Research: Landscape photography
http://flakphoto.com/exhibition/looking-at-the-land

Bucky Miller
Division

 

Image not got many images or character for people to figure out if there's a difference between nature and culture. Bucky is seeing more of a shift away from the human in opposition to the land that leads the field in past decades. Miller get overwhelmed by a new place, capturing beauty of small things as he feels more focused and productive.

Chuck Hemard
Bird traffic

His aim is to leave an image open  to question. His photographs reflect an observational approach to give a sense of place and a common experience in landscape. His current work explores ideas of place and the interaction between humans, time, and the contemporary landscape. 

Mark Brautigam

Bayview

Patrick o'hare

Hudson River Region

Research: Landscape Photography
Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky is an  known German visual architecture and landscape for his large format. Gursky is drawn to large man made spaces, office lobbies, stock exchangers and the big retailers.  Andreas was strongly influenced by Bernd Becher, a photographic team known for their distinctive, objective method of cataloguing industry machinery and architecture. Other influences are the British landscaper John Davies that has a highly detailed vantage point with strong effect on street photographs. Gursky's is characterised by the tension between clarity and recognised nature and the meaning they present. 

Research: Landscape Photography
Introduction to the Camera

Monday 17th March I was shown how to set up the monorail  5x4 and field camera, I was very confused found that both cameras were too much to process by the amount of dials and levers that need to be arranged before inserting the lens and film.

Class had to load up one film into the double dark slide using a dark bag with arms attached able for people to access the film box to get film inside a dark slide just using hands and no eyes.

I was using a field camera with a partner to take a portrait of each other underneath an archway door across the ccad college and set up the camera with a tutor and took a light meter reading on model  to get right F stop and shutter speed on lens. After this I had got my partner to to position under arch and focus and close the lens so I could insert my dark slide  and remove the slide so I could expose film.

Friday 21st march the class had been demonstrated on how to develop 12x16 film and new ways on printing and the temperature of using chemicals and right amount on agitating. My practice portrait film i done with  a partner  didn't work out due to the fact that I loaded film wrong in the tent bag as I struggled to lock the dark slide to the image so I think the film got exposed when took it out when i thought i have done it securely.

Research: Landscape Photography
Robert Adams

Robert's  investigated series of Urban advance into the landscape of the American west are best known. He balances a sense of hope for natures persistence against despair with man's destruction of what was until wilderness appeared. Robert has photographed the changing landscape of the American west that his investigation findings shown fragile beauty that sustains humans troubled relationships with nature. His photographs are evidence of what has been and what remains, but also questions viewers about how we live on challenges and debates of progress.

Research: Landscape Photography
Lewis Baltz

Lewis Baltz documents the changing American landscape of the 1970s in the series of new industrial parks near Irvine, California. His project contained 51 pictures depicting structured details, walls at mid distance, offices and parking lots of industrial parks. His pictures are important to have contrast and geometry but his most attention is on surface texture and lifeless subject matter. He had captured these images with a 35mm lens on a 35mm camera and had depth of field, Lewis chooses his material for top clarity and precision. His interest in suburban architecture raised questions about advances of American culture. Lewis is often referred to as a conceptual photographer. Lewis  was influenced by art ideas in late sixties and attracted to the concerns of unimportant painters and sculptors such as Frank Stella and Donald Judd that had given him an resemblance with the new concept attitude toward photography represented by such artists as John Baldessari and Hilla Becher.

Research: Landscape Photography
Jaime's Lecture

Thursday 20th March, class had a group talk on Edward Burtinsky by watching a film on china working in an industry helping towards to sel products around the world to save chinas population. Edward is interested human nature and did junkyards before going to China to develop his human Nature. Nature transform through industry is a predominant theme in his work and researched subjects that are in rich in detail and scale yet open in their meaning such as quarries and recycling yards.

Edward believes that people are drawn by desires, a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that we are living in success. Edward believes that industrial can be landscape as humans are built up to work this way and becomes on what it is, humans work creating a wealthy society and hopefully a clean environment as people will have money to save the planet from litter.

Research: Landscape Photography
John  Davies

John Davies has gained a reputation for his large scale country and urban landscape. In 1980s he started to document urban Britian, concentrating on the changes made by the industrial and post industrial  His large format photos are refined almost rigid, pure black and white images, which usually emphasise the hugeness of natural space and industrial architecture, making humans in the frame look dwarf.


His pictures often reflect a humanist outlook, concerned to explore the impact of the environment on the people in the pictures. Landscape can be a sense of power to symbolise and evoke. Images of land, water and sky can reflect humans emotion and spiritual states. Landscape can also represent power in terms or land ownership and material wealth.  John's work belongs to contemporary documentary photography with the use of subtle, pure black and white, analytic style.

Research: Landscape Photography
Stephen Shore




Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United states and for his original colouring. In 1970s he set off on a series of road trips around United stated producing photographs which has crucial influence by Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth.

1969-79 photographs had serial manner of Avenues in America to get snaps of Americans walking up the avenue.  The images could only be understood if seen in series that would reveal limitations. Uncommon Places, the exhibition features a selection from American Surfaces, snapshots photographed on the road to Amerillo, Texas between 1972-1973 which rarely exhibited conceptual projects.

Research: Narrative and Photography
Evaluation

Throughout this module ' Photography and Narrative' is the idea of telling a story within my images showing a start, middle to end. At the beginning of module for part one I was struggling on what theme I could do, at first I thought of recording the popularity of my favourite shop Doc Martins in Durham to get decayed look on building and see if litter is bad around Durham too near the shop and record when the shop or town gets busy during the time of day.  I think that my single narrative image was successful that portrayed to the class it was on about being controlled and being in bad relationships. First lecture I had on narrative with Antony has given me the inspiration on looking at set up shoots, looking into props and face paint by studying Gregory Crewdson and famous painting Ophelia about a muddy death. For part two I really found difficult to get an idea of creating a story in the North East and had thoughts on doing physical and mental violence showing the difference between them and how hurtful and shocking these real situations are in the North East. Half way through the module I started to get a stronger idea on bullying such as cyber, focusing on hurtful verbal comments to put down people's confidence. I wanted use a female model to capture emotion through these words and I know what females get named called as. This module I feel like I have gained more knowledge and a deeper understanding on analyzing about the narrative behind different mediums of producing work by numerous photographers and film makers documenting their experiences of capturing stories around society and industries and their personal lives on how they seen the world and what they done for themselves.  If I was to improve I'll research deeper into bullying and how and why it starts, questioning myself are these people jealous of their target and experiment more by going on location shoots looking into graffiti if there's words there on what youth writes to help out living and do they express their pain in graffiti art. I could of looked into the stereotyping and different types of labeling and try not to make my series look like film scenes and make my images mysterious and not be as much obvious on what my narrative is. The second shoot I did I thought of doing a feel of presence of the model showing her personality in her objects and getting the feel of what kind of person she is and what can be so interesting about keeping toys from a young age can have an impact on what you are, drawings from friends or her own and seeing what type of music she's into and why, is the music soothing to her pain, gives her hope to the future. Overall this module has taught me well to look closely to what the photographer is wanting to portray or narrate and making viewer be in deep thought about the pieces meaning of the story.

Research: Narrative and Photography
Group Critique part 2 series images

Had a group critique on Friday 28th February and I found it very helpful on finding out how I can develop further within my project. By seeing other people's series it has made me think on what students wanted to portray in their images which I understood some. The group helped each other by placing their series on a long table in mac room and each space of series on table had a sheet to fill with negative, positives and ares of development. Some students just displayed their series on mac screen. The area of development had given me deep thought on making more pictures on my documentary of bullying. They felt like my images were unfinished and need to experiment more on portraying bullying and use other models but I feel using other models could mess up my theme as it's mainly about one person. For next shoot though I'll be getting objects that is important to the female who is bullied by using letters from loved ones, pen pals, apologies or like cards saying congrats on being successful.

Above is my first series shoot on bullying, I used a mirror to draw around models figure so when she walks into bathroom all the mean words are aimed at her because the figure drawn on mirror fits her. Each series is about her trying to rub off the words not wanting words to get inside of her head starting to scar her. After she rubbed off it kinda gave like a bloody effect covering her figure as if to show that she is in pain. I have wrote mean words that the youth gets called to show that they have finally scarred her and starting to believe in them. I done a face paint on her face to show clear emotion of her crying and feeling bruised from words hurting her feelings.  I got the model to look into the mirror differently to get effect of being fed up and feeling bad about herself and ways of looking up the words looking like why they think this, why they want to hurt me so bad, what have I done to deserve this. 

Research: Narrative and Photography
Series 2 second shoot inspiration and ideas

I have searched into google images to look for ways I could position the importance objects to the model who is being bullied. Doing objects about her can can give viewers a sight of what her background was before the bullying situation happened.  By photographing shoes she mostly wears can give a feel on how she dressed and what type of person she is and a sense of why would she be bullied.

Making kept long letter from loved ones and do close ups on supporting words for her to fight and move and ignore the bullying.  I could make my own little set having black card behind objects some stringing up with ribbon, string or paper clip or hair clips so it's like a hidden or locked up collection in one whole are showing her character, hobbies and friend photographs.

I could play with mini mirror reflecting words from letters and highlight underneath main thoughtful, powering word with lipstick on the mirror.  I could look at opened up books that could have fantasies that might wanna happen to her or there's inspiring quo'tes about holding on and face the world.

Having a clock in set could show that her world is passing fast and looking back in memories by seeing photographs of her with friends or family. Having a personal teddy can be way of saying it's her way of feeling comfort and less lonely as someone special has given it to her.

Research: narrative and photography
Part 2: series of images


Winifred Casson

Here i have looked at different ways of depicting emotion on subject. By over layering a fading hands cupped to females face to hide her cries. Mirror example above can give me ideas on ways to sit female real near to mirror getting shades of light on clothes and mirror side will look quiet darkish.

I will like to use this example to face paint model to show emotion by doing normal make up on her then drawing scribbly lines down her cheeks from eye line. This way the model will look dramatic, emotional, sad and feel pathetic about herself.

Looking at idea on how I could use models in a studio using professional high standards lighting and backdrops. Having a model wearing just under wear could show that the bullying is about her body and she starting to get insecure about herself leading to not expressing and being herself. Writing words on models skin can be a sign of verbal bullying is becoming to be scarring and starting to hit them and believing. I could do a variation of ways on portraying verbal bullying to viewers by writing on card sticking to body instead of  writing on model and she can rip one of them showing she's overcoming the bullying comments. 

Example of what sort of cyber bullying there is that youth are facing. Could have close ups of mean messages mixed with thoughtful messages as viewers can see that the model as got support behind and not on her own. I could do a shoot of female model receiving a text while behind a female is laughing behind his phone.  

Yousuf Karsh

Example on ways I could position mirror to get various ways of getting effective reflections where her hands could go should hand hide half her face looking as if she's a shamed of herself with all these cyber comments.