Inspirational Photographers

Sharon Elphick

This is a piece of photography taken by Sharon Elpick. 

For one of my final pieces i wanted to do a photo shoot with signs as the theme these will be signs we see everyday linking into the theme. I will take both coloured and black and white prints to make my mounted sheet stand out. Sharon in this piece has particularly taken photographs of road signs she has maybe used a digital camera to do this as they seem quite plain.Although i described it as 'plain' i do like the way she has mounted the pictures together using a great amount of arrows to create movement in this piece.One thing that this piece has that the others don't is colour and Sharon has used a variety of this in this piece, This is one thing i definitely want to add to my final outcome to give it a bit of  oomph. 

Richard Renaldi

This portrait photograph was taken by Richard Renaldi, I have chosen him as my second artist for inspiration because my second idea will be emotions and in Richards photographs i think he really captures this.To make this photograph Richard has used a large aperture with a small number setting to make the background blurred and the image in front clear this gives a good effect because it makes the artist focus on the person in the image who is shown quite dominate over the whole piece.The emotion on this subjects face helps us with the meaning of this photograph i would say the emotion in this piece is anger, Maybe he is angry with himself this could also link into why the background is blurred because he knows he has done wrong and wants to analysis his problems by blanking out the surrounding world.

Final Ideas Mindmap

Man Ray Analysis

This is a photo gram made by man ray or rayograms as he called them. Ray produced his first photo grams after he came to Paris in 1921. He believed that he first discovered them as an accident in the darkroom However it seems likely that his discovery was prompted by artist Tristan Tzara. Man Ray named the results of his efforts “Rayographs”—a play on his name.
I think the theme of this piece could be Innocence because although it has a gun in the centre of the photo gram i believe that this is a toy gun because the bullet holder is not intact and the alpha block that surround it are childlike, they is also some kind of circle object which i believe could be a bouncy ball going with the theme innocence.However the theme could also be taken as violence as you could look at the alpha blocks as symbols of people and the gun plays a kinda on Russian roulette with them although the bullet holder is out perhaps these people do not know that and still play the game carefully.

The artist created this work using the photo gram process whereby he put objects underneath the enlarger machine and exposed it to the white light for an approximate time, By shortening or lengthening the time of exposure you can control how dark the background of the silhouettes are,The shorter the time, the lighter the shade will be so i would say he exposed his photo gram for about 10 seconds because the background it quite dark.Also looking at the alpha blocks you can see a slight shadow which shows movement, To do this he simply halved the time he exposed his print for and during that time moved his prints slightly and then exposed it for the remaining time to give the piece this shadowy effect.In fact looking at the whole piece as a whole it seems as if he has moved all the objects in the photo gram.

 This piece links into our lessons at the moment because we are ourselves producing photo grams and this piece of work has inspired me to use different kinds of objects and maybe to make my objects relate to each other so they can all link into one particular theme whether that be violence or innocence like man ray or another theme i choose to do.

SLR Pictures

These are my best prints taken from an SLR camera, these were later mounted on a A2 sheet.

Final Prints

These are my chosen final prints which have been mounted on a piece on A2 card

Roni Horn Analysis

 

This is a piece designed for 'Flash Magazine',Created by Roni Horn.Roni Horn is an American visual artist and writer.Roni has been know to explore the nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography, and books. She describes drawing as the key activity in all her work because drawing is about composing relationships.

This piece named Cabinet by was created she says for the audience to get quite a reaction from it, when I first analysed this image the words creepy,unusual, scary and disturbing came to mind. Although roni said she wanted the audience to put themselves in this frame the clown like image she said was a metaphor for mirror, the piece was in fact a self portrait she wanted the viewer to put themselves in this role. She says in an interview about the piece that the clown isn't what interested her into making this piece 'Basically, the clown thing isn’t what interested me originally. Not historically but more in the idea of appearance.' She then goes into detail about how she interpreted the clown 'The clown is not about actuality. It’s the opposite, it’s of appearance; it’s a symbol. And the cloud, all it is is appearance; it’s moisture and air.'

 

Although Roni didn't mean the image literally alot of people would look at this picture and instantly become scared.In the film industry clowns are portrayed as scary monster type things films such as batman and IT goes long with this theory.Also it is known that alot of people are terrified of clowns and maybe that's why roni could have used it.The contrasting colours red and white work well almost the whole piece is white and this brings the red out even more.The red in this piece is used in the normal places n which you would expect to see it on a clown however because of the movement it makes it look like it is smeared blood.

 

I believe the deeper meaning of this piece taking aboard Roni horns actual meaning is that everybody has a wild side roni said she wanted the audience to put themselves into this role and normal clowns tend to be energetic and lively when they perform to children.  

 

This photograph was taken using a fast shutter speed to capture the movement, It was taken as several portraits and then combined as one to form a series of different portraits with different emotions.To make this piece took a lot of skill i would say because to be able to capture a moving image in the position she wants takes alot of hard work