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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Landscape- Exericse 1:6- The Contemporary Abyss
For this exercise, we had to read an essay by Simon Morley entitled “Staring into the contemporary abyss” and then discuss a film, piece of art, music etc which relates to it and how it relates. http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/staring-contemporary-abyss I found this … Continue reading
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Tagged BA Hons in Photography, Beauty and the sublime, degree exercise, exercise, Jurassic Park, OCA, OCA Landscape, OCA Landscape part 1, OCA Landscape Part 1 Beauty and the sublime, Simon Morley, staring into the contemporary abyss, terror, The contemporary abyss, the sublime, The uncanny, transcendence
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Photographer of the Week- Ruth Simmons
This week’s photographer is a photographer who is local to myself, Ruth Simmons. Just before Christmas I visited one of her exhibitions at the Ancient High House in Stafford. It is the 4th exbitition she has held at this location, … Continue reading
Landscape- Exercise 1.5- Visualising Assignment 6: Transitions
For this exercise, we were asked to begin working on Assignment 6- Transitions. First we had to familiarise ourselves with the assignments brief and choose a suitable location to photograph over the duration of the course. In order the find … Continue reading
Photographer of the week- P H Emerson
For this weeks photographer I have chosen P H Emerson. Emerson was born in 1856 in Cuba and moved to England in 1869 with his mother and brother after she was widowed. He mainly took “naturalistic” photos which focussed on … Continue reading
Landscape- Exercise 1.4- What is a photographer?
For this exercise we had to read and identify the keys points in Marius de Zayas articles Photography and Photography & Artistic Photography Click to access DI_Week6_PhotoAndArt.pdf There were a lot of points I found within the two articles, some … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract art, Abstract form, Abstract lines, artistic form, BA Hons in Photography, Clinical photographers, degree, degree exercise, exercise, Marius De Zayas, OCA, OCA Landscape, OCA Landscape part 1, Photography, Photography and Artistic Photography, photography degree, SOCO, What is a photographer, What is art, What is photography
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Photographer of the week- Frank Fontana
Bearing in mind my last exercise, I thought Frank Fontana’s work was perfect to be this week’s photographer. Fontana has created beautiful abstract landscape photos which are akin to paintings by artists such as Serge Poliakoff and Mark Rothko. He … Continue reading
Landscape-Exercise 1.3- Establishing Conventions
For this exercise, we had to find 12 examples of 18th and 19th century landscape paintings and list the commonalities we found within them. After we had done this, we had to find examples of landscape photographs from any era … Continue reading
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Tagged Ansel Adams, Caspar David Friedrich, Claude Monet, degree exercise, Gainsborough, Jakob Philipp Hackett, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, John Constable, landscape paintings, landscape photographs, OCA, OCA Landscape, OCA Landscape part 1, OCA Landscapes, paintings verus photographs, Sebastiao Salgado, Thomas Cole, Turner
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