Jan Groover (American, 1943 – 2011) created her famous Kitchen Still Life in 1978 and 1979. Using a large-format camera, she transformed colanders, knives, spatulas and baking pans into objects of beauty that still hold a visual interest that transcends their common use. We were asked to take inspiration from her and create our own photos in her style.
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André Kertész created the image 'Fork' in 1928. At this time he lived in Paris. Where he mixed with artists from the dada movement. This image is deliberately simple. Kertész i9s paying attention to the photograph's composition, emphasising the fork's geometry and form. The fork becomes more than just a kitchen utensil. Kertész believed photography should reveal the real nature of things. While in Paris Kertész felt like an outsider. Kertész expressed this loneliness through the subjects of his photographs. He was able to combine formal composition with an emotive charge. Henri Cartier Bresson said 'Each time Kertész's shutter clicks I hear his heart beating.'
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Weston used a Graflex 4x5 camera to take his photos. The benefit of using this camera is that it allowed him to see the subject matter of the photo before he took it, it could also be portable. Weston's philosophy was to bring the beauty out of ordinary objects and developed his own photographic language. when photographing the pepper Weston encountered the issue that he couldn't get the right aperture so he made his own aperture the size of a pin prick (F240 - 4x smaller than the smallest aperture). he used a long exposure of 4-6 hours and uses natural light. the long exposure affected the image because the movement of light over the course of the long exposure gave the pepper a luminous quality.
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Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney was one the biggest artist involved in the pop culture movement in the 1960s.It consisted of bright colours and creative new designs to make photos more interesting and abstract. It influenced many young aspiring artists because unlike the art they saw in exhibitions this wasn't boring and plain it was unique and cool. He shows that old fashion beliefs are meant to be shattered, and that opposites can coexist, this is not only a message which should be adopted in art but also in the real world.
Hockeny's work is unique and in a way unmistakable, he took inspiration from many different sources and techniques but one of the most famous being cubism.Cubism is an early 20th century movement and style in the world or art. This technique was used a lot in painting, it abandoned the idea of one view point and instead showed the same images from many different perspectives. One artist who did this was Pablo Picasso. |
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Uta Barth, born 1958, is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and light. She believed that most photographers use the camera as a pointing device and that their images present the subject and content as the same thing, meaning that some photographers don't convey meaning in their photographs. Barth wants the viewer to be immersed by our own perception.
We were tasked to look around school for shadows and reflections created by the sun that we normally wouldn't pay attention to. |
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Ana Straze, born in 1982, is a Slovenian contemporary style photographer and artist.
Straze’s works recognises the importance of simple everyday things. Her work explores the unique relation to the unknown without limiting herself to a certain genre or subject. I am going to be focusing on her Forbidden Fruit series. In this series she changes fruits and vegetables using pins and beads to explore the various ways everyday objects can be elevated to contemporary artworks. |