Ao12- broken Laura kelly - PowerPoint Presentation

1. Ao12- broken Laura kelly

2. For my theme I chose broken, I originally had the idea of reflections and how we perceive ourselves. To get more into detail with it I chose broken. The word broken can be interpreted in many different ways, for me it is the feeling of brokenness. How does someone become broken? Many aspects of a persons life can lead them to become broken. There is almost something beautiful in something that is broken.For this images I got a small piece of glass and used the light and refection of the tree to create this beautiful image.

3. This image was still on refection, this image is depicting someone feeling low (broken). This image has us guessing what is going on in this persons head or life. I worked on how I was going to colour my images and I got this grey scale and I feel it matched the theme.

4. For this image I used different pieces of glass to almost give a collage feel to it, I used my camera to unfocused the woman to make the woman in this image distorted. My approach to this image was that when you feel broken the world becomes distorted, distant and unrecognisable.

5. For this image I used a small hammer to break the glass so that the girl in the back is blurred, this is carrying on from the last image of trying to distant the person in the image and the person looking at the image.

6. This is the same piece of glass that I broke but only from a different angle. In this image I tried to show more of the light and shadow of the way the glass breaks. The glass in these images represents the mind of the subject, as you will notice the glass is slowly breaking, this is the subject slowly breaking.

7. In this image I used the glass from the previous images and completely smashing it, I used a bin to add shadow and reflection in the glass. This signifies a (breaking) point in the subjects mind.

8. This was my attempt at photoshop, I photoshopped two images together one of just the shoes and then of the shadow the subject created. This is signifying an emptiness, loneliness in the subject.

9. In this last image it is of the subject trying to put the glass together, this is signifying the subject putting her own mind back together. As you can see the glass is not perfect anymore and this shows that the subject will not be perfect but it together.

10. Saul LeiterSaul Leiter was an American artist and early pioneer of colour photography. With distinctive imagery suffused with painterly qualities, he is often grouped with other photographers of the New York School such as Richard Avedon, Wee gee, and Diane Arbus. His work, however, departs dramatically with that group in regard to his subject matter—an oblique mélange of New York’s streets, architecture, and inhabitants. “A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,” the artist said. Saul Leiter received no formal training, but has gained renown for his street photography. Leiter originally moved to New York in 1946 to become a painter, though he quickly became attracted to the potential of photography, taking to the streets to shoot black-and-white images. His career took a turn for the better when Edward Steichen discovered and exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art. In the 1950s and ’60s, Leiter was widely known as a fashion photographer; he made colour photographs for his own pleasure, and kept these to himself until the 1990s. Leiter would purchase inexpensive colour film past its expiration date, embracing the chemical mistakes that would result on his final prints. As such, his photographs are known for their abstract elements.

11. Paolo RoversiBorn in Ravenna, Italy in 1947, Paolo Roversi has lived and worked in Paris for over 35 years. After falling in love with taking and printing pictures in his youth, Roversi moved to Paris at the invitation of Peter Knapp, Elle’s renowned Art Director, in 1972. He started as a reporter for the Huppert Agency, but was soon drawn entirely to fashion photography. In 1974 Roversi became the assistant to British photographer Lawrence Sackmann whom he credits with teaching him “everything (he) needed to know in order to become a professional photographer”. Roversi’s film and printing techniques are diverse and adventurous, both technically and aesthetically, varying from Polaroids to gelatin silver to carbon and dye transfer prints. His signature technique though, is long exposure, the reason for which he eloquently summarises: “I can’t explain it technically, but when the exposure is very long, the picture of the subject is more intense. The presence is much stronger, much deeper – in the aura, in the eyes, there is something. Maybe the soul is coming into the eyes. That’s something I learnt from looking at early photographs. If you take a picture with the flash, for me it’s empty. There’s an emptiness in the presence of the person.” – Paolo Roversi

12. Jack Davison Jack Davison is a London-based photographer. Davison studied English Literature at Warwick University but spent most of the time experimenting with cameras. Since the age of 14 he has continuously photographed those around him. He works for numerous publications including New York Times Magazine, M Le Monde, Luncheon, Double & British Vogue. His first monograph Photographs, was published in 2019 by the publisher Loose Joints. He released his second book ‘Song Flowers’ in collaboration with Loose Joints and the fashion house Marni this year. After being named as the “One to Watch” by the British Journal of Photography in 2014, Jack Davison has been commissioned by magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Another, Garage and FT Magazine, among others, becoming one of the industry’s most important new voices. He was also signed on for a collaboration with Alexander McQueen ’s McQ, capturing both their Spring/Summer 2016 and Autumn/Winter 2016 collections and has since produced commercial work for the likes of John Galliano , Hermès, Burberry, Craig Green and Moncler.

13. Erwin Blumenfeld Erwin Blumenfeld was a American-German photographer best known for his editorial photographs, experimental fine art works, and portraits of cultural icons. Often in both his independent and commissioned works, the artist combined black-and-white images with small areas of bright, vibrant colour. He is also commonly associated with Hitler, Face of Terror, which was part of a satirical series emphasizing the dictator’s needlessly violent reign. Born on January 26, 1897 in Berlin, Germany, Blumenfeld worked as an amateur photographer during his childhood. Following World War I, the artist began working professionally and garnered international attention for his portraits of artists Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault. In 1937, he began working for French Vogue, and became well-known around the world for his shoots with Josephine Baker and Carmen Dell'Orefice. During World War II, the artist was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for two years, on account of his Jewish heritage, and was released in 1941 to travel to New York for work. In the post-World War II era, he was the highest paid photographer in the world and in high demand for editorial photo shoots. Blumenfeld died on January 4, 1969 in Rome, Italy. His work is currently held in the collections of the Riksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

14. Paul reifferGlass Ball Photography is becoming very popular amongst Photographers who want to try something new. All you need is a Glass Ball, a Camera and your imagination. Inside a Glass Ball the light is bent until it is inverted within the Ball, this creates an upside down image this is called Refraction. One of the key characteristics of refraction is when used well, it will add to your photo. The glass ball works in much the same way as the optics in your camera lens do. You can use it as an extra lens element, one you can move around your scene to achieve different effects. You can also use the Ball as a prop with other things like String Lights etc to make some quirky long exposure effects. Paul has travelled to over 75 countries capturing people, landscapes, and commercial images for most of his life. As a landscape and cityscape artist, Paul has been described as a magician behind a lens. Creating iconic, fine art photography, he masterfully invites his viewers into the heart of some of the world's most stunning destinations, and he has been featured in exhibitions all over the globe, including Times Square in New York, the Royal Albert Hall and Houses of Parliament in London, and gallery installations in Europe and Asia.

15. Bing wrightBing Wright’s photography highlights the physical and chemical processes of printing and draws attention to the narrative quality of his medium. Wright credits John Szarkowski’s ground-breaking 1978 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Windows and Mirrors,” as having influenced his work. Wright’s study of subjectivity and objectivity can be seen in his poetic still-life photographs of subject matter such as broken mirrors, rose petals, dead flies, water drops, lightbulbs, and newsprint clippings. His subject is silver, a key element in a photographic process that’s quickly becoming obsolete. A group of large-scale inkjet images of scraps of silver leaf on mirrors plays with the physical and metaphorical properties of the element while a smaller series of traditional gelatine-silver prints of silver leaf on glass includes fragments of leaf collaged to the surface. The arrangement in both series feels accidental, like a scattering of gorgeous confetti, but there’s nothing uncalculated here, and the mirror’s silver backing adds another layer of meaning to Wright’s smart, idiosyncratic work.

16. Broken What does it mean when a person says they are "broken"?It can mean anything, but generally it means a person was hurt really bad and can’t get over it. They might feel emotionally crippled, which makes them emotionally unavailable. But at the same time, it could hint at some disorder. For example, narcissists, psychopaths & sociopaths have issues with certain feelings like empathy & compassion. They know those feelings exist but they have trouble feeling them, so they think something inside them must be broken. And that could lead someone to say that. The thing is, no one can really say for sure, because everyone is different. Only the person that said it really knows why. And if they do tell you, there’s no way to know the real extent of damage they feel. ‘Broken’ is the past particle of the verb ‘break’ in English. But, what it actually means depends on the context in which it is used. For example, an object has to be broken in order for it to be repaired or fixed. ‘Broken’ in this context means that it is damaged in some way or not in full working order. But a wild horse, for example, requires ‘to be broken’ from its ‘wild state’ so that it is domesticated and under man’s control. But, in the wild it was not damaged in any way which required it to be repaired or fixed. We say that it had ‘to be broken’ to covey the action that was required to bring it to the state of domestication.