As photography exam 2012 13

AS Photography

Exam 2012-13

Art 2 – Controlled Assignment (Exam)
• The exam questions (whether visual or written stimuli)
must be used as starting points or prompts for your own
ideas.

• This should provide the basis from which you originate
personal intentions.

• Only ONE must be answered – you must choose a different
question in art (if you do art)

• The controlled assignment (exam) will culminate in a final 8
hour exam – where you will produce your final outcomes.

Your sketchbook
• 25% of your grade will rely on a written essay – artist
research comparing and contrasting two different
photographers based on your chosen question/concept

• It will be 1000-1500 words long

• You will have to d a minimum of 4 photoshoots to develop
ideas and for preparation towards your final outcomes.

• These will need to be documented and evaluated in your
sketchbook as normal.

1. Ideas and Materials
• DVD

2. Same but different
• Family – portraits
• Key rings
• Album covers
• Cd / vinyl – history of buying music
• Cameras - effects of using digital / film
• Food – different types/different food people eat
• Musical instruments
• Same people in different situations – different
environments

Religion and Belief
 Andres Serrano

From series ‘The Church’ From series ‘Nomads’

Abelardo Morell – camera obscura

http://www
.abelardo
morell.net/
photograp
hy/camera
obsc_01/c
ameraobs
c_18.html

KELLI CONNELL

• A single model plays two roles in each of the photographs in this
portfolio from Kelli Connell. Connell uses elements of private
relationships she has experienced herself or witnessed in others to
inspire these two-person scenes. She then uses Photoshop to stitch
multiple medium-format negatives together to create the
juxtapositions in the final photographs. The result is a multi-faceted
questioning of duality: of masculine and feminine, exterior and
interior, static and evolving. Appropriately, Connell‟s intentions here
are two-fold. One the one hand she exposes her autobiographical
questioning of sexuality and gender roles, particularly as they
influence identity in relationships. On the other hand she is also
interested in how the response of viewers reveals their own notions
of identity and social constructs.

• Hernández-Díez is part of a new generation of
Venezuelan artists who emerged in the late 1980s. He
uses "street" materials such as
skateboards, sneakers, record players and other audio
equipment and bicycles in order to develop a personal
iconography centered on familiar, often
domestic, objects. The ordinary is made extraordinary
through Hernández-Díez‟s provocative, darkly humorous
use of material and scale. He manipulates the
objects, often by physically reconfiguring them in such a
way that invests the quotidian with philosophical and
emotional resonance. Elements from his Venezuelan
childhood are combined with those that reference a more
global pop culture.

Stuart Whipps
• Aladdin Houses, commission for an exhibition alongside Bill Brandt‟s work.
.
• http://www.stuartwhipps.com/index.php?/project/the-aladdin-houses/

3. Creating a Space
• Documentary – document a change, knocking down of
houses/property development
• Landscape – put something within a landscape
• Landscape – develop into panorama
• The way in which you photograph a landscape

• 3D landscapes – photographic sculptures / 3D effect –
creating your own space

• Photograph people in their bedrooms – how people
develop or have their own space

Bill Brandt
• A Night in London
encompassed
social events and
strata, with staged
scenes where
necessary.

Stephen Shore – uncommon places

Nadav Kander - www.nadavkander.com
His best shot, read the
article:
http://www.guar
dian.co.uk/artand
design/2008/nov/
27/photography

“More people live
along the
Yangtze river
than live in the
US. So, on my
first trip to
China, I wanted
to get a sense of
this by visiting
Shanghai and
Chongqing, a
massive city of
27 million
people, where
this image was
taken."

Charles Johnstone
• Thirty-four
Basketball
Courts.

4. On the road
• Travelling
• Documenting journey
• Documenting different things on a road – kate green
(road kill)
• Slow shutter speed – cars
• Different transport – commercial / documentary
• History of cars – photographing the history of
one/multiple cars
• Size and scale of cars and how they’ve changed.
Owners of these cars
• Going to a transport museum

5. Steps and Rails
• Looking at modern/old architecture
• Railways stations – the actual train rail and
steps
• Abstract steps – MC Escher – never ending
steps

Horst Schneider
http://www.horst-schneider.eu

6. Local Produce
• How different parts of the world produce different
food
• Where is food imported/exported too
• Who buys food from markets? Looking at
age/gender/ethnicity
• Farms – photograph the food/farmers/landscape.
Narrative story – of different process
• Different people produced locally – where do people
come from???
• Technology – that’s used in factories / farms / butchers

Martin Parr

Documenting Bristol

7. Get together
• Sport – teams in action – playing their sport, behind
the scenes, outside of sport. How they
socialise/everyday job/where they work
• Family – different occasions, how they support each
other, who you live with – documentary/portraiture
• Volunteering – shelters / old peoples homes/ charities
• Animals – how pigeons eat food
• Community – people you live around / your own
community
• Religion – go to churches / places of religion

7. Get Together
• Youth group
• Groups of friends
• Sports team
• Swim team
• Parties
• Group of animals
• Get your head together – depression/anxiety
• Relationships
• Families
• Concerts
• Special occasions
• Weddings / funerals
• People working together – colleagues

David Stewart – Teenage Pre-
occupation (2012)

Jeff Harris
• http://www.jeffharris.org/ - takes a portrait of himself every
day.

Marriage and
civil partnership
 Pierre Radistic

 Jaskirt Dhaliwal

Everyday Olympian
The Everyday Olympian documents people involved in local community sports, be it a 12 year
old swimmer, 60 year old hockey player or 30 year old amateur boxer. These are the people that
make up the tapestry of sports that thrive at grass roots level across the region. They may not
be an Olympian, however it is through their commitment and participation on a weekly or daily
basis that so many sports still function and exist.

Shot on medium format, all the participants were photographed after taking part in competition
or training.

Everyday Olympian was the winner of Magnum Showcase Sports with Ideas Tap 2012, selected
for Foto8 Summershow 2012 and also featured in The Sunday Times magazine.

This body of work has been supported by Kalaboration, Arts Council England and the Cultural
Olympiad.

Jaskirt Dhaliwal - Everyday Olympian
www.jaskirtdhaliwal.co.uk

9. Reveal the use of hidden meanings
or messages
Things to consider:

• Discovery of concealed and covert
messages, vague symbolism and double
meaning is often an unexpected and
fascinating outcome of in-depth contextual
study.

 Adrienne M Norman

 My work consists of portraits of people with medical disorders that are invisible to the
casual observer. I try to photograph the intangible beauty that comes from the mental and
physical suffering that often plagues the human condition, but is rarely explored in an
honest manner. I’m interested in the painful and exhilarating experiences that colour their
lives of those suffering from mental and neurological illness and I attempt to reveal them on
the faces of my subjects. Using the face as a map of psychological experience, I try to unveil
the tell-tale subtleties apparent in each individual’s physiognomy.

 http://evinumen.com/section/67902_Portraits.html

10. Investigate differences of approach
to the same subject matter

Sophie Call
The Hotel series – go to
www.tate.org.uk

Emma Livingston - Urban Trees
The collection of work hints at the
personification of trees, centrally
framed as if photographing a
person, each shot reflects on the
tree as an individual: observing its
personality, expression and
'attitude' through elements such as
posture and the arrangement of its
branches. The relationship
between the tree and its
surroundings poses the exploration
of how we ourselves
grow, flourish, suffer and inevitably
die within the urban spaces
granted to us.

Ellie Davies- Smoke and Mirrors
This series is made in remote
areas of The New Forest and
Dartmoor in the UK, far from
pathways and seldom visited by
the public.
From an early age the notion of
the forest is given a sinister and
threatening personality in the
form of fairy tales and children’s
stories. Stepping inside the dense
forest feels like entering another
world.
These sensory experiences often
lead to the forest being used as
metaphor. The wild and
impenetrable forest has long
symbolized the dark, hidden
world of the unconscious.
These magical, fantasy golden
trees, transported to the hearts
of mature, dark forests, allude to
this, whilst also evoking a sense
of the fairytale.
– Ellie Davies

Dan Dubowitz - Wastelands
Dan Dubowitz loves to travel the world
in search of abandoned, decaying
buildings

Different approaches to photographing
people

Photographing strangers (people you
don’t know)

Pierre Gonnord
• The idea of creating my own work in the
lagoon and starting from scratch fascinated
me. I have had to take other roads to reach its
inhabitants and, trapped from the first
moment by this human river, I asked
myself, as Montesquieu did in his Lettres
Persanes: “Comment peut-on être Vénitien?”
The people, the human material present and
constant from the start of my search, have
once again helped to guide my steps and
launch me on another fantastic, intimate
adventure.
To experience Venice, share it, question
it, leap from one scenario to another, to
transgress and cross contemporary frontiers.
There are still as many possible Venices as
there are people and visions.
• Here are the seven chosen
faces, portraits, fragments of my vision and
experience of walking through Venice.

Irving Penn – body of work: Small
Trades

Maurice Broomfield
• Broomfield was “one of the first industrial and architectural photographers to use his corporate commissions to
make visionary photographic studies of the workers and the environments in which they worked,” writes the Host
Gallery, which, last year, put on the first retrospective of the photographer‟s iconic images of industrial Britain
from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Different approaches to sports

Annie Leibovitz
One of today's most influential and admired artists, renowned for her vivid and distinctive style, Annie
Leibovitz is an American original and a master of self-promotion. Her portraits of Bruce Springsteen, Jody
Foster, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Greg Louganis, Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Lennon and more combine a
keen eye with a quick wit.

11. Develop an outcome based on
family life
• Richard Billingham

• Photograph family in a place of meaning to them
• Show families growing up – progression
• Eva stenram / Irina Werning
• Disagreements in family
• Different personalities in a family – candid / classic
• Family members in their own environment
• Places or objects personal to family life
• How parents jobs affects your life

Alessandra Sanguinetti - Two Cousins
As a child she spent
her summers in the
Argentine Pampas.
Having become a
photographer, Aless
andra Sanguinetti
met Guillermina
and Belinda there.
Fascinated by their
simple happiness
and their whimsical
games, she has
followed them with
her camera every
summer for the last
eight years.

James Russell Cant - Family

Brother Alone

Taryn Simon - 'A Living Man Declared
Dead and Other Chapters'.
She has been photographing the descendents of 18 different bloodlines, each based around a
particular situation, exploring predetermination and notions of perpetual return. There are many
blank photographs for those who couldn‟t be photographed.

Video: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-taryn-simon

Nan on Brian’s lap, Nan’s birthday, New York City 1981

Suzanne and Philippe on the bench, Tompkins Square Park, New Your City, 1983

Trixie on the cot, New York City, 1979

Self-portrait in blue bathroom, London 1980

Suzanne with Mona Lisa, Mexico City 1981

Suzanne in the green bathroom, Pergamon Museum, East Berlin 1984

Brian on the Bowery roof, New York City 1982

Brian in the cabaña, Puerto Juarez, Mexico 1982

Brian with Flintstones, New York 1981

Brian with his head in his hands, Merida, Mexico 1982

Brian at a shooting gallery, Merida, Mexico 1982

Brian’s face, West Berlin 1984

Cookie and Vittorio’s wedding, New York City 1986

Twisting at my birthday party, New York City 1980

Monopoly game, New York City 1980

Develop a response to text and its use
with an artform
• Links between words and images
• Promotional photography
• Journalism
• Documentary photography
• Posters
• Graphic communication

Suky Best
Developed her own magazine – mocking the celebrity
culture magazines that began to appear in the 90’s

Fazal Sheikh
• The portrait is central to Fazal Sheikh‟s work. For more than two decades, as he has worked in
different communities around the world, the invitation to sit for a portrait has been the principal
means by which he has established a link with his subjects and been allowed to enter and
document their lives. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their
countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice.

Lee Friedlander
• Letters from the people

14. Explore the effects of transparency
• Transparent means: ‘fine enough to be seen
through’ – e.g. being open to public scrutiny in
business and politics

• This could also mean in terms of materials use
to print – colour slide film, using multiple
layering, sheer fabrics, video projections

Man Ray, „Glass Tears‟ 1932. round glass beads

Howard Schatz
http://www.howardschatz.com

Nick Veasey
http://www.bjp-
online.com/british-journal-
of-
photography/profile/194037
6/penetrating-gaze-ray-
photography

Nick Veasey
Nick Veasey had each
component of this
Boeing 777
shipped to
him, then x-rayed
them on 43x35cm
film.
 The entire image is
made up of more
than 500 x-
rays, stitched
together by
Veasey's
designer, Stuart
O'Neill.  The
process took
months, and was
shot for Boston's
Logan Airport in
2003.

PERRAN COSTI

Baggage series:

The Baggage series
explores and expresses
those things in our life we
hold onto.
Memories, hopes, ideals.

UV prints on
glass, suitcase, wood, lights
, audio

http://www.perrancosti.com/WORKS/Pages/BAGGAGE_-_PORTABLE_CITY_10_09.html

Eva Stenram – Family portrait

The order of
age within the
family has
simply been
reversed –
Stenram has
become the
oldest member
of her family
and her father
has become
the youngest.

Tor Myhren

This image designed by
Tor Myhren, is
intended as a message
to the American public
that they should cast
their votes based on
the candidates' policies
and ignore their racial
differences.

Max De Esteban - Proposition
"whats on the
inside?"

These fascinating x-
rays demonstrates
the mechanics of
various pieces of
technology that are
quite interestingly old
fashioned.

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