Abstract form; The white paper test
We had to take 24 unique photos of white paper, we were aloud to fold, bend and crumple the paper however we were not permitted to cut or tear it. We also utilised different coloured backgrounds (black, white and red) and different coloured filters over the lights we used to make our photos more unique. We used torches from our phone to create new shadows and shapes with the same paper shape as well as composing the photos to make them look more abstract and less recognisable. Close ups worked particularly well as well as intense folds like the chatterbox we made and also really tight crumples.
I really enjoyed this task and I think I was successful in creating abstract photos, however next time I would like to use more than one piece of paper so the curves are smoother, as well as a wider variety of colour filters like green as well as a different type of paper. There was actually a lot more photos than this but I thought that this was probably enough.
Brendan Austin; Paper mountains
I liked the look of Brendan Austins paper mountains since they remind me of Wes Anderson's animated films; Fantastic Mr fox and Isle of dogs which also used household materials to create landscapes. I used only one or two sheets of thin paper scrupled them up as much as possible hen unwraps them and tried to rest it on a torch to create a hill.
Jarroslav Rossler
Jarroslav Rossler was a 20th century Avant guard photography who focused on abstract shapes creating by light and shadowsghat he manipulated using paper cut outs. I choose Jarroslav Rossler because I thought his process was very creative and there was so many different was to it. I decided to fold a triangular prism an cut folds into it the create sharp corners and shadows.
Edward Western
Edward Western was a 20th century American photographer, famous for his starting the f 64 movement in photography and inspiring techniques that are used to this day. His style of Photography was vast and he took all sorts of great photos, but some of his most famous are of day to day objects like vegetables or a toilet, Edward Western used various techniques to make these household objects look sculpture like and otherworldly. On Pepper 30 he found that he couldn't get his camera to focus on the entire pepper. So Western made his own F stop of 240 by making a pin prick in small piece of metal to put in front of his camera, but because of the small aperture the exposure time was 4-6 hours long therefor making the pepper look luminous as the natural light lit all sides of the pepper making it look even more other worldly.
Studio lights
I really struggled to get the right settings on the camera to create what I was aiming for, I mostly played around with changing the iso to control the darkness while trying to get as close up to the vegetables while keeping the as much I focus as the came could handle. I particularly liked photographing the cabbage because the veins on the leaves cast lots of shadows to create an interesting photo.
Natural Lights
I preferred the natural light over the studio lights since I found the camera focused on the vegetables more clearly. I really liked the contrast on the images after I converted them to black and white as well as the detail on the vegetables such as the broccoli .
Abstract comparison: body and nature Alicja Brodowicz
Bill Jacobson
Bill jacobson was an american photographer famous for his signature indistinct photography
Saul Leiter
The American artist Saul Leiter (1923–2013) became enchanted by painting and photography as a teenager in Pittsburgh. After he relocated to New York City in 1946, his visionary imagination and tireless devotion to artistic practice pushed him to become one of the iconic photographers of the mid-twentieth century. An innate sense of curiosity made him a lifelong student of art of all kinds, and he retained his spirit of exploration and spontaneity throughout his long career, in both his fashion images and his personal work.
Stephen Calcutt and Nick turpi are other photographers who follow a similar style of photography to Saul Leiter, photographing people though the glass at u.k bustops and the people sitting on buses
My response to abstraction
Topic numero uno: Zdzislaw Beksinski inspired abstract photography of people
Zdzislaw Beksinski was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor, specialising in dark surrealism. Born in 1929 Beksinski grew up through WW2 and began Photographing during the Russian occupation of Poland. The horrific events going on around Beksinski heavily influenced his art and photography. He tended to focus mainly on the photography of people and often used dramatic chiascuro lighting to exaggerate features of the human face or body to make them less recognisable or unsettling. I choose to take inspiration from Beksinski as an extension of the work on Edward Western because i thought
My photos
I took these photos on a phone camera in the darkroom so that the torch i was using was the only source of light
Topic numero dos: Daisuke Yokota and Fan Ho inspired liminal space photography + Chemigram
I wanted to do a study on Liminal space since there often photos i find very interesting The word liminal comes from the Latin word ‘limen’, meaning threshold – any point or place of entering or beginning. A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a season of waiting, and not knowing whats beyond. The word liminal comes from the Latin word ‘limen’, meaning threshold – any point or place of entering or beginning. A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a season of waiting, and not knowing.
My photos
I took these photos in regents canal in London on my phone, i tried to focus the center of my photos around the lights at night.