Reportage

Reportage 

Eddie Adams

Eddie Adams was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities; politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. His work inspires my theme by inspiring me to capture/ composed well timed portraits. I love the use of manual B&W film. This creates a really desirable effect I want in my portraits. However I think I will incorporate his style of locations; spontaneous.

In my recreations of reportage I went to the Moore markets with a 50ml lens. This created the composure I was looking for and allowed me to create depth of field. I wanted to capture people in natural movement so I can try incorporate this feel in my portraits. To create the B&W film effect I edited it in adobe Photoshop. To compose the fruit stall photo I used the rule of thirds. The counter and rack of Bananas separate the photo into t=three sections.

AO1-AO3 Thinking about presentation of my photography work

• Incorporate external art to compliment the photographs 
• Paints and acrylics used 
• Clear individual style
• Creative

Brutalism

Brutalism

Flourished from the 1950's to the mid 1970's, from the modernist architectural movement of the early 20th century

The term originated from the fFrench word for "Raw"

Brutalist buildings are usually formed with repeated modular elements

Belgrade, Serbia 

Habitat 67

Photographs of brutalist architecture display some of the following characteristics:

• Low angles
• Leading lines
• Symemety and using the rule of thirds
• Deep depth of field

Photographs of brutalist architecture connote some of the following:

• Lack of empathy
• Working class culture 
• Bleakness of working class estate
• Desolation
• Communism
• Utopia and the future
• Dystopia
• Science Fiction
• Post WW2 'concretopia'

Brutalism photographers include: 

• Simon Phipps
• Nick Rochowski
• Nigel Green
• Peter Chadwick

In this photograph I wanted to show brutalist lines and corners and also capture leading lines and the golden spiral. The golden spiral composure lets the viewer follow the stair case round naturally. Following this the pipe on the right hand side follows the staircase up; acting as a leading line. The location of this photograph is a bleak concrete carparks stairway to the top floor.

This photo was taken with a 50mm fixed lens this created a sharp image and allowed me to create a large depth of field. This stair case was poorly lit and had very little natural light. To not underexpose the image I set it to F3.5 and my shutter speed was at 1/50. This image denotes a dirty brutalist stair well. However it connotes a confined, uncomfortable space that the viewer does not know if they're looking up or down. The feeling of discombobulation  is strange and interesting.

Impressionism

Impressionism

a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and colour.  This art movement captures movement. it is a documentary style of photography. 

The development of impressionism can be considered partly as a reaction by artists to challenge presented by photography. It is based on the practice of painting outdoors and spontainiouly 'on the spot' rather than in a studio. 

The term 'Impressionism' comes from a painting by Claude Monet. 

Impressionism artists: 

• Pierre Renoir
• Claude Monet
• Alfred Sisley
• Edgar Degas
• Edouard Manet

PHOTO IMPRESSIONISM

Recreation

My recreation of impressionism is a photograph of a lady in the streets of Sheffield on her phone. It was late afternoon and the sun was setting behind the buildings so light was limited. This forced me to use a high F25 and quite long shutter speed at 1/3, to capture movement of the passers by and create the look I was aiming for. This photo denotes a still subject on her phone with blurred public in the foreground and background. The photo connotes time passing and the subject being unaware of her surrounding; giving off the visualisation of time passing due to technology. Making the photo look like the women is in a alternate universe.

Early impressionist photographers:

• Stephen D'Agostino
• Eva Polak
• Kat Clay
• Christopher Dydyk

TECHNIQUES:

• Camera shake and panning
• Long exposure
• Selective focus on wide aperture
• Zoom and long shutter speed
• Taking pictures through water/ glass
• Layering on photo shop

Cubism

Cubism

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by. Pablo Picasso. (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914.

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques  introduced this revolutionary style of modern art.

Cubism artists:

Jean Metzinger

Georges Barque

Pablo Picasso

Albert Gelizes

Main characteristics of Cubism are...

• Fully abstract
• Brighter colours
• Simpler lines and shapes
• Collage is used alongside paint
• Broken objects down to grid
• Flat geometric shapes
• A range of textures: as well as collage, the cubist artists and photographer uses a wider range painted, digital and mixed media elements.

Dave Murray

The picture Dave Murray has created denotes a picture of a man of authority like Donald Trump. He does this in abstract triangles and many different shade/ tones of the same repeated colour scheme. His portrait connotes corruption of power in the use of the light skin colour contrasting into a dark sinister tone of blue. 

Recreation

My recreation was inspired by Dave Murray because, I loved the colour transition from left to right; blue fading into skin tone. It also gave a clearer meaning behind the photo and I tried to capture this in my work.

In my recreation I wanted a more natural fade in colour so I found a shady ally on a overcast day with a beam of light covering half of it. I placed the subject so the light landed oh an quarter of his face to get the desired look.

After taking the photo I edited it in Adobe Photoshop. To start this edit I used the polygonal lasso tool and started to make triangles all different angles and sizes. Much like my postmodernism recreation I took the eyedropper tool to get the highlighted areas colour and with this, filled the triangle. I did this for the whole face and took my approximately two and a half hours. After the face I repeated the last two steps of the face process and applied it to the rest of the models body and lamppost.  Lastly I cut,  pasted and resized random squares of the of the photo.

This photograph connotes dark thoughts and sorrow that is slowly taking over the subject; the slither of light represents happiness and hope. Also the picture denotes a cartoon student leaning on a wall in the style of cubism.

Surrealism

Surrealism

Surrealism is a movement that is quite abstract, This began in the early 1920s. Different objects put together that you wouldn't see in real life. Founded by a French poet Andre Breton. 

Man Ray, Surrealist art/photography is a lot of distortion and doesn't follow a pattern or structure. It is unconventional. it challenged power structures politically. 

Surrealism Photographers

Erik Johansson - Is a surrealism photographer that uses Photoshop as a tool to create fasinating photos that make you think of hidden meaning behind them. Such as my interpretation of this photograph is that it denotes a man dragging a road through untouched land. However this connotes humanity polluting & destroying nature for its benefit and being miss lead and unaware of the after math.

Bobby Becker- Is a Photographer that works with a lot of base colours like B&W. This photo connotes a dark and twisted nature of humanity always wanting what they can't have this is represented by the gloopy black, mysterious substance  engulfing the pristine whits hand.

My Attempt At Surrealism

This photo is a mixture of Bobby Becker and The son of man. Bobby Becker inspired me to include the light bulb because it connoted a lot of different feelings of human power. I edited the wires in the light bulb to be a tree and doing this created a very sinister and uncomfortable image. I did this to show how the mind can be deceived as fine because the emotion is hidden by your facial expression. This photo is called 'Brain Dead'. The son of man also features in this photograph because it looks quite simular in that they both cover the face.

The photo was taken on the school iMac. This makes the image of myself have a more student at work feel. The image denotes a student with his head being replaced by a light bulb. However the picture denotes a computers view of a students mental state; 'brain dead'.

Futurism

Photography&Motion 

Futurism - Italian movement that is untraditional and unconventional, hate for art of the past. Motifs: cars, electric lighting, construction. It is a celebration of modern technology.

• Realism
• Futurism
• Surrealism
• Cubism
• Brutalism
• Postmodernism 

Eadweard Muybridge- pioneer of photography and motion

Techniques

• experimenting with lighting 

Montage- putting together different objects/element 

Task 1:

Christian Stoll

This photograph (Version) by Christian Stoll is done in a futurism style, It denotes a a birds eye view of a city suffocated buy a saturated population and pollution. This connotes feelings of humans being an inferior species such as ants. However its quite ironic since humanity built it.

Task 2/3:

My attempt at futurism

⬅The photograph on the left is inspired by Christian Stoll and is done in the unconventional style of futurism. The photo is not from a birds eye view since I did not have the right equipment to do so. Instead I took it at an angle where just looking at the photo feels like you're leaning back, to me this represents dominance of the building. In Christian Stoll's photograph the city is represented as saturated and busy, however I wanted my photo to present a different interpretation on a city; to be lonely and isolated. The cool blue tint of the windows connotes sadness.

The aperture I used to take this photo was F18, The reason being it was a bright day and i did't want the colours of the building getting bleached out also it meant the symmetrical lines and architecture stand out much like the skyscrapers do in Version (the photo). The shutter speed was at a fast 1/200 so the picture was not over exposed. I edited my photograph in Photoshop. The edit consisted of separating the building from the background image. Once this was complete I adjusted the hue lighting saturation of the background layer to the lowest, by doing this it creates a more natural monochrome look. Following this I increased the contrast of the building layer to create a 'futuristic look'. I have accentuated the blue tint in the windows by removing the colour from the sky, this makes the building stand out from the background and focuses the eye on the symmetry of the lines. The only blemish is the sun glare, this breaks up the structure of the lines and adds a natural imperfection to the building.