For my final presentation of my Animating Identities project I have chosen 3 final photographs to show. I would like them to be printed on A3 and mounted and placed with the Landscape photograph in the middle with the two portrait photographs placed on the outside.
I’ve chosen these three because they in my opinion work the best together. As a sort of a sequence they show the bus stopping light on. People pressing the stop button.
(born November 9, 1924, Zürich, Switzerland) one of the most influential photographers of the mid-20th century, noted for ironic renderings of American life.
Frank became a professional industrial photographer at the age of 22 and in the 1940s became a successful fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar magazine in Paris. He felt, however, that the scope of the work was too limited. He abandoned fashion photography about 1948 and went to the United States and then to Peru to explore the expressive possibilities of the 35-mm camera.
After photographing in Europe in 1950 and 1953, Frank returned to the United States. There in 1955 and 1956 he made a series of photographs ultimately published as The Americans (1959), a photographic book with a text by the American novelist Jack Kerouac. Photographs such as Chicago, 1956 in The Americans reveal Frank’s mature style, which is characterized by bold composition and ironic, sometimes bitter, social commentary. Their publication established Frank as a major creative photographer.
After 1959 he turned primarily to cinematography. His first motion picture, Pull My Daisy (1959), was based on a play by Kerouac and featured the poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, as well as the painter Larry Rivers . Pull My Daisy was a critical success, but Frank’s later films were not so well received.
I’ve chosen Robert Frank as one of my main inspirations as I love the style of his photography. The way he catches the people he is photographing. The Americans Trolley is a big inspiration to the way I might compose my photographs in my documenting of those that catch the public buses.
“A typology, simply put, is a collection of members of a common class or type. It could be a grouping of physiognomic types, vernacular buildings or species of monkeys. A typology is assembled by observation, collection, naming and grouping.”
Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers Newport Harbor Art Museum (1991), p.10
An Artistic typology is a specific type of series. They have premeditated compositions and are consistent from picture to picture.
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Water Towers 1980.
Black-and-white photographs mounted on board, 61 7⁄8 x 49 7⁄8 inches overall. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Sze Tsung Leong I chose his works for the typologies because i like the compositions he uses in his photographs. They are also beautifully coloured and work well as a series.
DiCorcia is an American photographer born in 1951,
He studied at theSchool of the Museam of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
DiCorcia helped redefine street photography with his series ‘Heads’ 2000. By rigging a strobe light to scaffolding in times square in New York and was triggered by passers by, he then photographed them using a long lens from a vantage point which resulted in head shot portraits were the streets around them are removed and replaced with blackness.
I like the way DiCorcia has created these portraits which look stylized as though they could have been taken in a controlled lighting studio. The composition of first photograph looks as if it was specially placed, However they are taken on the streets of unsuspecting passers by. They show a moment where the subject is natural and not posing in front of a camera posing. The expression of the second photograph looks as though the man has seen the camera and seems to be looking directly at the photographer and the viewer giving it a personal feeling.
His current exhibition ‘Roid’ at Sprüth Magers gallery in London. Is a display of his Polaroids, just over 100 of them arranged along one wall in the gallery. 
Bosnia, 1993 - Mourning a soldier killed in the civil war.
“I have been a witness, and these pictures are
my testimony. The events I have recorded should
not be forgotten and must not be repeated.”
-James Nachtwey-
Nachtwey is a American photojournalist & War photographer. And although James Nachtwey’s style and subject is not the direction i’m going in with my own work on this project, I am inspired by the emotions that are evident in his works. Showing the suffering and sense of loss experienced by those in war zone conflicts. I love the way his photographs are beautifully composition and they capture the most painful moments of his subjects lives. Giving the viewer a glimpse of the live of those we have never met yet we can feel their suffering.
Beat Streuli (born 1951) is a Swiss artist who works with photography & time based media. Mostly known for his street portraiture, which over the years he has documented urban citizens from all over the world, his photo’s are focused on ordinary people on the street going about their business. He photographs his subjects from a unobtrusive distance with a telephoto lens so they are unsuspecting and natural. I’ve chosen these works as inspiration because for my own work I want to keep it natural and my subjects unsuspecting however it will be much more difficult with my subjects closer to me.
More Info- http://www.beatstreuli.com/80.html
Official Website http://www.beatstreuli.com/home.html
Samantha ‘Sam’ Taylor-Wood is an English filmmaker, photographer and conceptual artist. She makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psychological conditions. Taylor-Wood’s work examines the split between being and appearance, often placing her human subjects – either singly or in groups – in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict.
Her works (Self-portraits Suspended I-VIII, 2004) they depict Taylor-Wood floating in mid air without any visible support, in front of a window in a empty room. “portraying her as a sort of floating deity, rather than a mere mortal”. They were made after she filmed and photographed members of the Royal Ballet. She looks as though she is either swimming in mid air or dancing.
Taylor-Wood overcame two spells of cancer. When she was 30, she suffered from late-diagnosed colon cancer. Three years later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Her image (Poor Cow 2005) is of a lone cow separated from the rest of the herd after being diagnosed with mad cow disease. By Taylor-Wood describing this as a self-portrait cshe projects her own emotional states onto it, her self pity (you poor cow). Portraying how she felt while going through Chemotherapy, perhaps people treating her differently when she was sick. Just like the cow being removed from the normal paddocks because of it’s illness.
In this project, we are asked to consider the ‘human’ persona as a multi-faceted character of artistic focus. Characters and the worlds they inhabit are filled with possibilities spanning from the intimacy of self-portraiture to the social politics of alien fantasy.
Since Photography was invented it has been used for many different purposes. Studio portraiture, documentary, family snapshot, fashion, pornography. The photograph enables us to show reality, but can also deceive us with photo manipulation. We cannot always be sure the people in photographs actually look that way or if they were manipulated to look that way.
After I read the lecture slides and was thinking about self-portraits as I walked home, although i’m not keen to take pictures of myself I do like the idea of portraying somehow through photography how I’ve been feeling lately.
So these are some ideas as to what I might do for this project.
Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter (October 31, 1920 – January 23, 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a “prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications.” He has worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue Britain, Australia, France. His works are often erotic & stylised scenes with sado-masochistic and fetishistic subtexts.
For my Final CinCity presentation, I would like the two photo’s to be printed in A3 then perhaps framed in simple black frames. I don’t want to add any other colors to the photographs by adding a different colored frame. They will be hang side by side.
I Chose the photo’s on the basis of the lights looking better than the other photographs as in some of them the camera was moved slightly which in turn made the street lights have lines coming out of them. Also a few of them were somewhat blurry as the camera would move slightly as the Tripod i used wasn’t quite balanced properly.
![Roman Vishniac. August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Roman Vishniac did not just want to preserve the memories of the Jews; he actively fought to increase awareness in the West of the worsening situation in Eastern Europe. “Through his photographs, he sought to alert the rest of the world to the horrors [of the Nazi persecution]”, Mitgang](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqa3ax8Rck1qkwykqo1_400.jpg)
Roman Vishniac. August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Roman Vishniac did not just want to preserve the memories of the Jews; he actively fought to increase awareness in the West of the worsening situation in Eastern Europe. “Through his photographs, he sought to alert the rest of the world to the horrors [of the Nazi persecution]”, Mitgang
