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. 

Futurism introduction

Denotation - Literal meaning of a photo (what you say)
Connotation- What something symbolises, hidden meaning, what it represents or stands for

Art Movements
Futurism
Surrealism
Cubism
Brutalism
Post-modernism
Realism

Within the art movements you can have different genres of photography

Futurism

Untraditional, unconventional, hate for art if the past.
Italian art movement
1909 to 1944
Danger, energy, speed, daring, aggression, war and anti-nature
founder = Poet Marinetti
Literature, visual art, theatre, the crafts, music and photography
Celebration of modern technology, scientific discoveries speed and city life
Motifs: cars, aeroplanes, electric lighting, building construction, the hectic pace of like and demonstrations in the street.
Abstract, monochrome, less is more, movement, repetition,
Eadward Muybridge- pioneer

Eadweard Muybridge- Pioneer of photography and motion

The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures

Show speed or movement (fast shutter speed to freeze movement)
Photograph modern and cutting edge architecture (contrast it with traditions)
Photographing industrial aspects rather than nature
Photograph modern objects or futuristic motifs e.g planes cars, crowds
Experiment with lighting, shadows, colour (bold bright & complementary colour)
Hont at danger and daring e.g by using viewpoints and angles (drone photography)
combine with layered images of a science lab or computer coding
Photograph engineering machines
Photoshop techniques e.g image adjustments. Or use photoshop to create and imaginary scene of the future
Create and Italian style mood
Create layering, repetition, perspective, foreshortening or photomontage
limitless possibilities of the future
montage- putting together different elements
photo montage- layering 2 or more photographs - opacity tool on photoshop

cityscape of sheffield
new technology
scientific discoveries
speed and movement
use repetition when editing or taking a photo to allude to movement
use lines which are bold and dramatic
use colour and contrasts
use dramatic lighting to show shadows and contrasts
use cubism or small broken up parts to show futurists like under a microscope

Anton Giulio Bragaglia

The picture denotes a man sat smoking a cigarette. The movement in the picture could help to connote how something is continuous, which in the context could relate to how smoking is an addiction. The way the mans face is blurred due to the overlap created by the movement however his body is still. This shows how he doesn't really have an identity but is just a generic person instead and could be anyone. This could be due to the amount of people that smoked in the time that the photograph was taken. The nature of the person being male could also link to this as the photograph was taken in 1913 and this was a time when it was only acceptable for men to smoke and not women. There is contrast in the colours as the photograph denotes a black and white scene.



Mario Bellusi

The picture denotes a street scene. There picture shows movement due to how theres pictures overlayed. There a use of architecture in the picture which shows the stable area of the city however the blurred people could show the business of the city.