Broken
What I chose for my exam piece was the theme of Broken. I decided to do this because I believe I can explore with this idea and i have the ability to complete this task, I also liked the ideas of broken ideas to show a difference to the world and to also increase the ability of what photography shows.. I also thought that by choosing this topic to focus on I can expand my knowledge of using Photoshop and also develop different art styles so it could help me in other things in future times.
This shows what to expect in the theme broken.
Mind-Map
Theses will be the artists i will be responding to.
Mauren Brodbeck
Mauren Brodbeck, born 1974 in Geneva. Lives and works in Geneva. Mauren Brodbeck, a Swiss multisensory artist and singer-songwriter, uses visual and auditory elements to create startling reinterpretations of common objects and experiences. Her multidimensional works invite her audience to step outside their safe and familiar realities and reconsider their relationships with the people and environments around them.
Brodbeck’s current works focus on the concepts of identity, authenticity and territory, exploring the gap between reality and fantasy and reinterpreting common experiences to reshape our stories and emotions. These influences also shape the singer/songwriter work she does with her electro-pop glamrock band, Jim Margin. She is also the creator of Raw and Radical, a project focused on inspiring, connecting, and supporting women artists including a series of podcasts. When not immersed in her artistic pursuits, she writes and spends time with her family at their home in Geneva.
Micheal Wolf
Michael Wolf was a German artist and photographer whose work focused on daily life in big cities. Wolf won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category of the 2004 World Press Photo competition for his photographs of workers in several types of factories for an article in Stern. The pictures he took is by taking photos and duplicates the pictures into many building.
Though seldom commented on by art critics, there was a political undertone to Wolf’s work. In several of his best-known series, even the ones where people were an invisible presence, his striking images point to the human cost and extraordinary resilience of contemporary city dwellers caught up in the Darwinian thrust of global capitalism.
Todd McLellan
Todd was born among the golden wheat fields of Saskatchewan. Raised by a carpenter and an electronic technician, he became fond of the hands-on approach. He cultivated his passion for photography at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and in 2002 moved to Toronto for the reaping. Inspired by many great image-makers, he has a fascination with visuals that combine different disciplines. Todd enjoys creating his visuals in studio and on location. Todd's latest series “Things Come Apart” explores the material world around us. Disassembling and laying out the pieces of each objects and then in a second frame, releasing them from the confines of structure to visualize both the complexity and simplicity of modern and classic pieces. The series brings to mind the consumption of technology in our everyday lives. "Things Come Apart 2.0" has been published by Thames & Hudson and released in 2013.
In Things Come Apart, Todd McLellan exposes the inner working of 50 objects and 21,858 individual components as he reflects on the permanence of vintage machine built several decades ago. Sturdy gadgets meant to be broken and repaired, versus today's manufacturing trend of limited use followed by quick obsolescence.
Photographer Gallery
For our Unit 1 exam tasks, we visited the Photographers Gallery and saw two exhibitions, 'Shot in Soho' and 'Feast for the eyes'. It was a ok trip but I discovered some new artists whose works I found really interesting.
Shot In Soho
Shot in Soho is an original exhibition celebrating Soho’s diverse culture, community and history of creative innovation as well as highlighting its position as a site of resistance. Through a range of photographs, ephemera and varied presentations, the project reflects the breadth of life in a part of the capital that has always courted controversy and celebrated difference. This is a rare opportunity to see outstanding images from renowned photographers including William Klein, Anders Petersen, Corinne Day, alongside other photographers whose work in Soho is lesser known such as Kelvin Brodie, Clancy Gebler Davies and John Goldblatt. Part movie-set, part crime scene, part unfolding spectacle, Soho in recent decades has been the centre of the music, fashion, design, film and the sex industry – a place of unresolved riddles, a place of shadows and also somewhere to call home for incoming French, Italian, Maltese, Chinese, Hungarian, Jewish and Bengali communities – perhaps here is the prototype for multicultural open London.The exhibition draws on the history, the myths and the characters of this hotbed of unpredictability, disobedience, eccentricity and tightly-knit communities.
Corinne Day
Self taught, Day brought a more documentary look to fashion imagery, in which she often included autobiographical elements. She was known for forming long and close relationships with many of her muses including Kate Moss, Rosemary Ferguson, George Clements, Georgina Cooper, Sarah Murray, Tanya Court, and Tara St Hill, a way of working which resulted in candid and intimate portraits. Her first published work was for The Face magazine in 1990 - photographs of Kate Moss in an editorial titled the ‘3rd Summer of Love’. Day’s approach to fashion photography in the 90s, came to be known as ‘grunge’ and grew into an international style. Day photographed across all these phases- professional models and friends were interchangeable and indeed almost everyone was a little of both, and the clothes become almost incidental. We are looking in on scenes from exciting young creative lives, perhaps as if seeing glimpses into the flat from a train journey. The Soho work remains unparalleled in terms of documentation of that creative moment– a compelling ‘snap-shot’ the uninhibited 1990s, whilst also being a reflection on what makes a home and maybe a reminder to us all of those special places where we found our own independence.
The Undressing Room 1968
Born in 1930, Goldblatt emigrated to South Africa in 1955, where he earned his living as a photographer. He returned to the UK and worked for publications like The Sunday Times, The Jewish Chronicle and The Observer. He took the series of photos on display here on four consecutive nights backstage at a Soho strip club on spec . Unfortunately, they didn’t sell, which is surprising because this set includes by far the best photos in this exhibition.Take this photo of an ‘exotic dancer’ reading the paper in the dressing room. Not only is this almost nude young woman very sexy, but it is the composition – the lining up of her vertical leg with the leg of the woman behind; the way both legs take your eye to the electric heater in the background – reminding you how cold and draughty most of these backstage rooms probably were, especially in the wet and windy winter. It is the 45 degree angle of the newspaper balanced on her thigh, the simple unstyled 60s look of her hair falling over her shoulder, the way the other girls in the background are looking round, maybe aware of the photographer, but she is sweetly oblivious, absorbed in what she’s reading. It’s lots of things which make this photo so evocative and memorable.
Feast for the eyes
Exploring the rich history of food photography through some of the leading figures and movements within the genre including: Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee.
Food has always been a much-photographed and consumed subject, offering a test ground for artistic experimentation and a way for artists to hone their skills. But even the most representative images of food have rarely been straightforward or objective. Food as subject matter is rich in symbolic meaning and across the history of art, has operated as a vessel for artists to explore a particular emotion, viewpoint or theme and express a range of aspirations and social constructs. With the advent of social media, interest in food photography has become widespread with the taking and sharing of images becoming an integral part of the dining experience itself, used as instant signifiers of status and exacerbating a sense of belonging and difference.
Food has always been a much-photographed and consumed subject, offering a test ground for artistic experimentation and a way for artists to hone their skills. But even the most representative images of food have rarely been straightforward or objective. Food as subject matter is rich in symbolic meaning and across the history of art, has operated as a vessel for artists to explore a particular emotion, viewpoint or theme and express a range of aspirations and social constructs. With the advent of social media, interest in food photography has become widespread with the taking and sharing of images becoming an integral part of the dining experience itself, used as instant signifiers of status and exacerbating a sense of belonging and difference.
Todd Mclellan - First response
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By breaking the iPad and comparing from before it got destroyed and after it got destroyed shows how a iPad can be fragile and also shows the pattern of the cracks on the iPad which can create creativity of the pattern because they can be cracked in many way and any forms which creates a difference in the photo.
By taking apart the calculator really makes us explore the inside of a calculator to show how it function and how it works. Also taking apart the calculator really exposes what it makes it a calculator making it interesting to people who are curious on what inside a calculator. I did the same thing with the mobile phone by also taking it apart
Following the artist and responding back to his work really exposes the work showing how creative it is of taking photos of the inside of the device or the whole device taken apart showing what makes it what it is known for today and also how we ourselves can examine the machines ourselves.
By taking apart the calculator really makes us explore the inside of a calculator to show how it function and how it works. Also taking apart the calculator really exposes what it makes it a calculator making it interesting to people who are curious on what inside a calculator. I did the same thing with the mobile phone by also taking it apart
Following the artist and responding back to his work really exposes the work showing how creative it is of taking photos of the inside of the device or the whole device taken apart showing what makes it what it is known for today and also how we ourselves can examine the machines ourselves.