Unit 6 Criteria

P1

 My work was going to be surrealism, but instead I have changed this to the body, and still life fruit. At the exhibition it will either be fruit or body art which will be showing. Not both because they are both separate things.
The research I am doing into my FMP is vital because I will be copying it so it will have a considerably high impact into my final images. My first artist research which is highly used in my final images is Bill Brandt.

The research source materials what I would use are the internet, Books, Magazines, people.These are 2 images are from the internet and these are what I would like to photograph and manipulate and change myself,
 and this is some information about him.

" During World War II, Bill Brandt focused every kind of subject - as can be seen in his "Camera in London" this excelled in portraiture and landscape. To mark the arrival of peace in 1945 he began a celebrated series of nudes. His major books from the post-war period are Literary Britain, and Perspective of Nudes, followed by a compilation of the best of all areas of his work, Shadow of Light"

M1

 When I am in the studio I am also going to do another idea of mine which I am inspired by Bill Brandt, where it is surrealism, this will be body parts up close to the camera using a macro lens and also making it abstract so the audience wont know what they are looking at.

These are the images I am going to try to re create with my own twist. I have found some images of his website and google. his website is:
www.billbrandt.com/

Another artist I have took inspiration from is Leonard Nimoy, there are a few of his images what I liked as well what I would like to re create. these are them; 

I want to re create the images with the closest positions as the models are doing in these images also. The only difference is that the image on the left will be male rather than female, and the picture on the right will still be a male.

(Book research)

 I have been doing some book research from the Library and have came across a few books what I have taken inspiration from.

The book what I  have taken inspiration from for the fruit and still life shoot is called: "Food Photography" (Below)

Inside the book are images of how people have created an image and it tells you about how they have added objects to the image and also taken them out at the same time, all on three separate images. 

I have used this informatio on my fruit and vegetable photo shoot by taking pieces of fruit out at the same tie and contantly moving and removing and putting back.

The next book I have approached for inspiration is the Photography: An Independant Art.


I have chosen to try and re reate the image on the left hand side. Inside the book it describes how Bill brandt ( who took the images) bought a second hand Kodak camera with a wide lens and had auctioneers and took images of them in rooms. 

The next book I took for the library was called the "The art of Photography" in this there was several images I particularly liked, the first image is this one, in am hoping to take a similar image to this and contrast it higher so the only definition would be the arm of the model  also the face, the hair but not allot.

In the same book I have found a image what I would like to re create as well. This will tie in with the fruit and vegetable idea. I like the image because it is in black and white. I also like how the fruit looks like it has been dropped as well which gives it a used and rustig look, I am going to try and re create  this image an use the fruit how they are, if I think it looks better bruised and battered then it might look better. 

P2
The board of 7,4 will be presented with my work on it, I shall have 2 or maximum 2 images on this board. 

My proposal is on another post. This idea has gone from surrealism to body art photography and also still life photography.
The images below are the same images I am trying to re create.  
 My images will be framed in a size I am not sure yet. This will be on the 7'4 board.

M2

The techniques I have used in my first shoot are as followed. I used the barn door and snood lighting to purposely to highlight the models face, like I have described in my proposal, In some shots I have shone the light behind the subjct so there is a purpose shadow there, I also used diffeent materials as well on the shots such as a reflector board to bounce the light off it onto the subjects body.

This goes against the brief what I set because I wanted to create an image what it would look like in black and white would look like there was different shades and tones of black and grey. and with using the reflector it helped me gain this through the image.

P3
(on presentation post)

M3

(on presentation post)

P4

M4

P5