A short introduction:
During the major pandemic around the world we have had to adapt to different measures such as; we are not allowed to go outside in photography which makes it harder tan it used to be. Another example is that we have have to line up after every lesson which sometimes reduces our lesson time. Because of all there restriction I feel kinda annoyed because the lessons aren't gonna be as fun because all of our lesson are very limited to what we can do. This whole dilemma could help us as photographers in many ways for example cause we can't go outside we can work on the more technical parts of photography like photoshop which is make do and mend in a way which I think will have a fun side to the restrictions of what we can do at this very moment.
Instructions
In order to take a photograph you have to make choices. What happens when these choices are made for you?
Choice you would make.
Choice you would make.
- where you stand
- where you take the photo
- what time you take
- how many images you take
- what angle you take the photo
- what object do you use to take there photo
- whats in focus and what out of focus
- what to leave out of the picture
- what to leave in the image
- what clothing you wear
- whats in the surrounding of the image
- how tall to be
- how big the image is
- how small the image is
- how wide the image is
I received an instruction from a classmate:
Take a picture of a mask on a computer
Marcel Duchamp & the Readymade
When Marcle Duchamp went to visit the Mona Lisa in 1919 the though of an idea while he was on his way to see the real Mona Lisa created by Leonardo Da Vinci which is currently kept in the French museum called Louvre museum. Duchamp thought of a good idea which was to deface the Mona Lisa. which to any one else seemed like a very bad idea cause the Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. so to ruin it just made no sense at first, but marcel Duchamp thought different.
Duchamp created the image by getting a postcard in the gift shop of the Mona Lisa and making his own twist on it by putting facial hair on hair. after he put the facial hair on the image he created the title ' L.H.O.O.Q.' which the letters are pronounced in French as "Elle a Chad au cul" which means,"she has a hot arse". |
There are many different artists that have taken the idea of 'L.H.O.O.Q' and create there own images by using old images and adapting them for example Kensuke Koike.
Kensuke Koike
I decided to respond to Duchamp's 'L.H.O.O.Q.' readymade by creating a new image from an old photograph. I was also inspired by the work of Kensuke Koike. Here are some of his amazing transformations of vintage photographs and postcards.
A short video about Koike's work :
Sharon Walters
I was also inspired by Sharon Walters who uses a combination of precision cutting and layering to create her beautiful mixed media portraits. Here is a gallery with examples of her work:
Hannah Höch's 'Beautiful Girl'
What I can see is a lady with a lightbulb instead of a head and a face in the background of the image with an unusually large eye. The image looks like it has been made up of car parts from what looks like a car from 1920s. The stopwatch in the background shows to me that the car could’ve been a racing car. The Bayerischer Motormen Werke (BMW) car badges also shows me that the image is German because BMW are a German brand. The main image that stood out at me straight way was the light bulb that is in the centre of the image. The main reason why the lightbulb stood out for me is because it is a different colour to the rest of the image, so my eye caught it straight away. The idea of the ladies' head as a light bulb shows me the maybe the artist was trying to show us that a female was the person who created cars and that maybe female racers should be more recognized. The image is made up of two different images one of the images is several separate pieces of a female human body and the other image looks like a racing car from 1920s because of all the car parts and the stopwatch in the background made me think it was a racing car. To me the way they titled the image ‘The Beautifull Girl’ shows to me that the artist is showing that anything can be beautiful no matter what they look like, A new title I would give to this image would be ‘mechanical girl’. The three adjectives I would give this image are 1) Creative because the artist has been very creative by using to completely different images and cutting them and sticking them together to create one big image between the two. 2) creepy because what looks like a dolls head in the background is very creepy because it has two huge eyes and the fact of a woman made of all car parts is quite weird and creepy. 3) Old-fashioned because of the hair in the image looks like it's from the 80s or 90s and the wheel on the side of the image looks like a very old tire also the fact that there is an old stopwatch in the background makes it look even more older. Three questions I would ask Hannah Höch is: 1) what came to you head to make you think of this image? 2) Why did you choose the BMW logo as a background? 3) why did you put a creepy dolls head in the background?
3D > 2D > 3D > 2D
Matt Lipps
Matt Lipps is an American photographer from California. his work is based on taking random photos and making sculptures out of them. he uses old photo and cuts them up which leads in to the topic make do and mend, since he believes there are to many photos in the 21st century. here is some of his work.
My 3D photocollages:
Collaborative Instruction Collages
After we created our own images and glued down we photo copied them together and added colour and this was the result:
Tabletop Sculptures
We were set a task to photograph a random arrangement of objects using 5 different angles:
Prison Photography
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Klavdij Sluban has worked in many prisons with many teenage kids to teach them his skills in photography. he thinks as the inmates as students not inmates. one of the reason he has gone into prisons is because he wants teens who are in jail something to do instead of them getting inot trouble. he used photography for his students to become more creative.
Sluban gave each of his students a disposable camera so they could take pictures when he's not there of things they find interesting. at first they started taking pictures of themselves or others the feel of creativity gave them some freedom and happiness. sluban hopes to leave them inspired into photography |
Nicoló Digiorgis' Prison Photography
Genre Photography Treasure Hunt
I decided to have make some photographs using a list of instructions:
- The view through a window
- Your reflection in a shiny surface
- The back of someone’s head
- A small object shot from a low angle against a plain background
- The palm of someone’s hand with the word ‘help’ written on it
- A smile
- A plant growing in the wrong place
- A cracked paving stone
- A pile of clothes
- The creases in a bed sheet shot from above (with nothing else included)
- A close-up photograph of a computer, phone or television screen
- A map
- The spine of a book
- The inside of a fridge
- The sky
- Part of a fork
- The sole of a shoe
- The ceiling of your bedroom as you are lying on the floor
- A photograph of a photograph
- A glass of water
Instructions for experimenting with a 'found' photograph
- Hold the photograph in one hand and photograph it with the other
- Take a photograph of your finger pointing at something in the photograph
- Take a photograph of your photograph with light reflected on the surface
- Take a super close-up photograph of your photograph (so that the edges are not visible)
- Photograph your photograph in an unusual location
- Photograph your photograph inside a book
- Photograph your photograph peeking out of someone’s clothing
- Put the photograph under a chair leg. Take a photograph of it
- Cover the photograph so that only a small part of the image is visible. Make a photograph
- Ask someone to hold the photograph in front of their face. Make a photograph
- Write a message on the back of the photograph. Photograph it
- Photocopy your photograph (enlarge by 300%)
- Photograph the photograph on top of the photocopy
- Make a paper aeroplane from the photocopy. Fly it. Photograph it where it lands
- Scrunch the photocopy into a ball (image on the outside). Photograph it
- Submerge the photograph in water. Photograph it
- Tear the photograph in half. Place the two straight (untorn) edges next to one another and make a photograph
- Tear the two halves in half again. Place all the straight edges next to one another. Make a photograph
- Place one piece of the torn image on the palm of one hand. Photograph it
- Throw all four pieces up in the air. Photograph where they land
WWW:I was able to finish all the task correctly and quickly
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EBI:I could've been more creative in the images
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virtual school trip to New York
After we took our trip to New York we then went to Mexico City and found some amazing images to do with the cables in the sky.
Google street view bingo
Taipei - fruit
Rome - graffiti
Nairobi - sport
Brasilia - water
Athens - a yellow car
Taipei - a tall building
Helsinki - an animal
Paris - coca cola
Lima - a bridge
Make do and mend personal project
Photographing photos
Play a game of snap with prints of recent pictures ( from photobox). Photograph the various pile of pictures. Or put a pile of images on the table and roll a dice and what ever number that it lands on thata how many images you take of the top of the pile and take a photo of it
Collages
Select a bunch of old images and cut them up or rip them and then put them on two a big uncut image and you could just throw the cut bits on the the bigger image and take a picture of the image with where a the cut up pieces land
Rules & regulations
Create a set of rules for taking pictures for example you can only take a picture at the time 18:30-22:00 or another rule could be that you can only take a picture inside. This idea is based of the artist nicolo degiorgis who went into prisons and help them with taking photos so they were able to have something to do when they got outta prison. So for the prisoners they would only have a certain space to take photos and they could only take them between a certain time
Image & text
Insert photographs into book pages then re-photograph and frame to include parts of image & text. Randomly select newspaper for social media. Randomly select a word or two from a book, use to make google search images. Select first image that appears and display with news headline as the title.
Photosculpture
Use photoshop to digitally insert the photosculpures into a landscape screenshot from google view. Make small photosculptures from photographic prints. Photograph sculptures against a polan background.
Play a game of snap with prints of recent pictures ( from photobox). Photograph the various pile of pictures. Or put a pile of images on the table and roll a dice and what ever number that it lands on thata how many images you take of the top of the pile and take a photo of it
Collages
Select a bunch of old images and cut them up or rip them and then put them on two a big uncut image and you could just throw the cut bits on the the bigger image and take a picture of the image with where a the cut up pieces land
Rules & regulations
Create a set of rules for taking pictures for example you can only take a picture at the time 18:30-22:00 or another rule could be that you can only take a picture inside. This idea is based of the artist nicolo degiorgis who went into prisons and help them with taking photos so they were able to have something to do when they got outta prison. So for the prisoners they would only have a certain space to take photos and they could only take them between a certain time
Image & text
Insert photographs into book pages then re-photograph and frame to include parts of image & text. Randomly select newspaper for social media. Randomly select a word or two from a book, use to make google search images. Select first image that appears and display with news headline as the title.
Photosculpture
Use photoshop to digitally insert the photosculpures into a landscape screenshot from google view. Make small photosculptures from photographic prints. Photograph sculptures against a polan background.
Blindfold photo collage
Robert Rauschenberg
Here is a video of Robert Rauschenberg and the type of work he created and how he did them and also why he did the work the way he did
How I created my final project
My first idea was to get 4 different people and take pictures of them outside and then try using the photocopier change the colour of the the main character then the background.
But then I came up with an idea of creating it into a little film. I got each of the characters and stood them up onto a background which we created by having blue card stuck onto a wall and then stood them up one by one and made a short video going from far away into the character slowly closing in on it to create a sort of effect of them seeming like they're talking.