A2 Photography Exam

Inside, Outside, In Between

Mystery and Intrigue

Pans Labyrinth- Guillermo Torro'Pan's Labyrint'h trailer

Alice in Wonderland- Tim Burton'Alice in Wonderland' trailer

In film and literature, characters often transfer from their ordinary, ‘real’ lives into a realm of fantasy through a portal of some kind.

A Parallel World.

David McKean

Illustrate a poem, lyric, fairytale... Combine real and fake elements when taking the photograph. Edit digitally or draw /collage into the image.

SurrealismMan Ray

MagritteHerbert Bayer

Olivia Parker, Whelks (from "Lost Objects portfolio), 1980

Olivia Parker often produces intricate still life photographs of natural objects. The apparent simplicity of her technique acts to emphasise the complexity of these natural forms – the hard shell which had at one time contained the soft living creature, the feather which once adorned the a bird’s exterior.

Protect and contain the insides.

Laura Letinsky Edward Weston

Inner character, outer persona.Rineka Dijkstra established her reputation with a series of photographs made of young people aged at that difficult time between childhood and adulthood which all humans must traverse.Krazyhouse

Dianne Arbus is known for her photographs of those on the ‘fringe’ or edge of conventional society: transvestites, circus performers, dwarves and so on. These people often lived within society and yet were simultaneously a set apart.

A recurrent theme in the work of American artist Edward Hopper is the representation of both the inside and outside world in his paintings, perhaps alluding to something about the relationship between our ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’ lives & emotions.

Philip Lorca Di Corcia

Lee Friedlander

Garry Winogrand

Dominic HarrisMoving between places…

Uta Barth

Cosmin Bumbut

Walker Evans ‘Subway Portraits’

Inside on the Outside

Model, Rick Genest

Katherine Du Tiel Danny Quirk

Outside on the InsideAnna Schuleit

Rob HomstraSandy Skoglund

Sometimes it is what is left OUTSIDE the image that is that is important. This is usually determined by the photographer’s viewpoint & chosen crop.

In this image by Weegee, we see inside the image children and two adults, with a multitude of different expressions and emotions.It is the dead, gunned down body that is left outside of the image which the children and two adults view.Arthur H Fellig (Weegee), Their first murder, c.1941

Inside vs outside the viewfinder.

‘The Earth Dies Screaming’

‘Mogambo’

Alex Prager

Cindy Sherman

The work of Hungarian, Andre Kertesz demonstrates compositional skills: shapes within shapes (spaces, shadows & areas of ‘light’ inside other shapes & spaces).

Frames inside frames.

In 1989, Jean Marc Bustamente began a series of images silkscreened on Plexiglas and mounted two inches from the wall on metal brackets. The Lumières, as the series is known, seem to glow as they are illuminated by light reflected through them from the wall behind.

Between Absence and Presence.

Moholy Nagy

Floris Neususs

Adam Fuss

Obsessive Compulsive

Francesca Woodman

In combining performance, play and self-exposure, Francesca Woodman’s photographs create extreme and often disturbing psychological states. In concealing or encrypting her subjects she reminds the viewer that photographs flatten and distort, never offering the whole truth about a subject.

Ana Mendieta, Silueta, 1976

The silueta (silhouette) was a series of artwoks made by Ana Mendieta in which she left an ‘imprint’ of her body in snow, mud, sand, grass etc. These were transient ephemeral artworks, at their creation a performance piece, then recorded photographically.

Artist Richard Long is known for his Land-Art, often photographing tracks made by repeated use, or arranging natural materials within the landscape and then photographing them.

Capturing moments between a beginning and an end.

Steve McQueen 'Deadpan'‘Deadpan’ a response to Buster Keaton’s falling house stunt:Buster Keaton 'Steamboat Bill'

Thanks to the fortuitous positioning of a window, McQueen survives Buster Keaton’s famous gag sequence in Steamboat Bill Jnr. (1928) where the side of a house collapses on top of the hapless Keaton again and again. Each time his survival is filmed from a different angle. But whereas Keaton ran through a windstorm in Steamboat, in Deadpan McQueen doesn’t move.Different views of the moment of impact are repeated and reversed to create a sequence where the final Moment is suspended.

Steve McQueen

Steven Pippin Kevin Batangan Harold Edgerton

Shadows

Shadows and silhouettes can be used to ‘hide’ or ‘keep outside’ information about the subject of an image.

PoL Úbeda Hervàs