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. 

POP ART

Pop Art within Photography!!

- Pop art is often associated with the New York 1960's fashionable art scene
- Pop art is ACTUALLY driven from the 1950's London Art Schools
- "The Independent Group" was a subversive collection of students at the Institute of Contemporary Art in 1953 and 1954.
- This group included Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Blake, John McHale, Lawrence Alloway, Peter Reyner Banham, Richard Smith and Jon Thompson.
- Pop Art appreciates popular (or material) culture
- Incorporates recognisable imagery, such as products and parts from media
- Usually very bright colours
- Flat imagery inspired by comics and newspaper photographs
- Lots of images of celebrities

Pop art and Dada and relatable. Dada was a massive influence on Pop art as they both use information of the times. Dada used visual arts, poetry and other medias, and highly focused on the issues of the war, whereas Pop Art has evolved to incorporate all different medias and popular culture of the time. They're relatable because they both deal with the issues that were current at those times.

Pop Art's influence on contemporary photography is very strong! If it weren't for the Pop Art movement we wouldn't have a lot of genius photographers out in the world today. Lots of photographer's who use product placement and other media's in their photos to make a statement. It wouldn't be acceptable if Pop Art didn't exist.