· Gallery trip paper due next week!
· CRITIQUE – printed images from Assignment #1
· Troubleshooting prints
· Assignment #2 given
• Time of day type of light slideshow
For next week:
· READ/ANSWER QUESTIONS: Class Blog discussion topic
· BRING: All files from Assignment #2
• BRING: Gallery Trip Paper
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READING/DISCUSSION #5
Barbara Probst's work consists of images taken using multiple cameras that capture a scene all at the exact same time (i.e. the shutters are triggered at the same time). Each series is titled "Exposure #____", as if they are one single exposure.
Take a look at the images
And the images as installations
(specifically the install at Murray-Guy)
Sam Taylor-Wood's series "5 Revolutionary Seconds" uses a modified camera to shoot 360degrees of a scene (i.e. a whole room). The title refers to the amount of time it takes for the camera to travel 360 degrees. This is shot onto a single piece of film - it is a single exposure.
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1) Describe the similarities and differences between these two series of work.
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Assignment #2:
Shoot 100 pictures of the same scene/space/scenario – bring ALL files to the next class! The same, not different, all in one space! For instance, all 100 photos taken in your kitchen.
Be creative! Use different angles, close up, far away, from above, from below, move stuff, etc, etc, etc. Becoming bored of a situation makes you innovate! Content/concept is up to you – indoors, outdoors, in a car, on a boat, on a fire escape, in a closet, under the bed, under a bridge, in an empty lot, whatever. Photos should be contained to the same area.
PLEASE review and answer blog topic, it will help you think about what you are shooting.
Concepts to consider while shooting:
· Shooting on site – working with what is available
· Using different types of light and colors to effect mood
· Covering a scene (shooting enough material)
· How to EDIT – i.e. what good vs. so-so photograph
Concepts we will cover during the next class session:
- OUTPUT:
- Size/scale – how large should your images be to show the amount of detail you want/need
- PHOTOSHOP:
- Creating Panoramas
- Working with cropping
- Layers + rudimentary masks
- Curves
- Sharpening for printing (again)
- Up-rezing images
It is very apparent that Probst and Taylor-Wood are both interested in temporal duration. Their similarities also lie in the use of narrative (however ambiguous) that is unfolding in the photographs. Taylor-Wood is testing the limitations of still images, which she is able to push pretty far; they reside in the realm between still photography and film. Though taken in a single apartment, there is a disconnect between her characters, who mostly occupy their own private worlds. Probst seems to be interested in omnipresence. Her subjects are photographed from different sides at the same exact moment; these varying points of view change our perception of the subject/object. If I can make another allusion to film, it’s like the individual photographs are parts of a non-linear plot, and from them we can begin to piece together the story.
ReplyDeleteProbst is interested in capturing multiple angles of the same subject in either the same or diverse environments. The angles are sometimes extreme close-ups or overhead shots and eye-contact seems to be a common captivating quality of her photographs. Taylor-Wood on the other hand prefers creating panoramas where multiple subjects are strewn throughout the composition. She is more concerned with the interaction between the subjects, rather than the interaction with the viewer. Regardless, both photographers capture a scene within a few seconds, where the subjects' actions and thoughts become a curiosity for the viewer. Probst and Taylor-Wood create dizzying photographs; while Taylor-Wood uses only one camera, Probst uses multiple to create that vast revolving effect.
ReplyDeleteSam Taylor Woods style of photography is more about showing more than meets the eye. Showing subjects and surroundings not directly from one point of view. while Barbara Probst focuses more on the subject and subject matter in her photographs. Woods shows how her subjects interact with the space they are in while Probst shows the subject only-often using close ups.
ReplyDeleteSam Taylor and Barbara Probst’s main similarity is that both transmit a narrative story through their photographs. Some differences shown are that Sam Taylor uses a single camera and most of his pictures are focused indoors. These images are captured from one perspective in a single place. Meanwhile Barbara Probst captures pictures in indoors or outdoors. She takes photographs from different point of views, sides, and angles at the same time with multiple cameras.
ReplyDeleteProbst and Taylor-Wood both play around the idea of time and space, the relationship between the two and their relativity, and they way in which the art of photography can portray this dychotomy in terms of a single, long (360º) or multiple simultaneous caption. Both artists also question the role of the viewer of the photograph/s by blurring the line between photograph/artistic product - viewer/consumer; it requires the viewer to engage intelectually in the photographic medium by creating an illusion of experiencing the situation/space portrayed in the photograph. Both artists' work relate closely to the cinematic medium and principles.
ReplyDeleteBoth Taylor-Wood and Probst are interested in space, perspective, and narrative. Both of their series deal with a single setup of actors/subjects taken from a number of different angles. However, they both approach this theme in a a very different way. Probst's work focuses on capturing many different perspectives of one moment, but having all of these different perspectives linked together. In this way, she ends up creating several different narratives from one scene. The way she installs them is also very important because it emphasizes the relationship between the different perspectives of the moments she shows us. Alternatively, Taylor-Wood captures many different narratives within one large 360 degree image. The wide angle of her images makes her narratives grandeur and theatrical. The fact that Taylor-Wood also uses ambient noises from her shoot to accompany her images also gives her work a more cinematic quality.
ReplyDeleteThe main Similarities between Barbara Probst's work, and Sam Taylor-Wood's series 5 Revolutionary Seconds, is the concept of time in a an instant. They both try to capture what is is like to view the different angles of the same location, person, or object from different vantage points in a short time period, so that there is no great change. However Barbara Probt's executed her vision very well, as i can tell that different images are from different angles at the same time right away, without knowing the artist descriptive breakdown, but in Taylor-Wood's series of photographs, they look very good, but the execution is not as well done, maybe its not a technical issue, but the idea itself is flawed. The images look as though they were taken with a wide angled lens, instead of the camera revolving around in a 5 second interval.
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