This year we are working differently because the rules that we have in place at the moment which are:
The phrase "make do and mend" suggests to me that when you have something that you can take and make better you should because where were restricted we should take what we have and mend it/make it better this is because when you are being creative with what you already have it can make you a better photographer/artist I also think that with our current situation in the world we could need to take what we have and fix it or make it look better than it currently does.
My instruction:
- wear a mask at all times in the building
- wear a badge at all times
- stay 2 metres away from people at all times
The phrase "make do and mend" suggests to me that when you have something that you can take and make better you should because where were restricted we should take what we have and mend it/make it better this is because when you are being creative with what you already have it can make you a better photographer/artist I also think that with our current situation in the world we could need to take what we have and fix it or make it look better than it currently does.
My instruction:
Marcel Duchamp & the REadymade
Marcel Duchamp was an example of one of the first people that I can think of that became famous because he made do and mended. Duchamp took a post card from the Louvre in France and drew a moustache and a goatee beard on the Mona LIsa's face and in pencil wrote underneath L.H.O.O.Q. meaning the she "has a hot ass". This is a Wikipedia link telling you all about him and some information also "Marcel Duchamp".
In 1919, Duchamp made a parody of the Mona Lisa by adorning a cheap reproduction of the painting with a moustache and goatee. To this he added the inscription L.H.O.O.Q., a phonetic game which, when read out loud in French quickly sounds like "Elle a chaud au cul". This can be translated as "She has a hot ass", implying that the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and availability. It may also have been intended as a Freudian joke, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's alleged homosexuality. Duchamp gave a "loose" translation of L.H.O.O.Q. as "there is fire down below" in a late interview with Arturo Schwarz. According to Rhonda Roland Shearer, the apparent Mona Lisa reproduction is in fact a copy modelled partly on Duchamp's own face. Research published by Shearer also speculates that Duchamp himself may have created some of the objects which he claimed to be "found objects".
Kensuke Koike's REadymades
Kensuke Koike is a contemporary artist who makes pictured and videos based on visual appeal and very small precise cuts in pictures here is a link to his youtube channel if you want to go and check him out https://www.youtube.com/kensukekoike. He also makes a lot of different compositions by cutting up photos and faces in particular and turning them into different alien like creatures and sometimes takes a larger picture and cuts it up to make a smaller one out of the pieces
Hannah Höch collage analysis
In this collage I can see a lightbulb and a person with no hair. I can also see a bike tyre as well as a BMW badge. I am most interested in the person's body with the light bulb for a head which is in the middle bottom of the composition. There seem to be two types of image in this collage: types of transport and human body parts.
My 3D photocollages:
Here are some photo sculptures I made by using old books and magazines. I used a lot of faces during the making of my sculpture.
Collaborative collage experiments
These collages were created collaboratively using a set of instructions:
- Cut or tear out 5 pages from your magazine. Choose pages with interesting images.
- Make a pile of these 5 pages on your desk.
- Take the top page and cut a hole in it (Note: it doesn't have to be perfect).
- Pass this cut out image to your neighbour (the person sitting nearest to you in class).
- Put the page with the hole in it at the bottom of your pile.
- Take the (new) top page and tear it in half. Pass one half to your neighbour (the same one as before) and put the other half at the bottom of your pile.
- Take the (new) top page and cut out a shape (Note: you could cut round an object or simply cut a random shape of your own choosing).
- Keep the cut-out shape, putting it at the bottom of your pile, and pass the page that remains to someone 3 places away (Note: make sure you don't end up with your own page).
- Take the (new) top page and tear a strip from the (top or bottom) edge. Keep the strip and pass the remaining page to someone else in the room.
- Place the A3 sheet of cartridge paper in front of you (portrait format).
- Without altering them, arrange the pieces of paper from your pile on the A3 sheet to create a pleasing collage. Carefully photograph your first arrangement.
- Again, without altering them, repeat this process, re-arranging the various elements on the A3 sheet until you are happy with the results. Photograph carefully.
- You may now swap 1 or 2 elements with your neighbour. Make a new arrangement and photograph carefully.
- You may now adapt the pieces in any way you like - cutting, tearing etc. Make a new collage, this time sticking them to the A3 sheet of cartridge paper.
- Photograph your finished collage carefully.
I then used the photocopier to create double exposures of mine and my partner's collages using only two colours:
Prison Photography
Klavdij Sluban's work with teenage prisoners
Nicoló Digiorgis' Prison Photography
Genre Photography Treasure Hunt
I decided to experiment with collecting a series of photographs using a list of instructions:
- The view through a window
- Your reflection in a shiny surface
- The back of someone’s head
- A small object shot from a low angle against a plain background
- The palm of someone’s hand with the word ‘help’ written on it
- A smile
- A plant growing in the wrong place
- A cracked paving stone
- A pile of clothes
- The creases in a bed sheet shot from above (with nothing else included)
- A close-up photograph of a computer, phone or television screen
- A map
- The spine of a book
- The inside of a fridge
- The sky
- Part of a fork
- The sole of a shoe
- The ceiling of your bedroom as you are lying on the floor
- A photograph of a photograph
- A glass of water
my VIRTUAL school trip to nyc
These photos are some of the photos that I have taken so far and I intend to keep on taking photos. These were taken using google maps on the street view option.
The next time we do this I would like to go to Kyoto in Japan because I believe it to be a beautiful place and would like to show others what I see when I say its beautiful.
Here are some pictures from Kyoto Japan and these are only a few of the many beautiful spots in Japan and I think that it needs to be said because Japan is beautiful but not everybody sees it and I just want to open their eyes.
Google Street View Bingo locations and subjects:
- Taipei - Fruit
- Rome - Graffiti
- Nairobi - Sport
- Athens - Yellow Car
- Kingston - Arrow
- Taipei - Tall Building
- Helsinki - Animal
- Asmara - Person Pointing
- Paris- Coca Cola sign
- Lima - Bridge