Week 11- Time and the Image

Before today's session I did a bit more research on time and the image in the library journals and found an artist called David Bate who takes his inspiration from a 1979 film 'Stalker' that is directed by Andrey Tarkovsi. " This Film tells a story of two men being led by a stalker through the mysterious 'zone'.." This is what Bate tried to show in his images titled places of memory places of change. He had an image of a pocket watch and the time changing which i thought could be a good idea to look at for my time image.

For my time image I ended up photographing people moving and rushing to shop for Christmas in town on a 2.5 second exposure.

 I got this idea when I thought about previous exhibitions I had gone to and I thought about one i went to in 2009 called '100 days' by Jason Butler a jersey artist who I actually had a lot of time working with last year doing life drawing. He did this exhibition as a document of his travels in Rwanda.

http://www.contemporaryjerseyartists.com/exhibitions/100-days

There was a painting in this exhibition of many people in a blurred sense walking along that really caught my eyes due to the bright vivid colours in it and this is kind of what I planned to try and capture.

I did manage to capture what i wanted to but next time i should use a tripod so the background is still but i kind of feel the movement adds to the panic.

Source: Journal Portfolio no.34

  

Week 10- Blog Hand in, Gallery work discussion and Time and the image

Firstly during this weeks session Nick Papaconstantinou came in and discussed how to hand our work in on our online portal. He then talked us through how to add labels to our posts on our blog as these are helpful to get your self out there and more well known on the internet world.

We then got into small groups of about 13 people and discussed the Gallery write up we hung last week. a conclusion I drew from this is It can be difficult to find all the details of a piece of artwork but it is helpful to know so that you can maybe test the methods your self. You become aware of how differently work can be hung in a gallery space. This is good to look into for when we hang our own work in an exhibition.

I began to look into time and the image where i came across an artist  in a journal called Naoya Hatakeyama who did light trails through windows called 'Slow Glass'.


I liked the concept of different ways time can be shown such as it takes time for sound to travel and her work is about how light travels.

sources: Portfolio Journal no. 34

Week 9- Hanging Gallery Write Up

Firstly we watched a directors cut of a film called 'Donnie Darko' to take notes of the devices he used to draw in the audience.

List of Devices noted:

Sound

• Music matched the action
• Lyrics of Song take over and explain the feeling of the characters
• Creates anticipation
• Links people through the song playing
• Voice overs

Camera

• Close ups
• Use of Shot Reverse shot with two characters
• Freeze moment
• Panning shots

Other Stuff

• Time travel
• Runs film backwards
• black and white screen- Brings you into next scene
• Mise en scene

After this we had to use A3 luster paper and make sure it was on all the right settings and print our gallery write up. We then had to be careful and bring our print upstairs ready to hang. We used the lazer as normal and measured the length of the wall and the prints so we could work out how many would fit on the wall with a 10 cm space between them and then used pins in each corner to hang our work. Below is an overview of the exhibition:

Week 8- Digital Setting Up

For this session I had to pick a photographer from a book or a gallery and write about the process and context of their work. We were given a template in which we had to put our work onto which  had to be A3. I picked an Artist called Luca Campigotto who takes urban landscapes. This is what I produced:

Next time I would of gone to a gallery instead as i would of found infomation more easily but I found this artist in a book called 'The Complete Photographer'.

Week 7- Digital Processes Exhibition

 A photographer that works in a similar way to digital layering such as we have been working on  is Jerry Uelsmann, a surrealist photographer who does superimposition's  He overlaps photographs to add depth to them however one main difference is he does this all in the darkroom as appose to digitally.



Jerry Uelsmann,Untitled, 1996

His work really inspires me as I love the concept of superimposition and in particular this photograph as I feel the negative space around the hands really highlights the main focal area.


There are many other Photographers that also spring to mind inspiring my work such as Man Ray, El Lissitzky, and David Hockney for their photo montages. 


David Hockney 

An artist I find most connects to the way i took my work during this topic is Pablo Piscasso who uses different materials to put his work together.

 Pablo Piscasso, Bowl with Fruit, Violin and Wineglass, 1912-1913, Paper collage

We put all of our digital layering images together in a grid format and printed them off and spent the afternoon hanging our work. We used white gloves to limit the amount of kinks we get in our work in order to practice for exhibitions later on in our course. We discussed how everyone has interpreted how to piece photographs on Photoshop different.

 For example the image in the middle is built up in layers merging and overlapping directly whereas with mine I put them net to each other blending them in together.

Both of these ways work well and still fit the brief but its very interesting to see how we have produced such a contrast of work.

Sources:
Book: Photography Speaks, 150 photographers on their Art, Written by Brooks Johnson

Book: Uelsmann: Process and Perception.Photographs and commentary by Jerry N. Uelsmann, Essay by John Ames

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Week 6- Digital Layering & Hanging Pinhole Exhibiton

Last week we started to hang our exhibition for our Pinhole and wet collodian work and this week we finished it. Below is an example of how we displayed it:

We used clips to and nails to secure all of the work onto the wall which is the most cost and time efficient way however i don't feel it is the best way to present our work. I personally would of put clips at the bottom of the work too to give it more of a finished look however it could be argued that not clipping the bottom and it curves over shows the process of the use of a bin. I do however feel that the wet collidian images are laid out well and work together.

Collapartive pair of artists that had a similar method of putting their work together to digital layering  was Gilbert and George however theirs was almost in grid formation. Every piece of work they do is related to the four things they see as most important in life, sex, region and death. Here is an example of Gilbert and George's work:



Later on during this day we began to layer our studio copying images we did in week 4 on Photoshop to create one merged overall image. This has been the most enjoyable thing in image lab yet as we had alot more independence and it was a more personalized project. We will then piece everyone's A2 image together to make a sort of montage of representation of our whole class. I like the concept of this idea and have found it the piece of work I am pleased with most so far. Below is my final digital layering image:

Week 5- Hanging Pinhole Exhibtion

We began by spraying the wet collodian glass plates with matte black spray paint keeping it in the same direction so the coverage was even. These would normally have been put on black velvet but spray paint is quicker  cheaper and easier.

Once they had dried me and a few others continued on from where the last group left off. They had used the lazer level to make sure the plates would be even. We then proceed to measure out the gaps where the nails would go in the others rows and nail them in. I then put the plate in carefully between he nails and resting it on the lower ones. We looked at how secure it was and hit the nails on the side in or out where required.

This is a slight overview of the exhibition:

An artist that I like who does pinhole is Jo pabcock who can be found here: http://jobabcock.com

He makes a pinhole out of an object such as a candle box and will then photograph candles with the pinhole camera. I think this is a very cool concept to his work and takes alot of skill to perfect.