Notes for Talk
- 1. Gregory Crewdson - Gregory Crewdson: 2003 Untitled (Maple Street) One of his pieces from his ‘Twilight’ series of photography, 2003. - Powerful and in depth, lots going off in the shot. - Creates a mysterious thriller-like scene, as shown by the car door being open, why is the woman hasn’t got any shoes on and where standing in the middle of the road and also why stop outside this house. - The rule of threes is used effectively as there is like three main focus points of the shot, the woman, the car and the house. - Mid shot landscape camera shot. - Cinematic setting, why I like his series of photography as he creates each scene to create a still/moving image film with his photography. Robert Rauschenberg Signs 1970. American painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer and performance artist, also he acted as an important bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and can be credited as one of the major influences in the representational art in the USA. And started in 1962 he began screen-printing with magazines, books and photography on canvas. Medium: Screen-print Dimensions - Composition: 35 3/16 x 26 3/4" (89.4 x 67.9 cm) - Collage of photographs that shows what’s gone off in the year. - The composition and the cut out shapes of the photographs links to one another and have an in depth content that explains by each one to stop hatred, war and ‘love’ each other. John Kenning, Vietnam War and Bob Marley, Death of Martin Luther King Jr. - Contrast- co-operates with each other as they are bight and eye-catching which gives dominance to the collage. Born: 26th September 1962 Occupation: Fine Art Photographer, Landscape Photographer, and Professor. Style: American Realist Landscape Photography. Credit Gift of Leo and Jean-Christophe Castelli in memory of Toiny Castelli
- 2. Orson Welles, 1951 – Jane Hope Bown (Born: 13th March 1925 Died: 21st December 2014. Studied photography at the Guildford Schoolof Art. English Photographer, whoworked forThe Observer newspaper from 1949). Orson Welles was an American actor, dictator, writer and producer in theate, radio and film. - Chiaroscuro- use of black and white, which makes the photography have a dramatic effect, by the only light shading onto the face of Orson Welles. - I like how she uses a balance relationship between the positive and negative space to make the photograph have more a powerful approach to the viewer, as it makes the piece three dimensional. - Tim Laman- An Orangutan climbing the tree to feed on figs, 2016. - High angle shot - Composition is well planned as the picture tells the viewer the narrative of the still life image. - High-tech camera to capture all the features on the shot in detail. - Contrast- bright and natural as it shows the natural colours of the rainforest and orangutan. Wildlife Photojournalist and Ornithologist. Born and raised in Tokyo in 1961. Known to be the first photographer to, photograph all of the species of birds of paradise in their natural habitat. And in 2016 won top prize in wildlife photography for the above picture.
- 3. Jeff Walls – A Sudden Gust of Wind, (after Hokusai), 1993 Born in 1946, and lived in Vancouver, Canada, where he studied art history at the University of British Columba in the 1960s. He became interested in Vancouver’s experimental art scene and self-taught himself photography, as he seen that photography was the ‘best tool for expressing his conceptual ideas. - He uses a ‘large-scale back-lit cibachrome’ effect in his photographs, which caught that specific moment and tells a story within the image. For example one of his pieces ‘ A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993’, as from the left handed side, you can see the individual’s papers from his suitcase is blowing away in the wind, as others behind him are covering themselves from the gust of wind and looking with what’s going on around them. Furthermore, Jeff Walls has capture that moment with the camera at the certain time, as this makes the photograph significant and illustrates a story to the viewer, that they have to finish the story off in their version to the story. This is one influence that I will considered when I specialize in photography as I will take my images carefully as I want to caught that moment that illustrates a multiple endings to the story in that photograph to the viewer, just like Jeff Walls does in ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993’.
- 4. Found in the ‘Vogue 100: A Century in Style’ exhibition in Manchester’s City Gallery, within the 1960s section of the exhibition. Properties of the Photograph: - Strong use of the light beaming onto the actor’s face making the actor, the main focus point of the photograph. - The contrast was well planned to make the composition eye- catching, as the ‘black’ colour background is representing the negative space. In which the black fades into the ‘white’ colour in which is representing the positive space of the photograph. - The dark parts of the photograph only highlights the actor’s face which makes the photograph powerful and have an in depth message to the viewer. - The scale of the photograph on the vintage bromide print is clearly balance between the monochromes used and the relationship between the close-up camera shot of Terrance Stamp, and the distance, he is from the camera. My personal interpretation to this photograph is that the black and white contrast is the reason why the photograph of Terrance Stamp is eye- catching, and has an in-depth, powerful message. As the photograph highlights the young age of the actor in one of his first films. Title: Terrance Stamp in For From The Madding Crowd. By Terrance Donovan, July 1966. Printed on Vintage Bromide Print. Medium: Black and White Portrait Photograph on the actor being photographed on location for the film.