Context and Narrative: Assignment Five – Making it up – Reworked Submission
After feedback from my tutor, I looked at making the scene less subtle. I changed the position of the glasses and the cup/saucer to make it more obvious that something was “afoot”. I spent some time changing things around but nothing seemed to strike me as quite right. I reminded myself of what I was…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Five – Making it up – Submission
Brief Construct a stand-alone image of your choice. A lternatively, you may choose to make a series, elaborating on the same theme. As the culminating assignment for the course you may wish to draw upon skills learned from Parts One to Four – using various forms of narrative, using yourself as subject matter, telling stories and…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Five – Making it up – Planning
Artistic Intention To create an image that invites us to ask questions about the missing occupant of the bed and a sense of anxiety as to their well-being. Planning and set up .As part of a previous job, I had access to sets of crime scene photographs. One thing that always struck me and has stayed…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Five – Making it up – Research
The inspiration for the style of my image is without doubt coming from Gregory Crewdson (Fig 2,3) and also the artist Nicolas Martin (Fig 4-6) More information can be found here from the previous exercise relating to Crewdson. Nicolas Martin born in 1980, is a French artist now working in Canada. I really like his…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Five – Making it up – Reflection and Feedback
Reflection I didn’t think I was going to enjoy this assignment but it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable. The key was definitely to have an artistic intent before starting. I already had an idea in my head so that really helped. The fact that I was working from the memory of…
Context and Narrative – Part Five: Exercise 3 Constructing Photography
Brief Record a real conversation with a friend. (It’s up to you whether you ask permission or not!) Before listening to the recording, write your account of both sides of the conversation. Then listen to the recording and make note of the discrepancies. Perhaps there are unfinished sentences, stammers, pauses, miscommunications etc. Reflect upon the…
Context and Narrative – Part Five: Exercise 2 Re-situated Art
Brief “Question for Seller” re-situates images in a different context and in so doing allows for a new dialogue to take place. Reflect on the following in your learning log: Does their presence on a gallery wall give these images an elevated status? Where does their meaning derive from? When they are sold (again on eBay,…
Context and Narrative – Part Five: Exercise 1 Jeff Wall (Tate Modern 2005)
Brief Photography, like film and unlike painting and other art forms, relies on what’s in front of the camera for its content, so the props, clothes, location and setting have to be right for the time period and the story. Setting up a shot can be an arduous job. Many photographers working in this genre…
Context and Narrative – Part Five: Research Task – Gregory Crewdson
Brief Look up the work of Gregory Crewdson online. Do you think there is more to this work than aesthetic beauty? Do you think Crewdson succeeds in making his work ‘psychological’? What does this mean? What is your main goal when making pictures? Do you think there’s anything wrong with making beauty your main goal?…
Context and Narrative – Part Five: Exercise 1 Martin Scorsese Critique
Brief Watch this famous scene ‘ T he Long Take’ from G oodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese in 1990: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEVtqXd Don’t read on until you’ve answered the following questions. What does this scene tell you about the main character? How does it do this? List the ‘clues’. Make some notes in your learning log. It…
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