David Hockney photo joiners
A photo joiner is involves the use of two or more separately taken images of a single scene to create a larger one by physically overlapping them or by digitally merging them.
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method for the photo joiner
To create this photograph I opened photoshop then I went to file>automate>photomontage. After you do this select collage and then deselect blend image, I selected my images from the folder and press ok. Then i moved around my layers and placed it in the right position. Finally I flattened my image and uploaded it.
My photo joiners:
David Hockney
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.
Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington, London and Normandy, as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California.
On 15 November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in New York City for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction. This broke the previous record, set by the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange) for $58.4 million. Hockney held this record until 15 May 2019 when Koons reclaimed the honour selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.
Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington, London and Normandy, as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California.
On 15 November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in New York City for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction. This broke the previous record, set by the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange) for $58.4 million. Hockney held this record until 15 May 2019 when Koons reclaimed the honour selling his Rabbit for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York.
Simplified images
method
Simplification denotes reducing the elements in your composition down to a bare minimum—just what is necessary to create the composition. That entails removing unnecessary elements. In a way that is also minimalism.
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Today we were required to create simplified buildings using photoshop. I took inspiration of Paul Eis to complete this task.
I think what I did successfully was changing the building to simplified through the correct process and method. However if I was more precise when using the polygon tool to outline the shapes changing them into simplified shapes.
I think what I did successfully was changing the building to simplified through the correct process and method. However if I was more precise when using the polygon tool to outline the shapes changing them into simplified shapes.
Paul Eis
He was born in Berlin 1998. He finished school in 2016 and then moved to Austria to study architecture at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz.
Young German student Paul Eis has been documenting the buildings of Berlin and Hamburg but adapting them with bright colours
Eis, 18, uses an Instagram account to present his images, which have all been stripped of their context, updated with a new colour palette and superimposed over a vibrant blue backdrop.
He hopes the series will help show there is more to these cities than white and grey facades, and believes the addition of colour can help to highlight the interesting and unique qualities of buildings.
Young German student Paul Eis has been documenting the buildings of Berlin and Hamburg but adapting them with bright colours
Eis, 18, uses an Instagram account to present his images, which have all been stripped of their context, updated with a new colour palette and superimposed over a vibrant blue backdrop.
He hopes the series will help show there is more to these cities than white and grey facades, and believes the addition of colour can help to highlight the interesting and unique qualities of buildings.
Mixed architecture
method
Today we looked at Paul Eis' work using mixed architecture. We used photoshop to alter the buildings to change the colours of the photograph, this gives the building an interesting effect. Paul Eis said he realised how monotonous the buildings were and he wanted them to look unique and "happy". To match his original idea I added a gradient in colours which look effective when put together.
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Something that went successfully was that the colours work well together in the photoshopped version of the image and the GIF I made was at the right speed and has a nice contrast from black and white to colour. Although next time I would make more photos with different colour pallets and try to create the images with different types of buildings to add variety.
Andre Kertesz : Form over Function
André Kertész a Hungarian photographer who emerged as one of the most influential practitioners of the medium. Prizing emotional impact over technique, he famously remarked, “I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.” Kertész remains best known for his contributions to photojournalism, employing distinctively dynamic compositions throughout his influential photo essays. He notably maintained a palpable empathy for his subjects, setting aside political or social biases regardless of who he was photographing. Born Kertész Andor on July 2, 1894 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, he came from a Jewish middle-class background. Though his family expected him to pursue a career in business, he eventually moved to Paris and fell with its bohemian culture. Throughout the mid-1920s, he met Piet Mondrian, Sergei Eisenstein, and many of the Dadaists. Kertész eventually fled France and its growing Jewish persecutions, and emigrated to the United States where he went on to work for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and House & Garden, as well as mounting solo shows at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1946 and at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1964. Kertész died on September 25, 1985 in New York, NY.
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First response
Today we took photographs like Andre Kertesz by focusing on composition and shadows. To do this I needed a blank white piece of paper, a torch and a object to take a photo of. I sep up multiple forks in certain positions and then I used the torch to create interesting shadows. I successfully created a variety of shadows which illustrate an interesting effect. I think in my second response I should experiment with different objects so the photos are more captivating.
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Secondary response
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In my secondary response I think that they were more succesful photographs because I used different objects with more complex shadows and shapes. In my third response I will use objects that have a theme to group the images together and include colours to make them more engaging. I will also turn the photographs into gifs so they are more intriguing.
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Ordinary to Extraordinary
Edward Henry Weston
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still-lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.
Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images.
In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.
Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images.
In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.
First response
These photos were succesful because I captured the textures of each item, it was even more effective because it was taken on a black background and with a torch to bring out the colours more drastically. It would be better if I focused the camera more so the photographs look more professional. In my second response I will
Michael Craig Martin
Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin Ireland in 1941. He grew up and was educated in the United States, studying Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. He has lived and worked in Britain since 1966.
His first solo exhibition was at the Rowan Gallery, London, in 1969. He participated in the definitive exhibition of British conceptual art, The New Art at the Hayward Gallery in 1972. His best known works include An oak tree of 1973, in which he claimed to have changed a glass of water into an oak tree; his large-scale black and white wall drawings; and his intensely coloured paintings, installations, and commissions, including the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, the Laban Dance Centre in London (in collaboration with Herzog and deMeuron), the DLR station at Woolwich Arsenal, and, most recently, the HDI Gerling Headquarters in Hannover.
Over the past forty-two years he has had numerous exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and MoMA, New York, the Kunstvereins in Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, and Hannover, at IVAM in Valencia, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. He represented Britain in the 23rd Sao Paulo Biennal. A retrospective of his work was presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1989, and a second at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2006, and a third at the Serpentine gallery, London, in 2015.
Recent solo exhibitions include Less is still more at Krefeld Museum Haus Esters, Sculpture at Chatsworth House in association with Gagosian Gallery, Objects of our time at Cristea Roberts Gallery, and NOW, a touring exhibition in China. Craig-Martin is well known to have been an influential teacher at Goldsmiths College, London. He was a Tate Trustee from 1989 to 1999, was awarded a CBE in 2000 and was elected an RA in 2006. In 2016 he was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to art.He is represented in London by Gagosian Gallery and Cristea Roberts Gallery.
His first solo exhibition was at the Rowan Gallery, London, in 1969. He participated in the definitive exhibition of British conceptual art, The New Art at the Hayward Gallery in 1972. His best known works include An oak tree of 1973, in which he claimed to have changed a glass of water into an oak tree; his large-scale black and white wall drawings; and his intensely coloured paintings, installations, and commissions, including the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, the Laban Dance Centre in London (in collaboration with Herzog and deMeuron), the DLR station at Woolwich Arsenal, and, most recently, the HDI Gerling Headquarters in Hannover.
Over the past forty-two years he has had numerous exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and MoMA, New York, the Kunstvereins in Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, and Hannover, at IVAM in Valencia, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. He represented Britain in the 23rd Sao Paulo Biennal. A retrospective of his work was presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1989, and a second at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2006, and a third at the Serpentine gallery, London, in 2015.
Recent solo exhibitions include Less is still more at Krefeld Museum Haus Esters, Sculpture at Chatsworth House in association with Gagosian Gallery, Objects of our time at Cristea Roberts Gallery, and NOW, a touring exhibition in China. Craig-Martin is well known to have been an influential teacher at Goldsmiths College, London. He was a Tate Trustee from 1989 to 1999, was awarded a CBE in 2000 and was elected an RA in 2006. In 2016 he was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to art.He is represented in London by Gagosian Gallery and Cristea Roberts Gallery.
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simplified images
Today we changed the images we took in class into simplified images using photoshop. I successfully used a combination of bright colours like the photos that this piece is inspired by. One thing I could do better is be more precise when photoshopping the image.
Jan Groover
Jan Groover (American, 1943 – 2011) was among the very best still life photographers since the medium’s invention. Her Kitchen Still Life photographs were first exhibited at Sonnabend Gallery. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1979. In 1987, Groover had a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art which subsequently toured the United States. Her work has been exhibited and included in the collections of most major museums worldwide, and continues to influence a new generation of artists. Groover moved to France in 1991, with her husband, the painter Bruce Boice, who still lives there.
first response at home
In my home response I think I could add in more colours to make the photographs more complex and interesting. One thing that went well was understanding the different shapes involved in each image.
Different views of a person
Chad Pitman
In his series people in progress Chad Pitman takes images that show different parts of a person. In this work he breaks up a person into different parts and focuses on different sections of a persons face and body. By taking the images individually the parts are given new meaning and encourage the viewer to look more closely at the textures shapes and colours that make up a person.
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home response
Fireworks in a Jar
Alberto seveso
Alberto Seveso was born in Milan, he grow up in Sardinia but is now working and living in Bristol as a freelancer. His passion for graphic art started when he was in a young age and he was really fascinated by the graphic of skate decks and the cover of music CD of metal bands in the early ‘90s. From this passion he started to create his artworks.
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first response
Today we took photographs of fireworks in a jar. To do this we put 3/4 of water into a jar and then filled a bit more with oil. Then added different coloured inks for the firework effect, we put the jar up on a blain blank white piece of paper to bring out the colours in the water. I think a good thing about my photos is that the colour was captured at the right time before it spread through the whole jar. I also took the photo with a fast shutter speed at 1/4000. It would be improved if we put the ISO higher because then the photos would be lighter.
second response
Sequences
Luke Stephenson was born on New Years day, 1983 in Darlington, North East England.
Life in Britain and the British psyche are at the core of Lukes work. He photographs what to many epitomises the eccentricity of Britain. Often humorous in their outlook, his series range from prize budgerigars to the World Beard and Moustache Championships. Whether animate or inanimate objects, Stephenson creates affectionate portraits of his subjects and documents worlds often hidden from the mainstream. He graduated in 2005 and has worked as a freelance photographer since. The same year he was awarded the Jerwood Photography Prize and in 2006 was selected as one of ten photographers to showcase their work at the International Festival of Fashion and Photography at Hyeres, France. His work has been published in a variety of publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Foam, Art Review and Wallpaper. Luke has published three photo books to date, his first was a series of Show Birds published in 2012 and the second published in 2014 is a series exploring the wonderful world of the 99 ice cream. Most recently in 2019 he produced a book looking at the beautiful English Rose. |
First response
sequence 1
sequence 2
Second response
Developments
Distortion-Steve Purnell
Steve Purnell is a photographer based in the Rhymney Valley in South East Wales.
He has been around photography for all of his life as his Father was a keen photographer and was commissioned for many wedding shoots. His interest had decreased in phjotography until he purchased a DSLR camera in 2007 and he found his passion. He likes to photograph a broad range of subjects and doesn't feel that photography should be limited to one specific genre. He also enjoy processing the images that he takes in many different styles in an attempt to keep his photographic style fresh. Therefore he has a very eclectic range of art. As his photographic journey has evolved he has also developed as a digital artist creating elaborate and colourful fractal images and photographing and manipulating images. |
These distorted photos are inspired by Op art movement of visual art that makes optical illusions, he uses striped backgrounds and also projected images that are then placed in bottles and glasses.
first response
To create these images I set up a background on the computers and placed a glass with water in front to capture the distorted effect. These photos didn't work as I wanted them too because the glasses were not clean enough to capture the distorted pattern I envisioned. In my secondary response I will create photos using more complex/intriguing backgrounds and ensuring the glass is clean to create succesful images.
Developments
Different views of a person-Jesse Draxler
Jesse Draxler is an LA-based artist working in mixed media and digital formats to create deconstructed, distorted images that explore ideas around beauty, sexuality and sub-culture. Working exclusively in monochrome, his works are often dark and challenging for the viewer. Draxler discovered that he was colour blind being red-green colour deficient. He studied at the College of Visual arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. Draxler began making exhibitions in 2012. Jesse Draxler's varied influences include heavy metal and zen literature, automotive machinery, background noise, and films. I like his work because it is minimalistic but effective due to the simplistic colours of black and white.
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