
• Black and white
• Narrative
• Facial expressions
• Lighting
• Time Place or location
• Composition
• Editing or post-production
• Colours used
• Shadows
• Lens
• Mood 
• Equipmet used
• Photographer's personality
• Subject
• Body position
• Time available
• Time of day
• Millinery
• Type of light
• Type of flash
• Interior or exterior
• Shot type
• Angle
• Skin tone or inperfection

Cecil Beaton 

An English fashion, portrait and war photographer. His photographs are considered some of the best representations of bright young people of the twenties and thirties. Beaton was never known as a highly skilled technical photographer but instead focused on composition and scenes of a photograph with the perfect model. Beaton often photographed the Royal Family for official publication and also had the task of recording images from the home front. Beaton had a large influence from and a good relationship with David Bailey and Angus McBean. Many of Beatons works are in black and white.
I have selected one of his pieces of work featuring Audrey Hepburn, this was as part of his work for the film Breakfast at Tiffany's. The picture features 

* Landscape Edit

Landscape Photography

Landscape photography is photography which is meant to be used to document environments as an escape from the artificial world. People may use it to document their experiences when travelling. Landscape photography normally shows little or no human activity which helps to create the idea of a pure environment rather than the human influence of areas such as cities. There are many uses of weather, strong landforms and ambient light as the subject of the photos rather than people. Due to weather and ambient light being a large part of creating a moving landscape image it is important in landscape photography to plan the times of day to shoot a picture as this can have an effect on the final outcome. Even though some forms of planning are important in landscape photography, there is also parts that need spontaneity as some circumstanced, such as weather conditions, could actually cause for a photograph to actually be ruined rather than be amazing as planned. Many landscape photographs are taken using wide angled lenses as it captures more of the environment and its surroundings, rather than lots of close up details.

Ansel Adams was a photographer and environmentalist, but also an activist for the cause of wilderness and the environment. These were his passions which could be said to influence his work as a photographer, pushing him into taking pictures in a category that he was so passionate about. However he never made a creative photograph specifically for environmental purposes. Adams was sometimes characterized as a photographer of an idealised wilderness that no longer exists, this is truthful as many of the places that Ansel Adams photographed were those of the wilderness and park life that had been preserved making it seem this was. Many of his photographs of national parks are now used to show what the areas were like before tourism.  He was known most commonly for his boldly printed, black and white images however he did work in colour a lot as well. He chose to work a lot in black and white however as he felt that that they could be manipulated to create a wide range of bold and expressive tones. The use of colour for him was constricting due to the rigidity of the colour process.

Fay Godwin was a photographer renowned for her black and white landscape pictures of the British countryside and coast. Godwin started out as a portrait photographer due to seeing her family pictures, she however had a real love for walking which then inspired her to become a landscape photographer. She often photographed isolate parts of Britain but also sometimes capturing contrasting urban environments as well. Her work was inspired by many landscape photographers at the time. Fay Godwin is a known environmentalist which is reflected in some of her best known images which show the complex relationships and tensions between man and nature.  Many of her photographs were of the Yorkshire Dales and they created a cold, gloomy atmosphere. 

Surrealism

Surrealism Introduction 

• Art Movement
• Abstract
• "beyond realism" or "above realism"
• Doesn't have rigid meaning, its just peoples throughs
• Different people, places or objects that you wouldn't normally see together in real life 
• Man Ray 
• Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
• Best known for its visual artworks or writings`
• Much surrealism work is a distortion 
• Founded by French poet - Andre Breton in his "The Surrealist Manifesto"
• Unnerving
• illogical scenes
• created strange creatures from everyday objects
• Difference from reality
• No pattern or structure
• Find truth in the world through the subconscious mind and dreams
• Stemmed from the Dadaism movement
• unconventional
• commentary about war and capitalism
• politically left wing
• challenged power structures
• Andre Kertesz
• Erik Johansson

Wanda Wulz

Wanda was an Italian experimental photographer.
Her photographs feature cats and humans. The cats are superimposed onto the humans head using Photoshop. This is a surreal effect as it combines two things with each other that you wouldn't expect to see like that. Surrealism is showing an illogical scene and you don't see a cat with a human body or a human with the face of a cat. She uses a black and white effect to create an eerie feeling to the picture, this shows a large difference from the reality that we see in colour. The cat is shown to have slight human features such as the eyes and mouth. Also the way that the image is repeated but this is not in a structured way due to how the images are merged together, being not mirrored but placed in slightly different positions.

Chema Madoz

Jose Maria Rodiguez Madoz is a Spanish photographer best known for his black and white surrealist photographs. His photography contains very geometrical, orderly everyday objects. These however are not logical as they contain different objects that are combined to create something that could be real however wouldn't be. The image that I like the most is that of a ruler combined with a knife. This still has the sharp lines that a ruler would have but is combined with that which creates sharp lines in other objects The image is also in black and white much like many of his other pieces of work. Due to it begin quite simplistic, just placed on a piece of wood, the image doesn't seem to have much meaning however, like with much other surrealism photography, there is a deeper meaning in the picture that can be interpreted in different ways.

Futurism Edit (1)

This is the image that I have created.
It is in the style of Mario Bellusi. 

Futurism Edit

This is the photography by Mario Bellusi that I have

The images I have created are in the style of Mario Bellusi. I really liked this artist and loved the style of the photograph that I have chosen. The image is in a futuristic style as it shows movement and the fast pace of the streets, which are shown in the picture. I edited my picture in Photoshop. I used layers to create an effect that could be seen to be similar to double exposure. I did this by layering picture that I had taken and lowering the opacity on each layer to create the effect. I took all of my photos on a Canon 60D and use the camera on the manual setting so that I had more control. In total my futurist recreation is made of 7 different layers. I then put my picture in black and white and I made sure that the image has a strong contrast due to this being similar to the photograph I was using as inspiration. The visible architecture in it as this is one of the strong things that can be seen amongst the chaos of the original photograph. My edit is different to that of the original as it is not as busy meaning that you can see the individual more in the picture rather than having the rush of lots of different people. Even though the architecture that can be seen in the picture is quite traditional, the loneliness of the single person walking can help to relate the photograph to modern times, as there is a crowd of people visible in the background however the figure that I have photographed is away from the crowd. The photography contrasts with current situation in the city, as people in a busy city aren't seen as individual but just a part of the crowd. My image however has shadows of both the person who is walking but also shown on the left hand side which is creating a dark, angular cast on the floor. The use of black and white helps to keep the image in the style of the original image by Mario Bellusi. The strong shadows and contrasts help to keep in the futuristic style.