GCSE Photography: Past, Present, Future
Past,Present,Future is the title for your new GCSE Photography project. You will have the set summer holidays tasks to get you thinking about the title and create a body of work to get the project started.
Past,Present,Future is the title for your new GCSE Photography project. You will have the set summer holidays tasks to get you thinking about the title and create a body of work to get the project started.
Please complete the Summer tasks (see doc on right)
Also have a look at the art 2day and pinterest links below. These should give you an even broader understanding of how to interpret the theme within photography. |
Portrait - Past, Present, Future The quest to capture eternal youth is somthing that has facinated man through out the ages and has been the subject of many books and films. The evolution from youth to old age is something that will eventually effect us all. Task Take a portrait in the the studio and then find an image on the internet of an old face. Try to make sure the poses are similar. Using the photoshop tutorial opposite merge the two pictures and create an aged portrait. On your weebly upload the two images that you are using and then place the merged portrait underneath it. Homework Looking at the work Bobby Neal Adams Photograph different members of your family and merge the faces together to show how the different generations in your family have evolved. |
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Location - Past, Present, Future - Half term Homework
The dear photograph project was started by the photographer Taylor jones
He took old photographs that he had found and went back to the location that they were originally shot in. He would then hold the old image up and match it into the modern location. The trend caught on and inspired millions of people to do the same taking a picture from the past and placing it in the present
Task
Collect a series of old family photographs and take them to the location that they were shot in hold them up and match them back into the modern location.
Using the images handed out in class go around Muswellhill broadway and hold up the old photograph against the modern location.Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.
The dear photograph project was started by the photographer Taylor jones
He took old photographs that he had found and went back to the location that they were originally shot in. He would then hold the old image up and match it into the modern location. The trend caught on and inspired millions of people to do the same taking a picture from the past and placing it in the present
Task
Collect a series of old family photographs and take them to the location that they were shot in hold them up and match them back into the modern location.
Using the images handed out in class go around Muswellhill broadway and hold up the old photograph against the modern location.Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.
EPSA - 90 years from Thanasis Tsimpinis on Vimeo.
Taylor Jones
Dear Photo
Xavier King (ex student)
Extension task
Look at the work of Clarisse d'Arcimoles and Irina Werning recreate old family photographs and places them alongside each other. Using old family photographs recreate a series of images in the style of their work (see below her work and work from previous students)
Look at the work of Clarisse d'Arcimoles and Irina Werning recreate old family photographs and places them alongside each other. Using old family photographs recreate a series of images in the style of their work (see below her work and work from previous students)
Irina Werning
Clarisse d'Arcimoles
Alice Maklan (ex student)
Man Evolves - Past, Present, Future
Icarus the boy who flew to close to the sun Son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax. Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own invention, the Labyrinth. But the great craftsman's genius would not suffer captivity. He made two pairs of wings by adhering feathers to a wooden frame with wax. Giving one pair to his son, he cautioned him that flying too near the sun would cause the wax to melt. But Icarus became ecstatic with the ability to fly and forgot his father's warning. The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea. The idea that in the future man could evolve to one day fly is the theme of many science fictions movies. Super heroes that live among normal people is a theme that continues to create huge interest. Task Using fast shutter speeds photograph a chosen subject in mid air. Create an image that gives the effect that the model is flying. Task 2 Using images that you have taken previously or from the inernet and using photoshop techniques create an image that depicts your model flying or performing a feet of evolved human ability. |
Old and new 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 showing buildings both old and new.
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 showing buildings both old and new.
The series is titled “Genius Loci”, which according to the Romans was a protective spirit of a dwelling, takes on a more contemporary meaning which refers to a location’s distinctive atmosphere. Savinovas’s collages are more than a collection of contrasting doors, windows, and roof lines, they explore the structure of life in their connection with the land and the spirit of the place.
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 old and new buildings that you have taken create a series of fragmented landscapes that have both old and new architecture in the same picture. 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 old and new buildings that you have taken create a series of fragmented landscapes that have both old and new architecture in the same picture. 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
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE - Evolution of the camera
Photography is a medium which is constanly evolving. The quest to fix an image has occupied the thoughts of men for centuries. Below are three different forms of photography that different generations have used to capture the image in front of them.
1) Camera Obscura
2 ) Pin Hole Camera
3 ) Digital Camera
Task
Use the three different cameras listed to photograph the same subject matter
This could be a studio portrait or an image from around the school try to choose a subject matter that is visually interesting. When you have taken your images come back to the darkroom and the macs to produce your images and compare the different outcomes.
Photography is a medium which is constanly evolving. The quest to fix an image has occupied the thoughts of men for centuries. Below are three different forms of photography that different generations have used to capture the image in front of them.
1) Camera Obscura
2 ) Pin Hole Camera
3 ) Digital Camera
Task
Use the three different cameras listed to photograph the same subject matter
This could be a studio portrait or an image from around the school try to choose a subject matter that is visually interesting. When you have taken your images come back to the darkroom and the macs to produce your images and compare the different outcomes.
Object to take on new meanings
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Three Strands
Once you have completed each workshop task above you need to determine three strands (starting points) for your project. The presentation of each strand must include a rationale (reasons why and links to the theme), connections to relevant contextual information, photographers and any other visuals forms.Look through the powerpoint and further pinterest pages to help make your choices
Once you have completed each workshop task above you need to determine three strands (starting points) for your project. The presentation of each strand must include a rationale (reasons why and links to the theme), connections to relevant contextual information, photographers and any other visuals forms.Look through the powerpoint and further pinterest pages to help make your choices
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