LECTURE 12/04/2013

LECTURE NOTES 12/04/2013

Class Presentation: Urban Landscape 

Presented by: Cameron

Urban landscape:

• Different generations of buildings
• Urban photography gritty, not always pretty + quite abstract

Mark Bury

• Buildings under construction

“Night Incursion” by Mugley

“Fruit Stand” by Vince Alongi

“Over the Footbridge” by Stephanie Krishon

Perspective

Interesting patterns

Contrast, nature +manmade structure (compare, history, potential of one)

• Fallen buildings = structure of rubble … looks like it’s been through a lot
• Construction (contrast) …….how it’s going to look, structural

 

 

Class Presentation: Alex Prager 

Presented by: Adam

Alex Prager: American

• Personality + interest into series
• Vintage clothing, Alfred Hitchcock
• Digital photographer + filmmaker

 

Cinematic style “Rachel and Friends”

• Snapshot from film (old school)
• Lighting
• Colour saturation
• Intricate set + costume design
• Series focusses on individual women
• Selective lighting …. Choses what she shows ….portion of car “Cindy”

“Susie + Friends”

• Movement, steam
• Stills from ‘50’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s

“Cathy”

“Su Valley + Eye #3”

• Before, during and after … what happens...

“Irene”

• Control of water                                                                                
• Lighting layers   ……inside car, outside car, in store

CJ: culturally ambiguous, story is ambiguous; movement is between something, still the moment, to then ponder


Tracey Motrach:

• Action in film i.e. Gunshot

 

Class Presentation: Emmanuel Correia  

Presented by: Helen

Emmanuel Correia 

• Architecture agency as graphic designer +photographer
• Landscape photography, presence of nature without man
• Recent works: portraits +architecture
• She prefers landscape photography

 

    Waterscape Collection

   “End of Line of Defence” 2006

•      Focusses on central image not whole image

   2^nd Waterscape “Little Rocks on the Lake”

•      Vastness of nature

“Calming + Serene"

• Darker from one end to the other
• Simple things hold beauty

    “In Deep”

 

•      Colour is effective, soft and calm
•      Reminiscent of dreams you’d never want to wake up from
•      Simplicity, relaxation
•      Realistic but have element of haze

Selective focus

• "The Alps", mountains look smaller

    No ripples                                                                                   

•      MOOD, MEMORIES, SIMPLICITY
•      Shutter speed slower, longer exposure
•      back and forth tide, long exposure smooths water and ripples

    Mark McKenna:

•     English, uses the above technique