Genius of Moving Image- part 1

THE WORK OF SAM TAYLOR WOOD
QUESTIONS:

1 List two specific key relationships between Sam
Taylor Wood's photography and film work?
a) coming close to death        b) both mediums portray on how Wood sees the world.

2 How does the use of multi-screen installation in
her work reflect narrative?
example:killing time - combining opera with high fluting emotions, creates a juxtaposition of the music and visuals, giving individual importance.

3 What other photographers use film as an
integral part of their work. List two with
examples?

a) Nick knight -Fashion film - Get back, Stay back   b)  Tim Walker highlight 1

4 Research three other Video artists and explain
their working philosophy

Sally Golding – jaaga   Combining performance with Film projection with installation, Golding creates live sculptures and interactions by developing works that involve projecting film onto her actual body. “Golding creates compositions from printed optical sound and vinyl library music resulting in strained sonorousness.”    


5 Show an example of a specific gallery space or a
site specific location where
a video artist or film maker has created work
specifically for that
space and been influenced by it.

Rosa Barba had an exhibition in Tate Modern 15 September 2010  –  8 January 2011. this exhibtion was choregraphed installation, created to divide the viewers focus, from projected images and a projector, raising the question - “which is the narrative and which is the narrator?” by playing with light and sound, the experience is composed to give a range of forms and images.

Genius of Photography- part 2

What are Typologies?

A study of types, with photography, this is done in continuous way. you can only get to know something if you compare it with something else.       ……human typologies is an example, August Sanders.

Which magazine did Rodchenko design?

USSR in construction

What is photo-montage?

a graphic technique, took it’s cue from cinema montage, cutting, pasting, re-photographing, dizzy invisions. shows what photographs are, mute documents that are fluid.

Why did Eugene Atget use albumen prints in the 1920’s?

a technique from the 1850’s, Atget knew how to use this technique, as it was simple, the sunlight create the image onto paper. Atget used this techniques as he did not know darkroom technique.

What is solarisation and how was it discovered?

Man Ray discovered Solarisation. Solarisation is a technique that makes the image look like it’s almost inverted, in the sense that the light sections of the photograph are distinct and dark, whereas the dark areas are light and the image as a whole look metallic.

What was the relationship between Bernice Abbott and
Eugene Atget?

Bbernice Abbott was his assistence, she took his portrait.

Why was Walker Evans fired from the FSA? 

1935 commissioned to produce propaganda photographs for the FSA, to set up the ease to the effects of the great depression in America (portary goverment in a positive light. however, Evans come to a complex understanding of what documentary is, ( sharecroppers wife is an example ), therefore his work did not match up to the propaganda photos the FSA wanted it happened in 1937

Genius of Photography- part 1

What is a photography’s “true genius”?

”capturing the evanescence moment”

Name a proto-photographer?

Henry Fox Talbot ?

In the 19th century, what term was associated with the daguerreotype?

mirror with a memory, light reflect back through an image, people look like they are on the edge of being present. instead of paper based process, Daguerreotypes are mirrored metal plate, and unlike Talbot negative positive process, he made one off images like a Polaroid,

how do you “fix the shadow”?

(it was discovered that certain chemicals were light sensitive; sliver salts, silver nitrate, sliver chloride reacted to light, the image would go black however, because they didn’t fix the image for more than a few moments. it was Talbot who started experimenting with paper and silver salts,shoe boxed sized cameras “mousetraps”. this produced images of the “ghosted mirrored world”. by achieving this, it is lateral reversed as are  tones, which means when another photographic sheet of paper sandwiched it, a print is produced.)

what is the “carte de visite”?

a type of photography patterned by a French man called Desiree 1854 as you stood for your portraiture, your image was captured 8 times, as the camera had 8 lenses. (in the space of a few minutes) this turned photography into a new industry.

who was Nadar and why was he so successful?

(understood “natural expressions” in front of the camera) he uses the name “nadar” as a copyright name, an expression, to stand out, ‘like his hair’. Red is a bold colour. he was successful because – he photographed up and coming stars in a way that “re-wrote the rules”. he photographed them as equals, as real people, didn't;t dress them up, or use particular backgrounds, just captures their image in a daylight studio, looking authentic. isolates his subject.  the character of the person conveys in the image alone, no props are used to enhance a writer or artist. gives these “famous” people a chance to reflect themselves, as people through the medium of photography.

What is pictoralism ?

An era , mean, moody,,,, photography at it’s most po-faced, a branch of fine arts. an artisitic dead end. imitating drawings and paintings.