Unit 5

Introduction.

For this unit 5 assignment I am aiming to photograph and document about homeless people, (people who live on the streets, buskers, squatters) and also document the mental health issues that people suffer with through there daily lives. This assignment I have chose to lead on to my final major project which I am aiming to document in either a hostel or rehab, I am wanting to document the aspects of alcoholics and  drug addicts of how controlling these addictions and the life threatening effects these substances have mentally and physical are with a lot of mental health issues behind all of this such as impulsive control disorder which is where alcoholics and drug addicts start there addictions to these types of  substances.
There is many reasons people are homeless some of these people chose to live on the streets and others have no other choice or even know no other way of life.

For this assignment I'm aiming to produce: 

• A minimum of 5 Portfolio Photographs
• 3-4 Photographers research which tie into my work such as documentary photographers.
• Photographers photographs with evaluations.
• Evaluations for all of my photographs 
• overall evaluation  

DeadLine: 3rd December 2013

Paul Strand Research

Paul Strand.

Paul Strand was born in New York in 1890. When he was 17 he began taking a photography course studying under famed photographer Lewis Hine. During his training strand also became acquainted with Alfred Stieglitz, whose 291 Gallery in New York provided inspiration for stand and other aspiring modernist photographers and artists. A turning point in his career cam in 1915 when he began to discover what the large format camera could do. his photographs moved from soft focus scenes of modern New York. Strands images gained power from their integration of reality and abstraction within the composition. In 1920 another shift occurred in strands career his socal consciousness led him to explore the relationship between art and politics and to devote his career to progressive causes In the early 1950s, due to the conservative political climate in the United States, Strand moved to Europe, spending six weeks in the northern Italian agrarian community of Luzzara and later traveling to the Outer Hebrides, islands off the northwest coast of Scotland, where he documented impoverished communities there. In the 1960s he also traveled to photograph the people of North and West Africa. Strand’s work was renowned, showing him to be a pioneer in 20th century avant-garde photography who was able to demonstrate to the world the effectiveness of art in promoting social change.

Edward Weston Research

Edward Weston.


Weston was born in march 1886, in Highland park Illinois Edward Weston's father gave him his camera aged 16. much of his photography in the earl 1920's can be identified as Pictorialize style, meaning they imitated paintings. In 1923 he travelled to Mexico where he opened a photographic studio with his lover, Tina Modotti during this time Weston took a number of the portraits and nudes for which he's known today. several Mexican artists of the time including Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Jose Orozco, called Weston a pioneer of 20th century art. In 1926 Weston returned to the united states, settling in California where he continued to create nudes, close ups and natural forms and landscapes, among several other works, In the 1940's he took several portraits of his family members that are now considered among his best work. In 1946 New York City's Museum of Modern Art Featured retrospective exhibits of Weston's work that included 300 prints.

                                                                         

                                                               

Nobuyoshi Araki Research

Nobouyoshi Araki


In 1940 Araki was born He studied photography and film making at Chiba university, then graduated from the Engineering at Chiba university, Majored in photography and film making.
In 1964 Araki first got his Taiyo prize for 'Satchin'. He then worked at Dentsu inc.
He helped find the workshop school of photography and then opened the Nobouyoshi Araki school where he then moved on and opened the Araki limited stock company. He then opened Aat Room and in 1990 Shashin-no-kai prize from the photographic society of Japan.

1991 7th Higashikawa prize, then in  1994 Japan inter-Design forum Grand Prix.

2008 Austrian decoration of Honor for science and Arts then presents and orks in Tokyo

 

 

 

 

 
 







 

Daido Moriyama Research

Daido Moriyama Research

Daido, one of the most revered living in Japanese photographers, Daido Moriyama's work is saturated with pure beauty of life at its most ordinary. His photographs epitomize Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in imperfection. Moriyama focuses in on the lost and the discarded and finds echoes of living through the break down of the traditional value in the post-war Japan.

Daido draws influences from Atget and Weegee as well as William Klein and Warhol, comparing himself to a machine gun, Moriyama fires off his camera in rapid bursts of instinctive shooting.
Moriyama's output since 1968 is legendary. He was produced over 150 books of his photographs. He had over 100 solo exhibitions. In the U.S he was a central figure in MoMa's ground breaking 1974 new Japanese photograph and in 1999 SFMoMA organized and exhibited the retrospective Daido Moriyama stray dog which was also shown at the metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society in NEW YORK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henri Cartier-Bresson research

Henri Cartier-Bresson


Henri Cartier-Bresson was widely considered one of the leading artistic forces in the 20th century, Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 in Chanteloup, France. He began a 2 year stint studying painting under noted early cubist, Andre Lhote, where he then moved to Cambridge university to immerse himself further in art and Literature courses.
 He went to Africa to hunt boar but didn't enjoy to eat what he tracked down so he later gave it up, but Africa did fuel another interest in him: Photography, he experimented with a simple brownie he'd received as a gift, taking pictures of the new world around him, Cartier-Bresson there were direct parallels between his old passion and new one. Later Cartier-Bresson preferred taking shots rather than making prints and showing his work upon returning to France later that year, Cartier-Bresson purchased a 35mm camera whose simple style and stunning results would help define the photographer's work. Cartier-Bresson approach to photography would remain much the same. he made clear his disdain for the augmented image, one that had been enhanced by artificial light, darkroom effects, even cropping. The naturalist in Cartier-Bresson believed that all edits should be done when the image was made. His equipment loads was often a light, 50mm Lens and if he needed it a longer 90mm Lens.
Cartier-Bresson's rise as a photographer proved rapid. By mid 1930's he'd shown his work in major exhibits in Mexico, New York and Madrid.

 

 

This image is made up of a lot of shapes as you can see the within the steps and the road, and the slow shutter on the man on the bike makes it really stand out and draws your eye to the subject of the photograph.

 

 

 

 

This photograph shows passion and love, you can read into this image without knowing the actual subject or story behind the photographs meanings. I think this Is very unique photograph that Henri Cartier-Bresson has put together really aesthetically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This image is an intresting photograph, In my opinion there is to much going on in this image and just doesn't have the same effect as the other two photographs have by catching my eye for the eye pleasing quality as the other two did.  

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Kenna Research

Michael Kenna Research


Michael  Kenna was born Widnes, England, where his arty passion led him to go and study at Banbury school of art where he studied painting and photography later he attended London college of printing and began working as a photographer and artist.
Kenna's work has often been described as enigmatic, graceful and hauntingly beautiful much like the Japanese landscape. Over the years he has travelled throughout almost the entire country constantly taking photographs. from these many treks the book Japan, featuring 95 of these photographs, was conceived.
Michael Kenna prints have been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the world with permanent collections in the Bibliotheque, Paris the Museum of Decorative arts, and many more.
Japan is one of 18 books of Kenna's photography to have been published to date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus Research

Diane Arbus


Diane Arbus was born in New York City in 1923, an artistic youth She learnt photography from her husband actor Allan Arbus. Together they found success with fashion work, but shortly after Diane branched out on her own. Her raw unusual images of the people living in New York created a unique and interesting portrayal of the city.

working with her husband, Diane Arbus started out in advertising and fashion photography. her and Allan became quite a successful team with photographs appearing in such magazines as vogue. in the late 1950's she began to focus on her own photography. to further her art, Arbus studied with photographer Lisette Model around this time.
During her wanderings around New York City Arbus began to pursue taking photographs of people she found she visited seedy hotels and public parks, morgues and other various locales, these unusual images had a raw quality and several of them fond their way into the July 1960 issue of Esquire magazine. These photographs proved to be a spring board for future work.

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Firedlander Research.

Lee Friedlander


Lee Friedlander studied photography at the Art Centre College Pasadena, California.
He moved to New York where he photographed musicians for record covers, his early work was influenced by Eugène Atget, Robert Frank, Walker Evans.
Some of his most famous photographs appeared in the September 1985, playboy, black and white nude photographs of Madonna from the late 1970's


working primarily with Leica 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander's style focused on the social landscape. his art used detached images of urban life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life.

These three photographs are very unique there is great use of light and shadows with in all three of these photographs also the first one is very unique in a way which human and animals are used in the same context with in that image.

Gary Winnogrand Research.

Gary Winogrand Research. 


Gary Winogrand was born in New York, where he became interested in photography whilst serving in the military as a weather forecaster. He was educated in painting at City College, 1947-48 and at Columbia University 1948-51 where he learnt how to develop and print photographs. in 1951 he studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch at the New school for social research. afterwards he worked commercially for photography agencies, freelanced for magazines and also did personal work.
Winogrand photograph's were exhibited widely during his life time.

Gary Winogrand's photographs are sophisticated chance observations of the daily life that demonstrates mastery of the 35 millimetre camera. Winogrand was fond of visual puns and titled exposures he said "To see what the world the world looks like in photographs."

 

 

 

 

What I like about these 3 photographs they stood out to me that they were very natural 'no one had posed for the photograph' this gives it a lot better look, also the use of natural light within his work is very strong as you can see in image three the blocks of natural light and also the shadow really attracts the eye to this photograph.

Also on photograph one I like how the subjects all in the shadowed light and like an outline were the bright natural light is behind the actual subjects helps to not distract your eyes away from the subject of the image.



Ernst Haas Research.

Research. 

Ernst Haas.

Ernst Haas a famous Photojournalist and Pioneer Colour photographer. Haas First entered the darkroom by learning to develop old family negatives this is where his intrests began and he started to take his own photographs.

in 1947 Haas presented his first exhibition at the American Red Cross in Vienna Where  he worked part time teaching soldiers photography.

Haas's Photography Quickly matured he got assignments from magazines such as Heute and he often worked with Inge Morath whilst looking at locations for fashion shoots Haas and Morath witnessed prisoners of disembarking a train and began to start documenting their arrival Haas photography shows the anticipation of grieve of people searching for their lost relatives among the survivors the resulting photo essay "Home coming" was published in Heute and life magazines.

These three photographs really tell a story from 3 different angles of the documenting photographs from the 'Home coming' series, they show the fear of if there families will be returning from the war or if they wont be?! and also the middle photograph looks like a war vetrum with what looks like his false leg being carried on his back. also on the bottom image it is showing how happy the two people are to be back together safe and sound. 

Dolphinhome

DOLPHINHOME



Whilst at dolphin home I used long exposures photographing the river as it was a fast flowing.
as you can see this photograph still has great detail but has a slight blur to it which is caused by using the slow shutter speed on a fast moving water surface.

I also capture a few images of just the surrounding area's which I wouldn't really usually take notice of which actually caught my eye.

This is a photograph of a goal post which I captured for composition and the different contrasts between the greens within the grassy areas and trees.

This photograph is a photograph of a roof on a old farm barn which shows texture within the roof and the broken glass in the sky light windows this really adds to the texture within this photograph and makes the image alot more interesting to look at and take in.

This Image below is a photograph of inside the barn with a hay fork and all other different equipment that would be used on the working goat farm.

This photograph caught my eye as its very plain but very interesting all at the same time it is a basic sign on a rusty metal gate which you don't usually see unless on a farm I like the silver with the bright coloured sign.

This photograph is of the lighting within a barn and as you can see its very old lighting set up in a barn which looks like it is still used at night. its a very dark image slightly underexposed but the composition is really brilliant just slightly off centre.

This is a barn door and i thought the contrasty colours and textures would make a really good photograph. as it shows the grains and textures clearly and the whirls in wood.

This is a photograph of the big container where the food is kept, they dispense this into bags using the funnel on this equipment. I'm not sure about the composition with this is just slightly off centre and doesn't look very neat.

This is a photograph of a pair of ladders which look as if they have been stood up in the same place for a long period of time as this is shown through the rusty and spider web covered slates and the area it is kept, The composition on this photograph is very practical and really does this photograph justice.

These surroundings really stood out to me and I thought would look good within a photograph these are interesting and show some of the usual things you find on a farm. 

I really like the depth of field within this photograph it helps the subject stand out a lot more than I would of done without it.

This photograph is not very creative in many ways but I really like how I captured the subject with great composition.

This is also not a very creative photograph but I have worked closely with my composition and exposures in the difficult lighting environment.

This is a photograph which I manage to capture quickly this would of been alot nicer aspect of the image if i had used a macro lens to photograph to get all the detail within the frogs body and face to make this photograph look more in detail and use depth of field to draw your eyes away from the dull large area of grey of the rocks.

Photography research

Photography research.

 

 

Slow shutter speed photography is brilliant for light drawing which I have experimented with in my pathway of photography, with a very dark room and a torch and a camera it gives a really nice effect.

using a slow shutter depends on how much light gets into the lens and how much the sensor picks up to which determines your photographs..

 

 

Michael Basanco

 

These are some of Michael basanco's work which really stands out to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 



3D Research

Research on 3D

 

 

 

Tom Hills

 

 

This is a 3D design that Tom hills developed its a bird there is a lot of detail with in this wire sculpture as shown through the body and the feet of the bird I really like this piece of work as it is unique.