Some holiday snaps of Alcudia beach..

ALONE...

My take on Beate Gutschow.

When looking at these photographs the thing that stands out for me - is the vast space with no people. The images represent being alone. I love the framing of the first image and the whole placement. The lack of colour represents a coldness to me that you wouldn't get if it was colour. The rubbish represents a decaying world. In the second photograph i like the high contrast in what appears to be a very cosmopolitan area - and yet there is no people. Both shots are almost postbellum.

After looking through her work a came across some other pictures that gave me the same feeling. The emotional feelings are the same, however i dont know who the photographer is.



I want to create the same feelings in my photographs. I want to create a series of  B&W photographs in a modern environment. With no people in the image. It has to be a enviroment that would normally have a trace of human life within it. I also want the image to be in my home town.

Two of my images

The main factor was finding a floor of a car park during the day (why the day? I wanted some strong daylight to give contrast to the image). I didn't want to  have any people, cars or trace of people in the image. However i wanted it to be relevant to people that looked at my image, i wanted the viewer to be emotionally unsuprised at the image, and yet feel a emptiness towards it. The reason i chose a car park (and the first and second floor) was that during the day car parks are normally congested by cars. The feeling that the car park had been abandoned. I Shot the photographs in manual and had a few challenges with the light. It was a very bright day and the car park was very dark. However the end result is what i was after.

love - infected love

Man Ray...

Fine Art Photography.

For my fine Art photography I wanted to do a photograph that had a message. For this project i wanted to do something around Women (and men), are more than just pieces of meat.  

First of all I searched the internet for a theme and came across this. I needed the image to be shocking enough to make you look twice, The image didn't need to be tasteful  beautiful or  pleasant on the eye. In fact, I was looking for just the opposite. In order to get this message across, I wanted to show women as meat, to get the viewer to come to this opinion themselves.

In the photograph i cut a hole in the base of the chicken. I then put the Barbie doll inside ensuring that the arms were inside the chicken. I then unbound the chicken and positioned the arms so they were in the right position,

The object was taken on a white table cloth on F4 at an ISO 160. I then blew the background out in CS5 trying to maintain the shadow to give depth to the image. I changed the colour balance slightly and altered the selective colour to make a little more red.

Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott..


Berenice Abbott originally Bernice Abbott. Was Born in Ohio in 1898. She was Heavily influenced By Man Ray in her portraiture and Eugene Atget in her architecture.


Her photography is clear, honest,objective and realistic.


Abbott went to Europe in 1921 where she studied sculpture in Paris and Berlin. In 1923 She was hired by Man Ray as his dark room assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse. Man Ray was impressed with her dark room skills and allowed her to use his dark room for her own work. Abbott had her first solo exhibition in 1926.


In 1929 Abbott returned to New York where she immediately saw the cities photographic potential. Four years earlier she had been introduced to Eugene Atget and became a great admirer, i think it shows in her work. Using a Large Format Camera Abbott began to photograph New York. Her New York work has provided a historical chronicle of many destroyed buildings around Manhattan.


Photos by Eugene atget...









Photos by Berenice Abbott with Similar perspectives.

Abbott was part of the straight photography Movement. She didn't like the work of pictorialists.  Pictorialism started to die out after the first world war.