Commission Untit Formative Review

7/30/2019 Commission Untit Formative Review

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CommissionUnit

Landscape & City

Hannah Jacobs


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Landscape

My initial ideas for landscape: Patterns

Natural patterns

Interrupted

Man made interruption

Natural continuation ended by man

Roads and roadside

Meeting point of the two

Concrete meats nature


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Initial shoot Local woods and local A road

Bridge over the A road, fences separating

the two

The contrast of the concrete against the

natural

The rhythm is made by man, natural isnt

rhythmic

The way to reach the natural is through

the rural

Concrete seems useless in this context


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Simone Nieweg Her ideas and themes were similar to that, that were appearing in my work.

Looked into her work for inspiration on how to shoot my idea in maybe not such an

obvious way. She does this through composition.

Photographs close to home for familiarity.

Distruption of the land is subtle and not all it seems, it is often a comment about the

land we see being a distruption itself as these patterns do not appear naturally, they

are manmade.

Commonly uses roadside crop fields.


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Fergus Heron

Meeting point of nature/ is the nature

spilling out or being contained by the

roads. Certain images have a subtle hint of a

road .

Not the most obvious choice of

composition to tackle similar ideas to

mine.


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Nadav Kander Colour Fields Looking at his work for different visual ideas and less obvious ways to think about my ideas

The lighting acting as the meeting point of the man made and the natural (the lighting

being the man made) The places appearing as roadside sites relating to my ideas of looking at roads and

roadsides

Creating a different emotion to the piece, makes the viewer slightly unsure of what to think

about the field rather than angry about the theme being discussed within the work


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Hans-Christian SchinkI feel that this is where most of my inspiration came from. Hans unlike the other artists went

about his work by being obvious with what he was trying to say and not leaving the viewer

any room to debate what was clearly being observed and questioned through his pieces. He

used Becher style composition when photographing his subjects within this body of work,

which I admire as I see this as aesthetically pleasing and aspired to create this within my

work. Schink's images attack the issue with strong leading lines and huge structures which

are literally cutting through the landscape. This also seemed the best way to compose my

idea within the image. I think that his work influenced me the most as the idea behind his

work was so similar to mine, and some images in particular show this well. The ones inwhich the viewer cannot make out the use of the man made construction that is

interrupting the landscape makes me particularly frustrated with what I am seeing, which is

what I aspire to evoke within my viewers. I realised when looking at his work that the best

way to tackle my ideas and put them in front of the viewer was to say exactly what I mean

by physically making my images obvious. I physically wanted there to be a big interruption

within the image.This project which I have taken these images from are based on Germany's project of

creating an westernised landscape. These are supposed to create a flourishing landscape.

He took a particular interest into the bridges and extravagant slip roads, again linking into

the same ideas as my work. However, I feel that there is a slight deceitful side to his work as

the images do appear as breathtaking and overwhelming, however this is then changed

once realising that they are breathtaking due to their monstrous size.


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Nicola Hulett Mans control over the land

Mans contact with the land not physically

seen but shown through the land

The manmade is within the trees, they

have become the obstruction to the land,

as their placement is constructed by man

Other Inspirations

Robert Adams The meeting point of the manmade and

the natural land

Land is losing to the manmade

Composition shows the natural falling

off, being defeated by the manmade

More of a look at the mass manmade

constructions


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City

My initial Ideas for city: The city not being overwhelming as it is often seen

City scapes, encompassing the city into one

Man conquering the city

Man having control over the city

The city as digestable

Removing the people from the city

Certain viewpoints allowing you to stand back from

the city, allowing the city to become simple


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Gabriele Basilico - Beirut

The image is all about

the viewpoint andthe manipulation the

photographer has

over how the viewer

sees the city.

Although different

themes are beingpresented within this

image, the idea of

the viewpoint is

similar to my idea, as

that is where it

stemmed from, being

able to see the city in

a particular way,

changing the

psychological attitude

towards the city.


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Having attempted to shoot a city scape but having the wrong view point and wrong lens, I

began to think if this was the right way to shoot my idea.

Which got me to think about the particular word, digestible. The city broken down to not

overwhelm. The city as the opposite of what it is often viewed as.

So I began thinking about what the city consists of and came up with two categories.

Transport

Buildings

This then lead to some subheadings as these are still quite broad ideas. Transport:

Cars (this would later change to motors in general)

Trains

Buses (this would later change to bikes)

Buildings

Homes

Leisure

Work

I feel that this project has developed more into a psychological break down of the city. The

images still kept free of people and within the simplistic uncomplicated style similar to the

bechers work.

Idea Development


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Vera Lutter

Having researched Vera Lutter for a

research task I really took to her work

and ideas. I really admired her ability

to completely focus on the mechanicsof the city, removing any presence

physically. However, there is still a

reminder that this is a city because of

people inhabiting and building, due to

the blurs of people and the

development they make on the objects

throughout the long exposures. I also

admire her work as it is taken at

nighttime, how I intend to shoot mine.

I also can relate to her composition

visually as she tends to have quite

simple becher style composition which

is how I imagined mine to be. I think

the reason this works for hers, and for

mine too, is because it removes any

distraction from the focal point and

gives the viewer what they need tosee.


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The Bechers

The Bechers style has been a very big influence to my photography in general but especially

in this project due to the nature of how I wish to make my collection appear. The simplicity

and conformity is something I aspire to, although I will not be photographing buildings that

look similar and putting them together I hope to photograph them in a way that is simple andbrings them together to create a series of images which is essentially a break down of what

the city consists of. Again there is an absence of human activity within the images, adding to

the simplicity, and focus on the subjects.


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Germain Krull

Similar way of looking at the city to me

More of an essence of conquering the city

rather than breaking it down, however stillmakes it accessible.

Views the city from above, looks down at

the streets and people

The viewer does not feel this is something

to be overwhelmed by


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S lf E l i L


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Self Evaluation - LanscapeThe issues that surround the landscape environment are very much to do so with man and the

control or lack of control over the land. Also there is constantly a mention of the manmade

interfering with the land. For my project I decided to look into this interference in many

different ways and ended up going with quite an obvious way of projecting my thoughts through

the images, although it does go against many of the landscape influences as a lot of the time

landscape is projected in a way that appears to be one thing and in actual fact another. I decided

to go with this very up front, and matter of fact style as I felt that it was the most appropriate

way to show interruption in the land. As the interruption is usually that of a harsh kind, I felt

that my work needed to reflect this visually. The overcast weather helped me to create this as it

helped to not distract from the manmade object running through the landscape. Also I had aconstant objective to select how the viewer saw the interruption, so that they did not see the

purpose of the manmade obstruction, as to not cloud their frustration of the landscape being

interfered with. I feel that these visual choices have really worked for my piece as there is a

great sense of frustration created, as the objects simply slice through the images, leaving the

landscape literally cut up. I feel that I have managed my studies well for this unit however, there

was a slight imbalance in the time management between the practical and the research. I feelthat I could have done more test shoots in preparation of the final shoots. This may have helped

me with my biggest issue within the project, creating a real sense of a collection of images.

Making the images similar yet different. Also choosing how to project my ideas was another

main issue as I had two strong visual references in my mind that I liked equally and feel that this

could have been explored a little better practically. To overcome this by my final submission, I

am going to explore some different locations, shooting in the style of both ideas, and possiblycombining the two.

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Self Evaluation - City

For the city, I felt that a lot of the issues generally explored through photography are to do with

the city as a living and growing complex which can often be either frustrating or overwhelming. I

decided to push against this idea with my work as I have a strong belief that the city can be

accessible to anyone if presented in the right way. I then decided to turn my project into a

psychological breakdown of the city. This lead me to photograph at night, allowing me to

remove the hussle and bussle from the images, including humans, and keep them as simple as

possible. I also decided that a simplistic becher style format would take place in my work to

enable the subjects to be as digestible as possible. I feel that for this project again my studies

went according to plan, however if there was something that could have had more attentionwould be the research, as I dont feel a strong prescence of artist influence within my ideas. I

feel that this would be a main thing to rectify before the final submission as this could change

and evolve my work into something better, and also have more understanding of how other

artists have attempted to do something similar. I feel that another difficulty of my project was

bringing all the different shoots together as a collection due to all the different locations,

lighting and angles, it doesnt feel as wholesome as I would have liked. However, I do feel that ithas given me something to think about within my work, as the lighting has proven to be similar

on particular pairs of images in interesting ways, making some seem warmer and some colder. I

feel that I can either go with this idea before my final submission or try to rectify this, however I

would need to do more research into lighting and how different artists have used it within

collections.

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