Photographic Series: Initial Ideas
PHYSICAL MANIPULATION OF PORTRAITURE SERIES
For my portraiture series project, I wanted to do something more physical that mirrors the concept. I looked at a few artists who's work I really liked and formed some base ideas around them:
(Group Tutorial Notes)
Lucas Simes
Sequential Waves
- A way of depicting cinema in photography
- Highlights motion
- Several images in same location, differentiated by slight movement
- plank of wood with long slits in it to slide folded images through
- images also sewn together
- reminds me of stack of news paper that has elongated colour in the side creases
- not necessarily show motion but to distort or elongate a specific image
- Maybe have it vertical?
- *ISSUE* Only allowed 8 photos
This reminds me of zeotropes and the frame by frame movement.
After my group tutorial, we came up with the idea of trying out this out and because originally we are limited to 8 images only. However, after discussion, the idea of having 6 separate pieces as each 'sequential wave' is like its own image and by multiple of them, it will become a series. My plan is to try this idea out amongst other ideas and see which works best and the most successfully.
Ana Teresa Barbosa
- reconstructing parts of the image/ weaving it
- pixelated and a little confusing
- incorporating embroidery in the photos to take the photos further and illustrate what can not be photographed
- going beyond the photo with embroidery .
- putting texture on to the photos to emphasis particular parts
Because my other two ideas require more than one photo per piece, this project of having 8 photographs and embroidering each is looking like the most realistic idea. However, it is very time consuming to embroider so I will have to take this in to account and stick to a strict schedule
I just have to form an idea that creates a relationship and between the subject and the technique of embroidering on a photo.
David Hockney
Joiners
- collage, photo of one location, same subjects, may move but different sections constructing the whole photo
- images are in the same ratio
- explore the idea of constructed memory and how we form these memories that never actually happened or adapted versions in our head. Use the style to reflect that rt
- *ISSUE* Only allowed 8 photos
After my tutorial, I came to the conclusion that out of the three base ideas, the Hockney inspired idea was the most unrealistic as it required rather a lot of photos per piece and each would take a lot of time to produce as I'd have to stage, strategically photography and then construct each image.
However, I would like to try this as a side project eventually.
Hi Kaitlan , just reading your blog - its 6 images max not eight! That doesn't mean that you have to create 6 you can do less.
ReplyDeleteThe embroidery images are beautiful but as you say very time consuming. However your thoughts about constructed memory are good and you could restrict yourself to 3 x A3 images because of the complexity of them. The nature of memory is a fascinating concept and is connected to so much writing on the nature of photography (Barthes Sonntag etc). I could see that you could make something very good here. This concept seems to have so much more depth than the 'sequential wave' which a) may be easy and quick to do and b) have impact. But may lack conceptual rigour.