Y10 Vintage PPE
'Through the window'
TASK INFORMATION• The following tasks link to your current and previous work on
VINTAGE 'Through the Window' progress test preparation.
• These additional tasks should take between 3-4 hours. You do not have to complete them all in one go or in the order they are given. Choose the tasks you find the most interesting first. They will form part of your coursework and progress test preparation. They should be completed to the same standard as you would normally.
• We understand that you have limited resources at home, do your best with what you have available.
• Each task relates to a different photographer.
SAUL LEITER(1923-2013)Saul Leiter was foremost a painter who discovered the possibilities of colour photography. He
created an extraordinary body of work, beginning in the 1940s. His images explore colour harmonies and often exploit unusual framing devices - shop signs, umbrellas, curtains, car doors, windows dripping with condensation - to create abstract compositions of everyday street life in the city.
Many of his images use negative space, with large out of focus areas, drawing our eye to a particular detail or splash of colour.
Step 1:
Research the photographer
and create some writing
explaining their
background and their
work. Use 'SEMI' analysis
to help you (Analyse the
subject, elements, media
and intention)
Step 2:
Create your own version
of this by taking your
own photographs on your
phone or camera if you
have one. Take 30+ Upload
your photographs to
google drive and create a
new powerpoint. Annotate
with keywords.
Step 3:
Use the writing frame to
analyse this work.
Step 4:
Edit the photographs
using your phone or
Photoshop.
Click to add text
TASK 1
Approx 3-4 hours work
SAUL LEITER - PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGESCover your lense in
cling film to create a deliberate blurred effect. Photograph different parts of the inside of your house.
Photograph through a steamed up mirror.
Photograph through glass. Document the view from your window.
Explore different lighting. Natural Lighting or artificial lighting.
UTA BARTH (b. 1958)Rather than showing us a recognisable image, Barth’s works
depicts her perception of her surroundings. It often has painterly qualities and abstract features due to her deliberate use of blur
“THE CAMERA WAS TEACHING ME HOW TO SEE.”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYcpPDq5iQ&feature=emb_logo
Step 1:
Research the photographer
and analyse their work in
writing explaining their
background and their
work. Use the writing
frames to help you.
Step 2:
Create your own version
of this by taking your
own photographs. Take
enough to create a
contact sheet. Upload
your photographs to
google drive. Annotate
with keywords and using
the annotation card.
Step 3:
Use the writing frame to
analyse this work.
Step 4:
Edit the photographs
using your phone.
TASK 2
Approx 3-4 hours work
UTA BARTH - PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGESPhotograph shadows
made by light coming through a window.
Photograph the movement of fabric in the wind.
Create a photoshoot exploring shallow depth of field and deliberate blurring.
Set up a still life of glass and glass bottles. Create shadows by shining light through and photograph.
Edward Hopper(1882 -1967)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered to be one of America's greatest modern painters. Hopper's enduring popularity stems from his ability to stage scenes from everyday life in a way which also addresses universal concerns. His contemplative studies of modern life, captured within the stark interiors of automats, motel rooms, diners and movie theatres have a timeless quality, transcending the hour and the place to become profound statements about the human condition. It is this quality which has inspired generations of artists, writers and filmmakers. Hopper believed that the artist's goal was to reveal the truth about the everyday and the interior life of ordinary people. His paintings are flooded with penetrating beams of sun or moonlight which expose isolated figures in sparsely furnished rooms, portraits of aloneness, absorbed in themselves and detached from their world. Another major theme of Hopper's work is the use of American vernacular architecture, often cropped in a way to increase psychological tension and heighten the feeling of isolation.
Step 1:
Research the photographer
and create some writing
explaining their
background and their
work. Use the SEMI
approach to help you.
Step 2:
Create your own version
of this by taking your
own photographs. Take
enough to create a
contact sheet. Upload
your photographs to
google drive. Annotate
with keywords and using
the annotation card.
Step 3:
Use the writing frame to
analyse this work.
Step 4:
Edit the photographs
using your phone.
TASK 3
Approx 3-4 hours work
EDWARD HOPPER- PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGES
Explore rule of thirdscompositions by positioning your model to the left of right of your frame.
Explore framing compositions by using windows to frame your model.
Explore colour theory by asking your model to wear complimentary colours to the environment you are shooting in.
Explore different lighting. Natural Lighting or artificial lighting.
Photography is often used as a tool to document or classify objects.
A typology is described as a study or analysis using a classification according to general type.
In photography this means a series of photographs related by form - this could mean:
● Shape ● Colour ● Texture ● Form ● Texture ● Pattern ● Line
Typologies
BERND BECHER (1931-2007)HILLA BECHER (1934-2015)
Were German conceptual artists and photographers who worked as a creative duo.
They met as students and married in 1961.
They are best known for their extensive series or typologies of industrial structures.
These are often displayed in a grid formation.
TASK 1
Approx 3-4 hours work
TYPOLOGIES - PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGES
Take photographs to create a sequence using food
It could be the eating, molding, cooking, peeling etc.
Take photographs from a view of your window every hour of the day.
Take photographs of a collection (Shoes, Nail varnishes etc.)
Take a photograph of your plate everytime you eat dinner and/ or finish dinner.
Take photographs of facial features.
Take photographs of items that are the same colour or shape.
The following slides are the VINTAGE 'Through the window progress test
information.
RED pre-public EXAM CHALLENGE
Plan and research ideas for taking photographs using windows and frames within your camera frame. Think about the
following key question when doing this:
HOW CAN YOU USE A WINDOW IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS TO DRAW THE VIEWERS ATTENTION TO SOMETHING?
For your PRE-PUBLIC EXAM PREPARATION YOU WILL NEED:
1. Research of images of photographers who use windows within their photographs
2. A plan of how you will use windows within your own VINTAGE style photographs (think about how you will answer the
question above when taking photos.)
3. A series of 25+ photos showing the above
4. Present the above in sketchbook imaginatively
IN THE EXAM YOU WILL:
1. Present and evaluate your photos in your Powerpoint using RED sheet
2. Use Photoshop to edit and enhance your photos TO CREATE A VINTAGE STYLE
Lee Friedlander 2002.Las
Vegas. From inside his car
Arthur Rothstein’Christmas
window’Osego County.1937
Andre Kertesz shot through
the face of a clock
superimposing the
numerals in reverse over a
view of Paris. The concept
challenges expectations of
photographic images
showing clear information
about a subject. Links to
early 20th C painting
AMBER pre-public EXAM CHALLENGEPlan and research ideas for taking photographs using windows and frames within your camera frame. Think about the
following key question when doing this:
HOW CAN YOU USE A WINDOW IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS USING COMPOSITION, VANTAGE POINT AND LIGHTING
IMAGINATIVELY IN RELATION TO YOUR CHOSEN VINTAGE THEME?
For your PRE-PUBLIC EXAM PREPARATION YOU WILL NEED:
1. Research of images of photographers who use windows within their photographs to communicate meaning
2. A written analysis of photographs which explain how the photographers have used a window imaginatively using
COMPOSITION, VANTAGE POINT & LIGHTING.
3. A plan using AMBER SHEET of how you will use windows within your own VINTAGE style photographs to communicate a
message (think about how you will answer the question above when taking photos.)
4. A series of 30+ photos showing the above
5. Present the above in sketchbook imaginatively using at least 5 presentational devices (colour scheme, font style, tags,
windows, borders/ frames, relief…)
IN THE EXAM YOU WILL:
1. Present and evaluate your photos in your Powerpoint using AMBER sheet
2. Use Photoshop to edit and enhance your photos TO CREATE A VINTAGE STYLE
PHOTOGRAPH WHICH COMMUNICATES A MESSAGE
William Eggleston. Memphis 1992 Anne Hardy ‘Incidence’2009
Andre Kertesz shot through the
face of a clock superimposing the
numerals in reverse over a view
of Paris. The concept challenges
expectations of photographic
images showing clear information
about a subject. Links to early
20th C painting
GREEN pre-public EXAM CHALLENGEPlan and research ideas for taking photographs using windows
and frames within your camera frame to communicate a
message. Think about the following key question when doing
this:
HOW CAN YOU USE A WINDOW IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
USING COMPOSITION, VANTAGE POINT, LIGHTING &
CONTEXT IMAGINATIVELY TO COMMUNICATE A
MESSAGE IN RELATION TO YOUR CHOSEN VINTAGE
THEME?
For your PRE-PUBLIC EXAM PREPARATION YOU WILL
NEED:
1. Research of images of photographers who use windows
within their photographs to communicate meaning
2. A plan using GREEN SHEET of how you will use windows
within your own VINTAGE style photographs to
communicate a message (think about how you will answer
the question above when taking photos.)
3. Two shoots (a series of 30+ photos for each) showing the
above. One shoot must be a development shoot from the
first ideally.
4. Present the above in sketchbook imaginatively using at
least 5 presentational devices (colour scheme, font style,
tags, windows, borders/ frames, relief…)
IN THE EXAM YOU WILL:
1. Present and evaluate your photos in your Powerpoint
using GREEN sheet
2. Use Photoshop to edit and enhance your photos TO
CREATE A VINTAGE STYLE
PHOTOGRAPH WHICH COMMUNICATES A MESSAGE
Saul Leiter’s image shot
through a steamed up
diner window is superbly
mysterious and painterly
William Eggleston. Memphis 1992 Anne Hardy ‘Incidence’2009
PPE Photo-Assignment: ‘Through the Window’
Photographers ands artists have visited the idea of windows as metaphors over time and this presentation is designed to provoke interest in ‘windows’ as a series of images that might convey a range of interesting VINTAGE style shots as a purely photographic challenge FOR YOUR PRE-PUBLIC EXAM. In pairs discuss the question: How have artists used the window in their work to create a successful, imaginative and thoughtful image?
Jan Vermeer.’Woman reading at a window’
Tom Wood ‘Woman reading eviction notice’
Photograph
PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’
In all these paintings,Dali,Picasso,Rembrandt,Dutch interior the window is in the background of the composition but still a significant feature. A window defines the boundary between inside and outside. Space opens up and air and light flood in.
PPE Photo-Assignment: ‘Through the Window’
Paintings by Van
Gogh, Edward
Hopper,Edward
Wyeth and two
contemporary
painters Ken Howard
and Charlotte
Arizzidoni all have
included a window as
fact, as a structural
device and source of
internal light within
the frame space
PPE Photo-Assignment: ‘Through the Window’
PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window
Resources to stimulate experimentation by students for personal response
Looking out from inside to outside high viewpoints offer depth of visual detail
PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’
Inside out.The window forms a secondary picture plane within the frame
Saul Leiter’s image shot through a
steamed up diner window is superbly
mysterious and painterly
Josef Sudek obsessively
photographed this window view
of his garden.
Andre Kertesz shot through the
face of a clock superimposing
the numerals in reverse over a
view of Paris. The concept
challenges expectations of
photographic images showing
clear information about a
subject. Links to early 20th C
painting
PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’
A window is a key composition feature within the frame with interior interest.
Fox Talbot .1948!! Amazing choice of
view. A tonally engrossing image with
just enough exposure control to define
shape and some detail.
Marc Riboud ‘A street in Bejing’ 1985. The parallel
plane of windows to the picture plane sub-divides
the composition into to mini-frames,creating
‘pictures within pictures’.
Lee Friedlander 2002.Las
Vegas. From inside his carJohn Pfhal. Hawaii, 1978
Jean Luc Maylane.Nov-
Dec 2000-1
Bill Brandt’Eaton
Place,London’1955Gordon Parks’Harlem’
1944
Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’PPE
Outside to inside. The window holding fascination within.
William Eggleston. Memphis 1992Saul Leiter.NYC 1950’s
Aaron Siskind ‘New
York’1948
Anne Hardy ‘Incidence’2009
Germaine Krull ‘Pillot Shoes’ No date Arthur Rothstein’Christmas
window’Osego County.1937
PPE Photo-Assignment PREPARATION : ‘Through the Window’
TASK 1: You need to study examples of the creative use within compositions of a window feature and then to study actual
photography practice to glean inspiration for your own personal response REMEMBER YOUR RESPONSE MUST LINK TO
VINTAGE OR YOUR VINTAGE THEME. The following slides will concentrate on photographic examples from the history of
photography to contemporary sources.
TASK 2: Present your research creatively in your Powerpoint with written annotation- what do you think of the work? How might it
inspire you? THIS IS PREPARATION FOR TAKING PHOTOS TOMORROW & HOMEWORK
TASK 3: Complete plan using RAG planning proforma on central resources