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,

Original fairy Stories

So I was planning to shoot a fairytale image so I started by researching the orginal stories 

below all from flavourwire.com

http://flavorwire.com/344667/the-disturbing-origins-of-10-famous-fairy-tales

Sleeping Beauty

In one of the very earliest versions of this classic story, published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile as Sun, Moon, and Talia, the princess does not prick her finger on a spindle, but rather gets a sliver of flax stuck under her fingernail. She falls down, apparently dead, but her father cannot face the idea of losing her, so he lays her body on a bed in one of his estates. Later, a king out hunting in the woods finds her, and since he can’t wake her up, rapes her while she’s unconscious, then heads home to his own country. Some time after that, still unconscious, she gives birth to two children, and one of them accidentally sucks the splinter out of her finger, so she wakes up. The king who raped her is already married, but he burns his wife alive so he and Talia can be together. Don’t worry, the wife tries to kill and eat the babies first, so it’s all morally sound.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/28/sleeping-beauty-ukraine-allegory

http://paraclassics.com/nacho-duato-sleeping-beauty/

"Henry Meynell Rheam - Sleeping Beauty" by Henry Meynell Rheam - This file is lacking source information.Please edit this file's description and provide a source.. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Meynell_Rheam_-_Sleeping_Beauty.jpg#/media/File:Henry_Meynell_Rheam_-_Sleeping_Beauty.jpg

Little Red Riding Hood

"Emily Anderson: Little Red Riding Hood"
(ca. 1821)
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
English
Oil on canvas
Huntington Museum of Art, California

If you can believe it, the Brothers Grimm actually made this story a lot nicer than it was when they got their hands on it. In Charles Perrault’s version, included in his 1697 collection Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times: Tales of Mother Goose, there is no intrepid huntsman. Little Red simply strips naked, gets in bed, and then dies, eaten up by the big bad wolf, with no miraculous relief (in another version, she eats her own grandmother first, her flesh cooked up and her blood poured into a wine glass by our wolfish friend). Instead, Perrault gives us a little rhyming verse reminding us that not all wolves are wild beasts — some seduce with gentleness, sneak into our beds, and get us there. The sexual undertones are not lost on us — after all, the contemporary French idiom for a girl having lost her virginity was elle avoit vû le loup — she has seen the wolf.

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Fairy Tales From Grimm. Ethel Franklin Betts, illustrator. London: J. Coker & Co Ltd., 1917.

http://www.ilvoelv.com/2009/08/us-vogue-september-2009-into-woods.html

Rumpelstiltskin

This story is pretty simple: a miller’s daughter is trapped and forced to spin straw into gold, on pain of death. A little man appears to her, and spins it for her, but says that he will take her child in payment unless she can guess his name. In the Grimm version, as retold by Pullman, when the maiden finally figures out Rumpelstiltskin’s name, he reacts rather badly: ‘The Devil told you that! The Devil told you that!’ the little man yelled, and in his fury he stamped his right foot so hard that he drove it into the ground right up to his waist. Then he took hold of his left foot with both hands and tore himself in two.” Ick.

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Rumpelstiltskin. George R. Halkett, translator and illustrator. London: Thos de la Rue & Co., 1882. Octavo (RIGHT)

Bates, Katharine Lee, editor. Once Upon a Time: A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales. Margaret Evans Price, illustrator. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1921.

http://www.hypable.com/once-upon-a-time-season-3-promo-press-release/

Cinderella

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cinderella_Photo.jpg

Here, Perrault is much nicer than Grimm — in his version, the two cruel stepsisters get married off to members of the royal court after Cinderella is properly married to the prince. In the Grimm story, not only do the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet in order to fit into the glass slippers (surprise, surprise, the blood pooling in their shoes gives them away), but at the end, they have their eyes pecked out by doves. Just for good measure.

"Cinderella - Project Gutenberg etext 19993". Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cinderella_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_19993.jpg#/media/File:Cinderella_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_19993.jpg

http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Cinderella-2015-36223949

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_White_(character)

Snow White

First of all, in the original 1812 Grimm version of this tale, the evil Queen is Snow White’s actual mother, not her stepmother. We don’t know, but that makes it a lot more terrifying to us. The Disney version also left out the fact that the Queen sends the huntsman out to bring back Snow White’s liver and lungs, which she then means to eat. And the fact that she’s actually not in a deep sleep when the prince finds her — she’s dead, and he’s carting off her dead body to play with when his servant trips, jostles the coffin, and dislodges the poison apple from SW’s throat. Most notable, however, is the punishment the Grimms thought up for her. When the queen shows up at Snow White’s wedding, she’s forced to step into iron shoes that had been cooking in the fire, and then dances until she falls down dead.

"Franz Jüttner Schneewittchen 2" by Franz Jüttner - http://www.digibib.tu-bs.de/?docid=00000165. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_J%C3%BCttner_Schneewittchen_2.jpg#/media/File:Franz_J%C3%BCttner_Schneewittchen_2.jpg

http://sofiawilhelmina.deviantart.com/art/Snow-White-335656257

Hansel and Gretel

http://io9.com/5234929/what-hansel-and-gretel-did-next-courtesy-of-dead-snows-director

The version of the story we know is already pretty gruesome — the evil stepmother abandons the children to die in the forest, they happen upon a cannibalistic witch’s cottage, she fattens them up to eat, they outwit and kill her and escape. The Grimm version is basically the same, but in an early French version, called The Lost Children, the witch is the Devil, and the Devil wants to bleed the children on a sawhorse. Of course, they pretend not to know how to get on, so the Devil has his wife (who tried to help the poor kids earlier in the story) show them. They promptly slit her throat, steal all the Devil’s money, and run off.

"Offterdinger Hansel und Gretel (1)" por Carl Offterdinger - Mein erstes Märchenbuch, Verlag Wilh. Effenberger, Stuttgart, end of the 19th century. See Cover and title page. Licenciado sob Domínio público, via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offterdinger_Hansel_und_Gretel_(1).jpg#/media/File:Offterdinger_Hansel_und_Gretel_(1).jpg

http://www.celebeat.com/articles/17713/20150131/hansel-gretel-witch-hunters-2-news-director-jeremy-renner-busy.htm

Rapunzel

Crane, Lucy, translator. Household Stories from
 the Collection of the Brothers Grimm. Walter Crane,
 illustrator. London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. 

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. Well, in the Grimm version, she does, a little too often, to a prince, and winds up pregnant, innocently remarking to her jailer witch that her clothes feel too tight. The witch, not to have any competition, chops off Rapunzel’s hair and magically transports her far away, where she lives as a beggar with no money, no home, and after a few months, two hungry mouths to feed. As for the prince, the witch lures him up and then pushes him from the window. Some thorn bushes break his fall, but also poke out his eyes. For all this extra bloodshed, however, there’s still a happy ending.

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Rapunzel.jpg

http://www.chrislordweddings.com/weddings_fantasy.html

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

In this tale’s earliest known incarnation, there was no Goldilocks — only the three bears and a fox called Scrapefoot, who enters the three bears’ palace, sleeps in their beds and messes around with their salmon of knowledge. In the end, she either gets thrown out of the window or eaten, depending on who’s telling the tale. Interestingly, it has been suggested that the use of the word “vixen” to mean female fox is how we got to Goldilocks, by means of a crafty old woman in the intervening story incarnations.

The Little Mermaid

http://indulgy.com/post/5pwTp1M2R1/
-mermaid-illustrationvictorian-littl

We all know the story of the little mermaid: she sells her voice for a pair of legs, flops around for a bit, then wins her prince’s heart, right? Well, not exactly. In Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale, she trades tongue for legs all right, but part of the deal is that every step will be nearly unbearable, like walking on sharp swords, and the day after the prince marries someone else, she’ll die and turn into sea foam. Hoping to win the prince’s heart, she dances for him, even though it’s agony. He claps along, but eventually decides to marry another. The mermaid’s sisters sell their hair to bring her a dagger and urge her to kill the prince and let his blood drip onto her feet, which will then become fins again. She sneaks up on him, but can’t bring herself to do it. So she dies, and dissolves into foam. Later, Andersen changed the ending, so that the 

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130801185243
/disney/images/0/0c/Ariel_png_01.png

mermaid becomes a “daughter of the air” — if she does good deeds for 300 years, she can get a soul and go to heaven. Many scholars find this rubbish.

http://mathieuphoto.com/blog/?tag=little-mermaid-wedding

The Frog Prince

http://www.scottgustafson.com/Portfolio_FT1.html

http://www.justjaredjr.com/tags/the-princess-and-the-frog/

Traditionally the very first story in the Grimm Brothers’ collection (and so it is in Pullman’s), this story is simple enough: the princess kisses the frog, out of the goodness of her heart, and he turns into a prince. Or, if you’re reading the original version, the frog tricks the resentful princess into making a deal with him, follows her home, keeps pushing himself further and further onto her silken pillow, until finally she hurls him against the wall. Somehow, this action is rewarded by his transformation into a prince, but it’s not even the most violent. In other early versions, she has to cut off his head instead. That’s rather far off from the traditional kiss, don’t you think?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hettiekoens/2654146256/

romatacism

Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and the natural sciences.It had a significant and complex effect on politics, and while for much of the Romantic period it was associated with liberalism and radicalism, its long-term effect on the growth of nationalism was perhaps more significant.

The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublimity and beauty of nature. It considered folk art and ancient custom to be noble statuses, but also valued spontaneity, as in the musical impromptu. In contrast to the rational and Classicist ideal models, Romanticism revivedmedievalism. and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval in an attempt to escape population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism.

Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events and ideologies of the French Revolution were also proximate factors. Romanticism assigned a high value to the achievements of 'heroic' individualists and artists, whose examples, it maintained, would raise the quality of society. It also promoted the individual imagination as a critical authority allowed of freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a Zeitgeist, in the representation of its ideas. In the second half of the 19th century, Realism was offered as a polar opposite to Romanticism.The decline of Romanticism during this time was associated with multiple processes, including social and political changes and the spread of nationalism.
(wikipedia)


reading lots of different views on what romantasism is i interpret them quite simply the romantics dont like to follow the rules, they contry to popular belief dont just capture lovey dovey stuff, but the emotion in images,  a lot of these came just after the reveloution, so some were quite dark others full of hope, some angry.

Caspar David Friedrich, The Wreck of the Hope (1840)

Gustavo Chams

 “For love of ambient reality”

Mr. Vidas Biveinis (Lithuania)
The series “Romanticism”
photography, Lithuania, 2007

lara Jade

period style- art nouveau

art nouveau-new orleans organic either creepy or beautiful detailed (mucha 1900) 1920 art deco empire

Art Nouveau (French pronunciation: ​[aʁ nuvo], Anglicised to /ˈɑːrt nuːˈvoʊ/; at. Sezession, cz Secese, eng. Modern Style, germ.Jugendstil, sk. Secesia) or Jugendstil is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art – especially the decorative arts – that was most popular during 1890–1910. English uses the French name Art Nouveau ("new art"), but the style has many different names in other countries. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants, but also in curved lines. Architects tried to harmonize with the natural environment.

Art Nouveau is considered a "total" art style, embracing architecture, graphic art, interior design, and most of the decorative artsincluding jewellery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils and lighting, as well as the fine arts. According to the philosophy of the style, art should be a way of life. For many well-off Europeans, it was possible to live in an art nouveau-inspired house with art nouveau furniture, silverware, fabrics, ceramics including tableware, jewellery, cigarette cases, etc. Artists desired to combine the fine arts and applied arts, even for utilitarian objects.

Although Art Nouveau was replaced by 20th-century Modernist styles, it is now considered as an important transition between the eclectic historic revival styles of the 19th-century and Modernism.

"Tischlampe Schleiertänzerin BNM" by François-Raoul Larche - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tischlampe_Schleiert%C3%A4nzerin_BNM.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Tischlampe_Schleiert%C3%A4nzerin_BNM.jpg

"Traubensaal" by Bruno Möhring - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traubensaal.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Traubensaal.jpg

"Gustav Klimt 046" by Gustav Klimt - 1. The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.2. Neue Galerie New York. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Klimt_046.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Gustav_Klimt_046.jpg

"Lalique dragonfly" by sprklg - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparklig/6129761819/. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lalique_dragonfly.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Lalique_dragonfly.jpg

"Eath-ball" by Dmitry Grishin - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eath-ball.JPG#mediaviewer/File:Eath-ball.JPG