Friday 17 December 2010
Follw Me Projcet
I was inspired by Andreas Gusky in my project as a landscaper , so I wanted to shoot in a diffrent way.
Using a 360 degree panoramic virtual from a single photo, lens attachment, with an exclusive optical reflector which captures an entire 360 degree panoramic virtual tour with a single shot (no more stitching of multiple photos!).
Using a 360 degree panoramic virtual from a single photo, lens attachment, with an exclusive optical reflector which captures an entire 360 degree panoramic virtual tour with a single shot (no more stitching of multiple photos!).
Sunday 28 November 2010
Follw Me
Andreas Gursky
He was born in Leipzig in 1955, but he grew up in Dusseldorf, the son of a commercial photographer , and influence from his teachers Hilla And Bernd Becher a photographic team known for their distinctive, dispassionate method of systematically cataloging industrial machinery and architecture. similar approach may be found in Gursky's methodical approach to his own, larger-scale photography. Other notable influences are the British landscape photographer John Davies .
Before the 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images. In the years since, Gursky has been frank about his reliance on computers to edit and enhance his pictures, creating an art of spaces larger than the subjects photographed. Writing in the new yourk magazine magazine, the critic Peter Schjeldahl these pictures "vast," "splashy," "entertaining," and "literally unbelievable." In the same publication, critic Calvin Tomkins described Gursky as one of the "two masters" of the "Düsseldorf" school. In 2001, Tomkins described the experience of confronting one of Gursky's large works.
Gursky's huge, panoramic color prints—some of them up to six feet high by ten feet long—had the presence, the formal power, and in several cases the majestic aura of nineteenth-century landscape paintings, without losing any of their meticulously detailed immediacy as photographs. Their subject matter was the contemporary world, seen dispassionately and from a distance.
full range of Gursky's photographic educations has figured in his mature work, enabling him to outgrow all three of them. His photographs—big, bold, rich in color and detail—constitute one of the most original achievements of the past decade and, for all the panache of his signature style, one of the most complex.
Gursky expanded his scope of operations from Düsseldorf and its environs to an international itinerary that has taken him to Hong Kong, Cairo, New York, Brasília, Tokyo, Stockholm, Chicago, Athens, Singapore, Paris, and Los Angeles, among other places.
Since 1987, Gursky has tended to shoot with a 4-by-5-inch or 5-by-7-inch view camera in the interests of clarity of focus and sharpness of detail. While he is known for his large images, one of the earliest works in the exhibition, the 1984 alpine landscape Klausenpass, is a relatively modest 36 by 32 inches or so, framed.(2) As Galassi relates the story of its making, Gursky, while traveling, had set aside his view camera for a more portable medium-format camera (producing a negative of 2 1/2 by 2 3/4 inches) that would still accommodate his interest in detail.
Since 2002 Gursky has occupied a studio and living space realized by the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron within a former power station in Dusseldorf.
Quick Facts
- Gursky received a strong influence from his teachers, Hilla and Bernd Becher.
- Before the mid 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images. Today, however Gursky uses computers to edit his pictures and creates art in a larger space than the subject photographed.
- Is a German photographer known for the highly textured feel of his enormous photographs often using a high point of view.
Perfect match: How the crossover between fashion and art inspires creations on canvas and the catwalk
Storey, Sharif Waked, Alexander McQueen, Yohji Yamamoto, Andreas Gursky, On a more individual level too, practitioners from the world of art and fashion appear to be exploring one another's territory more than ever before.
Reference Articles
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TWtlhApag0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWaIFOSKKgE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gursky
Blog:
http://anaba.blogspot.com/2005/12/abmb-legend-of-gursky-as-told-by-man.html
http://niporlaveredaniporlautopista.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html
http://www.postmedia.net/999/gursky.htm
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2001/gursky/
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/01/theory-andreas-gursky-making-things.html
http://metroartwork.com/andreas-gursky-biography-artwork-m-87.html
Practices of looking
Walking through the doors
Video and moving image was taken in the first weeks on the project My crappy City,it was taking at the University of UEL
Photos and the the video editing is by me LK and the sound recording is by Piero Malvestio, using the recorder from Rob Rinbow.
LK " We are Watching you" Trailer
This still image video , a series images is been taken for my first year photography Cinema project, i was inspired by Slinkachu photography and my plot story is "A girl is suffering from asthma, smoking heavily every day cant realize how smoking is effecting her health. Its been told from the doctors that she have to quit smoking.
A little toys " Miniature" plastic toy figures in her living room they come bake to life when she go's to sleep. The miniatures steeling her cigarettes from her cigarettes from her packet and throw them from the balcony so when she wake up she founds nothing in the destroyed packet.
They are trying to help here without she knows" .
A little toys " Miniature" plastic toy figures in her living room they come bake to life when she go's to sleep. The miniatures steeling her cigarettes from her cigarettes from her packet and throw them from the balcony so when she wake up she founds nothing in the destroyed packet.
They are trying to help here without she knows" .
Saturday 27 November 2010
Monday 17 May 2010
Saturday 15 May 2010
Semiotic
Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. This process of carrying meaning depends on the use of codes that may be the individual sounds or letters that humans use to form words, the body movements they make to show attitude or emotion, or even something as general as the clothes they wear.
Some say that images work via a second communicative system, one fully as expressive as natural language, but separate and structured independently of it. Others find visual and verbal meanings more dissimilar than similar, with the visual lacking a kind of determinacy for which verbal language seems better suited.
A recent example of this would be when Coca Cola changed their original recipe of their cola. The public did not embrace the new taste. Even though the new taste had proven to be successful in blind taste tests it caused change and it called attention to itself. Therefore, the general public strongly objected to this change because they could not associate this new "Coke" with the one they were used to.
Other example is using in advertising perfumes to signify the women and using her as an object that allows a women to control how she is perceived through how she smells. It has also increase the symbolism of women as elegant, boatful, and glamour’s.
Calvin Klein's Euphoria
Bvlgari Omnia
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Friday 14 May 2010
Lomography
Lomography - History
In the early 1990s a couple of students discovered a small, enigmatic Russian camera, the Lomo Kompakt Automat, and created a new style of artistic experimental photography with their first unorthodox snapshot cavortings. The approach: taking as many photographs (Lomographs) as possible in the most impossible of situations possible and from the most unusual positions possible, and then having them developed as cheaply as possible. The result is a flood of authentic, colourful, crazy, off-the-wall, unfamiliar and often brilliant snapshots. These are mounted on panels to form a sea of thousands of Lomographs which regularly astonish viewers with their sheer colourfulness, diversity and power of expression. Ensuing major exhibitions in Moscow, New York, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Havana, Zurich, Cologne, Madrid, Cairo, Tokyo and many other cities, where up to 100,000 Lomographs were shown at a time, established an international reputation for Lomography.
Lomography as a brand is definitely about film and analog photography, in particular, photos taken with lomo brand cameras.
In the early 1990s a couple of students discovered a small, enigmatic Russian camera, the Lomo Kompakt Automat, and created a new style of artistic experimental photography with their first unorthodox snapshot cavortings. The approach: taking as many photographs (Lomographs) as possible in the most impossible of situations possible and from the most unusual positions possible, and then having them developed as cheaply as possible. The result is a flood of authentic, colourful, crazy, off-the-wall, unfamiliar and often brilliant snapshots. These are mounted on panels to form a sea of thousands of Lomographs which regularly astonish viewers with their sheer colourfulness, diversity and power of expression. Ensuing major exhibitions in Moscow, New York, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Havana, Zurich, Cologne, Madrid, Cairo, Tokyo and many other cities, where up to 100,000 Lomographs were shown at a time, established an international reputation for Lomography.
Lomography as a brand is definitely about film and analog photography, in particular, photos taken with lomo brand cameras.
I do lomography because it's refreshing to go back to the basics of photography. Just to capture a moment or subject and not have to worry about whether the focus, camera settings or the lighting is perfect. I just want to have fun and make a creative image.
Photography for many people is now just about camera specifications and camera features. They are too focused on having the best camera with the best lens and have forgotten what photography is really about. To save a memory and have fun while you do it!
preserving Lomo's concept:
10 lomo's golden rules
1.Take your camera everywhere you go.
2. Use it anytime, day and night.
3. Lomography does not interfere with your life, but is a part of it.
4. Try the shot from the hip.
5. Approach the objects of your "Lomographic desire" as close as possible.
6. Don't think.
7. Be fast.
8. You don't have to know beforehand what you captured (forget LCD).
9. Afterwards, either (forget LCD review).
10 Don't worry about any rules.
Photography for many people is now just about camera specifications and camera features. They are too focused on having the best camera with the best lens and have forgotten what photography is really about. To save a memory and have fun while you do it!
preserving Lomo's concept:
10 lomo's golden rules
1.Take your camera everywhere you go.
2. Use it anytime, day and night.
3. Lomography does not interfere with your life, but is a part of it.
4. Try the shot from the hip.
5. Approach the objects of your "Lomographic desire" as close as possible.
6. Don't think.
7. Be fast.
8. You don't have to know beforehand what you captured (forget LCD).
9. Afterwards, either (forget LCD review).
10 Don't worry about any rules.
long exposure
Emotions Joy
the more, the better: multiexposure
Reference:
Slinkachu
Slinkachu has attracted a cult audience for his photographs of tiny, hand-painted figures in unlikely urban settings. The street artist’s tiny world exists for a brief moment before it is washed away, eaten by animals or trodden underfoot by the unsuspecting public. These tiny narratives are then photographed by the artist, providing evidence of their brief “lives”. Slinkachu’s recent book, Little People in the City (with an introduction by Will Self), has become a best seller.
Slinkachu leaving his usual urban setting for the first time and his photographs will show tiny day-trippers facing everyday dramas within the grounds of Belsay.
The “little people” project has seen dozens of the tiny characters left around the city in a variety of poses, with begging for coins twice their size, being senless by mini-muggers.
Slinkachu has inspired by graffiti artist Banksi and wants to hide his identity. Only admitting to being a 26 years old Londoner.
A lot of recent miniature-model-photography work that is similar to Slinkachu work done in the '80s and '90s, but Slinkachu had steps further and his work is really clever and fun.
Slinkachu work reminds me of the Italian artist Olivo Barbieri a photographer of urban environments .He is recognized for his innovative technique creating a miniature still photgrphy from actule landscape by simulating shallow depth of filed via the use of the til-shft lens photography.
Belsay Hall, Newcastle
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Gregory Crewdson
Is one of my favorite photographers the way he planned his scene and how he choose the perfect time to creat the magical moment in the image. Every detail of these images is meticulously planned and staged, in particular the lighting. In some instances, extra lighting and special effects such as artificial rain or dry ice are used to enhance a natural moment of twilight. In others, the effect of twilight is entirely artificially created.
All the images propose twilight as a poetic condition. It is a metaphor for, and backdrop to, uncanny events that momentarily transport actors from the homeliness and security of their suburban context. Crewdson has drawn inspiration from the town of Lee, Massachusetts, where his family has a cabin: it was the setting for his Natural Wonder series (1992-97), which fused the natural and domestic worlds in surreal, vividly colorful images.
In some of my I images I have taken in the twilight I achieved in some of my images without a crew it’s by me and my camera, its not easy to capture what I really want to be in my frame because its not been planned like Gregory Crewdson but I’m trying to capture the best twilight moment that I’m looking for to be in my frame.
“I think I always have been drawn to photography because I want to construct a perfect world. I want to try to create this moment that is separate from the chaos of my life, and to do that I think I create enormous disorder. And I like that craziness because I think that it creates almost a sort of neurotic energy on the set, and through that there is a moment of transportation. And in all my pictures what I am ultimately interested in is that moment of transcendence or transportation, where one is transported into another place, into a perfect, still world. Despite my compulsion to create this still world, it always meets up against the impossibility of doing so. So, I like the collision between this need for order and perfection and how it collides with a sense of the impossible. I like where possibility and impossibly meet.”
Gregory Crewdson, from an interview on Egg (pbs.org)
Gregory Crewdson
Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses'
2004
References
Thursday 13 May 2010
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an early age. Self-taught, he received a photographic darkroom kit at age six. He began to use a 35mm camera three years later and made his first color photographs. At ten he received a copy of Walker Evans's book, American Photographs, which influenced him greatly. His career began at the early age of fourteen, In 1972, for instance, the New York native embarked on a road trip that was to offer what he refers to as his “first view of America.” A decade’s worth of summer road trips followed, including the one that took Shore to Coronado Street. In 1974, Shore began photographing with an 8×10 view camera. He thinks in his photography how is the elements related to each other and the balance to his point that seems central to the picture .
Stephen Shore, U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973
Stephen Shore is one other photography’s seminal figures. A pioneer in the art of color photography, his large format photos articulated new directions in the 1970s. the point that is central to the picture and using it to determine where to point his camera to be very interesting and informative. I felt that it helped me to improve my view of thinking be for taking my image.
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William Eggleston
William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi.
Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, and by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's, First photographing in black-and-white, Eggleston began experimenting with color in 1965 and 1966. color transparency film became his dominant medium in the later sixties. “The dye-transfer process resulted in some of Eggleston's most striking and famous work, such as his 1973 photograph entitled The Red Ceiling, of which Eggleston said, "The Red Ceiling is so powerful, that in fact I've never seen it reproduced on the page to my satisfaction. When you look at the dye it is like red blood that's wet on the wall.... A little red is usually enough, but to work with an entire red surface was a challenge."
In this the red ceiling I love the way the image is been taken and how the red color makes it powerful as Eggleston says to work with entire red surface was a challenge .Eggleston photography in this image is one of contemporary art photography its strong and powerful as the way he thought to take the ceiling on that time .
Reference
Wednesday 28 April 2010
Feminism
Saudi feminism, a hotel for women only
The Luthan hotel in the north of Riyadh will try to put an end to the problems of Saudi women who travel and work in the country, and who always need special authorization to reserve a room in 'mixed' hotels. The rhythm of a woman's life in Saudi Arabia is marked by the permits that male figures of reference must approve before she can do anything, from driving a car to reserving a hotel room to working. The Luthan spa is a hotel for women only, the first of its kind in the Gulf and the only one where no special permissions will be necessary. The hotel emerged from the idea of a group of businesswomen who wanted to resolve some of the difficulties that Saudi women face. The chairperson of the board of partners is Princess Madawi Bint Mohammad Bin Abdullah, who says they have obtained approval from Sultan Bin Salman, secretary general of the Saudi tourism commission.
The current laws in Saudi Arabia do not allow 'mixing' among the sexes, and businesswomen who travel for their work often find themselves in unpleasant situations when the moment arrives to check in to a hotel. The hotels of the kingdom will accommodate only women who are accompanied by a male family member, or in possession of a written permit granted by a manager at their workplace, or by the police.
I really like the idea and it’s just a start of women’s problems issues with the special authorization like traveling as a women alone its must have an authorization from a father or brother, life women in Saudi Arabia is changing to the Good with King Abulla applauded a statement that women they will drive cars someday. Women then called for a dialogue to convince opponents of female driving to change their mis-conceptions. that the issue required patience, and he would not impose it against the will of the people. He noted that women drive on the kingdom's deserts and in rural areas. "I believe strongly in the rights of women", he said during his first TV interview adding: "I believe the day will come when women drive. In time, I believe it will be possible. And I believe patience is a virtue.
Women life in Saudi Arabia lives changing for the better in Saudi Arabia but slowly. The Ladies Kingdom has given several women the chance to start their own businesses, including an artist who has a small gallery. Women entrepreneurs will be able to rent office space in a soon toopen business center.
Reference
Modernism/post modernism
Modernism in Saudi Arabia :
The geographical region of the Arab land has frame the cultural background of the country relates to modernism of Arab world. The Arab world includes Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, and spreads over the Middle East (or the Eastern Mediterranean. Most Arab countries gained their independence from British and French colonial rule between the end of World War II and the mid 1950s.
The Bicycle is a larger-than-life sculpture of a bicycle and is the most famous landmark in Jeddah
Example is The King Fahd Causeway is multiple dikes - bridge combination connecting Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and the island of Kingdom of Bahrain.1982
Example of a modernist building in Saudi Arabia is the Department of defence
Postmodernism: The modern is always historically at war with what comes immediately before it in this same sense, modern is always post-something. Postmodernism deals with the idea that if something is meaningless that it is not important to focus on finding meaning like how some gallerys end up in burnes empty rooms, it’s about having fun with creating it . Edge of Arabia, which opened on October 16th at the Brunei Gallery, school of Oriental and Africa Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, offers a unique opportunity to see the work of 17 contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia.
Installation art is an good example of post modern art.Ayman Yossri Daydban
The Choice photograph by Manal Al Dowayan
The Kingdom Tower in Riyadh is the tallest skyscraper in Saudi Arabia
Lionel Mill's film has unique access to Prince Saud bin Abdul Mohsen, one of the rulers of the rich, powerful and secretive Saudi royal family. This is a fascinating insight into the conflicts between tradition and modernity in one of the world's most conservative and autocratic countries.
References
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fh52m
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_mvSp1xmA
http://worldslongestbridges.blogspot.com/2009/12/worlds-longest-bridges.html
http://susieofarabia.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/larger-than-life-bicycle-sculpture/
http://susieofarabia.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/skywatch-jeddah-sculpture/
http://www.saudiarabian.tv/?p=1140
http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/5101-expressionism-saudi-fine-arts-its-time-document
http://www.thegarretboys.com/news/saudinews.htm
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2003/modern_art_from_the_arab_world
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/saudi_arabia_modern_architecture.htm
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2008/edge_of_arabia
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2008/edge_of_arabia/photos/08_manal_al_dowayan
http://www.djibnet.com/photo/saudi+arabia/kingdom-tower-1145676387.html
Introducing Postmodernism", by Richard Appignanesi (Author), Chris Garratt
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