Spontaneous Interlude Research
Specialist Location Research
Vivian Maier - Circle
Vivian Maier worked as a professional nanny for a lot of her life. She documented life in large American cities, for example New York and Chicago. This is where she became compelled by the power of photography. Overall, she shot 150,000 negatives.she is an iconic photographer due to her ability to easily capture images of great quality seaminglesly.
Aswell as these negatives, she made lots of motion pictures and audio recordings. There is an exhibition at Foam Magazine containing photographic work from the 50s to 80s in a variety of styles including black and white and colour, and also film. Most of the work that she produced was not released throughout her whole life. In 2007, which was two yers before she died, a lot of her negatives were auctioned off to collector John Maloof, who then discovered the potentiol within her negatives.
He published the images on the internet, and immediately the world took an interest. She ad a knack for fluttering through streets and capturing things as if she wasn’t there. Her images are characteristic. Showing great composition and an eye for great photography.
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Julius Tjintelaar - Vertical
Julius Tjintjelaar is an award winning fine art photographer, artist and teacher who was born in Jakarta and moved to the Netherlands when he was young. He had aspired to be an architect for most of his young life, having a passion for artistic things like architecture, music and and writing. He ended up studying criminal law and then went on to work in IT for a while to make a living. He says that he wants to photograph all the great architecture in the world and he has been inspired by Gehry and Calatrava. “It’s up to you what you do with contrasts, light, shapes and lines to emphasize the essence, or what you see as the essence – no colors that will seduce the eye, only emotion that will capture the heart,” he says. He says that shooting black and white strips all confusions and diversions within the image and focuses on what the image is in the now. It shows the finer details within the image exposing the raw edges and imperfections.
References:
-https://photogrist.com/bw-architecture-joel-tjintjelaar/
Hans Breder- square
Hans breders work is very visual and conceptual within the photographic world.
His recent work is quite simple, containing the nude human body, and a reflecting surface which in his case, he uses a mirror. Mirrors are known for representing our own reflections in an accurate way, more than any other object in the world. It has sometimes been used as a prop during magic performances and has often created questions among the public around the possibilities of a parallel universe as the mirrors image seems to be reflected so perfectly.
"...There is only one Breder. He is young but he is already unmistakable. He is sensitive and at the same time relentless. The concept is fixed, the design still open to manoevure. Breder has a traditional European background but his classical, even conservative, work is precisely of our time." George Rickey said, pointing out that Breder has his own defined style and is easily recognisable.
Hans has spent his career working with many different types of medias. He explains how important it is to experiment with different props and medias to create a different sense within the images he creates. He produces lots of performance based and conceptual works that contain aspects of painting, sculpture, photography, video, sound, technology and science. During his life he has completed many projects, one that stands out to me is his series ‘body/sculptures’ which was his photographic series from 1969-73 featuring women who are naked holding up mirrors to their body’s, creating surreal angles and illusions of there bodies. I really like Breders work and it inspires me as his images contain surreal and real aspects, creating many different layers within the image and making them intriguing to study.
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Laurence Demasion - surfaces
Laurence Demaison is a creative artist, who originates from France. Laurence Demaison was born in 1965. she was largely influenced by the 80s, this was a time of growing global capitalism, mass media, hip hop and pop music. He has had several
She has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff and at the FeldbuschWeisnerRudolph. Lots of articles have been written about Laurence Demaison, including 'Moving performances, still photographs' written by Jim Casper for Lens Culture in 2010.
Her images involve lots of movement within long exposure shots, exposing things that the camera sees, which the human eye cannot. Her images seem to bend light and time, holding secret messages within the reflections and repetition of her images. The composition of the images create a sense of intense emotion, which I wanted to continue throughout my images.
References:
https://www.laurencedemaison.com/information/
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/laurence-demaison-moving-performances-still-photographs
David Lachapelle- flash
David lachapelle was born in Conneticut in 1963 and attended the School Of Arts in North Carolina. He originally began education there as a painter but quickly became interested and experimented in the medium og photography. He developed his own technique within film, painting his own negatives to create lots of colour before processing his film. He moved to New York at the age of 17, having his first photography show at Gallery 303, he was then hired by Andy Warhol, where he worked at Interview Magazine.
He began to push boundaries within photography by using lots of colour, interesting narratives and unique compositions. His work was admired by many internationally, starting with his portraits and still life works where he used unusual devices of photography. In 1991, The New York Times predicted “LaChapelle is certain to influence the work of a new generation...in the same way that Mr. Avedon pioneered so much of what is familiar today.”
He has since become one of the most published photographers in the world, producing and releasing books, music videos, films and many stage projects.
Lots of his still works and film works have become iconic in America in the 21st Century.
Throughout the past 30 years, LaChapelle has exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the National Portrait Gallery of London, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Musee D’Orsay, Groninger Museum, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, and The U.S. National Portrait Gallery, Monnaie de Paris, Barbican Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Yuji HAMADA- Primal mountain
HAMADA created a series of work the questioned truth, fiction, ideal and reality. He created ‘mountains’ out of alluminium foil. She then captured pictures of the foil in ways where the perspective can sometimes create the illusion that the alluminium shpe is a real mountain. He was sent a postcard just after the Great East Japan Eartchquake in 2011, picturing landscapes of swiss mountains. This postcard inspired HAMADA and she began to crump foil into shapes and held them up to the sky to create a clear and subtle background.
“What I tried to do with this series was to allow the viewer to create their own image of a mountain in their mind. The title of the series, Primal Mountain, refers to the very first image of a mountain that the viewer sees in their mind, as opposed to the images that are complete in the subjective view of the artist,” writes Hamada.
This series of images was put together in a phtoobook by designer Yoshihisa Tanaka. The aim of this series of images was to play with the reader and create illusions in the mind. Inspired greatly by Swiss mountains, Hamada also uses his faux alps to explore mountain photography. The book ends with an essay.
References
https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/primal-mountain
Jean Claud and Christo- Wrap
They met in 1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria whilst living in Paris. They were both born on the exact same day in Morroco. Christo studied at the national academy of art in Sofia, whilst Jeanne studied philosophy and Latin at the university of Tunis. The pair moved to the United States in 1964, where they worked making and designing store fronts to earn money for their future artistic plans.
Christo and Jean Claude were a collaborative duo, who were known for there massive projects and installations. They wrapped architecture and natural elements in different forms of fabrics. They explored how fabrics could transform objects and shapes when they are wrapped. The covering of the subject matter challenges the viewer to imagine the objects beneath. They had no limits wen it came to what and where they wrapped, ranging from The Gates in New Yorks central park to ‘wrappd coast’ in Australia. “We wish to create works of art, works of joy and of beauty,” Jeanne-Claude once said of their work. “As with every true work of art, it has absolutely no purpose whatsoever: it is not a message, it is not a symbol, it is only a work of art. And like every true artist, we create those works of art for us and our collaborators.” Some of their works are currently held in collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Musée d’art modern et d’art contemporain in Nice, and the Cleveland Museum of Art and many more.
References
https://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-objects-statues-and-women?view=info
Jill Greenberg- Primal scream
Jill Greenberg created series of portraits of children crying in 2006, this was to reflect her frustration in politics within the bush era. “The most dangerous fundamentalists aren’t just waging war in Iraq; they’re attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment,” she wrote in a statement. She believed that as a parent, she would have to watch her children suffer in the ,istakes that the Goverment make.
She created a series called ‘End Times’ which consisted of images of different children teary eyed, crying and screaming. She says that the specific techniques she used to heighten the drama in the photographs included studio lights and post production effects and editing. The images all in all upsetting and some even harrowing, no one likes to see children crying and this series shows just that. You can see that the emotions are raw and real as children re often not typical models that will follow orders. She believes that images serve there purpose as they cause a strong emotional reaction with the viewers. “The still image continues to have a ton of strength,” Greenberg said. “An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.”
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Rupert vandervell- Horizontal
Vandervell grew up in South Wales and was given his first camera at age 16. He explains in interviews that his family lived in rural countryside and all he had was the rolling hils around him to photograph. He was interested in black and white photography from the start and focused of training his eye to look for detail and to learn how to print and develop film. Throughout his life he explains that he has always been a fan of clean lines and the geometrical appearance of things.
‘I find beauty not necessarily in the subject itself but in the space that surrounds it.’ states Vandervell. He does not focus on ornamentation within his images, instead he plays with light, dark, form and texture to add details within his images.
He moved to London in the 1980s and here is where he learnt how to process film in the dark room by attending night classes. He describe hw he was completely fascinated by the possibilities in the creative aspects of printing. He was compelled by how different London was to where he grew up in Wales, being surrounded by buildings really inspired him and from then he never looked back.
The ‘rught light’ for him to shoot in is the early morning. He says the light is cool and clear, creating sharp and intense images.
‘I can become absorbed in my environment very quickly when the conditions are right.’
Street photography is all about becoming one with the city, a part of its restless soul.
References
https://rupertvandervell.co.uk/
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