WILLIAM EGGLESTON |
William Eggleston used colour photography as a way to describe cultural transformation of Tennessee. His photos include everyday life which include portraits of family and friends, gas stations, cars and shop interiors. He switched from black and white to colour and now that is what interests me, the colour in his work and the shadows and how intense they are and thats all you can focus on. His work is based in America and the diners and the different colours and shadows he sees there. Eggleston's work main focuses as seen below are shadows and colour. He is known mostly for widening the use of colour photography and making it more recognisable.
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The first image I focused on of Marat's is the one which looks as if its an alleyway of some sort, this image doesn't allow us to see what is down the alleyway or what is in front of us, It allows us to see the sides of the images and the graffiti on the walls. The darkness is another key part and again is mysterious, this is isn't really and outline like the second image, it is more just a big section, it doesn't make anything in the image a silhouette and very much leaves us guessing about what is going on or where this is.
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John Hilliard used 4 different photographs of a dead body that all have text placed next to them to show how a single word can change the way we look at things and they way we see an image and how a word can change the way we may look at it at first and then once a word is placed next to it we change the way we see it. He has placed the words 'burned', 'fell' ,'drowned' and 'crushed' next to each image. The viewer is influenced by the word Hilliard has placed next to it. By Hilliard putting a word next to the image we see the image as what the word says. We think that something different has happened to each image when in fact the image is in the same location and the person that is there has died from one cause and just by changing positioning of how u take the image changes the way we see it. By changing the positioning of the camera this shows the 4 ways the person could have died ,all in the same location just with a different word next to it and a different position which looks as if the body has been moved. I have also done an example of this where i have taken an image and cropped it so it looks like 4 different images. My images focus on shadows and silhouettes. This example is just one original image being cropped, focusing on different things in that one image and how they can look like different images but be one.
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John Myers. The world is not beautiful.
This image John Myers has taken at first did not interest me at all, I'm still not sure how interested I am with it now but I have realised a lot more about this photograph than when I first saw it after I had discussed the elements of the image. I noticed if you split this image into 3 sections you noticed how there is hardly anything in the top section, a little more in the second section and a lot more in the bottom. In the 3 section it is very cluttered and full where as in the top section it is more empty and theres nothing to look at apart from the wallpaper patterns. The bottom section is cluttered and there is more to look at. the tones are darker, theres more of a subject and a lot more detail. For example, if you look in the tv you can see how the picture is being taken and you can see the camera but not the photography ,this is a question i am asking, where is the photographer? He could have done this on purpose and took the picture so you only see the camera in the reflection and not him and may have used a timer. This is one of many questions I would ask, why did he position the camera so you can see the camera in the reflection but not him?. Before really looking at this image I didn't know what to think of it or what even to say about it but once I had taken a proper look and thought about it a bit more I started to understand it. This image normally wouldn't appeal to me, I'm still not sure if it does or how much it does. |
The John Myers images are more of the style of photograph that I would want to take, portraits are more the style I would take rather than the first image I would look at. This images look as if they are still life images and look very set up, they don't look like the environment is natural and looks more like they have been made to stand there and pose rather than catching them in the moment. I like both these styles of image, more natural images capture the more realness of the images where as the set up, still life images show the way the photograph wants them to turn out and places everything in a way he/she wants to and makes it more likely to turn out that way. But images taken in the moment are more of chance and the chance of them turning out the way you want which in a way is more exciting because they could either be nothing you wanted or everything you wanted them to be so this element of chance is better than setting it up because you get to play around more.
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Keith Arnatt in this images photographed notes his wife had left him, mostly instructions and things he needs to complete but some were insults she had left him. My final pieces really relate to this and I felt I got very inspired from the work because I wasn't creating anything and seeing this work made me realise if I just starting writing down all my thoughts and feelings I would start to create a body of work. I looked at this work and started to create work that was similar, but instead my feelings about photography were written down.
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