Exhibition I visited the Photographer’s Gallery and came across an exhibition by Paul Hart called Farmed, also published at his own website (https://www.paulhartphotography.com/farmed-2/). Hart has captured a series of images across the fens that focus on encapsulating the ‘flatness’ of the area but which is dotted with man made elements. His images are aimed at […]
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Research: Illuminating India, National Science Museum
Exhibition I visited the Illuminating India exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The exhibition was a series of images that depicted the history of India over the past hundred and fifty years and was ordered oldest to newest. The very old photographs were largely posed images of people that resembled what might have been […]
Research: Monochrome at National Gallery
I visited “Monochrome” and exhibition at The National Gallery of paintings, rather than photographs. I haven’t included any black and white submission in this course, even for the street photography orientated assignment. It is though a topic that interests me and I was interested to see if any ideas from this form of art could […]
Research: Rut Blees Luxemburg
The Photographer and her Images Rut Blees Luxemburg is included in this part of my research due to her project Liebeslied (which translates to “love song”). The exploration in this series is the usage of artificial light. Whilst reviewing her project, I came to see that she has used two distinct styles of framing. Urban […]
Research: Sato Shintaro
Neon Lights Sato Shintaro is a Japanese photographer who has created a number of series of images that capture Tokyo at night. A screen shot from his sight is shown in the image below (Shintaro, 1999) The set of images linked to in the course materials are focussed exclusively on the neon signage within the […]
Research: Using Daylight (Mann and Schmidt)
This research reflects firstly on the aesthetic perspective to the usage of light in an image and then looks at how a different perspective can be reached and a different outcome achieved by considering light from an artistic or expressive point of view rather than a purely aesthetic one. Aesthetics Alone This perspective is that […]
Research: Radical Eye at Tate Modern Exhibition and Catalogue
I went to see Radical Eye – a collection of photographs from Elton John’s personal collection that was on display at the Tate Modern. I visited on 12th May 2017. Overall Impression The approximate date of most of the photographs on display was typically early to mid 1900s. The images were ordered into portraits, creative […]
Research: Martin Parr
Background Martin Parr is a British photographer who captures images that take a largely satirical view on human life (Wikipedia, 2017). Figure 1 below taken from Parr’s own website (Parr, 2016) is a great example of the satire that flows through all his images. In his own documentary video (Parr, 2011) Parr discusses that the […]
Research: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Review of Film This post assesses the key learning points and reflections I have from watching the film L’amour de court (Cartier-Bresson, 2001.) The video opens with one of his most famous images shown below in Figure 1. It is astonishing that Cartier-Bresson claims that this image was pure luck and that he had simply stuck his camera […]
Research: Chunking Express Cinematography
Introduction Chunking Express is a film written and directed by Kar-Wai Wong produced in 1994. The film makes use of an interesting technique on a few occasions within the film that could be replicated in single shots too. Slow Shutter Speed Technique The cinematographer for the film was Christopher Doyle (Shahnawaz, 2014) who uses a […]