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Research: Mixed Media – Julia Borissova

Julia Borissova uses a similar technique to Anzeri but instead of embroidery to obscure her found images, she uses flowers and petals. The found images she works with document 1920s Russian emigration and form her photographic series entitled ‘Running to the Edge’ (2014). The flowers offer the subjects heightened anonymity, because, as a viewer, the…

Research: Mixed Media – Maurizio Anzeri

Maurizio Anzeri Maurizio Anzeri uses the medium of embroidery to modify vintage found portraits which create really eye-catching and unique pieces of art. Such modification blends the historical and vintage medium of analog photography with a more modern abstract artistic style which emulates the obscure paintings of artists such as Picasso. The use of portraits in which…

Research: Mixed Media – Richard Hamilton

The photographer Richard Hamilton is most well known for his collages of found images which are considered to be some of the earliest works of the British Art Pop movement. The effect of these collages is one of true uniqueness and oddity due to the blending of seemingly mismatched objects taken from a variety of times…

Research: Sally Mann – Immediate Family

After looking into the photo series ‘Faces’ by Sally Mann, I took out her book ‘Immediate Family’ from the library to look into her other photos. The following three photos are the ones that stood out to me as most intriguing. Yard Eggs – There is an ethereal nature offered to the subject of this photo…

Reading – Analog to Digital: The Indexical Function of Photographic Images

This text discusses the transition and overlap of analog to digital photography. Critiques of digital photography are highlighted which involve a distaste for the suspicion that digital photography and, in particular, digital manipulation of photographs creates around the whole concept of photography. It is suggested that the digital “destroyed the photograph’s privileged connection to the…

Test Shots 3

After taking many test shots of myself, I decided to use the same technique of long exposures to capture photos of my friends. For some of the photos, I changed the background from a plain one, to one outside to see if it changed the effects of the photos. If I decide to use models…

Test Shots 2

The following test shots were all captured with an aperture of f/32, a focal length of 46mm and a shutter speed of 6 seconds. This meant that, due to the long exposure method of capturing the photographs, the right amount of light could enter the lens that was neither too bright (as is often the…

Research: Sally Mann – Faces

From producing some test shots for my project, I have become interested in producing unsettling or ghost-like photographs. I have become inspired by the photographer Sally Mann, particularly her photo series called ‘Faces’. Though I would not be able to emulate the method Mann uses to achieve her portraits – “they are made from wet-plate…

Research: Robert Knight – Sleepless

  After discovering an interest for long exposure photography, I looked into the work of Robert Knight. Knight produced a photo series entitled ‘Sleepless’ (2007-2016) in which he used an extremely long shutter speed to capture people tossing and turning as they sleep. The effect makes them seem ghostly and ethereal, as if they aren’t…