13 ways
With this project I tried to go for one of the 13 ways that I had taken photos like before so that I have a better understanding of what I have to do with the personal investigation.
Exercise 3
https://sabine-hornig.de/de/fotoarbeiten/fenster
I decided to go with exercise three, as this interested me the most. This interested me because it is a style of photography that I enjoy. I have tried to take pictures though windows a lot as when you take a picture though a window there is an other side of life that you are going past quickly and don't get to find out what is happening on the other side.
Sabine Hornig
Sabine Hornia work is "sculptures, photographs and installations re-envision architectural spaces and ubiquitous urban forms to explore the concepts of space, perspective and memory." Her work has a lot of different types of work she does show her ability to change the way she works. Her photos that are through windows
This is my favourite picture of hers as it does not look real. The window gives the affect of 2 worlds in one this is b]due to the lights inside the building and the palm trees and cars on the side where Sabine is standing. This gives an illusion of the picture not being real as when I first looked at this picture I did not believe it was real due to the tree looking as if it was edited in to the picture. The lights inside the building stop you from being able to see what is inside the building which gives the viewer a thinking point about what might be on the other side. However the photo makes it look as if the outside is on the inside.
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Vivian Maier
I also looked at Vivian Maiers work. I enjoyed looking at her photos as they are
I tired to use Sabine Hornia idea of windows and seeing what's on the other side for a small amount of time just a little snippet of what we see
This was my first attempt. After looking at it I felt that I needed more smaller pictures and colour. I could not get smaller pictures as the printer was not working. I did have colour ones that I tried to include the colour pictures to add something to it.
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After adding the colour pictures I wanted to add more pictures and have more of a plan.
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Today I went out to take pictures with a digital camera as you can see it has not worked. This was because I was using the view finder and not looking at the pictures as they were being taken which is why all of the pictures exposure. I tried to edit one to see how it would come out (down)
What is a photograph?
2) The eight reasons why people take photograph. The moment that is deep-frozen in time immortality. To analyse episodes of life to ecercise a form of vayeuristic aggression.
The public stage
I went around soho and the area around it. I took these pictures on my phone. I changed a lot of the photos into black and white as It makes you focus on the picture and less the colours that are in the picture.
I recently got given a film camera a from my dad as he used to take pictures himself. When he give me the camera there was some film in the camera with 18 pictures left in it.
I told these to images on the same day every close together. The picture on the right was meant to be the man with his son teaching him how to ride his bike however I could not get a good shot of this happening however you can see that there is a closeness of the two people. I thought that this photo would go well with the bikes that are locked up (the picture on the left). These pictures were taken on film which means that I can’t see the pictures until I get the film developed. My original idea was to have them as diptychs however the picture on the right has been over exposed and does not work very well in a diptych. This led me to going into photoshop and putting the pictures on each other and how I did is show by the pictures below
The camera which I used was an old one belonging to my Dad. Some of the images had light leaks and these were some of the most interesting photos for me because i thought that I'd like to see the whole image so i combined them together on Photoshop to see how they would look. This is an experiment which I have previously done so I decided to do this again..
These pictures were on the camera when my dad gave it to me. I had 16 pictures left on the camera. These are the pictures my dad took 10 years ago. Which includes me my sister my sisters friends my now dads wife and her niece also my grandfather and my dad. When i developed the pictures I was very excited when seeing the pictures as they are pictures that have not been seen ever and also forgotten about.
Book
Mirror and windows
We started by looking at Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho this film has a lot of links to window and mirrors.
Mirrors and windows
For these photos I went around and found what I thought were interesting angles I could get through the windows as I believe that even though you can take a picture of the same thing but through a window it can change a picture as it adds interest to the photo as it give a perception of not being close to the object. Which I think adds a new meaning to the picture.
Mirror and window
"Aperture reflected values that had grown out of the American tradition defined by Alfred Stieglitz and enlarged by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams: a love for the eloquently perfect print, an intense sensitivity to the mystical content of the natural landscape, a belief in the existence of a universal formal language, and a minimal interest in man as a social animal.”
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“The Americans— Frank's searing personal view of this country during the Eisenhower years— was based on a sophisticated social intelligence, quick eyes, and a radical understanding of the potentials of the small camera."
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Mirrors and windows presentation
These are my pictures and I out them into photoshop to put them on a timeline that shows which pictures I think are windows and which ones are mirrors.
Mirrors and windows
There are some of my pictures that I feel are windows I prefer taking windows pictures. This is because I find that taking pictures of what I see is better then taking pictures that is seen as mirrors of me.