Final Seven Images (personal work)

 These are my final seven images for my personal work, I've edited them for about 7 or 8 hours  to remove spots and lines, and am pretty happy with the results and hopefully they should print ok I’ll check the edited just before printing though to make sure. I’m still unsure as to how to title them so that’s something else I’ll be thinking about a lot and how exactly I’m going to do it, I made the selection by looking for ones with more of a variant in how the image looked as I didn’t want it to be that repetitive and feel that these 7 will work well together, I plan on printing them A3 as well because I want the face to be all most life sized so that it has that connection to reality, but other than them thinks I’m all most ready for final assessments and hopefully printing will go well.

Su Blackwell (Independent Research)

 This is just a quick post about Su Backwell’s work who I found while surfing the net, she’s work in book sculptures which are incredibly interact and detailed works, she has also work in set design and done book covers, which are both interesting however I meanly looked at the sculptures, it struck me as something that would be possible to do for Eva’s appropriation project or at least something similar in the future, because it’s really cool and I like the work a lot because it to me makes me think about what’s possible in the book, I assume as I haven’t dug too deep into it, but that the sculptures are representative of what’s in the book making them like widows into setting of the imagination.

http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/portfolio-book-cut-sculpture/ (Image and information source)

Lee Friedlander (Independent Research)

 Friedlander is an American social photographer and worked around 1948 and is probably best known for them because of his ability to capture events in a way which makes them poignant, as well as this Friedlander has also gained some recognition for a series of self-portraits that he produced.

Friedlander’s work is interesting one because it captures the styles and cultures of the time period which in its self is a fascinating thing to look back on, but as well as that he has a really good ability to get picture with interesting compositions and framing along with interesting subject matters. I also like how he has used reflection and shadows in some of his images, it’s an interesting style and adds another layer to the image, so not only to you have what you’re looking at but you all so get a glimpse at who was originally looking at it, and along with that you get an idea of the surroundings of the photographer, making the images very three dimensional and engaging. 

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Lee-Friedlander.html (Images Sources)
http://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/lee-friedlander (Information source)

Sally Mann (Personal Work Research)

Man is an American photographer who has achieved a high standing in the photographic world along with wining several awards, her work is also part of several collections and institutions, and she has also published several books of her works and a feature film about her and her work.

Mann has worked in several areas of photography including portraiture, architecture, landscape, and still life, but she is probably best known for her portraits of her family, which has often been controversial, but has still been an influence to Meany.

 I’m looking at a particular body of work by Mann one called Faces, these are images of Mann’s family members, who she has asked to lay underneath a large format camera for the duration of the exposure. I really like the style of these images, to start with the closeness of the faces is really amazing it makes the works feel very personal because of the fact that your so close to some ones face witch isn’t normal how we interact, it also make features of the face stand out a lot drawing attention to them. I also really like the style that using the film has given them with some of them being slightly damaged looking or part of them blown out, it gives the images a kind of aesthetic which makes the works interesting to look at.

This is the main inspiration and starting point for my personal work, and gave me the idea for doing a long exposure self-portrait, because I liked the work so much and felt that I could develop a good idea around the idea of long exposures and self-portraits.


http://sallymann.com/selected-works/faces (Image and information source)

Christian Jequel (Independent Research)

This is just a quick post about something I found while on the internet, the video shows Jequel producing an amazing painting of houses by just using pallet knives, it shows an amazing artist who is incredibly skilled in what he does creating and amazing piece of work, it’s really inspiring because it shows what working hard at your skill can get you to. So that’s why it’s up, it again is something that might and probably will influence my work in some way in the future.

http://www.christianjequel.com/?lang=en (Link to website)

M.C Escher (Independent Research)

 Maurits Cornelis Escher or M.C Escher is a world renowned graphic artist, some of his best known works are his impossible constructions and transformation prints, but has also produced work that is realistic. Eschers works look a lot at depth of filed in his work and illusions of things being high and lower.

I have also included some amazing examples of Escher’s work all three showing the amazing talent and skills that he had, with grate examples of depth of filed and his use of perspective, but as well as that one of his works that I think is my favourite, which is the last image of him in the reflection of the ball being held in his hand, to start with just the amazing detail and how realistic the had looks is amazing in its self, but also the reflection is really really well done and again looks real, and the use of perspective is incredible.

Again like my last post this is going up because it’s inspirational, even though it’s nothing to do with photography, it’s something to look at and think that’s amazing, I’d like to be able to make something that good, and as well as that in the end any art can and probably will influence my work at some point.

http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/ (Image and information source)

Paul Friedlande (Independent Research)

 Friedlander is a as described on his website as a Kinetic light sculptor, or a scientific artist, he creates some fascinating sculptures though just the use of light, that are incredibly pretty and interesting to just look at, as well as that some or most of the work is interactive so the viewer can take control of the lights and make it a deeper experience by addling layers to how you feel it, by using vision and touch, but then there are also some that the viewer can move though, making the works very dimensional. I’m putting this work up because it’s something I found that interested me, as well as that it’s a really cool style of work, as well as that I’m putting it up because even though it’s not directly connected to my personal work or any other work that I’m doing it still interests me, and in the future this might come to mind and may be useful to me.

http://www.paulfriedlander.com/ (Image source)

London Trip (Visual Studies)

On the trip to London I managed to get to a couple of interesting gallery’s the first being the Tate modern, and saw some grate art in there, there was some amazing photographic works in there and work from loads of artists that was amazing to look at and we spent quite a while in there just enjoying the work. After that we went to the Barbican and saw a work by the United Visual Artists Momentum, who created a work called the Curve which was an amazing and fascinating experience to walk though, it felt like walking in a strange dream like space with the lights swinging but in a way which means they aren't falling because of gravity, but just slowly moving though the space, with the lights flashing and shining in a way which helps put you into the experience, along with the sounds that were playing. I really liked it because of how immersive it was, it was interesting just to stand there and experience the lights and the sounds, I also went round a couple of times just because I want to. 

(Video source, also more images)

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=15620

Barbara Kruger (The Photograph as Document)

 Kruger is an American conceptual artist and designer, she has worked for a variety of people working on publications, magazines and art directing just to name a few. Kruger’s work is extremely conceptual and political from what I can tell, with the bottom image probably commenting on the cold war between Russia and America, and the threat of nuclear war, which would probably wipe out the planet, so her works definitely have a political concept there, and a lot of her work is based on war or war image’s, with the top two images being of a war plane and a boat exploding with what looks like a medal, the top one could be a comment of how soldiers are given medal of killing people, so the boat represents the death side and the medal, is the commendation for it, then the image with the plane could be showing a juxtaposition between what we are dropping and what should be being dropped, so the bombs are falling, but they should be aid to help people that are suffering, so there turning into bags of stuff. These are just speculation of what the works about because this is just a quick post but I like the work and find it interesting so I’ll definitely keep it in mind for possible ideas for future work.

(Images and information Source)

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/barbara-kruger-1443

http://www.barbarakruger.com/biography.shtml

Peter Callesen (The Photograph as Document)

 These are just a couple of examples of the amazing paper craft sculptures this guy makes out of just a sheet of A4 paper. He manages to get a crazy amount of detail into these things and make them look all most life like, especially with the snail and the hand both looking like they could be real. I find this work really interesting, one because they look really good and two because the thought that these are made out of one piece of paper is also really cool.

(Image Source)
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6VRK39/:9ni7gRZM:ns@a-gyS/www.picamemag.com/a4-pepercuts/