my shoot part 2!

So I had  previously said I wanted my red riding hood to be part of a series, pleased to announce here is image number 2

"sleeping Beauty"

This is being submitted as a final image for a magazine project, My theme is a bridal magazine with a fairytale twist, the dress was the models own, the absolutley stunning rose necklace is on loan from Crystal bridal accessories (http://www.crystalbridalaccessories.co.uk/)

buy here for £69.99

http://www.crystalbridalaccessories.co.uk/products/crystal-bridal-jewellery/glamour-collection/swarovski-crystal-rose-bridal-necklace.htm

image 3 "cinderella"

these were the perfect Cinderella shoes, the benjamin adams Charley shoee

http://www.crystalbridalaccessories.co.uk/products/wedding-shoes/benjamin-adams/benjamin-adams-charley.htm

and for the super sparkley alternative to a tiara

but maybe your not a sleeping beauty or a Cinderella

Maybe your style is more rapunzel

or Beauty

Snow white?

or what about an elsa...

my shoot

so after researching fairytales, my first step was to a prelimery shoot.
I took my kids and husband into the local woods

my kids reminded me of hansel and gretel

but they say never work with animals or children! my big bad wolf doesnt look too scary

this one was close to what i was after

"Little Red"
my final image after some tweeking in photoshop

I was really pleased at how my final image turned out im hoping this will be part of a series

period style- after modern/alter modern and the internet age

there is a distict lack of information online about our current period style, however looking online at social media sites like instagram, tumblr, flicka, twitter facebook the selfie has become a huge trend.

my facebook selfie!

charlotte crosby via facebook

Kim kardashian via facebook

as well as the "selfie" there seems to be a lot of digital art, where a very basic image taken with any camera is transformed with photoshop, digitally painting on top of the original image. these images are almost unreckognisable from the original.

http://phatpuppyart-studios.deviantart.com/art/Before-and-After-Good-and-Evil-257229687

http://www.deviantart.com/art/before-after-angel-of-darkness-189861872

period style -neo classical

neo classical-18th century at this point in time there were lots of new idesa regarding science, reason revelutionary thinking influenced by newtons ideas

High neoclassicism was an international movement. Though neoclassical architecture employed the same classical vocabulary as Late Baroque architecture, it tended to emphasize its planar qualities, rather than sculptural volumes. Projections and recessions and their effects of light and shade were more flat; sculptural bas-reliefs were flatter and tended to be enframed in friezes, tablets or panels. Its clearly articulated individual features were isolated rather than interpenetrating, autonomous and complete in themselves.

Neoclassicism also influenced city planning; the ancient Romans had used a consolidated scheme for city planning for both defense and civil convenience, however, the roots of this scheme go back to even older civilizations. At its most basic, the grid system of streets, a central forum with city services, two main slightly wider boulevards, and the occasional diagonal street were characteristic of the very logical and orderly Roman design. Ancient facades and building layouts were oriented to these city design patterns and they tended to work in proportion with the importance of public buildings.

Many of these urban planning patterns found their way into the first modern planned cities of the 18th century. Exceptional examples include Karlsruhe and Washington DC. Not all planned cities and planned neighborhoods are designed on neoclassical principles, however. Opposing models may be found in Modernist designs exemplified by Brasilia, the Garden city movement, levittowns, and new urbanism.

(wikipedia)

period style post modernist

all over the place, no progress quirky, no science
anti modernist sydney opera house, places look different, ironic ended 1990 nod to past

Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism.Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, andliterary criticism. It is often associated with deconstruction and post-structuralism because its usage as a term gained significant popularity at the same time as twentieth-century post-structural thought.

The term postmodernism has been applied to a host of movements, mainly in art, music, and literature, that reacted against tendencies in modernism, and are typically marked by revival of historical elements and techniques.

"Portland Building 1982" by Steve Morgan - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_Building_1982.jpg#/media/File:Portland_Building_1982.jpg

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"Sydney Opera House - Dec 2008" by Diliff - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney_Opera_House_-_Dec_2008.jpg#/media/File:Sydney_Opera_House_-_Dec_2008.jpg

period style- modernism

bauhaus, german design, progress, exploration, no limits, taken from gothic, art deco, machine age style, same everywhere ended 1968

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.

Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill-fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was the touchstone of the movement's approach towards what it saw as the now obsolete culture of the past. In this spirit, its innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, atonal (or pantonal) and twelve-tone music, quantum physics, genetics, neuronnetworks, set theory, analytic philosophy, the moving-picture show, divisionist painting and abstract art, all had precursors in the 19th century.

A notable characteristic of Modernism is self-consciousness, which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials used in creating a painting, poem, building, etc. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism and makes use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody.

Some commentators define Modernism as a mode of thinking—one or more philosophically defined characteristics, like self-consciousness or self-reference, that run across all the novelties in the arts and the disciplines. More common, especially in the West, are those who see it as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology. From this perspective, Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was 'holding back' progress, and replacing it with new ways of reaching the same end. Others focus on Modernism as an aesthetic introspection. This facilitates consideration of specific reactions to the use of technology in the First World War, and anti-technological and nihilistic aspects of the works of diverse thinkers and artists spanning the period from Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) to Samuel Beckett(1906–1989).

(Wikipedia)

period style gothic

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Originating in 12th-century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was known during the period as Opus Francigenum ("French work") with the term Gothic first appearing during the later part of the Renaissance. Its characteristics include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings.

It is in the great churches and cathedrals and in a number of civic buildings that the Gothic style was expressed most powerfully, its characteristics lending themselves to appeals to the emotions, whether springing from faith or from civic pride. A great number of ecclesiastical buildings remain from this period, of which even the smallest are often structures of architectural distinction while many of the larger churches are considered priceless works of art and are listed with UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. For this reason a study of Gothic architecture is largely a study of cathedrals and churches.

(Wikipedia)

gothic- contry to popular belief does not mean the black emo stuff actually gothic is trying to reach the sky and lots of light just like a church

york minster

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the focal point

The focal Point- a reaction to an exhibition review

What I think the Author is saying

He first explains that photography is more than just “art photography and includes lots of other avenues such as flicka and facebook and that these images impact the “art” that is produced. He hints that any artist that doesn’t appreciate these avenues will not be as good or popular.

The different types of photographer all look down their noses at the amateur photographers with no formal training, because they don’t know the rules, and often break them photographing anything that takes their fancy.

The “true artist” live on top of the world, obviously better and envied by all, however the contemporary artist seems to be invading the market and looking down on the photographers as they believe photographers don’t create art, they just take pictures of other peoples art and pass it off as their own.

Overall each group seems to hate each other and for someone new to the market it can be quite difficult to find your way without fear of rejection from certain groups.

The lines are blurred as to what is classed as photography, is it classed as photography if you have edited the image, if its digital not film, if you have manipulated the image, added effects or used different layers. Each photographer has their own view and reasons they believe their work IS classed as photography.

My views

At first I thought the author was a snob looking down on different types of photographer and photography; however I think he was trying to inject some humour into a hardly funny situation.

            He spends a lot of time describing the “tribes” which I don’t think it needs it. Going through all the artists who contributed to the exhibition he seems to be people pleasing and very rarely giving a personal opinion instead giving facts on the work of each artist.

            I like that he explores the blurred lines around what is classed as photography and acknowledges different types of photographer’s views on photography.

my inspirations

My Mood board


from the images I places on my mood board I have realised I'm a romantasist, I love the colours and lighting. I also like a retro feel and look to my images, I like my images to tell a story normally of the fantasy or fairytale type

From my mood board I noticed that I had I had included quite a few images the had been created by Annie Leibovitz so thought that would be a good place to start my research.




when researching images I liked the look of, I came across Annies “dream portraits” which was commisioned by Disney parks. when I looked further into annies careet I found some beautiful imagery but mostly after reading interviews and watching her documentary, I really connect to her attitude in the artical (http://www.fastcocreate.com/1683295/annie-leibovitz-on-getting-the-shot-and-the-future-of-photography#1) she shares her views on different aspects of photography, I love that she still choses to work with those that dont negativly impact her creativity and she still doesnt class herself as a great technical photographer, she follows her heart and continues to develop



In the artical “pilgrimage” which was to promote a new project she lists lots of people who have shaped her work over the years:

Henri Cartier-Bresson -August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. He was the master of candid photography and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style, and coined the term, The Decisive Moment, that has inspired generations of photographers ever since.(wikipedia)


He only shot in black and white and never cropped his images so they all have a signature black strip round the ages, he was inspired by the image (right) to take up photography again, Annie purchessed one of his images when she first started making money from photography the second was by

Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924) is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider’s view of American society. Critic Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans “changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century.”Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.





Annie was inspired by Joe Eszterhas who wrote famous films such as flashdance, basic instict and showgirls
 Hunter S Thompson who wrote hells angels, the rum diary, fear and loathing in las vegas amongst others

Tom Wolfe- who wrote lots of non fiction including
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)The Pump House Gang (1968)Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)The New Journalism (1973) (Ed. with EW Johnson)The Painted Word (1975)Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)

Dame Paula Rego, DBE (born 26 January 1935), is a Portuguese visual artist who is particularly well known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks Rego’s style has evolved from abstract towards representational, and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal. Rego studied at theSlade School of Fine Art and was an exhibiting member of the London Group with David Hockney and Frank Auerbach. She was the first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in London. She lives and works in London.



When I began to work for Rolling Stone, I started to look at all the Life photographers: Margaret Bourke-White, [Alfred] Eisenstaedt and Larry Burrows, who was the war photographer. Then, when [Rolling Stone] moved to New York [in 1977], I was very lucky to come under the wing of Bea Feitler, the art director who had worked with Alexey Brodovitch and Ruth Ansel, and she brought me into the world of Helmut Newton. She designed Newton’sWhite Womenbook, and she was very good friends with Diane Arbus.

Susan Sontag went to the Metropolitan [Museum of Art in New York] every week. She gulped down culture - she loved New York for that. She couldn’t get enough; she would go back to see a film eight times. I learnt from her about going back again and again to get a different experience. She took me to meet so many people who rounded out my world. I met [stage director] Robert Wilson through her, and I also met [choreographer] Mark Morris through her. [Mikhail] Baryshnikov I met through working for Vanity Fair.

specifically while doing the disney project, Annie researched walt disney himself all his career, as well as researching differerent interpretations of the stories from across the world and the darker side of the fairy stories by the brothers grim

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
Annie Leibovitz


http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-12/02/annie-leibovitz-pilgrimage-interview/page/1
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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/annie_leibovitz.html#mTLBh3yRAZLWrOtE.99

Period style- classic and romanesque

Classic-greek

romanesque- similar to greek but they added a curve, normallay a dome and renasisence or v similar

Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 13th century, or later, depending on region.The preceding period is usually known as the Pre-Romanesque. The term was invented by 19th-century art historians, especially for Romanesque architecture, which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style – most notably round-headed arches, but also barrel vaults, apses, and acanthus-leaf decoration – but had also developed many very different characteristics. In Southern France, Spain and Italy there was an architectural continuity with the Late Antique, but the Romanesque style was the first style to spread across the whole of Catholic Europe, from Sicily to Scandinavia. Romanesque art was also greatly influenced by Byzantine art, especially in painting, and by the anti-classical energy of the decoration of the Insular art of the British Isles. From these elements was forged a highly innovative and coherent style.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_art)

"Maria Lach 02" by Goldi64 at the German language Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Lach_02.jpg#/media/File:Maria_Lach_02.jpg

"'The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Maji', Romanesque fresco by the Master of Pedret from the apse of the Church of Saint Joan at Tredos, Lleida, Spain, c. 1100" by wmpearl - Collections of The Cloisters, New York City. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27The_Virgin_and_Child_in_Majesty_and_the_Adoration_of_the_Maji%27,_Romanesque_fresco_by_the_Master_of_Pedret_from_the_apse_of_the_Church_of_Saint_Joan_at_Tredos,_Lleida,_Spain,_c._1100.jpg#/media/File:%27The_Virgin_and_Child_in_Majesty_and_the_Adoration_of_the_Maji%27,_Romanesque_fresco_by_the_Master_of_Pedret_from_the_apse_of_the_Church_of_Saint_Joan_at_Tredos,_Lleida,_Spain,_c._1100.jpg

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realism

Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.

Realism has been prevalent in the arts at many periods, and is in large part a matter of technique and training, and the avoidance of stylization. In the visual arts, illusionistic realism is the accurate depiction of lifeforms, perspective, and the details of light and colour. Realist works of art may emphasize the ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism, regionalism, or Kitchen sink realism.

There have been various realism movements in the arts, such as the opera style of verismo, literary realism,theatrical realism and Italian neorealist cinema. The realism art movement in painting began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. The realist painters rejected Romanticism, which had come to dominate French literature and art, with roots in the late 18th century.
(wikipedia)

realism to me, is photographing whats happening as it happens without changing it, a good example would be street photography or photojournlism.

http://www.street-photographers.com/author/chuck-patch

http://www.christianlapid.com/html/photojournalism.html

instrumentalism

Instrumentalism is the name of a modern school of thought developed by scientists and philosophers in the 20th century. It sought to make traditional logic more useful for developing scientific and technological knowledge—a goal it shared with other schools such as Positivism, Pragmatism, Operationalism, Behaviorism, Experimentalism. All these schools denied that rules of logic express intrinsic deductive truths. They treated logical forms such as deduction and induction as verbal "tools-of-the-trade" of thinking and problem solving.

According to Webster's Dictionary, advocates of instrumentalism held "a conception that the significant factor of a thing is its value as an instrument, ... the doctrine that ideas [theories] are instruments of action and that their usefulness determines their truth. Tools developed by advocates sought to eliminate the traditional divorce between theory and practice, ends and means, appraisal and description.

(wikipedia)

http://www.123rf.com/photo_16678577_abstract-word-cloud-for-instrumentalism-with-related-tags-and-terms.html

Asan Bibi, 9, (R) and her sister Salima,13, (L) stand in the hallway of Mirwais hospital October 13, 2009 Kandahar, Afghanistan. Both were burned when a helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night on October 3rd, according to their father. Three members of the family were killed in the incident. The family belongs to the Kuchi ethnic tribe, nomads living in tents out in the open desert whom are very vulnerable to a war they have little understanding of. The Taliban are now staging suicide attacks and IED blasts in densely populated areas to create a bigger impact as more of Afghan's war wounded hit the headlines (Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images.)

to me intrumentalism is a photo with intent to change something a perception, a theory to point out something thats wrong with the hopes of changing it.

image: Photo of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. From the Library of Congress.

State of Sheffield Exhibition review

 As a Sheffield born and bred photographer to find out I had been published in an exhibition about my home town was amazing. I deliberated for hours on what to wear only later to find out that I really shouldnt have bothered.

I was picturing screen style room dividers set in the beautiful winter gardens, with our prints lovingly framed and hung, something that would make those office workers stand up from thir picnic lunch and take a look, and make them think "look at how beautiful our city is"

Unfortunatly thats not what I saw I walked in, and I wondered if id even got the right place, there was no advertising or promotion around the building itself,

the opening night which Id had a special invitation to was held on st patricks day which in itself was a mistake in my opinion, due to the fact random drunken members of the public could walk through I also worried about what would happen to our images.

when I walked in I still saw no sinage to indicate that I was in the right place, I was feeling a little over dressed and under whelmed, where was the fancy free food and drink?
as I got to the center of the gardens 3 wooden easel type stands came into view, I still couldnt see the name of the exhibition but as I got closer I reckognised the images that had been picked from 1st year foundation degree students, instantly I was proud (Id not spotted mine at this point) but had I been a member of the general public I still wouldnt have understood what was going on.

the work itself was such a varied collection of iconic sheffield images mixed with a few of the lesser know gems or ideas of sheffield, I liked all the facets that sheffield has and that each of the photographers really had different views on the city. I liked that not all there views were not all pretty because lets face it sheffield is great for a lot of things but not so great for others

the report that was published only contained a few of the images the report itself can be downloaded here https://www.sheffieldfirst.com/key-documents/state-of-sheffield.html

this video clip shows thoughts and feelings behind the images and the pride each of the students who created images and the design of the final brochure.

Jamie shipston was the winner of the night being awarded both 3rd and 1st place with really strong images

overall I loved the variety of work on show but I felt the planning and displaying of the work lacked thought and any creativity there didnt seem to be a reason to how the images were displayed ie maybe a steel framework rather than timber to represent the steel city,