Reflections
Artisit Research:
Lee Friedlander:
Friedlander studied photography at the Art Center College of Design located in Pasadena, California. In 1956, he moved to New York City where he photographed jazz musicians for record covers. His early work was influenced by Eugène Atget, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans. In 1960, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Friedlander a grant to focus on his art and made subsequent grants in 1962 and 1977. Some of his most famous photographs appeared in the September 1985 Playboy, black and white nude photographs of Madonna from the late 1970s. A student at the time, she was paid only $25 for her 1979 set, and in 2009, one of the images fetched $37,500 at a Christie's Art House auction. Friedlander now works primarily with medium format cameras (e.g. Hasselblad Superwide). While suffering from arthritis and housebound, he focused on photographing his surroundings. His book, Stems, reflects his life during the time of his knee replacement surgery. He has said that his "limbs" reminded him of plant stems. These images display textures which were not a feature of his earlier work. In this sense, the images are similar to those of Josef Sudek who also photographed the confines of his home and studio.
http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/lee-friedlander/bio/
http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/lee-friedlander/bio/
Style Of Artist
Lee Freidlanders Reproduced work
Looking at Reflections
Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate, Japan. Hatakeyama studied at the School of Art and Design at the University of Tsukuba in 1981, and later completed post-graduate studies there in 1984. Hatakeyama lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Nayoa Hatakeyama was born in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1958. In 1981 he graduated from the University of Tsukuba School of Art and Design and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Tsukuba in 1984. Hatakeyama is interested in the heightened tension that exists today between human culture and nature. In his Lime Works series and subsequent works, he traces the transformation of the Japanese landscape from limestone cliffs to concrete cities; limestone is a key element in concrete. Through interrelated groups of color images depictions of tranquil landscapes, explosive blasts, cement factories, and sprawling urban vistas Hatakeyama offers a subtle and expansive meditation on the human consumption of nature. His works are held in museums including the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
http://www.prixpictet.com/portfolios/earth-shortlist/naoya-hatakeyama/bio/
http://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/naoya-hatakeyama?all/all/all/all/0
http://www.prixpictet.com/portfolios/earth-shortlist/naoya-hatakeyama/bio/
http://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/naoya-hatakeyama?all/all/all/all/0
Reflective Paper Shoots
Equipment Used:
This is the equipment that I have used to create these two photographs. I rolled up the reflective piece of foil and I took a photograph through it of a person so it can reflect all around the piece of the reflective foil.
Photographs influenced by Naoya Hatakeyama but produced in my own style
I really like the cylinder effect the foil paper creates and the way it manipulates the colours.
Reflecting lines
Manipulating Lines
Signing the way
Reflecting in the rain
Changing reflections in water
Reflecting the dullness of the day
Cloud Formation Reflections
Final Piece
FINAL PIECE INFORMATION
Please click on the link below to see my full final piece presentation. due to file size it is saved as a PDF, the actual final piece is a powerpoint presentation with timed transitions but it is too large a file to upload to my website. I have produced transitions in my slideshow to show how reflections are ever changing and they never stay the same
Please click on the link below to see my full final piece presentation. due to file size it is saved as a PDF, the actual final piece is a powerpoint presentation with timed transitions but it is too large a file to upload to my website. I have produced transitions in my slideshow to show how reflections are ever changing and they never stay the same
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