GCSE Photography: Fragments
Fragments is the title for your final coursework unit. You should start by reading through the weebly, which outlines possible starting points
Fragments is the title for your final coursework unit. You should start by reading through the weebly, which outlines possible starting points
Exhibition Visit - Chris Killip, retrospective @ The Photographers gallery
Chris Killip's continued efforts to value and document the lives of those affected by the economic shifts in the North of England, throughout the 1970s and 80s, have made him one of the most influential figures of British Photography.
This retrospective exhibition of more than 150 works, serves as the most comprehensive survey of the photographer's work to date and includes previously unseen ephemera and colour works.
Shot on a 5x4 large-format camera, Killip’s images for In Flagrante captured the plight of working-class communities who had suffered from the devastating effects of deindustrialisation.
Poetic, penetrating, and often heartbreaking, Chris Killip's In Flagrante remains the most important photobook to document the devastating impact of deindustrialization on working-class communities in northern England in the 1970s and 1980s.
This retrospective exhibition of more than 150 works, serves as the most comprehensive survey of the photographer's work to date and includes previously unseen ephemera and colour works.
Shot on a 5x4 large-format camera, Killip’s images for In Flagrante captured the plight of working-class communities who had suffered from the devastating effects of deindustrialisation.
Poetic, penetrating, and often heartbreaking, Chris Killip's In Flagrante remains the most important photobook to document the devastating impact of deindustrialization on working-class communities in northern England in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Document your visit
Either scan each page of your booklet and upload the pages to your weebly or, for the very top grade band, expand your research and analysis of individual photographers or the work that you saw.
Either scan each page of your booklet and upload the pages to your weebly or, for the very top grade band, expand your research and analysis of individual photographers or the work that you saw.
Starter Homework
Create an account on Pinterest (https://uk.pinterest.com). This is a brilliant way to search for inspiration. You simply search for different, related themes, photographers or techniques and 'pin' them. Here is the link to Fortismere board for the exam theme: Beginning and/or End
Zoom out, screen shot your collection of images and present on your weebly as an image and embed as a link (you will have to make the 'board' public to do this). We will come back to this once the set tasks are complete. Keep adding to this board over the course of the project. You will see more and more GCSE students and teacher boards on Pinterest as the project progresses
Create an account on Pinterest (https://uk.pinterest.com). This is a brilliant way to search for inspiration. You simply search for different, related themes, photographers or techniques and 'pin' them. Here is the link to Fortismere board for the exam theme: Beginning and/or End
Zoom out, screen shot your collection of images and present on your weebly as an image and embed as a link (you will have to make the 'board' public to do this). We will come back to this once the set tasks are complete. Keep adding to this board over the course of the project. You will see more and more GCSE students and teacher boards on Pinterest as the project progresses
The Geometric Portrait
Gordin Magnin
Gordon Magnin is an LA based artist who uses fashion images and turns them into a unique collage of "altered found images" with his use of geometric patterns. His background consists of a Masters degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, a bachelors of science in structural engineering from the University of Nevada, meaning that his skill is entirely self taught and his experience is fewer than other artist who have manipulated images for a longer length of time to get to this level of skill.
He describes his work as "precise, intricate, geometric and destruction". His alteration of single images using precise geometric cuts and operations completely re structure the form of the original photos, and due to the majority of his photographs being portraits, the repositioning of geometric shapes cause deceptions at first sight as the eye is not used to features of the face being in strange places, which is what makes his work so unique and individual. His use of black and white colouring accentuates the features of the face even further due to the quality and use of shadow in his photographs.
His aim of work is to break down the expectations of perfect looking models and to challenge the industry's perception of beauty (he says "he tends to make the beautiful ugly") who said that his work was too extreme for them. He uses similar digital manipulation of images with exactly the same concept as when models would be altered to look unrealistically fake in campaigns and advertisements etc but I believe exaggerates that to mock the industry.
Gordon Magnin is an LA based artist who uses fashion images and turns them into a unique collage of "altered found images" with his use of geometric patterns. His background consists of a Masters degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, a bachelors of science in structural engineering from the University of Nevada, meaning that his skill is entirely self taught and his experience is fewer than other artist who have manipulated images for a longer length of time to get to this level of skill.
He describes his work as "precise, intricate, geometric and destruction". His alteration of single images using precise geometric cuts and operations completely re structure the form of the original photos, and due to the majority of his photographs being portraits, the repositioning of geometric shapes cause deceptions at first sight as the eye is not used to features of the face being in strange places, which is what makes his work so unique and individual. His use of black and white colouring accentuates the features of the face even further due to the quality and use of shadow in his photographs.
His aim of work is to break down the expectations of perfect looking models and to challenge the industry's perception of beauty (he says "he tends to make the beautiful ugly") who said that his work was too extreme for them. He uses similar digital manipulation of images with exactly the same concept as when models would be altered to look unrealistically fake in campaigns and advertisements etc but I believe exaggerates that to mock the industry.
Gordan magnin from gholden1979
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Lesson Objective
To gain an understanding of Gordin Magnin and different photoshop techniques to create a unique portrait response
Lesson Outcome
All students to have created a response to Magnins work that is to be uploaded onto their weeblys.
To gain an understanding of Gordin Magnin and different photoshop techniques to create a unique portrait response
Lesson Outcome
All students to have created a response to Magnins work that is to be uploaded onto their weeblys.
Task
Look at the presentation of Gordin Magnin's work and, using a photograph taken in the studio, follow the step by step guide to create your own portrait inspired by his work
Upload the work to your weebly making sure to annotate in full and show the different stages of development by showin your print screens of the actions
NB. To print screen either:
Extension Task
Turn the still images that you have created into gifs like the ones below use the instructions listed below to do this.
Look at the presentation of Gordin Magnin's work and, using a photograph taken in the studio, follow the step by step guide to create your own portrait inspired by his work
Upload the work to your weebly making sure to annotate in full and show the different stages of development by showin your print screens of the actions
NB. To print screen either:
- press command, shift & 3 at the same time to 'take a picture'
- press command, shift & 4 to be able to click and drag over the section you want to capture.
Extension Task
Turn the still images that you have created into gifs like the ones below use the instructions listed below to do this.
Almar haser - Cosmic Surgery
Cosmic surgery is imagined as a medical procedure that people can choose in the not so distant future for aesthetic enhancement, mood alteration, and to thwart increasingly pervasive methods of surveillance. Combining photography with collage and origami, Haser's playfully odd portraits consider the link between identity and image in a culture of visual bombardment. She suggests a fundamental shift in the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, picturing the possibility of a trans-humanist future.
"Experimentation has shaped my identity as an artist. I’m always thinking about different sculptural approaches to photography and how I can build layers into the work. I never know exactly how I’m going to produce the work until I’ve spent hours experimenting. Most of the time it’s a happy accident that shapes the final piece."
Cosmic surgery is imagined as a medical procedure that people can choose in the not so distant future for aesthetic enhancement, mood alteration, and to thwart increasingly pervasive methods of surveillance. Combining photography with collage and origami, Haser's playfully odd portraits consider the link between identity and image in a culture of visual bombardment. She suggests a fundamental shift in the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, picturing the possibility of a trans-humanist future.
"Experimentation has shaped my identity as an artist. I’m always thinking about different sculptural approaches to photography and how I can build layers into the work. I never know exactly how I’m going to produce the work until I’ve spent hours experimenting. Most of the time it’s a happy accident that shapes the final piece."
Lightbulb - Alma Haser from Stephenson& on Vimeo.
Lesson Objective
To gain an understanding of Alma Haser work and different different collage techniques to create a unique portrait response
Lesson Outcome
All students to have created a response to Haser's work that is to be uploaded onto their weebly's.
To gain an understanding of Alma Haser work and different different collage techniques to create a unique portrait response
Lesson Outcome
All students to have created a response to Haser's work that is to be uploaded onto their weebly's.
The Task
Take a series of mid length portraits against a white background
Choose your two favourite images and upload them to the google classroom for printing
Use your first print out as the base of your picture and then using the templates provided on your second picture create a 3d shape out of the duplicate second image.
When you have made the3d model stick it on to the face of your bottom image.
Finally photograph the sculpture and upload the images to your weebly
Take a series of mid length portraits against a white background
Choose your two favourite images and upload them to the google classroom for printing
Use your first print out as the base of your picture and then using the templates provided on your second picture create a 3d shape out of the duplicate second image.
When you have made the3d model stick it on to the face of your bottom image.
Finally photograph the sculpture and upload the images to your weebly
Fragments of a city
Anastasia Savinova is a russian-born artist living in Sweden. A background in architectural studies led her to create these large scale photo collages. Each collage is comprised of multiple layers of photographs shot in various European capital cities.
Sun Ji, a Shanghai-born artist whose photo collages suggest a nuanced view of the city’s past and present. A curator says the 29-year-old artist’s two-part “Memory City” series is “part cubist collage and part hyperreal landscape.” In one work from his “Memory City I” series, Sun juxtaposes black-and-white photographs of factories, smokestacks, and industrial errata. Glimpsed from across an art gallery, the kitchen-window-sized collage resembles a real photograph. But move closer, and the skewed lines of perspective and improbably dense arrangement of buildings reveal a whimsical critique of China’s late-twentieth-century economic “miracle.”
Task 1a
Using the images of buildings that you took over half term create a series of fragmented landscapes make sure pay attention to the foreground and the background of the picture. You can do this either through photoshop using the Palgonal laso tool to cut out your shapes or do it physically by printing out your images and then cutting them up
Success criteria - Three created landscapes using a minimum of 6 different locations. The buildings must show a clear foreground and back ground and the layers must merge without looking fake.
Create a link Artist section on either Savinova or Sun Ji pick your three favourite images and analyse them in full. As well as this create n artist and me section showing how your visual practise has been inspired by the artist
Using the images of buildings that you took over half term create a series of fragmented landscapes make sure pay attention to the foreground and the background of the picture. You can do this either through photoshop using the Palgonal laso tool to cut out your shapes or do it physically by printing out your images and then cutting them up
Success criteria - Three created landscapes using a minimum of 6 different locations. The buildings must show a clear foreground and back ground and the layers must merge without looking fake.
Create a link Artist section on either Savinova or Sun Ji pick your three favourite images and analyse them in full. As well as this create n artist and me section showing how your visual practise has been inspired by the artist
Break the Structure - Thomas Kellner"I think I am more of an artist than a photographer. 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. Many have said it is ‘very German,’ and that might be closer."
Kellner's’ work imitates the wandering look of the eye, showing us segments of the total which come together as one image. Therefore his photographs do not necessarily deconstruct architecture but instead reconstruct our view of it. His work offers an alternative view of famous landmarks, one that intends to question our thoughts on how we visually process them and develop a sense of place. Kellner uses the traditional process of film photography to create montages. Using just one roll of film, Kellner often takes images of the same landmarks or buildings of significance from different angles to later re-arrange them on a contact sheet and create a unique composition. |
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Before you start the process choose your building and viewpoint. Sketch out your composition on the blank contact sheet grid provided, these will form the blueprint for your creations.
Here is a plan by Kellner.
Here is a plan by Kellner.
Click here to find out how to make a contact sheet in bridge
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How to fake it
This clip shows you how to fake the Kellner technique using a free online app called Photopea. Try it in Photoshop- the tools and instructions are similar if not the same.
This clip shows you how to fake the Kellner technique using a free online app called Photopea. Try it in Photoshop- the tools and instructions are similar if not the same.