Bing began her career as a photojournalist in Frankfurt. In 1930, inspired by the work of Paris-based photographer Florence Henri, she packed up and moved to the French capital. Bing’s career flourished there. One of her best known photographs, a self-portrait taken in a mirror. I have chosen to look at Ilse Bing’s reflected self-portrait in more depth. I was inspired by the double reflection using two mirrors. It provides two different perspectives using the same single photograph. It incorporates her side and front profile, giving nearly a 360-degree view of her face. Furthermore, the two different angles of her face appear to be presenting two different facial expressions; the side profile is quite serious and more intense, and the front profile is more relaxed and calming. The image itself is quite mundane and candid as there is not much posing and is set in an ordinary and natural everyday setting.
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In my opinion, the first image was my most successful image out of my reflected selfies. This is because i feel it was the most creative and incorporated some elements from the image i looked at by Isle Bing. The double perspective give the photograph a more interesting touch and makes it more attention-grabbing. In addition, I also like how the photo reflected off the ladle turned out as there is something quite satisfying about the circular object and how it creates a fish-eye effect. I also find that the black and white affect added to the original photo makes it structured and cleaner to look at. The hardest part of this task was to find objects and surfaces to take the images on, however I think I was able to find and create some intriguing final images. I used two different cameras; an iPhone camera and a canon camera. I found that i prefer the photos created by the canon camera as it produces more professional looking photos and i feel it made the photos more balanced and proportional looking. Th black and white effect that i added to some of them give it a more crisp and dimensional look.
If i were to repeat this task i would definitely use the canon camera and incorporate a wider range of surfaces, maybe including outdoor surfaces such as shop windows or car windows. I would continue to use the black and white filter and repeat the circular surface to provide an enhanced perspective.
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An ambrotype, in short, is an early form of a photograph in which the photo is created by placing a glass negative against a dark background. Ambrotypes were introduced in the 1850’s and are commonly called ‘collodion positives’ because you are creating a positive photo on glass by a variant of the wet plate collodion process.
After the positive image is created, the dark background is put in place behind the image so that you can see all of the highlights, shadows, and details in the positive image. |
Lewis Khan is a photographic artist from London who works with stills and moving image. His portrait based work is a study of emotion, relationships, and identity. George Town is a projected done by Lewis Khan which is a view into the life of south London resident, George. This project gives an insight to the raw side of life; the casual everyday. Lewis and George had the relationship of passers-by that would often see each other on the street when Lewis went to play football as a teen. Georgetown is informed by six years of these impromptu and informal meetings in the street, usually the same one. The project looks at George's life including his life at home and what he does day to day. I really enjoy Lewis Khan's work as I find it really interesting and almost heartwarming to see such natural and raw emotion captures. For example, in this photo to the right, the candid joy of the image is uplifting and touching to look at. |
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In this task we are looking at the British, contemporary photographer Ben Watts. Ben Watts was born in London and started his creative journey at the Sydney College of Arts. He started his photographic career in Australia as a photographers assistant but soon moved to taking on commissions of his own, shooting for Australian "Elle" and "Vogue".
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This is a task we did in class where we were asked to create a collage based on Ben Watt's work, especially his work on his project "Big Up". Our focal point was the boxing sensation Muhammed Ali. Ben Watts, amongst many singers and actors, liked to work with and photograph boxers. We were given several different materials; masking tape, card, coloured paper, paint etc and had to arrange and creatively produce a collage of our own. We used many different images of him as well as quotes that had been printed out to incorporate within our collages. Firstly, as well as a focal image, I decided I wanted a focal colour to tie in with the images so I chose orange which I think worked well with the black and white images. I enjoy the center piece of my collage as I've isolated the bigger image of Muhammed Ali and positioned it to almost stick out of the page. Despite adding my own ideas, I believe Ben Watts did something similar isolating his focal points in several of his works.
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For this task we had to create a piece inspired by Ben Watts' "Big Up" project. Similar to the previous task, we had to make a collage of several images and texts, however in this task, we had to make it personal to us by using photos of ourselves and photos we had taken that make up our identity and what its like to live in London in 2021. To make this personal to me, I started with the foundation colour of pink being my favourite colour. Then I layered some images of myself and my friends in settings hat have meanings to me; my secondary school, my local park and at home. As the central image, I used a photo of myself to build off of and then I wrote some important phrases around the images, as Ben Watts does, including my date of birth, the year we're in, my post code and some locations that have meaning. I also added a train ticket in the collage to show that I am able to remain integrated into society, despite the ongoing 2021 covid crisis, through my use of public transport as a teenager. I also liked how I made the smaller photos look like polaroids by giving them white outlines which is similar to Ben Watts.
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My inspirationI liked how this artist composed the three images and how each image is its own photograph but together they create a really interesting effect. I wanted to incorporate Myra Greene's work into this style because I think that the details in the face would look particularly eye-catching.
The initial concept of the image was very exciting as the intricate detail would've appeared very fascinating, however, personally I feel that the final outcome was not as impressive as I had envisioned mainly due to the fact that I edited on word document which didn't allow for very clean background removals and the images just didn't produce the effect I had hoped for. Nevertheless, without the rigid edges and straight lines, I think that the composition and the images used were successful. I enjoy how the images i chose almost showed movement as they are of different angles and different profiles. |