This document discusses the theme of inside and outside in photography. It provides examples of works that depict characters transferring between ordinary and fantastical realms through portals. Students are asked to create photographs that combine real and imaginary elements, similar to surrealist works. The document also discusses photographs that emphasize the inner nature of subjects through their outer appearance, or that show what is left outside the framed image. It provides examples of artists who explore the relationship between our interior and exterior lives.

1. A2 Photography Exam
Inside, Outside, In Between

2. A Parallel World.
Mystery and Intrigue
In film and literature, characters often transfer from their ordinary, ‘real’ lives into a realm of
fantasy through a portal of some kind.
Pans Labyrinth- Guillermo Torro Alice in Wonderland- Tim Burton
'Pan's Labyrint'h trailer 'Alice in Wonderland' trailer

3. David McKean
Illustrate a poem, lyric, fairytale... Combine real and fake elements
when taking the photograph. Edit digitally or draw /collage into
the image.

4. Surrealism
Man Ray
Herbert Bayer Magritte

5. Protect and contain the insides.
Olivia Parker often produces intricate
still life photographs of natural
objects. The apparent simplicity of
her technique acts to emphasise the
complexity of these natural forms –
the hard shell which had at one time
contained the soft living creature, the
feather which once adorned the a
bird’s exterior.
Olivia Parker, Whelks (from "Lost Objects
portfolio), 1980

6. Laura Letinsky Edward Weston

7. Inner character, outer persona.
RinekaDijkstraestabli
shed her reputation
with a series of
photographs made of
young people aged at
that difficult time
between childhood
and adulthood which
all humans must
traverse.
Krazyhouse

8. Dianne Arbusis known for
her photographs of those
on the ‘fringe’ or edge of
conventional society:
transvestites, circus
performers, dwarves and
so on. These people often
lived within society and
yet were simultaneously a
set apart.

9. A recurrent theme in the
work of American artist
Edward Hopper is the
representation of both the
inside and outside world in
his paintings, perhaps
alluding to something
about the relationship
between our ‘interior’ and
‘exterior’ lives & emotions.

10. Philip Lorca Di Corcia
Garry Winogrand
Lee Friedlander

11. Moving between places…
Dominic Harris

12. Uta Barth
CosminBumbut
Walker Evans ‘Subway Portraits’

13. Inside on the Outside
Model, Rick Genest
Katherine Du Tiel Danny Quirk

14. Outside on the Inside
Anna Schuleit
Sandy Skoglund Rob Homstra

15. Inside vs outside the viewfinder.
Sometimes it is what is left
OUTSIDE the image that is
that is important. This is
usually determined by the
photographer’s viewpoint &
chosen crop.
In this image by Weegee, we
see inside the image
children and two adults, with
a multitude of different
expressions and emotions.
It is the dead, gunned down
body that is left outside of
the image which the children
Arthur H Fellig (Weegee), Their first murder, c.1941 and two adults view.

16. ‘Mogambo’
‘The Earth Dies Screaming’
Alex Prager
Cindy Sherman

17. Frames inside frames.
In 1989, Jean Marc
The work of Bustamentebegan a series
Hungarian, Andre of images silkscreened on
Kerteszdemonstrates Plexiglas and mounted
compositional skills: two inches from the wall
shapes within shapes on metal brackets. The
(spaces, shadows & Lumières, as the series is
areas of ‘light’ inside known, seem to glow as
othershapes & they are illuminated by
spaces). light reflected through
them from the wall
behind.

18. Between Absence and Presence.
FlorisNeususs
Moholy Nagy
Adam Fuss

19. Obsessive Compulsive
In combining performance, play and self-exposure, Francesca Woodman’s photographs
create extreme and often disturbing psychological states. In concealing or encrypting her
subjects she reminds the viewer that photographs flatten and distort, never offering the
Francesca Woodman subject.
whole truth about a

20. Ana Mendieta, Silueta, 1976
The silueta (silhouette) was a series of artwoks made by Ana Mendieta in which she left an
‘imprint’ of her body in snow, mud, sand, grass etc. These were transientephemeral
artworks, at their creation a performance piece, then recorded photographically.
Artist Richard Long is known for his Land-Art, often photographing tracks made by repeated
use, or arranging natural materials within the landscape and then photographing them.

21. Capturing moments between a beginning and an end.
Steve McQueen
Thanks to the fortuitous positioning of a window, McQueen survives Buster Keaton’s famous gag
sequence in Steamboat Bill Jnr. (1928) where the side of a house collapses on top of the hapless
Keaton again and again. Each time his survival is filmed from a different angle. But whereas Keaton
ran through a windstorm in Steamboat, in Deadpan McQueen doesn’t move.
Different views of the moment of impact are repeated and reversed to create a sequence where the final
Moment is suspended.
Steve McQueen 'Deadpan'
‘Deadpan’ a response to Buster Keaton’s falling house stunt:
Buster Keaton 'Steamboat Bill'
Steven Pippin Kevin Batangan Harold Edgerton

22. Shadows
Shadows and
silhouettes can be
used to ‘hide’ or
‘keep outside’
information about
the subject of an
image.
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