Klaus Thymann

Pig 05049

Pig 05049 is a photo book by Christien Meindertsma. Over a three year period, she researched all the products created from the different parts of single pig. Each product is photographed in a very stark, objective manner and shown in it's true scale. I'm particularly fond of Meindertsma's decision to attach the pig's tag to the spine of the book.

Pig 05049

Fashion Mini Brief / Research

Our group has been given the brand All Saints and the publication Wallpaper.

We came across this whilst conducting the initial research into our publication. Sections of particular interest to us were the concept, audience profile, editorial summary and editorial content. This media pack can be found at: Wallpaper Media Pack

We had a look at our publication online and in print. There isn't a great deal of fashion based content in Wallpaper or perhaps it's more accurate to say that fashion isn't the publications primary focus. It's a very design focused publication featuring articles about architecture, design in general, art, travel (design based/architectural aspects of hotels in particular), cars, lifestyle, technology and of course fashion. The featured fashion articles all exhibit very high end, clean cut pieces. These are aimed at a rather dissimilar demographic to the one All Saints clothing appeals to. Here is a link to the online publication: Wallpaper

This is the All Saints website: All Saints

Here is a video for the AW12 campaign.

We decided looking for a fairly industrial, run down location would best suit our allocated brand. Additionally we considered how we might go about incorporating the All Saints logo featured below, into our shoot.

The shoot should be taking place during the week of the 4th - 10th of February. We've already found someone to model and do the make up for our shoot.

100 Abandoned Houses by Kevin Bauman

These images are from a typology entitled 100 Abandoned Houses by the photographer Kevin Bauman. As the title suggests the three featured images are part of a much larger body of work, consisting of 100 images of abandoned houses in the Detroit area. I have chosen these particular photographs for their composition. Within the typology, the majority of photographs feature large houses and mansions standing alone on a substantial plot of land. Whereas with the three I have selected, the houses on either side of the predominant subject are visible. I'm considering photographing rows of both terraced and semi-detached houses, to illustrate the complete lack of architectural variety throughout the area I live in.

http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/

http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/

http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/

Maisie Maud Broadhead

This is a still from the collaborative video entitled An Ode to Hill and Adamson by artist Maisie Maud Broadhead and filmmaker Jack Cole. Within the video Broadhead transforms an empty room into a ridiculously convincing, live Hill and Adamson photograph. I chose to include this because I think its an interesting and different approach with an outcome similar to what I’m hoping to have achieved by the end of my studio portrait project.


An Ode to Hill and Adamson from Maisie Broadhead on Vimeo.

Tom Hunter

This is a selection of images from the series entitled Life and Death in Hackney by the photographer Tom Hunter. With this series, he is attempting to get people to study the urban landscape, to look at his friends and the way they live and appreciate the beauty of it. His work discusses the issues surrounding the idea that everywhere in England has been touched by man, therefore all traces of industrialisation are key elements within the images. Much of his work is based upon the work of the Pre-Raphaelites given their work fits somewhat naturally into his due to the issues he's dealing with. The 19th century was an era of accelerated industrialisation against which the Pre-Raphaelites were working. In a sense, Hunter is collecting all the issues they were working with, that they believed to be relevant and using them in an entirely different age. Additionally, the richness of texture in his work directly reflects the immense detail and realistic qualities found in most Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

http://www.tomhunter.org/persons-unknown/

http://www.tomhunter.org/persons-unknown/

http://www.tomhunter.org/persons-unknown/

Hendrik Kerstens

This is work by Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens. The images I have selected are four of numerous photographs of his daughter. Here he has chosen to project his fascination with seventeenth century Dutch painters upon her. This is achieved successfully via the rather severe, confrontational character of the photographs, as well as their undeniable clarity and Kerstens's use of characteristically Dutch light. The first photograph in particular is rather reminiscent of the Johannes Vermeer painting entitled Girl with a Pearl Earring. The second appears to have a slightly softer focus than the other three producing a more painterly effect. Overall his work exhibits an appreciation of the fact that people are the same regardless of the age they lived in. Any association with a particular period of animate existence is established through the way we are depicted. 

10b Photography

10b Photography is one of the world's foremost digital darkrooms. The company seem to know where to draw the line between processing and manipulation. As a result, they facilitate any post-production requirements for a number of award winning photojournalists.

Post-processing in the digital age: Photojournalists and 10b Photography

10b Photography

Here are some examples of their work:

"Yuri Kozyrev's iconic image of the Libyan conflict went through the hands of the post-processing lab 10b before it was published to critical acclaim by Time magazine, due, in part, to its tones colours and contrast. Images © Yuri Kozyrev / Noor for Time."
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2133918/post-processing-digital-age-photojournalists-10b-photography

"Before and after. "Toning is harder when the before and after images are quite similar," says Claudio Palmisano of 10b. "In these cases, toning is part of the creative flow, where details make the real difference." Images © Yuri Kozyrev / Noor for Time."http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2133918/post-processing-digital-age-photojournalists-10b-photography

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

Here is a link for the introductory text featured in Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph. I looked at it as part of my essay research and found it to be a wonderful and humorous piece of writing.

From Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

Imagine...The World According to Parr

A Martin Parr documentary I watched as essay research.