PRESENTATION
I centred my presentation around the theme and style of photography that I like; I'm really interested in street/city photography as well as portraiture. I enjoy unique colour pallets and vintage feel in photos. The photographers I researched for this presentation all explore the past in many different ways; Blaise Arnold sets up his photos in a strict way in order to show the hidden stories of the characters during different historic moments. Joel Meyerowitz captures the New York streets during the 70s, which now can be seen as nostalgic but that wasn't him aim when he was shooting, as he was simply capturing the world around him. Finally, Nan Goldin took personal photographs of her own life, so the photos act as her memory.
I included this video of Joel Meyerowitz talking about how and why he got into photography in my presentation.
(watch from 0.00 to 2.10)
(watch from 0.00 to 2.10)
EXHIBIION LEAFLET
Brainstorm:
I can use all three of the photographers that I've researched, to get inspired and develop some of their links and themes. All of them tell stories of ordinary people during everyday lives, but they do it in different ways. They all focus on portraying real stories through the depth in their photos.
Defining a theme for my exhibition:
I originally wanted to create a documentary exhibition, but I realised that it may be too broad of a subject. So I wanted to combine documentary and street photography, with the city I love most - New York, since most of my favourite photographers are from New York as well.
Since I've decided on my theme to be New York, I started to find photographers that are known for their street New York photography. After some research I found these:
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Fred Herzog
Constantine Manos
Humans of New York
The final three I've decided on:
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Fred Herzog
Constantine Manos
Humans of New York
The final three I've decided on:
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Subway - Bruce Davidson
Constantine Manos
Choosing The Venue:
The three venues that I mostly go to are: Photographer's Gallery, Saatchi Gallery and Tate Modern. Since these are my favourite places to go to, I want to consider all of them as the galleries for my exhibition.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY - The first British independent gallery that is completely devoted to photography. It's located in the heart of central London, near Oxford Street Station.
SAATCHI GALLERY - founded in 1985 and focuses around contemporary art, not just photography but also paintings, drawings and sculptures.
TATE MODERN - Tate Modern had 5.7 million visits in one year (2015), with around 3.5 million under the age of thirty-five.
The three venues that I mostly go to are: Photographer's Gallery, Saatchi Gallery and Tate Modern. Since these are my favourite places to go to, I want to consider all of them as the galleries for my exhibition.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY - The first British independent gallery that is completely devoted to photography. It's located in the heart of central London, near Oxford Street Station.
SAATCHI GALLERY - founded in 1985 and focuses around contemporary art, not just photography but also paintings, drawings and sculptures.
TATE MODERN - Tate Modern had 5.7 million visits in one year (2015), with around 3.5 million under the age of thirty-five.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY VISIT:
Gregory Crewdson - Cathedral of Pines
Gregory Crewdson is an contemporary American Photographer, born and raised in New York City. He is known for his dramatic and cinematic photos of the American suburbs, that capture a realistic and depressing atmosphere for every day American life post a traumatic event. Just like Arnold, a photographer I researched at the beginning of this unit, his photographs are staged and involve a whole crew. Crewdson achieves the cinematic, almost unreal, look through using film equipment and techniques, which make his work look like a still from a movie and not like an individual photograph.
Crewdson admitted that his style was influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's films like Vertigo, Blue Velvet and Safe and a famous painter, Edward Hopper. This is clearly visible in his work because he incorporates the same feeling of mystery, loneliness and suspense as Hopper does in his paintings. Also by including the vivid colours and creating that morbid feeling through the models, he links his work to Hitchcock's.
Gregory Crewdson - Cathedral of Pines
Gregory Crewdson is an contemporary American Photographer, born and raised in New York City. He is known for his dramatic and cinematic photos of the American suburbs, that capture a realistic and depressing atmosphere for every day American life post a traumatic event. Just like Arnold, a photographer I researched at the beginning of this unit, his photographs are staged and involve a whole crew. Crewdson achieves the cinematic, almost unreal, look through using film equipment and techniques, which make his work look like a still from a movie and not like an individual photograph.
Crewdson admitted that his style was influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's films like Vertigo, Blue Velvet and Safe and a famous painter, Edward Hopper. This is clearly visible in his work because he incorporates the same feeling of mystery, loneliness and suspense as Hopper does in his paintings. Also by including the vivid colours and creating that morbid feeling through the models, he links his work to Hitchcock's.
GALLERY EXHIBITION II: The Subculture Archives
TATE MODERN:
During the summer holidays I visited Tate Modern and was intrigued by artwork from artists like Boris Mikhailov, Gustav Metzger and Shozo Shimamoto.
Here are some of my photos from the trip;
During the summer holidays I visited Tate Modern and was intrigued by artwork from artists like Boris Mikhailov, Gustav Metzger and Shozo Shimamoto.
Here are some of my photos from the trip;
My favourite artist from the whole exhibition was a photographer called Daido Moriyama with his series of photos Memory 2012. He actually had a joint exhibition with one other photographer that I look up to - William Klein. Through their photos I was able to see and explore modern life on the streets of Tokyo and New York. Moriyama is known for being "the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s." (Source: Tate Website). This artist caught my interest because of his unique and raw approach to documentary photography; he used black and white film to capture the details of life that some may argue look like accidental snapshots.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/william-klein-daido-moriyama
See below.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/william-klein-daido-moriyama
See below.
SAATCHI GALLERY:
FINAL LEAFLET:
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SIDE 2