The document discusses various artists and photographers who experiment with manipulating and combining images to represent reality in unconventional ways, including through photomontage, photo sequences, appropriating styles from other mediums, and using multiple exposures or viewpoints to challenge traditional representations. Many of the artists referenced seek to blend fiction and reality or comment on society, history, and human perception. A wide range of technical techniques are used to reimagine subjects in conceptual and thought-provoking manners.

1. VARIATION AND SIMILARITY
Unit 2 Externally Set Assignment 2019

2. The Body
Lauren Marek Louise Bourgeoise and Alex Van Gelder: Armed Forces
Myra GreeneLorna Simpson - 15 Mouths American

3. Kacy Johnson
For her project ‘Humanæ‘, photographer Angelica Dasstakes portraits of
people from all around the world to match their skin tones with the
PANTONE® color system.
Angelica Dasstakes

4. Ex-A level Student: Sienna Blake
Daido Moriyama
Justin Bartells: Photo series shows what tight clothing does to
women's bodies

5. Distorted Body Image
Gryu Lich
Metra Bruno and Laurence Jeanson
Ana Mendieta

6. Categorising / Groups
Rineka Dijkstra
established 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

7. Dianne Arbus is 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.

8. Dan Witz: mosh-pit paintings
Linked by a common interest

9. BBC One commissioned Martin Parr to create idents from a series of portraits that represent the rich diversity of communities living in the UK today. ’Oneness’ is a
collaboration that reflects BBC One’s role in bringing the nation together with unmissable programmes and events and celebrating all the things we share and have in
common.

10. In her ‘Self-Portraits with Men & Women’ series, photographer Dita Pepe seamlessly integrates into the lives of others.

11. Similarities and differences between cultures.
Samuel Fossu
Yinka Shonibare
Daniel Stier
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Shonibare's photographs rework an etching by Francisco de Goya. In the
original etching, titled The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Goya is
asleep at his desk, a billowing mass of creatures rising about him as
irrational nocturnal fears take their hold.
Shonibare's photographs restage the original image in five variations,
each representing a world continent. The sleeping figure is at odds with
the continent he represents: a white man for Africa, an African man for
Asia, and so forth. The specter of unreason hovers nearby, its presence
a constant reminder that humans are not perfect, rational or
enlightened all the time.

12. David Hockney created photojoiners. These are a collection of photographs taken from
different perspectives and at slightly different times of the same subject. The photographs are
then collaged together to create the place, person or object even though they may look
distorted. This work also references the Cubist movement from the early part of the twentieth
century and the Cubists’ depiction of space.
Multiple viewpoints
Cubists attempted to show
several viewpoints within one,
flat plane. Cubists also
incorporated real objects and
textures. How would you do this?

13. Other photographers have
also created one image from
several, smaller photographs.
German Photographer,
Thomas Kellner has remixed
landmarks in a unique
photomontage style. He takes
hundreds of pictures,
scanning the entire structure
one tiny portion at a time,
then horizontally places the
film strips of the individual
pictures to reconstruct the
landmark, creating an entirely
new picture.
What does the number of
images used by Kellner
contribute to the enormity of
the Environment being
photographed?

14. “I think I am more of an artist than a photographer. At the moment I am working on
architecture, but it is not classic architectural photography. There are definitions in art
about ‘construction-deconstruction’ or ‘collage-decollage’
but I don’t think any of it really fits what I am doing
right now.” (Thomas Kellner )
Big Ben The Eiffel Tower
Tate
Modern
London Bridge

15. Daniel Crooks
Bill Vazan creates grids of photographs that often
form globe like shapes. These are achieved by
standing in a central position and taking a number
of shots at slightly different angles (eg. top, middle
and bottom). He then slightly adjusts his position
and repeats this. He keeps doing this until he has
turned a full circle.
JFK
Turner
These works are by Szymon Roginski who said these works were inspired by Cubism. Roginski
produced these works for the fashion designer Ania Kuczynska and began with a series of photo-
shoots. The images were then printed, constructed into geometric shapes and assembled back
together to create the original image. The photo-sculpture was then re-photographed to create the
final piece.

16. Giacomo Costa
Anastasia SavinovaMiles Donovan Iosif Kiraly
Nicolas Kennedy

17. Pep
Ventosa
Stephanie Jung Alexey
Multiple viewpoints

18. Bernd and Hilla Becher, photographing seemingly mundane forms such as industrial water
towers, famously attempted to produce a ‘typology’ of forms.
Idris Khan layered the separate images
by the Bechers to create a homage.

19. Typolog
y
A way to classify
an environment
and its
inhabitants.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Michael PennJason Messinger Mark Able
Ed Ruscha, ‘Then and Now’

20. Kerry Lynne
Hans Eijkelboom
Anonymous
Jim Golden

21. Rachel Levy
Myoung Ho LeeMark Meyer

22. Linking different locations through mood & atmosphere
William
Eckersley

23. Narrative- sequence of images
Refined in the 1970s by photographers such as Duane Michals, fantasy and surrealism
continued to be a fertile ground for experimentation.

24. Hendrik Kerstens
Hendrik explores some of the many intersections between painting and photography. Using
his daughter Paula as his only subject, Kerstens not only photographs her in reference to Old
Master Dutch painting but also in relation to her own life and the world we live in today. From
early on, he became increasingly interested in combining the art of photographic portraiture
with the game of creating a conceptual and sometimes humorous dialog between past and
present. In "Bag", a plastic grocery bag is shaped to look like a lace hood.
Life Imitating Art, Imitating Life

25. ‘Referring to both vulnerability and impermanence, I'm investigating the texture and feel of
both the present and past. Since 2007 I'm working on the series 'foam sculptures': caps and
collars, inspired by 16th and 17th century paintings, made from materials currently used for
packaging and insulation. This is also an inferior material which is often discarded after use. By
using this material I make a reference to consumerism and the rapid circulation of materials.
With these foam sculptures, but also an i-pod, a tattoo and a foot in plaster, we end up in the
21st century.’
Suzanne Jongmans:

26. Tom Hunter
Life and Death in Hackney,
John Everett Millais
‘Ophelia’, 1851-52
Tom Hunter: Life and Death in Hackney
This maligned and somewhat abandoned area of Hackney became the epicentre of the new
warehouse rave scene of the early 90’s. During this time the old print factories, warehouses
and workshops became the playground of a disenchanted generation, taking the DIY culture
from the free festival scene and adapting it to the urban wastelands. Hunter’s images draw
upon these influences combining the beauty and the degradation with everyday tales of
abandonment and loss to music and hedonism. The reworking of John Millais’s ‘Ophelia’
shows a young girl whose journey home from one such rave was curtailed by falling into the
canal and losing herself to the dark slippery, industrial motorway of a bygone era.
Appropriating Environments from Fine Art Painting

27. Tom Hunter
Woman Reading a Possession Order
Tom Hunter: Persons Unknown
‘This series of photographs was taken in my street in Hackney, 1997. Myself and the
residents who made up this community were fighting eviction as squatters. The title of the
series comes from the wording used in our eviction orders. The postures and gestures
reference Vermeer's paintings and set out to give status and dignity to our community.’
Tom Hunter
The Art of Squatting
Jan Vermeer
The Art of Painting, 1666
Tom Hunter
The Anthropologist
Jan Vermeer
The Geographer, 1668
Jan Vermeer
Woman in Blue reading a letter, 1662

28. Jeff
Wall
Jeff Wall
Gust of Wind, 1993
Hokusai
Gust of Wind, 1832
In the case of A Sudden Gust of Wind the source material is a Nineteenth Century Japanese
woodcut, though Wall also references paintings from Western art history. In the main his
use of historical source material is less obvious – and less precisely referenced – than is the
case with ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind’.
The work is carefully constructed. Wall photographed different elements of the scene over
a period of several months, before seamlessly collaging these together in digital post-
production. It’s not clear what brings the four main protagonists to this place; two look
dressed for the location but the other two look more like businessmen in their suits and
overcoats. Whatever the contents of the file of papers, it seems likely that most will now be
lost to the unexpected gust of wind that has also taken the Trilby hat of one of the men.

29. Olivia Parker, Whelks (from "Lost Objects
portfolio), 1980
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.
Still life- an examination of similar objects

30. Laura Letinsky Edward
Weston

31. Moholy Nagy
Adam Fuss
Floris Neusüss Susan Derges
Camera-less Photography- alternative reality

32. Steven Pippin
Harold Edgerton
Relationship between movements.
Edwaerd Muybridge
Ex-student: Patrick Raimondi Taylor