Homage 4- Rinko Kawauchi

Homage 4- Rinko Kawauchi

This photographer was completely new to me.  I enjoyed the pastel colouring in the images.
I chose this photograph to recreate as I loved the subject of water.

Homage 3- Claude Cahun

Homage 3- Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait 1928

I mainly looked at just her self-portrait here as it stuck out to me most out of all her images.
I wanted to try and recreate this as I love the simplicity of it and how it also has a striking side to it.

Homage 2- Gillian Wearing

Homage 2- Gillian Wearing, 17 Yrs Old

I have seen many of Wearings work, all the photos I appreciated had this orange and red background, this is why i wanted to carry this feature through to my interpretation.
I again chose to do a self-portrait as I like Wearings idea with that, and I wanted to make the photo more personal to me.  I chose to cover half my face with a cage like material to represent how I always cover up when I am in public, I am always wearing make-up and can't be seen without it on.
I hardly did any post-production however to create the background I bought a big roll of bright orange paper and hung it on my wall.

Homage 1- Man Ray, Anatomies 1929

Homage 1- Man Ray, Anatomies 1929

For this artist I have looked at several images from his surrealism phase as all of this work inspires me, this photo in particular stuck out to me so I want to recreate it myself.
I decided to turn the image to black and white in post-production to get a more authentic look.
I wanted to do a self-portrait as I wanted this piece of work to be personal to me.  To do this I had to set up a tripod and use self timer and quickly get into position several time to get the right shot.  I wanted to use more of the body in my image as i liked the contores of the stomach area, i also used a black piece of clothing to block out certain parts of the body so that there was an extraordinary look to it.

Surrealism Photography

The photographer who created this was Man Ray.  I was taken of Lee Miller who was a photographer in the 20s when she moved to Paris.  She got into photography and art when she met fellow artist Man Ray.  They discovered the solarisation method  together when they were collaborating.  the discovery of solarisation was more of an accident if anything, someone walked into the dark room when Man Ray was developing an image and the light that the paper was exposed to manipulated the process and created a weird negative mist to the image, I think the solarisation effect is extraordinary and has always fascinated me.

Surrealism as an art form that started in the early 20s, it evolved from the Dada movement in World War I.  This image is typical of surrealism because the image has been tampered with and doesn't show the scene in its true form.  The solarisation gives a misty affect to the photo which creates the surreal affect. A lot of the features that direct to surrealism in this photograph are subtle.

A big part of surrealism movement was influenced by Freud and his theories on the subconscious mind. A lot of work was inspired by his discoveries on the unreal part of the mind.

In this photo Man Ray has taken a side portrait of Miller, the way he has positioned her hair with the waves give that extra texture to the image.  Waves indicated the unconscious.

Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarisation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller#Photography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

Dada

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ada was an artistic and literary movement that started in 1918.  It was mainly brought together around Switzerland then eventually spread to Berlin.  The theme of it was mainly war as artists, writers and poets from that era met to collaborate to make Dada art.

This image was created by John Heartfield who worked for communist publications, the daily Die Rote Fahne and the weekly magazine Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ).  John Heartfield uses Dada as a weapon to expression political issues.

This photograph is typical of Dada style.  It is called “Adolf, the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk” and as made in 1932.

The title of the photo indicates the rubbish laws and rules that Hitler created, the post production to this image shows money inside Hitler’s body which relates to him taking all the possessions from the Jews then using a photo where he is shouting indicates to one of his ‘powerful’ speeches where he talked rubbish.

Straight Photography

Who is the photographer?
Ansel Adams

Their nationality?
From the United States

Straight photography is also called Pure photography, and it refers to a method of photography that attempts to portray an image in the most realistic and accurate way.

This photograph was taken by Ansel Adams who was part of the Straight photography group called f64.  Group f64 were an American group of seven photographers from the 20^th century who all had similar photography techniques and styles.  All of them captures scenes as untainted as they could.

This photo is typical of straight photography as it shows this scene completely as it is. Adams took this photo around 1937. 
This image also is classic of Straight photography because it is depicting the woodland waterfall scene exactly how Adams would have seen it.  From researching into the image I found that it was taken early morning just before the sunrise so that there was a fog throughout the trees so that  Adams could have a subtle backdrop to the image.

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