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It's bizzare what photography can be at times
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Photography as an object
By Shaun Haney
Brief • The Photographers’ Gallery is currently under going a refurbishment and is
due to open to the public in February 2012. As part of the launch, the gallery will host an exhibiFon Ftled The Photograph as an Object.
• As a medium, photography has tradiFonally been used to document and capture ‘decisive’ moments in Fme. The aim of the The Photograph as an Object is to showcase photographs that explore the physical qualiFes of the printed photograph, thus blurring the disFncFons between photography and art.
• Photographers are invited to submit 3 entries and a panel of judges will select the most experimental and original imagery for the exhibiFon.
• In your project you must experiment with at least 2 different techniques • Place objects on top of your printed photographs and re-‐photograph
them.
Stephen Gill On first glance on this image people could just think that this wall bush bearing fruit has over grown this wall but actually the leaves and the fruit have been laid on top of the photograph and retaken with the objects on top. 'UnFtled' is part of a collecFon called 'Hackney Flowers' that Stephen has created. In this series he works with a photograph that he has taken of something then he lays on top of the photograph leaves, flower petals and other things that are plants in creaFve ways to give the illusion that berries are over growing a wall or a truck dumping it's cargo. even though this single photograph isn't very important in itself I believe however that the whole series of 'Hackney flowers' to be important because it provides the viewer with the visual idea to place objects on there photographs that they physically have and gives them the opportunity to lay objects on there prints that they have.
IniFal set of photographs
EvaluaFon of iniFal set of photos: I think these first set photos are ok but I think my photographs will be much beVer when I do my developmentals when I burn the photos and place objects on top of the photographs when I have my photographs printed out.
1st developmentals
Kostas Tsoklis On first look this image could just look like to anyone that this picture is being burnt away with no purpose. But this image has been burnt specifically in certain parts to remove different parts of the photo and to keep certain parts. Also it has been taken whilst it is sFll burning so it gives a sense of pace of how fast the photo is being burnt away. 'UnFtled' is part of an unknown collecFon of photographs that work with the same sort principle of burning photographs in certain parts and removing different features of the photograph like a person, faces, objects and certain things in the background. The thing with the burning of the photographs has to be creaFve and correct for the best results. I don't think I am going to work toward this style of this arFst because I will need mulFple print outs of the same photographs and if I run out of ink it will not help me. Also there is going to be a lot of trial and error to get the best possible results.
David Carson On first glance the image could look like this image has been manipulated and just had text placed on top of this image in photoshop and the photo has been changed to look old Fmer with sepia filter. Well it is photoshoped but only the text and the effect behind the text. 'UnFtled' is part of a unknown collecFon of photographs that have the same theme of placing text on top of a old photographs and adding effects to the text. Also each one has different text with each photograph. even though this one photograph alone isn't important, though I believe that the whole collecFon is useful for using different filters, and possibly using text on my photographs to convey a message.
2nd Developmentals
With my second set photos I was trying out acetate with my photos and layering each acetate print out on top of each other and then pu[ng them on a light box so I could photograph them properly. I was trying out the style of Stephen Gill to try the layering affect. Although I am happy with photos I think that I could have layered the a bit differently, The reason I say this is because I think I kept using the layers that casseVe tape on them and I was using the tape a lot. I think if I was to improve this set it would be to try and place them more differently and to also try more layers and also more photos to put on to acetate.
Final three
My intenFon of this set of photographs and my developmentals, was to try out different outcomes when layering acetate to create different ways of creaFng interesFng layers. If I was to improve them further I would have more photos taken on acetate so I could have more interesFng layered pictures. The third picture is probably the best on of these three (above) I chose this one instead of the other two because I like the fact that I didn’t use too many of my acetate layers with casseVe tape all over because I think I went a bit over the top with it on the other two. In conclusion, I am rather pleased with the final outcomes that I have here, but if I was to improve the outcomes further then I would have more acetate print outs so I could have more layers and more pictures to experiment with.