Coursework Project 2
Start Date:
Thursday 20 December 2012
Submission Date:
Thursday 31st January 2013
Length of project: weeks term time)
7 Weeks (2 weeks holiday, 5
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY BRIEFS
FASHION STORY, VOGUE MAGAZINE‌.ETHEREAL Vogue Magazine is the fashion authority. Setting the standard for over 100 years has made Vogue the bestselling fashion magazine in the world. Before it's in fashion, it's in Vogue! To promote the Winter season Vogue magazine has asked you to create a fashion story. The trend for the season is Ethereal and the editor is looking for three key images. Your photographs should be location based.
Ellen Rogers htp://www.bleachonline.com/issues/amotleycrowd/articles/ellenrogers.html
Tom Craig
• http://www.tomcraig.com/home.html • http://www.vogue.co.uk/video?category=exclusives&id=10614
DAZED AND CONFUSED….WEIRD AND WONDERFUL
Dazed and Confused Magazine is a lifestyle publication that focuses on cutting-edge style and cultural trends. Its readers tend to be those who have a unique style and love the challenging ideas found within its‟ pages. You have been commissioned to produce a fashion story on the theme „Weird and Wonderful‟. Your photographs should provide rich visual stimulus for the readers who will be looking for something different from more conventional fashion magazines. You should aim to provoke a strong reaction and push the boundaries of „taste‟.
Nick Knight
Ben Toms
Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
Lucia Oâ€&#x;Connor-McCarthy
Trisha Ward
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE….FASHION PORTRAITS
Interview Magazine has been described as the ultimate pop culture magazine. It brings its readers up close and personal with the biggest celebrities that are shaping pop culture for today and tomorrow from the world of movies, music and fashion. The magazine has commissioned you to shoot a series of „fashion portraits‟ to accompany an interview / conversation with an up and coming young talent. The person in question is a young actor, actress or musician who has also become something of a style icon. Your photographs should reveal the personality of the sitter whilst also highlighting clothing and accessories.
Phil Knott: Afro Punk
Emma Brown Portrait of the Tearful Artist
SLAVE MAGAZINE‌. Slave magazine is a new international online photography, art, culture and fashion magazine that stands out from the crowd; every issue is eclectic, authentic and full of diversity. Several fashion stories are presented within each issue of the magazine. They are looking for a fresh new fashion story to run in the next issue. The editor will be particularly interested in the overall visual qualities of your 3 final outcomes as submissions for publication in the magazine. Choose from one of the following themes‌
LAMENT NOSTALGIA
REBEL
EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY BREIFS
EXPERIMENTAL…THE PHOTOGRAPH AS AN OBJECT The Photographers‟ Gallery is currently under going a refurbishment and is due to open to the public in February 2013. As part of the launch, the gallery will host an exhibition titled The Photograph as an Object. As a medium, photography has traditionally been used to document and capture „decisive‟ moments in time. The aim of the The Photograph as an Object is to showcase photographs that explore the physical qualities of the printed photograph, thus blurring the distinctions between photography and art. Choose from one of the following themes and couple with a subject…
Slowly Disappearing Into Nothing
Familiar Faces
Juxtaposition
Delicate objects
Through the surface
Natural spaces
In this project, you can experiment with both traditional and digital techniques to create new and exciting imagery. •
Digital manipulation using Photoshop. Combine different photographs to create original and unusual imagery
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Turn your prints into Kaleidoscope imagery through using Photoshop (See Computer Arts tutorial for help)
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Photomontage – print photographs, cut out sections and combine with imagery and typography from newspapers and magazines
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Light box experiments – print out multiple photographs, photocopy onto acetate, layer on the light box and rephotograph
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Projection – Select imagery qnd project in the white studio. Project onto the white wall, fabric or project multiple photographs
Stephen Gill
Outside In 2011
• In 2010 Gill was commissioned to take a series of photographs for the Brighton Biennal. • The photographs he took present views of the seaside town that are distorted and obscured by objects that Gill found on the streets and beaches and placed inside his camera before shooting, creating surreal montages. • The objects placed inside the camera are integral to the photographs, rather than being merely superimposed, their place in the composition occurring entirely at random and establishing both harmony and conflict. • Gill said that he felt he was using his camera as a vacuum cleaner, absorbing everything in the area around Brighton where he took up residence while working on the project.
Arnulf Rainer
Maurizio Anzeri
Giovanni 2009
Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs.
Anzeriâ€&#x;s embroidered patterns add intricate detail to the portraits transforming what was once an anonymous person into something quite extraordinary. The antique appearance of the photographs contradicts the sharp, often geometric lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge.
Rebecca 2009
Gerhard Richter
Corvatsch 1989
• In comparison to his paintings, the format and scale of Richter‟s photographs are quite insignificant and are only 6x4 inches. • The photographs themselves form a family album and beneath their painted surfaces the photographs depict intimate moments of family life. They only have the spontaneity of a family snapshot. • The photographs blur boundaries between photography and painting.
Jim Goldberg
The Open See Project follows refugee and immigrant populations traveling from war-torn, economically devastated and often AIDS-ravaged countries to make new homes in Europe. Goldberg spent four years documenting the stories of Greek refugees from Iraq, Somalia, Congo, Ukraine….
• Goldberg merges Polaroids, video, text and uses a variety of experimental approaches to produce his photographs that ultimately tell a story about the life of the individual. • Goldberg often encourages his subjects to write on the Polaroid portraits he has taken of them adding a context to the sitter and the life they are leading.
Jim Goldberg Athens 2005 Fahmd HASSAN, a young Somali refugee, arrived in Greece alone. She has no documentation, and no family. She faces certain deportation, and must fear for her life upon return to Somalia.
Jim Goldberg Ukraine 2006
Larysa, 39 years old. (Translation) "I was a dancer and sold to a man who was a terrorist- he held a gun to my head. Somehow I was rescued and escaped, but the fear has left scars on my heart. (and I will never be the same)"
Rita Soromenho
Rita Soromenho Lea Bank Walk
Rita Soromenho First Walk
EXPERIMENTAL BRIEF‌..CONSTRUCTED REALITIES As part of a move to promote up and coming young photographers, The Tate Modern is hosting an exhibition titled Constructed Realities. The exhibition is open to photographers aged between 16 and 21 years who have a passion for the subject and are open to both traditional and digital techniques. Choose from one of the following themes‌
Seeing is not believing Surreal cities Out of Place Extraordinary beings
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann
Stefan Milev
Hannah Hoch
Photomontage The term photomontage is a term coined by the Berlin Dadaists that translates as a combining photographic images and typography sources together
Hannah Hoch Love 1926
The constructed image depicts a bride that is a juxtaposition of a white womanâ€&#x;s neck and shoulders with another womanâ€&#x;s lips and face. The montage explores issues concerning race.
Hannah Hoch Bride 1933
Catherine Yass
Corridors 1993
Catherine Yass Show Room 1 2010
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY BREIF
A documentary photographer is a person full of curiosity about the world. A documentary photographer is someone who wants to tell stories. As a documentary photographer you are going to explore your relationship to the subject/s you photograph and consider how you will photograph the people you meet. Your starting point for this will be a quote from either a historical or documentary photographer. Please choose one quote from the following… “My favourite thing is to go where I've never been” Diane Arbus “Initially I was photographing classic situations – English eccentrics, the English at leisure. Gradually the idea grew that I should photographs things that other people weren’t photographing” Martin Parr “Black and white are the colours of photography. To me they symbolise the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” Robert Frank
The only specific requirement for this brief is that you have to produce a stop motion film.
A few documentary photographers are‌ Martin Parr Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange David Gillanders David Bradford Jacob Riis Anna Fox
Humphrey Spender Robert Frank, Gary Winnogrand Thomas Struth Paul Seawright Paul Graham