Zuma
John Divola
In the late seventies, John Divola (American, born 1949) stumbled upon an abandoned property in Zuma Beach in Southern California. Between 1977-1978, he observed, augmented, and photographed this building, and it is the subject of one of his earliest and most renowned projects entitled Zuma, 1979.
Composition
Framing the Environment
Using the frame template we went around school and photographed the environment using the square as a means of capturing interesting detail also using the work of John Divola as inspiration.
Response:
Collages
Here we made paper collages with different shapes and then we went outside to find those shapes in the same kind of pattern.
Reflections
Here we took pictures of the corners of buildings so that we could later photoshop them into a four way mirror image.
Examples:
Reflections Response
Here are the pictures that I took of the buildings.
WWW: I really liked how these pictures turned out and I think they look interesting. They are interesting shapes and they seem quite abnormal.
EBI: They all look fairly similar to one another as they were taken on the same day in the same area. Not that i could do anything about it but if the sky was clearer it would look a lot nice and add more dimension to the image.
EBI: They all look fairly similar to one another as they were taken on the same day in the same area. Not that i could do anything about it but if the sky was clearer it would look a lot nice and add more dimension to the image.
Reflection Image Photoshop Process:
To reflect the images, I flipped the original image on it's side and placed it in the top corner, then I pressed copy and paste and transformed it sideways, then down, then across again to complete the process.
Formal Elements
In these tasks I practiced taking photos by focusing on some of the formal elements, a term used by artists/art critics traditionally within the fine arts, to refer to the elements within a composition and generally include the following: line, tone, pattern, texture etc.
Examples:
I like how the pictures i did take came out, although i did not manage to find all of the examples on the contact sheet
Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze
Wild Concrete
Focusing solely on the phenomena of trees sprouting from residential buildings in Hong Kong, Wild Concrete compares the living conditions between plants and humans. Such peculiar sight of ‘wild concrete’ is by no means exclusive. They can be found everywhere in the heart of the city: roots spiralling down the external pipes of a Mong Kok loft; shoots lurking behind a window frame of an apartment in Central hills; or branches spreading across a residence in Sham Shui Po, collapsing it from the inside out.
Wild concrete response:
In response to Jacquet-Lagrèze's work, we went around the school and looked for examples of wild concrete.
Strata
Strata is the well known geographical term for 'layers or layering' of features in landscape. The progressive accumulation of sedimentary layers forming rock formations are the most recognisable examples of strata.
Strata Response:
These images are supposed to show an object/objects from far away and then an close up of part of the object/one of the objects.
With these images, the camera I was using had a few dead pixels and the ISO and shutter speed were too high. when uploading to weebly, I tried to brighten the images but by making them brighter the quality of the image was reduced. They are currently darker than I would like them to be but they need to be so that the image does not look so washed out. If I were to do this again, would adjust the ISO to make the image brighter.
Three Strands
Strand 1: Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham is an artist from Vancouver who works in a variety of mediums, built a giant pinhole camera and parked it in front of twelve different trees for one month in 1979. The public was invited to enter the camera to view the luminous image of the tree cast upside-down on the camera's back wall.
Rodney Graham Response:
Rodney Graham Response Photoshop Process:
Strand 2: Horst P Horst
Horst P. Horst was one of the original pioneers of 20th century fashion photography. His signature style is today instantly recognisable – combining portraiture and fashion with simple but essential embellishments. His photographs were the subject of a solo exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2015.
Patterns in Nature is a simple collection of large images that capture the beautiful colors and textures in nature. The collection is simple, colorful, quiet, immersive. A great reference for artists, designers, and nature lovers.
Horst P Horst Response:
Photoshop Process:
Horst development
Photoshopped
WWW: All of the designs came out more or less how I had intended them to.
EBI: I think that some of the designs are a bit too small and I got a bit too carried away with reflecting them. Additionally, for some of them I do not like the direction I have reflected it.
EBI: I think that some of the designs are a bit too small and I got a bit too carried away with reflecting them. Additionally, for some of them I do not like the direction I have reflected it.
B&W Reflection
WWW: These black and white designs match the artist's original designs and they look eye-catching.
EBI: I would like to adjust the colour a little because some of them have very intense blacks while others are more faded.
EBI: I would like to adjust the colour a little because some of them have very intense blacks while others are more faded.
Horst Development Photoshop Process
Here I used the same technique as the reflecting buildings, I just repeated the process several times.
Strand 3
Dmitry Zakharov
Nature vs man
Nature vs Man Photoshop Process
for this process, I cut out part of the reflection in the shape of a circle, then took several screenshots and put them in order as I rotated the circle to create the GIF
Final Pieces
The conclusion I came to was that while man is extremely powerful and covers so much of the world, nature is almost unstoppable, and while it may be slow, it will always win in the end.