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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