"No new images until all the old ones have been used up"
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coming back to school has been difficult and different however we are back.Being in photography as an artist is a lot harder due tho the fact that we cannot roam around and take photographs and we cannot work collaboratively with each other. however having these restrictions might help us to be more creative as an individual and find our own styles. also changing the location of our photos, since we can't take photos at school we will have to take more images outside of school.
make do and mend suggests that we use what we've already got and make it a new picture/piece of art. for example you could get a photo, print it out and the cut it up and stick it onto another picture or a coloured piece of paper, or you could fold it, change the hues ,put a filter on it, you could photograph a picture in a new place, there are so many ways to change/use an "old" photo. |
Kensuke KoikeKoike is a Japanese artist based in Venice. His practice involves manipulating vintage photographs and other found photographs - cutting, tearing, punching, slicing, re-assembling etc. - to create beautiful, often humorous and sometimes disturbingly surreal images. He has social median a website: https://www.kensukekoike.com
Born: 28 June 1980 (age 40 years), Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
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Hannah HöchHöch was a member of the Berlin Dada group, an important collection of artists who responded to the violence of the First World War by making politically charged images communicating their disgust and anger. Höch is known for her innovative use of collage, taking pictures and text from newspapers to create new combinations in her images.she was one of the originators of photomontage.
Born: 1 November 1889, Gotha, Germany Died: 31 May 1978, Berlin, Germany |
Deborah RobertsDeborah Roberts is an amazing artist who uses photography to express her thoughts and send a message. she collages photographs normally using already taken pictures, magazines and other image clippings.She creates a unique visual language, evoking African-American womanhood, to explore the subjects of beauty, identity and politics.
born: 1962, Austin, Texas, USA |
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sharon waltersSharon Walters (aka @london_artist1) uses a combination of precision cutting and layering to create her beautiful mixed media portraits.Her technique reminded me of the work of Kensuke Koike. She uses similar materials (photographs, knife, cutting mat) and manages to transform the images she works with. Her pictures are celebratory and joyful, partly because she uses images of confident, smiling women but also because she layers these with brightly coloured photographs of natural forms.
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1. Marcel Duchamp’s picture ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’ (1919) uses a postcard reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ (1503-17). Describe Leonardo’s painting and explain why it is so famous.
The mona lisa is famous for its mystery. Its mysterious beacause you can't tell whether she smiling or shes not also it was stolen by perggia he said he stole it because it belonged in a italian museum rather then a french one. |
Maurizio AnzeriMaurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties.
born: 1969 (age 51 years) |
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based on the American arts and culture magazine, Horizon, which debuted in September 1958. The publication provided a popular visual platform, disseminating various art historical narratives, including a form of Modernism. Focusing on the first decade in print, Lipps has carefully cut out images from vintage issues to create his own work. These groupings are then lit and re-photographed into complex tableaux.In this, he advances his own exploration of analog technologies, while speaking to the shifting nature of the photographic.
Born: 1975 (age 45 years), Oakland, California, United States |
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While at home we made a sculpture out of materials we had available to us I used paper and tape, I cut out strips of paper with different thicknesses and used a plain piece of paper to stick them down onto to move and take photos of. I then took pictures of it using my green wall as a background because i thought it would look interesting. I then used the flash on some images to create depth, Then downloaded the adobe edit app to mess around with the images and created some cool effects. I created some interesting images using the adobe app. using a green wall as a backdrop really helped the images to pop when I changes the colour and created an interesting contrast. Next time I can use different objects for different and unusual shapes, and layer them to create interesting depths to the image. |
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Daniel GordonDaniel Gordon uses photography to create images that toy with notions of artifice and authenticity. More recently, Gordon's practice has moved into the studio: instead of using himself as a model, the artist composes three-dimensional collages from old magazines and Internet printouts, which he then photographs.i would describe his work in 3 words: contrasting, shadows and vivid.
Born: 1980 (age 40 years), Brooklyn, New York, United States |
we were given a list of 20 simple instructions up to interpretation, to do to our images:
1 Hold the photograph in one hand and photograph it with the other 2. Take a photograph of your finger pointing at something in the photograph 3 Take a photograph of your photograph with light reflected on the surface 4. Take a super close-up photograph of your photograph (so that the edges are not visible) 5. Photograph your photograph in an unusual location 6 Photograph your photograph inside a book 7. Photograph your photograph peeking out of someone's clothing 8. Put the photograph under a chair leg. Take a photograph of it 9. Cover the photograph so that only a small part of the image is visible. Make a photograph |
We were given a collection of photos to pick from, we had to chose 5 images and was given 2 hours to play around with cutting and editing them on Photoshop/photo-pea. This was a task that helped me explore and develop my skills on Photoshop, I loved this as it was very experimental and we had so much room for creativity.
I created a few really cool but I feel as if they were too "safe" and would love to create more changes compared to the originals, by bigger cutouts in the image exposing the hidden layers. |
Making day projectMaking day is a whole day where we just make, print, glue, cut and build images to create a piece.I am lucky to have this time to develop and explore which is fun however is stressful because we had to come up with a whole concept and the final piece to follow in under 6 hours (which seems like a lot, but it isn't) without any prior preparation.
I feel as if my piece and the process behind it was a bit rushed, which I think caused my peice to turn out worse than it could of been. |
I made this by using these images I had taken over the past couple of weeks including; signs, buildings, landscapes, art on fences, page numbers and streets. I then printed these out and started cutting them up into different shapes and using the eye on the fence image as a center piece. These are all very contrasting images in their colours and overall look but personally I now, after attempting, don't think would work in a piece together. |
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When redoing this piece I used a solid colour background and tried to create a more spacious and less complicated piece, this makes it more aesthetically pleasing to the eye and clearer. I also followed an artist, Hannah Höch. she has a main idea or purpose to her piece so I followed that idea and created a link between the images.
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Overall making day was a fun experience and definitely important preparation for future GCSE making days. I didn't like the first piece I made but on my second try after adding improvements I started to like the idea and the style of it. Usually I wouldn't use this style or follow this artists method but I followed along the line of my first piece. It is for sure make do and mend influenced rather than constructed landscapes however it would be fun to do a making day based on constructed landscapes.
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We went on a virtual field trip on google maps allowing us to go wherever we wanted and take photos(well they're screenshots but its just as fun). First I went to Peru to explore and found some really cool rivers and mountains but I decided to go somewhere different for my final try so I went to Moscow, Russia. That's where I took and chose my 9 images/screen shots from because they were more interesting and my style. Russia was a cool place to explore because I could find shops to use writing in which I thought could look cool in our booklet and I also found places that looked kind of abandoned like the prison or a farm. overall I had a-lot of fun exploring places I had never been before. I really like virtual field trips as you can explore areas where you probably would've never thought of going or couldn't go, eg. random streets, restricted areas, unsafe zones and the middles of a busy road.
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This mind map explores many sections including: photoshop/digital editing, look again(and again), image & text, instructions/rules and photo sculpture. Expanding on look again, typology was one of my favourites I also could then use those images for other techniques. Also expanding on photo sculpture, cut out 3D images or image and text, I could use my own family pictures and pictures hung up at home to make some really cool 3D images.
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After choosing my object to make into a typology, which is water pressure fire hydrant signs (yellow signs with black "H" with numbers),I used the time I went out (which wasn't a lot) to find them and take pictures of them i then edited the images to a square and to look the same with the sign centered with the different backgrounds around it. I hope to make these into a book and make on animation of them all I will keep adding more and more of them as I go out more. |
Jack DavisonJack Davison (b. 1990) is a London-based photographer. Davison studied English Literature at Warwick University but spent most of the time experimenting with cameras. From a young age Davidson has continuously photographed those around him. He works for numerous publications including New York Times Magazine, Double & British Vogue. He has also released 2 books , one on monographs photographs (2019),his second is called song flowers (2021)
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I'm gonna use my family photos in two different techniques that I could even combine later on, text&images and 3D photo sculptures. I start by photocopying/printing around 20 different family photos. and cutting them differently,some with an equal white borer or a border like a Polaroid camera (to put the text) or no border. Then I started by using words I associated with my family and writing these words and random lines and drawings on 5 different images. Then on another 5 I used a website that gives you random newspaper headlines: https://www.plot-generator.org.uk/headlines/ Choosing the headline option then adding words that did or didn't relate the image. this was really funny as some of the random headlines were very odd and just added to the bizarre character of these images. |