as photography exam 2012 13

AS Photography

Exam 2012-13

Art 2 – Controlled Assignment (Exam)

• The exam questions (whether visual or written stimuli) must be used as starting points or prompts for your own ideas.

• This should provide the basis from which you originate personal intentions.

• Only ONE must be answered – you must choose a different question in art (if you do art)

• The controlled assignment (exam) will culminate in a final 8 hour exam – where you will produce your final outcomes.

Your sketchbook

• 25% of your grade will rely on a written essay – artist research comparing and contrasting two different photographers based on your chosen question/concept

• It will be 1000-1500 words long

• You will have to d a minimum of 4 photoshoots to develop ideas and for preparation towards your final outcomes.

• These will need to be documented and evaluated in your sketchbook as normal.

1. Ideas and Materials

• DVD

2. Same but different

• Family – portraits• Key rings• Album covers • Cd / vinyl – history of buying music • Cameras - effects of using digital / film• Food – different types/different food people eat• Musical instruments• Same people in different situations – different

environments

Andres Serrano

From series ‘The Church’ From series ‘Nomads’

Religion and Belief

Abelardo Morell – camera obscura

http://www.abelardomorell.net/photography/cameraobsc_01/cameraobsc_18.html

Simon Norfolk and John Burke

Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell

KELLI CONNELL

• A single model plays two roles in each of the photographs in this portfolio from Kelli Connell. Connell uses elements of private relationships she has experienced herself or witnessed in others to inspire these two-person scenes. She then uses Photoshop to stitch multiple medium-format negatives together to create the juxtapositions in the final photographs. The result is a multi-faceted questioning of duality: of masculine and feminine, exterior and interior, static and evolving. Appropriately, Connell’s intentions here are two-fold. One the one hand she exposes her autobiographical questioning of sexuality and gender roles, particularly as they influence identity in relationships. On the other hand she is also interested in how the response of viewers reveals their own notions of identity and social constructs.

Nick Turpin

Henri Cartier Bresson

Jose Antonio Hernandez Diez

Jose Antonio Hernandez Diez

• Hernández-Díez is part of a new generation of Venezuelan artists who emerged in the late 1980s. He uses "street" materials such as skateboards, sneakers, record players and other audio equipment and bicycles in order to develop a personal iconography centered on familiar, often domestic, objects. The ordinary is made extraordinary through Hernández-Díez’s provocative, darkly humorous use of material and scale. He manipulates the objects, often by physically reconfiguring them in such a way that invests the quotidian with philosophical and emotional resonance. Elements from his Venezuelan childhood are combined with those that reference a more global pop culture.

Stuart Whipps• Aladdin Houses, commission for an exhibition alongside Bill Brandt’s work.

. • http://www.stuartwhipps.com/index.php?/project/the-aladdin-houses/

3. Creating a Space

• Documentary – document a change, knocking down of houses/property development

• Landscape – put something within a landscape• Landscape – develop into panorama• The way in which you photograph a landscape

• 3D landscapes – photographic sculptures / 3D effect – creating your own space

• Photograph people in their bedrooms – how people develop or have their own space

Fay Godwin

Bill Brandt

• A Night in London encompassed social events and strata, with staged scenes where necessary.

Stephen Shore – uncommon places

Danilo Murru – What Remains

Nadav Kander - www.nadavkander.comHis best shot, read the

article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/27/photography

“More people live along the Yangtze river than live in the US. So, on my first trip to China, I wanted to get a sense of this by visiting Shanghai and Chongqing, a massive city of 27 million people, where this image was taken."

Charles Johnstone

• Thirty-four Basketball Courts.

Frank van der Salm

Frank van der Salm

Bernice Abbott

Bernice Abbott

Christian Aslund

Christian Aslund

4. On the road

• Travelling• Documenting journey• Documenting different things on a road – kate green (road

kill)• Slow shutter speed – cars• Different transport – commercial / documentary • History of cars – photographing the history of one/multiple

cars• Size and scale of cars and how they’ve changed. Owners of

these cars• Going to a transport museum

Lee Friedlander

Tom Wood

5. Steps and Rails

• Looking at modern/old architecture• Railways stations – the actual train rail and

steps• Abstract steps – MC Escher – never ending

steps

Golden Triangle

Horst Schneiderhttp://www.horst-schneider.eu

6. Local Produce

• How different parts of the world produce different food

• Where is food imported/exported too• Who buys food from markets? Looking at

age/gender/ethnicity• Farms – photograph the food/farmers/landscape.

Narrative story – of different process• Different people produced locally – where do people

come from???• Technology – that’s used in factories / farms / butchers

Martin Parr

Documenting Bristol

Martin Parr – Black Country

Martin Parr

7. Get together

• Sport – teams in action – playing their sport, behind the scenes, outside of sport. How they socialise/everyday job/where they work

• Family – different occasions, how they support each other, who you live with – documentary/portraiture

• Volunteering – shelters / old peoples homes/ charities• Animals – how pigeons eat food• Community – people you live around / your own

community • Religion – go to churches / places of religion

7. Get Together• Youth group• Groups of friends• Sports team• Swim team• Parties• Group of animals• Get your head together – depression/anxiety • Relationships• Families• Concerts• Special occasions• Weddings / funerals• People working together – colleagues

Alec Soth - Niagara

David Stewart – Teenage Pre-occupation (2012)

Jeff Harris

• http://www.jeffharris.org/ - takes a portrait of himself every day.

Marriage and civil partnership

Pierre Radistic

Lawick/Müller

Cory Smith

Ulric Collette

Everyday OlympianThe Everyday Olympian documents people involved in local community sports, be it a 12 year old swimmer, 60 year old hockey player or 30 year old amateur boxer. These are the people that make up the tapestry of sports that thrive at grass roots level across the region. They may not be an Olympian, however it is through their commitment and participation on a weekly or daily basis that so many sports still function and exist.

Shot on medium format, all the participants were photographed after taking part in competition or training.

Everyday Olympian was the winner of Magnum Showcase Sports with Ideas Tap 2012, selected for Foto8 Summershow 2012 and also featured in The Sunday Times magazine.

This body of work has been supported by Kalaboration, Arts Council England and the Cultural Olympiad.

Jaskirt Dhaliwal

Jaskirt Dhaliwal - Everyday Olympianwww.jaskirtdhaliwal.co.uk

9. Reveal the use of hidden meanings or messages

Things to consider:

• Discovery of concealed and covert messages, vague symbolism and double meaning is often an unexpected and fascinating outcome of in-depth contextual study.

Simon Norfolk

Adrienne M Norman

My work consists of portraits of people with medical disorders that are invisible to the

casual observer. I try to photograph the intangible beauty that comes from the mental and

physical suffering that often plagues the human condition, but is rarely explored in an

honest manner. I’m interested in the painful and exhilarating experiences that colour their

lives of those suffering from mental and neurological illness and I attempt to reveal them on

the faces of my subjects. Using the face as a map of psychological experience, I try to unveil

the tell-tale subtleties apparent in each individual’s physiognomy.

http://evinumen.com/section/67902_Portraits.html

10. Investigate differences of approach to the same subject matter

Hang Hao – My things

Sophie CallThe Hotel series – go to

www.tate.org.uk

Sol Lewitt Autobiography

Chema Madoz

Emma Livingston - Urban Trees

The collection of work hints at the personification of trees, centrally framed as if photographing a person, each shot reflects on the tree as an individual: observing its personality, expression and 'attitude' through elements such as posture and the arrangement of its branches. The relationship between the tree and its surroundings poses the exploration of how we ourselves grow, flourish, suffer and inevitably die within the urban spaces granted to us.

Ellie Davies- Smoke and MirrorsThis series is made in remote areas of The New Forest and Dartmoor in the UK, far from pathways and seldom visited by the public. From an early age the notion of the forest is given a sinister and threatening personality in the form of fairy tales and children’s stories. Stepping inside the dense forest feels like entering another world. These sensory experiences often lead to the forest being used as metaphor. The wild and impenetrable forest has long symbolized the dark, hidden world of the unconscious. These magical, fantasy golden trees, transported to the hearts of mature, dark forests, allude to this, whilst also evoking a sense of the fairytale. – Ellie Davies

Dan Dubowitz - WastelandsDan Dubowitz loves to travel the world in search of abandoned, decaying buildings

Different approaches to photographing people

Photographing strangers (people you don’t know)

Pierre Gonnord

• The idea of creating my own work in the lagoon and starting from scratch fascinated me. I have had to take other roads to reach its inhabitants and, trapped from the first moment by this human river, I asked myself, as Montesquieu did in his Lettres Persanes: “Comment peut-on être Vénitien?” The people, the human material present and constant from the start of my search, have once again helped to guide my steps and launch me on another fantastic, intimate adventure.

To experience Venice, share it, question it, leap from one scenario to another, to transgress and cross contemporary frontiers. There are still as many possible Venices as there are people and visions.

• Here are the seven chosen faces, portraits, fragments of my vision and experience of walking through Venice.

Pierre Gonnord

Richard Avedon

Katy Grannan

Diane Arbus

Photographing people at work

Irving Penn – body of work: Small Trades

Maurice Broomfield

• Broomfield was “one of the first industrial and architectural photographers to use his corporate commissions to make visionary photographic studies of the workers and the environments in which they worked,” writes the Host Gallery, which, last year, put on the first retrospective of the photographer’s iconic images of industrial Britain from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Different approaches to sports

Nadav Kander

Finlay McKay

Bettina von Zwehl

Anderson and Low

Annie LeibovitzOne of today's most influential and admired artists, renowned for her vivid and distinctive style, Annie

Leibovitz is an American original and a master of self-promotion. Her portraits of Bruce Springsteen, Jody Foster, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Greg Louganis, Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Lennon and more combine a

keen eye with a quick wit.

11. Develop an outcome based on family life

• Richard Billingham

• Photograph family in a place of meaning to them• Show families growing up – progression • Eva stenram / Irina Werning• Disagreements in family• Different personalities in a family – candid / classic • Family members in their own environment• Places or objects personal to family life• How parents jobs affects your life

Alessandra Sanguinetti - Two Cousins

As a child she spent her summers in the Argentine Pampas. Having become a photographer, Alessandra Sanguinetti met Guillermina and Belinda there. Fascinated by their simple happiness and their whimsical games, she has followed them with her camera every summer for the last eight years.

Elinor carucci

James Russell Cant - Family

Brother Alone

Laura Cooper - Disaffected

Tina Barney

Taryn Simon - 'A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters'.

She has been photographing the descendents of 18 different bloodlines, each based around a particular situation, exploring predetermination and notions of perpetual return. There are many blank photographs for those who couldn’t be photographed.

Video: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-taryn-simon

Richard Billingham

Sally Mann

Candy Cigarette

The two Virginia's

Virginia, Emmet and Jessie

Black Eye

Nan Gouldin

Nan on Brian’s lap, Nan’s birthday, New York City 1981

Suzanne and Philippe on the bench, Tompkins Square Park, New Your City, 1983

Trixie on the cot, New York City, 1979

Self-portrait in blue bathroom, London 1980

Suzanne with Mona Lisa, Mexico City 1981

Suzanne in the green bathroom, Pergamon Museum, East Berlin 1984

Brian on the Bowery roof, New York City 1982

Brian in the cabaña, Puerto Juarez, Mexico 1982

Brian with Flintstones, New York 1981

Brian with his head in his hands, Merida, Mexico 1982

Brian at a shooting gallery, Merida, Mexico 1982

Brian’s face, West Berlin 1984

Nan after being battered 1984

Cookie and Vittorio’s wedding, New York City 1986

Twisting at my birthday party, New York City 1980

Monopoly game, New York City 1980

Develop a response to text and its use with an artform

• Links between words and images• Promotional photography• Journalism• Documentary photography• Posters• Graphic communication

Suky BestDeveloped her own magazine – mocking the celebrity culture magazines that began to appear in the 90’s

Jo Spence

Daneile Buetti

Fazal Sheikh• The portrait is central to Fazal Sheikh’s work. For more than two decades, as he has worked in

different communities around the world, the invitation to sit for a portrait has been the principal means by which he has established a link with his subjects and been allowed to enter and document their lives. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice.

Lee Friedlander

• Letters from the people

James Mollison

Alexander Apóstol

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger

14. Explore the effects of transparency

• Transparent means: ‘fine enough to be seen through’ – e.g. being open to public scrutiny in business and politics

• This could also mean in terms of materials use to print – colour slide film, using multiple layering, sheer fabrics, video projections

Perran Costi

Man Ray, ‘Glass Tears’ 1932. round glass beads

Howard Schatz

http://www.howardschatz.com

Cindy Sherman

Nick Veasey

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/profile/1940376/penetrating-gaze-ray-photography

Nick VeaseyNick Veasey had each

component of this Boeing 777 shipped to him, then x-rayed them on 43x35cm film.

The entire image is made up of more than 500 x-rays, stitched together by Veasey's designer, Stuart O'Neill. The process took months, and was shot for Boston's Logan Airport in 2003.

Valerie Belin

Craig McDean

Eustaquio Neves

PERRAN COSTI

Baggage series:

The Baggage series explores and expresses those things in our life we hold onto. Memories, hopes, ideals.

UV prints on glass, suitcase, wood, lights, audio

http://www.perrancosti.com/WORKS/Pages/BAGGAGE_-_PORTABLE_CITY_10_09.html

Clarence John Laughlin

Fred Holland Day

Terney Gearon - Explosure

Melinda Gibson

Craig McDean

Nick Knight

Eva Stenram

Eva Stenram – Family portrait

The order of age within the family has simply been reversed – Stenram has become the oldest member of her family and her father has become the youngest.

Jerry Uelsmann

Joy Goldkind

Rene Margritte

Clarence John

Maurizo Aneri

This image designed by Tor Myhren, is intended as a message to the American public that they should cast their votes based on the candidates' policies and ignore their racial differences.

Tor Myhren

Tibor Kalman

Max De Esteban - Proposition

"whats on the inside?"

These fascinating x-rays demonstrates the mechanics of various pieces of technology that are quite interestingly old fashioned.