Covid-19
Photography has changed lately due to Covid-19. Covid-19 is an illness that goes around very quickly and easily if not taken care of. So now, when we come into school we do things differently like wearing a mask, sanitising our hands and distancing away from others (at least 2 meters). This has also changed the way we do things in the lessons. For example we can't use "The Dark Room" and it is difficult to use cameras because we have to clean them after every use. In the classroom we can't move from a place to another.
Choices
Photographers make choices each time they take a photograph and follow steps in order to achieve what they want to do for example:
- unlock your phone
- open the camera app
- decide what to photograph
- decide where to stand
- decide when to click the camera shutter button
Marcel Duchamp and The Readymade
The painting 'Mona Lisa' is famous because it has inspired art lovers all around the world. People are mostly interested in the “smile” on her face.
Marcel Duchamp drew a moustache and goatee beard on the ‘Mona Lisa’. He also wrote the phrase ‘L.H.O.O.Q’ underneath as a title. When you pronounce the title in French it says “Elle a chaud au cul” which means “She’s got a hot ass”. This is very rude! I think he added the male facial hair because he wants to show that men and women are equal.
Marcel Duchamp drew a moustache and goatee beard on the ‘Mona Lisa’. He also wrote the phrase ‘L.H.O.O.Q’ underneath as a title. When you pronounce the title in French it says “Elle a chaud au cul” which means “She’s got a hot ass”. This is very rude! I think he added the male facial hair because he wants to show that men and women are equal.
Kensuke Koike
Kensuke Koikes work is about making images that change the order of things for example in the second image he cut out the picture through the middle multiple times then changed the order things were sitting in like the mouth was above the head and the eyes were at the bottom of the face.
Hannah Höch - Das Schöne (The Beautiful Girl) 1920
In this collage I can see different types of images, e.g. light bulbs, BMW logos, wheels or hands. I think the most important part of the image is the woman behind everything because it looks like society is trying to hide her and the artist wants everyone to see that. I think the title “The Beautiful Girl” is amusing because when somebody looks at the collage it gives them an idea of what it would be about but what we actually see is a woman without a head!
The three adjectives I would choose to describe this image are: colourful, complicated and busy.
The three questions I would like to ask this artist are:
The three adjectives I would choose to describe this image are: colourful, complicated and busy.
The three questions I would like to ask this artist are:
- Where did the idea come from?
- Why did you make the person’s head as the lightbulb?
- What is your favourite part of the picture?
Collaborative Collage
Today in photography we made a series of collages using different images. First we teared up, cut and swapped bits of the pictures and spaces them out on a black piece of card. Once we were happy with the pattern we photocopied the different collages onto each other and coloured them both in. We did all this with a partner and had to follow a set of rules.
Prison Photography
Klavdij Sluban is a french photographer who did workshops in prisons. Since 1995 he travelled around the world to conduct photography workshops.
Nicoló Digiorgis' Prison Photography
Genre Photography Treasure Hunt
I decided to make a series of 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
Google Street View
Collaborative GSV Project - Venice Los Angeles
Today I used google street view to look at some cool architecture in different places these were the six places that I thought looked really nice.