POSTMODERNISM ATTEMPT

POP ART ATTEMPT

CUBISM ATTEMPT

PINHOLE CAMERA EXERCISE

Pinhole cameras!

- The basics of camera obscura was founded by Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Al-Haitham (Alhazen) (965-1040AD) when he invented the pinhole camera (camera obscura)

- The camera obscura has been used for over a thousand years

- The first camera obscura was simply a small wall in a wall of a dark room or tent

- Light passing through the hole created an inverted (upside-down) image of the outside scene on a white screen placed across the room from the hole

- Artists were the first proper used of the camera obscura as they figured out they could trace the image

- There were a few factors when projecting the image onto the wall such as

• Sharpness - size of the hole, quality (or smoothness) of the hole
• Lens Choice - hole is the aperture, distance of wall to hole is the focal length
• Exposure - trial and error but nowadays digital cameras can figure it out automatically

When attempting to create my own pin hole camera, it really wasn't working out. No image I got was clear nor properly exposed. I had many attempts of which nothing came out nicely or good, AT ALL.

So instead of showing my failed attempts, I'm just going to show some of my favourite ones I've come across when having a search!

These photos were taken by street photographer, Scott Speck.

My opinion on pinhole photography. Well, it's not really for me. I can admire it and see the beauty in pinhole camera photographs, but it's not really my style and not something I can see myself eagerly doing. I can appreciate a pinhole camera photograph well, and understand now the struggles of taking the photos, but it's just not something I'd be going out of my way to do.

IDEA MAKING PART 2

When I finally sat myself down and thought i'd cemented my idea, it still had lots of cracks in it. Like, location, styling, make up, hair, all of these things were all dependent on the day.

I wasn't able to get to my friends beforehand to see if their hair was the exact same tone or both white, nor was I able to test make up on the two of them because I didn't get a chance to see them.

Location, we were going to use my friends house because the other two of us live with a parents and knew it'd get too crowded, so his house was free, of which that's in the eastern suburbs and I hadn't gone around looking for locations around there before the exact date of shooting.

So on the day I went to shoot I went and shot, and got some pretty amazing stuff.

It wasn't the exact idea I'd had in my mind BUT it had come out even better!

Here are the final photos I got.

'INCESTUOUS TWINS'

I'm extremely happy with the final photos. I like that they look a little overexposed, just because it adds to the light of the photo. I like subjectively looking into the overexposure as it's got a little less detail, adding to the concept being incestuous siblings. There's no need for detail, it's just fact and that's that.

IDEA MAKING PART 1

Coming up with your own ideas seems to be something photographers/artists either find extremely difficult or really easy!

I think of myself and my idea process as somewhere in the middle of that where I like to come up with ideas but processing them to reality is often difficult. I often like location scouting or having a weird concept in mind. 

I recently bleach two of my friends hair at the same time and they both ended up with platinum blonde hair. I immediately came up with the idea of them being twins, but then again, almost incestuous together. Although they aren't actually related, they do look similar, just with both having platinum white hair and blue eyes and similar skin tones, I wanted to make them pose together to be a little bit disturbingly incest but at the same time beautiful in doing so.

I guess this is an influence of Postmodernism and Modernism together, where I'm examining the characters and making the unnatural thing they're partaking in seem beautiful.

I wanted the photos to be quite close in frame, showing their closeness.

I also wanted it to look really natural, so I wanted the models to be naked, or at least look as naked as possible.

More thinking will have to come into this though. Location isn't set. I'd like the location to not depict the scene but at the same time help a little bit, even if it's just in the design of the frame. 

POST MODERNISM

Post Modernism within Photography!!

Beginning of the mid-to-late 1960's, when Abstract Expressionism had already been falling out of public favour for some time, many artists were turning towards mixed media art forms, such as
- Conceptualism
- Super-Realism
- Neo-expressionism
which in turn were the founding movements of Post Modern Art.
It often is an expression of the idea of utopianism in ideal or absolute form.

BAUHAUS

Bauhaus has attempted this idea through a minimalist way. He's helped add to the idea that Postmodernism is an attempt to muddy lines drawn falsely clear. 

Often pictures of somewhere where the area really isn't beautiful, and nothing special, has been captured in a way that makes you want to go there and think it's actually amazing.

I like Postmodernism in this sense. I like the idea that it makes me want to go somewhere which is actually nothing special, but the part of Postmodernism that I don't like are the portraits. Although yes, the point of a lot of portraits was to make the ugly person (or what society would consider ugly) seems beautiful, to me I just don't relate and often don't see the beauty.

These kind of images, although they are art and not always meant to be understood, I don't find this kind of Postmodernism interest or interesting however, I do enjoy when fashion photography incorporates Postmodernism like this:

I like fashion Postmodernism, although it does almost cross into Pop art as well, but just without the products or mainstream imagery (but not always). I like the bright colours and beauty of the figure, doing something that's considerably still not beautiful but she's made this seem so.