My Paper VS Digital photos

Juergen Tellers Analysis

Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller is an artist and fashion photographer. Teller was born in 1964 in Germany. Teller studied in Germany from 1984-1986 at the Fotodesign Academy of Munich (the “Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie”). Teller didn’t want to join the military so in order for him to avoid it he would learn English and later immigrated to London in 1980’s. In 1986, he started to take photos of celebrities’ such as, Elton John, emma stone, Kate moss and many more.

Teller didn’t know anything about fashion when he immigrated to London. He worked for many people and magazines such as, “Face”, ”Vogue” and many different ones. This then increased his knowledge towards high fashion. Teller worked for places such as, Calvin Klien, Louis Vuitton and others.

Teller exhibited his work in different countries in order for him to raise awareness of his talent and would receive many awards for his are for example, in Monaco he won a prize at the fashion festival.

Teller does not try to flatter but to be true so he gives the same treatment to everyone he takes photos of which makes his not bias and even.

Teller uses a Contax G2 camera with an onboard flash. He enjoys working in colour

Teller has had many partnerships with other designers such as, Vivienne Westwood.

Teller is married to UK contemporary art dealer Sadie Coles.

Tellers work is in many art photography museums such as, The photographer’ Gallery in London. His work is in many different museums such as, In paris, exhibitions at the Foundation Cartier pour l'art and in many other places such as New york.

Man Ray - Exhibition

Man Ray is an American Artist. His art includes painting, sculpture, collage, constructed object and photography. He worked in paris from 1921 to 1940. One of his assistants was Picasso.

In the London Exhibition Ray has many pictures which he has taken and these include the photos ebelow. This photo has been framed in a way of a mug shot. It is a medium shot which i think that was the shot Ray wanted. There are no object in the picture which gives us a clue of what the photo is about but we can see that the picture is a picture of a women. The tone of the picture looks like its a picture that he had drew because of the different type of shadings of black there is in the picture. This makes the photo look more natural.

In this picture its a different type of picture compared to the first one because this photo looks like its been taken with a camera and has been editied in photoshop. This photo looks a bit effectivewith the different contrasty dark colours that are in the picture for instants, the womens appron has a dark tone to it which then stands out.

This photo looks like sexual photo that has been edited in photoshop. This photo does not look like it has a meaning to it but looks interesting in some way.

My best photo out of all the photos is the second photo with the women talking to the next women. The reason i like that picture the most is because of the tone of the photo and where the tones have been set out such as, on her appron. This gives the photo a more natural and modern look.

Photos For Exam Project (Experiments)

This is my first picture which was a bit overexposed but could still work. It is a obscured photo which she knew i was taking the photo.

This is my sandwich photo which i put another photo on top of another one when it was in the darkroom and left the timing for a short amount of time which was 3.5seconds. 

 

This is my contact sheet which then makes everything clear for me to see and it also helps me because i can see the photos clearer which i then know which ones are out of focus and which ones are in focus. 

I cut this photo into eight pieces and stuck them back together and put them in the negative carrier. 

In this photo i used a paint brush to develop some of the bits i wanted showing and i stopped some of the bits and fixed some of it the stop is the red colour and the fix is the purple colour. 

I done the same thing to this photo  but i made a design with it because i liked the way the other photo came out.

This photo was a handmade photo which i put some vaseline and some paint on it which gave me a wave effect at the bottom of the photo. This gave an effective good look to my picture

Sigmar Polke's Analysis

This is Sigmar Polkes drawing. Polke was a German painter and photographer who was born in 1941and died in 2010. Polke died at the age of 69. He was born in the Lower Silesian town of oelsnica, in Poland. His famiy had to move out of Silesia to Thuringia, Germany when he was four. Polke created an impression of normality by pretending to be asleep during their escape. They arrived by train in west Berlin.

Stigma studied glass painting in 1959 to 1960 at Dusseldorf Kaiserwerth and then moved to the Academy of Art at the age of 20.In 1977, Polke was a professor at the 'Academy Of Fine Arts', Hamburg. In 1978 he settled in Cologne and this is where he lived and worked until he died, june 2010 fighting cancer. 

Polke was using a Rollei camera to capture many different objects in his studio and house in 1966 to 1968. in 1971, it was very common that people couls not afford to print pictures but Polke accomplishef many films and took a numerous number of photographs but couldnt afford to print them.

.He done many experiments on many different things such as, different materials but focused on photography in the 1970s and went back to painting in the 1980s. Polke spent many time in galleries and museums.

In this photo it is not a realistic image it is a abstract image whch then does not show the actual representation of the image to the audience. In the picture it looks like he painting some of the the picture and added stencils onto it.

Polke has used a variety of different type of tone to his photo which makes the photo look more interesting because it give a different type of effect and texture and the paper looks like its a soft texture.
This picture is a confused picture to me but in some ways it calming but i personally think this depends on the persons personality and how the interpret the picture. 

Theme : Family; SALLY MANN

Sally Mann

Sally Man is an American photographer. Man was born in Virginia and was the only daughter out her parent’s children. Mann went to “The Putney School” and graduated which she then took up Photography. After Mann graduated he then worked at Washington and Lee University as a Photographer.

In 1992 Man published her third collection of her book, which was called “The immediate Family”. Mann has three children and her book was a mainly photos of the children. It contains 65 black and white photographs of the children, which were all under the age of 10. The types of photos that Mann will take of her children were photos such as then playing in nude, dressing up, playing board games and many other photos.

Man photos have been in many different Exhibits such as, In Sweden, two in New York City, Washington DC and many other Exhibits.

Manns photos have different camera angles such as, Establishing view which the audience can see majority of the setting, a close up; where her child is naked and a medium shot. The photo where her child is naked is a bit different from the rest of the photos because this creates a lonely scene to the audience especially because there are no objects showing in the picture where as, in the first photo with the two children standing on chairs there are many objects placed in the photo.

Mann has used a variety of tone in her photo for example, with the naked girl bending down the photo looks like she used photoshop to used HUE/Saturation on the photo to give it a more of a contrasty look. 

The reason why i have selected this photo as my starting point is because the photo is about family and family are very important aspects in many peoples lives, especially because its about children and today children are the most important in society which makes people want to look at this photo. Also because the picture shows a variety of meanings such as, the top right picture in the corner may present poverty which then refreshes peoples memory about whats going on in the world today. The bottom right may represent a sick child but also, has two different meanings to the picture because the little girl has a Tutu on which may show she might be tired from ballet. The top left picture makes me think Whats going on in the world? 

Im planning on looking at a various range of things such as, children, youths, middle adulthood and elderly people. The reason for this is because you see these ages in everyday life. My primary research would be how the different ages are portrayed in the media and i would compare them. The picture that i have chosen above can also be compared to the media and how poverty is presented.

Other Artists that i would be looking at are 

• Ron Galella: the godfather of paparazzi
• Daido Moriyama - City of life 
• Keith piper - quest to find truth 
• Sophia Stancer 

The different type of materials that i would like to experiment with are taking pictures; digital

SLR camera, photoshop and the darkroom.

I am planning on making a sandwich experiment which is with two different photos. 

My tutorial pictures

These are my tutorial photos which i have customised in photoshop to create a different kind of image which has been shown above. In this photo what I've done is I've added rectangles and squares to different parts of the photo to give it a different effect and coloured the rectangles and squares in different colours. This was my own experiment to see how it would turn out to look like. 

My second photograph i have tried to make the photo look like it was recorder such as, a CCTV. The background photo was a hotel picture. I don't think this went very well because my original photo is of someone walking up the stairs and the background is a hotel corridor. This experiment would have been better if i added something that would contrast with my original picture such as, a school corridor. 

This was my original photograph that i used. 

Digital photos - Obscured

This photo has been obscured because the Monkey is behind the bars. 

This photo is obscured because the girls legs are in the photo but her face has been cropped out. This has been edited in instagram.