JR
Jr has the largest art gallery in the world. featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past 15 years. He exhibits his work free of charge on the walls of the world attracting attention of those who do not usually go to museums. he in and around Clichy montfermeil in 2004 , continued in the Middle East with face 2 face (2007), in Brazil and Kenya for women are heroes (2008-2011).
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Expo 2 Rue
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(2001-2004) Jr began his career as a teenage graffiti artist interested in making his mark on public spaces and society, often In places such as subway trains and rooftops.At 17 he started pasting photocopies on outdoor walls he created expo 2 rue , 'side walk galleries' , using the streets as a open galleries for every to see his pastings.
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Portraits of a Generation
(2004-2006)
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in 2004 , jr searched for places where no one would expect to see art, he had his first exhibition on the walls of les bouquets (the 'ghetto'). he photographed the youngsters and pasted and enlarged them on the walls. November 2005 there was a death of two teenage boys who were hiding from police in an electricity substation , riots broke out which spread through the city. more than 10,000 cars were burnt just in a month , these riots not only disrupted the society but also disrupted their environment. after all this jr went around using a 28 mm lens taking pictures of young people pulling silly faces then printing them out in large.
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Face 2 Face
in 2006 Jr and his friend decided to go around together to the Middle East to figure outwit Palestinians and isreals couldn't find a way to get along together. they then travelled through the cities and after a she they realise these people look the same . speak about the same languages , like thing brothers raised in different families. they thought to themselves they must put them all face 2 face and they will soon hopefully realise.
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the face 2 face project consists of massive portraits of Palestinians and isreals doing the same job , pulling the same funny faces next to each other on the walls of these cities.
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portraits of a generation contact sheet
in this task we had to create different faces in each picture either being meaningful, silly or angry. we should consider the angle and how close up the picture is going to be to give the face a distorted shape, and the background either being a plane colour with nothing going on and consider the aperture.
portraits of a generation response
www; in this task we was asked to respond to portraits of a generation creating our own poses and putting them in a contact sheet. I created quite similar images jrs poses and even made lip some of my own.
response 2
WWW: in response to this task I got some good images that look similar to his work
EBI: next time I would like to explore different places to take these pictures to create a more interesting and unique look for the photographs.
EBI: next time I would like to explore different places to take these pictures to create a more interesting and unique look for the photographs.
Gordon magnin
Gordon Magnin is a Nevada based artist who lives and works in Southern California. his work is very unique using unusual shapes edited on to his models face.
My Responses:
www: during the editing process i found it fairly difficult but the image resulted in being successful. i experimented and edited her eyes instead of the middle of her face which is what everybody was doing.
next time i would like to do it in colour instead of black and white.
next time i would like to do it in colour instead of black and white.
how to:
David Samuel Stern
David is a photographer , artist and teacher now based in New York city. his work attracts loads of audiences in the way he edits a photographs and portraits into tangible objects. photography typically serves as a departure point for crafting tangible objects. In his Woven Portraits series for instance, Stern physically assembles pieces of his photographic portraits into new forms, aiming to fuse the notion of photographic representation with its own material nature, making a new essence. The imagery in this series may bring to mind Cubists’ and Futurists’ paintings, or Hockney’s Polaroids, but in Stern’s hybrid artworks, the imagery derives from a photographer’s imagination and can be distinctly traced to our digital age – the manual counterpoints the virtual. Here Stern shares with Art Spiel some of his ideas, process, and projects.
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my response
the weaved images turned out well giving a good distorted look to the faces which was my aim. also my responce responded well to this artist and they came out quite similar and much better than i exspected them to come out. putting it in black and white makes the pictures look better because it highlights the distorted look the images have.also whilst i was taking a pictute of these weaves i had a high exposure so the features of the weaves were captured. next time instead of just doing portraits of people i would like to exsperiment with pictures of multiple people or even nature.
Almer haser
born in 1989 into an artistic family, she is known for her complex and constructed portraits.cosmic surgery is imagined as a medical procedure that people choose for aesthetic , mood alteration ,Almers portraits considerate link between identity and image in a culture of visual bombardment.
geometric portraits
my response
www: i was able to finish this task in time considering it was hard to make the origami.i framed my pictures well and some of them have quite good lighting and are clear images.i mixed up the pictures which had a cool effect which I liked, I used the females picture on the mans picture which was quite different making the origami piece stand out more.
Ebi: next time ill take more time with the origami because some sides were falling apart which I couldn't photograph which then effected the amount of angles I could photograph the origami piece with, to improve that i will try use a stronger glue or more tape.also i would like to experiment with this type of photography and instead of using people use nature or image of different types of environments.
Ebi: next time ill take more time with the origami because some sides were falling apart which I couldn't photograph which then effected the amount of angles I could photograph the origami piece with, to improve that i will try use a stronger glue or more tape.also i would like to experiment with this type of photography and instead of using people use nature or image of different types of environments.
kehinde Wiley
kehendi Wiley uses the poses and props seen in traditional portraits. he looks for his models on the streets of New York mainly young black men that look like him because when he was a kid he never saw and paintings of black ethnic groups. he gets his models to choose the pictures they most like and want to recreate.
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first response
www: I was able to capture my image to be as similar as they could be, and find a background pattern that has a similar colour to what the original image background colour was, also i tried to find similar props to the one in the original image so my response was the most successful. during photoshopping of this image I managed to be as precise as possible with editing the patterns to be close to my models outline of her body. with some of the patterns i made it overlap the model, this was because i thought it would give a nicer and cooler affect to the image, also because the artist himself did that and made it seem like the patterns were a patterned frame and the model was in the frame.
thomas Kellner
Thomas Kellner born 28 may , he is a German photographer and curator.he became known above all for his large-format photographs of famous architectural monuments, which, through many individual images and a shifted camera perspective , look like photo mosaics.
my response ,
www: in this composition i created a moasic of a famouse building by editing it on photoshop turning different parts of the building around. i put one of the edited images in black and white so it can be more similar to the artist i was responding to, this also gives it a more old fashioned look to it. it can be seen that black and white can enhance the distorted features of the building.
next time i respond to this artist i would like to experement further and find a building with either a busy background so its not just the building looking distorted, also one with alot of coloure so the edit pops out more and looks more fun to look at.
next time i respond to this artist i would like to experement further and find a building with either a busy background so its not just the building looking distorted, also one with alot of coloure so the edit pops out more and looks more fun to look at.
patrick cornillet
Cornillet works with painting where the detailed realism of photography is united with sensuous brush strokes. His works investigates both issues concerning picturing and urbanity.Cornillet has several solo shows behind him in Galerie Bertrand Gillig in Belgium, Galerie Birthe Laursen in Copenhagen and Galerie Birthe Laursen in Paris. Also he has participated in several group exhibitions at Espace d’art PASO in France and Collective, Absolute Art gallery in Belgium to name a few.Cornillet has won several awards e.g. Fondation François Schneider's talent prize in the category painting in 2013.
my response
www: the editing process went smoothly. and i covered the sky fully white successfully. the pictures i got where bright and non blurry so the final edited picture looked good.
next time i want to experiment and try turn the sky a different colour to white, making it look more abstract and cooler.
next time i want to experiment and try turn the sky a different colour to white, making it look more abstract and cooler.
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My 3 strands
jr
jr is a street photographer from France. one of the pieces of his work i want to carry out is called portraits of a generation , this project is about how young people are perceived and how they want to be perceived , aimed at lot of gang members because in france at that certain time gang crime rates where high.
Strand 1 - Jr response
www: in this composition i responded to jr, portraits of a generation. i took these portraits at a higher angle to create a more goofy look to the photographs, whilst they pulled funny faces. for these images i was able to capture good exposure images with a bright lighting helping the image to be more clear. i put these images into black and white so they represent the artists photographs more, also this then creates a contrast between the type of faces they are pulling and the type of tone the black and white sets.
Strand 2 David Hockney
In the early 1980s an english painter David Hockney began creating intricate photo collages that he called "joiners'. His earlier photographs consisted of grid-like compositions , made up of polaroid photographs. Hockney creates a surreal image.He does this by adding multiple images of curtain parts of a persons body and putting these together.He has used a light office room this is shown by the background.David Hockney creates an objective photo, he does this by collecting multiple images and putting them together. In this photo David Hockney is trying to draw you in and focus on the person in the middle of this photo. He has done this by making the photos smaller as you get to the middle.
inspiration pictures
for these pictures they are similar to the artist David Hockney and Gordon Magnin but im doing Hockneys work with faces instead of environments, to do this im going to print out the pictures i take of my model and print the images out and then cut out certain parts of their face , this will help it look more 3d then editing on photoshop.
face collage response
www: i was able to create a distorted look in her face which was my aim. to achieve this i had to capture a few images of the different sides of her face, then i could get different angles and sizes of her facial features to cut out which would give the face a more unusual look. This face collage also came out 3d which is what i wanted, to get the 3d look i had to cut out the features of her face instead of using photoshop. This also gave a little shadowing behind the pieces of paper
Strand 3 - Movement and light photography
first response
first response
EBI: this was my first response with light movement photography, these mages didn't turn out that well , my aim was for his face to be more blurred out. for the last few pictures the lighting was too bright and the camera needed to be on a slower shutter speed for the pictures to be more blurred for next time.
strand 4- Helmo
he is a talented graphic design photographer from France. this work is called bêtes de mode which means fashion animal, he created the images by using a model and animals silhouettes to create a cool affect. when I respond to this artist I'm going to experiment and instead of using an animal silhouette i will try created two silhouettes of the model I use.
light photography first response
Ebi: these photos turned out too dark meaning the coloured light did not show up. also meaning you cant see their faces. next time i will get a better working flash light so the image is more bright and more clear also so the lights show up on the image
second response
www: when using our camera we had it at a long exposure helping the image result to come out more of a blur as the model moved her face. the colour contrast came out well , we used a mix of two colour for some and just one for some.
Ebi: next time i need to have a darker room so the colour shows up more in the image, also use a slower shutter speed for a more blurry image when someone moves their head side to side. to also make the silhouette of her shadow appear up more.
Ebi: next time i need to have a darker room so the colour shows up more in the image, also use a slower shutter speed for a more blurry image when someone moves their head side to side. to also make the silhouette of her shadow appear up more.
Light painting movement merges
third response
www: we had good exposure for the photographs making the image clear, we also had a dark room with not much light shining through which was helping the colours show up being more vibrant. we used two or three sets of colour instead of the usual colour the photographer used.