Covid Update.For the past 6 months we have been on lockdown due to the unfortunate events of the Coronavirus which struct the uk in late January of 2020. Which then placed everyone in lockdown. This Meant that we restricted to be creative and do our photography lessons and work. Boris has now said we can go back into school, with rules like social distancing and sanitising our hands multiple times a day . Now that I'm back I've decided to make a new page called MAKE DO & MEND. This whole covid situation made me think more outside the box and had a better understanding of the struggles many artists go through because of situations like this.My new page will be full of all experiments using my phone and pictures and creating them into something new. I hope you enjoy looking through my work.
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Artist Research
Marcel Duchamp research
L.H.O.O.Q. is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades, or more specifically a rectified ready-made.
One reason why the Mona Lisa is so famous because,” Mona Lisa global appeal in her smile”.Da Vinci’s exploited an optical illusion to create a unique smile through perspective and his use of shadow work. Another reason was because the painting was stolen by Guliaume Apollinaire in 1911 this also brought attention to the painting. Duchamp named his recreation of the Mona Lisa to the ‘ Ready Made’, he drew the moustache on her face and added the letter LHOOQ. The caption combines Duchamp's gleeful sense of wit with his love wordplay meaning “ this fire down below “. The readymade of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the selected modified, as an antidote to what he called “ retinal art” by simply choosing the object and repositioning or joining titling and signing it then became something called art. Because it shaped how next and upcoming artists will do their work and how they might go about making their work. It inspired many artists to be inspired by Duchamp and create work of their own inspired by the “ ready made , Mona Lisa “
Experiment #1
The process...
Here is a time-lapse of one of the processes I went to create the photos above. this evolved tearing, drawing and creativity to create the photo given into something new.
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Artist Research...
Kensuke Koike
Through juggling , ripping , disassembling and then reassembling photographs, a Japanese artist Kensuke Koike creates new images with their own independent lives, just barely connected with their previous ones. as he constantly searches for a perfect image processing that could ultimately lead to a perfect collage, the artist slowly becomes an alchemist who uses everyday materials , turning them into artistic gold, showing that everything depends on our point of observation of reality and the way in which we take into consideration.
Experiment #1
Artist Research...
Hannah Höch ( The beautiful girl) response..
Hannah Höch - Das schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl), 1920
On close examination I can see a woman who has been modified into something else. I can see a pair of legs slightly crossed and a arms which look as though they are holding a light bulb. On top of the clear, glass, light bulb I can see a wig - one which looks like it’s from the film ‘Hairspray’. This body with the lightbulb looks like its placed on a board with BMW car symbols printed on the back. Next to this I can see what looks like a car tyre or a bike tyre which has been enlarged. On the right-hand side, I can see a wrench which looks liken its tightening bolts. Hidden in the shadows I can see the arms of the woman with no head holding an old-fashioned umbrella. In the far-right hand corner I can see a face with the eyes replaced with a cat eye or some other sort of animal.
The body holding the umbrella strikes as the most important feature of this photo because it's something that doesn’t jump right out at you but on closure inspection will make you want to question more about the picture and what lead to the creation of the image. I think this is because when I was looking closely, I could see arms following up to holding an old-fashioned umbrella which I find interesting.
From the enlarged wig to the woman with no head and the BMW backboard I would describe this image as weird but once you begin to examine the picture more it becomes more interesting and makes you want to ask more questions about it.
I think the title to the image is very deceiving because we cannot see what we would think is a “beautiful”woman. We can see a woman that has been morphed into something different with the use of what I think is creativity and imaginative skills. If I was given the job of renaming this collage, I would probably name it the ‘Lost woman’ or ‘The woman mechanic’. The reason why I thought of these titles is because I am using the features of the collage to create a title which doesn’t give away the image too much but will make you question what type of photo is it before actually looking at it.
The three adjectives I would use to describe this collage are:
1. Busy
2. Complex
3. Imaginative
The three questions I would ask about the collage are:
• How did you go about making this collage?
• What resources did you use?
• What were the original publications you used to create this collage?
The body holding the umbrella strikes as the most important feature of this photo because it's something that doesn’t jump right out at you but on closure inspection will make you want to question more about the picture and what lead to the creation of the image. I think this is because when I was looking closely, I could see arms following up to holding an old-fashioned umbrella which I find interesting.
From the enlarged wig to the woman with no head and the BMW backboard I would describe this image as weird but once you begin to examine the picture more it becomes more interesting and makes you want to ask more questions about it.
I think the title to the image is very deceiving because we cannot see what we would think is a “beautiful”woman. We can see a woman that has been morphed into something different with the use of what I think is creativity and imaginative skills. If I was given the job of renaming this collage, I would probably name it the ‘Lost woman’ or ‘The woman mechanic’. The reason why I thought of these titles is because I am using the features of the collage to create a title which doesn’t give away the image too much but will make you question what type of photo is it before actually looking at it.
The three adjectives I would use to describe this collage are:
1. Busy
2. Complex
3. Imaginative
The three questions I would ask about the collage are:
• How did you go about making this collage?
• What resources did you use?
• What were the original publications you used to create this collage?
Artist Research...
Matt Lipps
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Matt Lipps (b. 1975) has a BFA in Photography from California State University, Long Beach and an MFA from University of California, Irvine. His work is in the permanent collections of The Getty, LACMA, SFMOMA, MOCA Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Saatchi Gallery and the Pilara Foundation/Pier 24 (San Francisco). He has also participated in exhibitions at MCA Chicago, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, SFMOMA, Klemm’s (Berlin), and Art In General (New York). Lipps is represented by Marc Selwyn Fine Art (Los Angeles), Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco), and Josh Lilley Gallery (London).Matt lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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Matt Lipps Part 1 from KADIST on Vimeo.
It was a sense of discovery, about how photography played a role told you about hierarchy about what was important and what was not
After watching the Matt Lipps video twice I decided to have my own go inspired by his work and his explanation of his work. I started by cutting out images that I thought would be placed into a position where it creates another story within the new picture.
The process...
Experiment #1
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I really like this image because it has a contrast of different images to create a new one. I really liked how I positioned the little boy to make it seem like he's taking a photo of me whilst in reality I'm taking a picture of him.
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I could change the settings on my phone to maybe make it look like its in black and white or make it a different filter to make the person looking at the photo question to what they are looking at.
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Experiment #2
Artist Research....
Daniel Gordon
Making Day #1
Today we had our first Making Day day. We were given 6 hours to complete 2 collages with the resources given. We watched a slideshow of many artists work inspired by the title Make do and mend which gave me inspiration. We were given a series of tasks which we followed to create one COLOUR collage and one BLACK & WHITE picture. I had to document the process of how i went about creating my final piece. I believe my creations were quite successful because I ended up with two complete collages with 2 different pictures and colours. If I had more time to create my collage I would believe it would have had a better turn out and maybe a bit more images and thought into where the cut out pictures were placed. I hope the viewers of the image can be confused in the begging and then can understand why I went about creating the collages in this way.
The research I made about the project Make do and Mend carried out by other artists really helped me in a way of creating my images and how I managed to place them. My experiment started off really quickly where I started to cut up many different images which had similar themes to each other, we was given a piece of plain paper to place the cut up pictures could start to think about where to place each image and how to overlay them. I decided to start with the coloured image first and cut out bright and wacky photos which I believed placed together would turn out really great. I chose to display the collage in a landscape format because
Final Piece -Colour
Final Piece - Black&White;
Picture 2.
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Prison photographyOne reason I'm interested in prison photography is because of how similar it is to the worlds, especially Englands, COVID-19 situation. As England is currently in lockdown and has many restrictions, just like how prisoners have multiple restrictions. Photography may be used to rehabilitate prisoners as it gives them a sense of creativity and it gives them an outlet. It can be quite difficult to practise photography in prison. Perhaps due to the lack of resources, the lack of inspiration and in total the lack of freedom. The photographer may have to take into consideration that they will only have limited resources to us, limited things to capture and limited time each day to take the photo's. Just like how us photographers in lockdown have to take many things into consideration.
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I am not there to tell them this is good, this is bad .
The next few images are taken from Nicolò Digiorgis' book 'Prison Photography' a collection of 137 shots taken by the inmates of the Penal Institution of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Artist research...
Nicolò Digiorgis'
Prison Photography is a collection of photographs taken by the inmates of the Bolzano-Bozen Penal Institution during a weekly photography course taught by Nicolò Degiorgis over a period of 6 years, between 2013 and 2018 in collaboration with Nicolo.
The following images are taken from Nicolò Digiorgis' book 'Prison Photography' a collection of 137 shots taken by the inmates of the Penal Institution of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy during the photography course taught by the artist between 2013 and 2017. Digiorgis attempted to teach the inmates about photography, both how to make pictures but also how to think about photographs in terms of their genres. Both workshop leader and prisoners had to contend with various limitations, rules and constraints in order to make the pictures.
The following images are taken from Nicolò Digiorgis' book 'Prison Photography' a collection of 137 shots taken by the inmates of the Penal Institution of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy during the photography course taught by the artist between 2013 and 2017. Digiorgis attempted to teach the inmates about photography, both how to make pictures but also how to think about photographs in terms of their genres. Both workshop leader and prisoners had to contend with various limitations, rules and constraints in order to make the pictures.