Questions
My relationship to the natural world is mainly when I visit areas outside of London, such as Hastings in the south coast. I remember scenes such as greenery and lots of trees. It is also the coast so the sea is something that I am familiar with. When i think of landscapes I think of the scenes that I see, such as hills, and lots of greenery, lots of trees and bushes, and lots of birds, lots of loud birds. I've also visited the Cotswolds too and there is a lot of flat land with lots of farmland with animals. In London the landscapes that I connect with are local to me such as the Common, the nature is lots of grass, trees but not very vast. If I wanted to visit a landscape I would go to Kent to visit nature. I think that people take photographs of nature because they believe that nature is nature can be interesting and beautiful. I think that nature can be interesting, if you look up close there are interesting colours and textures. I think that photographs can help us change the way we see things, but this depends on the skills of the photographer, photographs can also be altered and changed to make the subject more appealing to the viewer.
10-20 of words that come to my head when I think of landscape
- back roads, boonies, country, environment, land, landscape, non-urban area, scenery, flat, dry,
Dafma Talmor
Dafma Talmor, photos involves deconstructing her own landscape photographs, cutting up and recombining multiple negatives to create new different compositions. Dafna Talmor is an artist based in London whose practice encompasses photography, curation and collaborations. Her photographs are included in public collections such as Deutsche Bank. In Constructed Landscapes – an ongoing body of work consisting of two sub-series – colour negatives initially shot as mere keepsakes across different locations are transformed through the act of slicing and splicing.
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Homework
I enjoyed taking this photos because I believe that they are all interesting and have in common because they are all related to the sea. Two of my shots are of a cliff which I think is very interesting because they is grass and animals living on the side of just one cliff.
Slides
Dafna Talmor
When making my slides I thought about how Dafna Talmor makes her images. She cuts up her negatives before re-assembling them.
The Process: Get landscape slides- Cut pieces out of said slides using a cutting mat and scalpel - Compile the multiple altered landscape slides together- add in coloured acetone (I believe that is what it is called) photograph the finished constructed image.
The Process: Get landscape slides- Cut pieces out of said slides using a cutting mat and scalpel - Compile the multiple altered landscape slides together- add in coloured acetone (I believe that is what it is called) photograph the finished constructed image.
The idea of landscape
The artist chooses to include things that are personal to them and represent something about how they see the place that they are taking photos of. When Roger Fenton took the picture (the right picture), the place he photographed meant something to him. In the example on the right, the photograph is taken from what looks like a path going up to the top of this hill - and on the left, the picture is being taken from a distance away but on the same level as the subject. In the right picture I think that it is zoomed in. However the left picture in just it in its natural form.
'Bad' school photos
CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES
I like how I got a wide rang of different parts of the school in the background of this landscape. You see several parts of the field in each photo as the location they were taken at varied for each picture.
V&A
This trip was very good for photos because when we were in the V&A the light was different because it was dark but enough so that you can see all the photos and art.
Dionne Lee's
I think this video is different because a lady is making landscape pictures from cutting up magazines. I liked some of them because the way she uses the space and the way she cuts the picture up for example cut up half of the photo. She hides some of the cut outs.
collage
We made this collage from magazines. I first chose my pictures that I was going to use for my colleges. We had a wide selection of pictures to choose from. then I ripped and cut up some of my photos. then I arranged them into an arrangement that i liked. However next time I would use less photos.
This is my attempt at a collage with a very little amount of material.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Out of focus photos
An out of focus picture is when cannot completely see everything that is being taken by the photography. I enjoy out of focus photography because you can use your imagination and decide what you think is there. You can also play with people perception of what they see.
There are two types of out of focus photography one is foreground where you can see something or someone up close, however not being able to see what is behind them or it. Also landscape, which is where there there is no people in the photo and it is just plants or buildings.
There are two types of out of focus photography one is foreground where you can see something or someone up close, however not being able to see what is behind them or it. Also landscape, which is where there there is no people in the photo and it is just plants or buildings.
Pictus Interruptus
To make this photos we took printed out photos and then construct them how we wanted. We had certain sizes of hole punchers to change the way our photos looked. We did this to have a load for Grannie and focused picture through the holes.
Ray K. Metzker
Ray K. Metzker was (he died in October 2014 at the age of 83) an American photographer. We are looking at his Pictus Interruptus series. He created this from 1976 and 1981 - specifically as it follows the out of focus theme this is to create this series he simply incorporated a single object, an interrupter, is held up between the camera's lens and the subject, in every photograph.
Ray Metzker views landscapes as " fragments and distortions " which he then this is why we can see this in his photos. |
Finger
My idea for this series of pictures were that i would cover some of my photo with my finger which would take out half of it and try to have half of it out of focus.
Google street
Brea Souders’ Vistas series.
Minimalist Landscape
This two photos are both landscapes using negative and positive space. The image on the right was taken on a negative film then cut out and reconstructed into something different. Then the enlarger makes the print by exposing both pictures to the light. This is why you can see the cut marks from the film that have been printed onto the silver halide paper and the tree is not as dark as the paper beneath the film.
My response
This is my response to minimalist landscapes. When making this i tried to add a mixture of different types of landscapes to make my composition.
This is the positive after being exposed to the developer chemical for 1 minute the stop for a seconds and the fix for around five minutes. I like how the central area of the image stayed clear and shark and as it move further towards the boarder of the picture it gets more cloudy and fuzzy. It gives the effect of a foreground and background being present in the 2D composition.
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After my first positive, I used made another but instead of leaving the picture in a tray of the developer chemical, I placed my light sensitive paper in an empty tray and brushed the developer over it with a paint brush. The darker areas indicate my first strokes and the less time the marks had to react with the paper before it went into the stop; the lighter the tones of the developer brush.
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Artists
This was my attempt of her work.
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www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/vanessa-marsh-sun-beneath-sky
Vanessa Marsh. She is a artist that constructs that have a nature scale and gradient which adds a living feeling to add making of pictures. She try’s to reflect upon "nature of light, atmosphere, geology and time." she does this by add real pictures but also the unrealistic side of this picture. Her landscape has sort of a mist, smog which makes the picture seem a bit mysterious and scary. |
http://www.lorenzovitturi.com/anthropocene/
"Anthropocene is the result of a reflection on the relationship between man and nature, as it proposes – in line with 16th Century naturalistic painting – a symbolic system able to visualise the intersection between these two dimensions." This is how Lorenzo Vitturl discussed his work
"Anthropocene is the result of a reflection on the relationship between man and nature, as it proposes – in line with 16th Century naturalistic painting – a symbolic system able to visualise the intersection between these two dimensions." This is how Lorenzo Vitturl discussed his work
Negatives
This is one of my favourite projects I’ve done so far. my process of this project is that I make a photogram I do this by putting my scraps of paper onto the photographic paper the light, and as you can see below the password, it is black is where it has not been blocked off by paper or card where it is a bit lighter a greyish colour that is why I had paper and where it is completely white. That is where I had my sections of card.
Making day
Evaluation
I explored the theme of constructing landscapes. This theme has been my favourite because I have had freedom to make what I want and how I want to to look like. It has been very interesting to do most of it by myself , I have also enjoyed focusing on the ways of making photos. My ideas have changed thought out this topic and I think that it has improved a lot because I have contrasted from taking pictures of our environment to making my our pictures in the dark room and then editing them. I began this project by researching a variety of artists and photographers whose work expressed the theme of Dafna Tarmor I found her on https://www.photopedagogy.com/constructed-landscapes.html then I research her work which gave me the idea for my final piece. One of the threshold concepts that I tackled was that photographs are not fixed in meaning which means that you can interpret it how you want to think about it.
I experimented
I experimented