COnsider the theme of your images is there a a connection between the buildings that you are taking? if this is brutalism you need to take more images of brutalist architecture. Consider how you are bluring the images and also how you intend to display the pictures. look at ways in which a light box can be made so your images can be put on to a box in the style of the Richard moss exhibition that you saw.
19/17
Continue photographing buildings:
19/17
Continue photographing buildings:
- Canary Wharf
- London Bridge (station area) and City Hall.
- Combining focus and blur
- Combining colour and black and white
- Add buildings to an image so that there is no space
- Print / transfer images onto surfaces / objects
30/03/17
Develop your chosen strand looking at the idea of the blurred landscape visit different places that can be blurred think about contrast and angles within your work. Consider brutalist buildings to start you off and then develop looking at different modernist buildings. Consider layers and angles when photographing the buildings.
http://londonist.com/2012/05/londons-top-brutalist-buildings
https://www.timeout.com/london/art/the-50-best-buildings-in-london
http://modernarchitecturelondon.com/pages/index.php
Visit locations of friends and then photograph their home environments making sure to capture the sense essence of the place but make sure to blur the images. Look at the work of Uta Barth for artist reference
Develop your chosen strand looking at the idea of the blurred landscape visit different places that can be blurred think about contrast and angles within your work. Consider brutalist buildings to start you off and then develop looking at different modernist buildings. Consider layers and angles when photographing the buildings.
http://londonist.com/2012/05/londons-top-brutalist-buildings
https://www.timeout.com/london/art/the-50-best-buildings-in-london
http://modernarchitecturelondon.com/pages/index.php
Visit locations of friends and then photograph their home environments making sure to capture the sense essence of the place but make sure to blur the images. Look at the work of Uta Barth for artist reference
30/11 Powell
Crit feedback
For artificial lights try: LED Ice Rink at Canada Water, Ice rink at Somerset House, London O2. Can you ask Eloise and Ella about the raised nature walkway near the docklands. Eloise said she could see it from the DLR.
Natural light- visit Soho on a bright day. Look for light down narrow streets and alleyways.
Crit feedback
For artificial lights try: LED Ice Rink at Canada Water, Ice rink at Somerset House, London O2. Can you ask Eloise and Ella about the raised nature walkway near the docklands. Eloise said she could see it from the DLR.
Natural light- visit Soho on a bright day. Look for light down narrow streets and alleyways.
23/11
- Film camera- contact sheet depicting consumerism. Photograph shoppers, reflections of people in shop windows, shop display, price labels, shop displays, sales assistant.
- At the same time, take images of 'the decisive moment' using some of the techniques you have been exploring throughout the project.
17/11/16
Look at the work of
Vivien Mayer
William klein
Gary Winogrand
Don Mcculen
Consider your choices and how the contact sheet can be a form of art in itself look at the contact sheet book by magnum print out your contact sheets and show how you have made your edit also look at the work of Max Kandhola and his boxing series often the contact sheets become the art. Return to the streets but get closer to the subject filing the frame and creating more impact within your images.
Look at the work of
Vivien Mayer
William klein
Gary Winogrand
Don Mcculen
Consider your choices and how the contact sheet can be a form of art in itself look at the contact sheet book by magnum print out your contact sheets and show how you have made your edit also look at the work of Max Kandhola and his boxing series often the contact sheets become the art. Return to the streets but get closer to the subject filing the frame and creating more impact within your images.
9/11
Party- Parr Yate's images. Ask Sir for the ring flash
Reflections: look at Lee Friedlander's self portraits
Walk along southbank for waterloo to tate modern: Photograph extreme angles so you create the dynamism rather than wainting for it to happen Rodchenko
Tate- photograph people looking at work. Also look down and up at people- extreme angles.
Party- Parr Yate's images. Ask Sir for the ring flash
Reflections: look at Lee Friedlander's self portraits
Walk along southbank for waterloo to tate modern: Photograph extreme angles so you create the dynamism rather than wainting for it to happen Rodchenko
Tate- photograph people looking at work. Also look down and up at people- extreme angles.
- 2/11
Photograph people at event - FSA Fireworks
Food market
Fireworks
Create a series of images that explore the concept of the Decisive Moment.
Decisive Moment: “The decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organisation of forms which gives that event its proper expression.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
What I will do: Street Photography: Wait somewhere that could offer a decisive moment. Trafalgar Square, The entrance to Selfridges / National Portrait Gallery, Near Tower Bridge Stage a decisive moment. Go to social Events (more of a Parr approach) and a Construction Site.
Curatorship
Room 1: America
Introduce the room: Overview and why these two?
Elliot Erwitt
Timeline / biography
Born...
Factual dates of when and where
Images
Choose 3 images for each photographer and 3 bigger issues / points about each photographer
eg.
Fact 1- when did he come to America/ WW2? Does he come and photograph America from a different perspective.
Fact 2- Magnum
Room 1: America
Introduce the room: Overview and why these two?
Elliot Erwitt
Timeline / biography
Born...
Factual dates of when and where
Images
Choose 3 images for each photographer and 3 bigger issues / points about each photographer
eg.
Fact 1- when did he come to America/ WW2? Does he come and photograph America from a different perspective.
Fact 2- Magnum
Assessment @ A level
Your Personalised Learning Checklist in your sixth form booklet will track your progress inline with the assessment requirements. This page is a place for your teacher to comment on individual pieces of work, set targets and give you a summative assessment at the end of a project.
Development 1 : Buildings
Development 2 : Transformation
Development 3 : People
Development 4 : Black and White with Colour
Development 2 : Transformation
Development 3 : People
Development 4 : Black and White with Colour
Targets:
Please make a note below of general targets below in GREEN over the course of the year.
- Have a varied knowledge of the chemicals and processes of photographs.
- Have completed all the tasks with success and the content of my projects to has depth.
- Get good grades.
Teacher Feedback (most recent feedback will always be at the top)
Revisit coursework
Environment
Environment
- Photograph reflections in the glass- go to a range of different type of places. Eg. Busy, calm, market, city etc.
- Also photograph the entire scene
- Turn the image of the reflection in the glass into a sphere in photoshop. Suspend the sphere in the opposite type of location.
- Explore the work of Gordon Magnin and Jeremy Tourvieille
- Experiment with the technique: http://fortismereartdepartment.weebly.com/portrait-transformations.html
Exam unit
Verbal Feedback 22.03.16
Create in 3D- almost like a model box.
Create in 3D- almost like a model box.
Verbal Feedback
You need to explain which strand you are going to work with. Then call the different stages, Development 1, 2 etc
Put people in the past into pics of Muswell Hill today and vice versa.
ANNOTATE: what went well, even better if.
You need to explain which strand you are going to work with. Then call the different stages, Development 1, 2 etc
Put people in the past into pics of Muswell Hill today and vice versa.
ANNOTATE: what went well, even better if.
Verbal Feedback
- Continue researching old and modern Muswell Hill.
- Can you combine images of the shops and people from the present and the past either digitally or as a collage?
- You could create a view of one of the roads made up from your own photographs and images of the buildings that you have found from the past.
Environment
18/12/15 - Verbal feedback
Create a new brainstorm based on the new chosen title.
Look at the theme of Neglected and Vandalised start off looking for areas in London that have been neglected/vandalised try and do two shoots.
Then when visiting Athens photograph as many neglected spaces both old and new this neglect could be simply because of the age of the buildings but you could also look at the effect of the financial crisis on the landscape of the city.
1 - London neglect
2 - Athens neglect ancient ruins /Theatres
3 - Athens neglect modern buildings
4 - ?
Create a new brainstorm based on the new chosen title.
Look at the theme of Neglected and Vandalised start off looking for areas in London that have been neglected/vandalised try and do two shoots.
Then when visiting Athens photograph as many neglected spaces both old and new this neglect could be simply because of the age of the buildings but you could also look at the effect of the financial crisis on the landscape of the city.
1 - London neglect
2 - Athens neglect ancient ruins /Theatres
3 - Athens neglect modern buildings
4 - ?
Portraiture
- Person in a public place- the place should be specific to them. Eg. Mother in her office. Specific to their work or their favourite place to be. Could compare these two different places.
- Photomontage of the face (David Hockney photo joiners). You could photograph all the way around the head.
- Two portraits in one- Photograph the same person expressing two different emotions. Collage or digitally manipulate two halves together to make a complete face.
Foundation
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