Ideas for final piece

Since looking at Kiki Smith and my project taking a natural turn towards the movement of life and the idea of birth/womb etc. I have been looking at ideas for my final piece which I plan to be a video. This video of a model being 'born' out of a box gave me food for thought, watch it here...

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Movement

movement, a photo by Jessie.io on Flickr.

tips from artist: "I set a really really fast shutter speed so something like 1/2000 and a super wide aperture. and also zooming in on the subject blurs out the background more"

Jean-Marie Périer

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Inspiration for stop motion/video

Inspiration

Yves Klein, Saut Dans Le Vide (Leap Into the Void), 1960
Continuing through the theme of movement I came to across an image from Yves Klein who is an artist I looked at in Unit 3, this whole image encompasses the surrealist movement which is something I have be steering toward with mu current project. 

Alexey Titarenko

Currently aged 50, Alexey Titarenko is a Russian photographer and artist mainly capturing movement through images in social and political circumstances. Titarenko uses various techniques such as collages and photomontages. Much like Jacques-Henri Lartigue all of his images are in monochrome creating an eerie and unnerving emotion through his images. One of his photomontages “Nomenklatura of signs” which first exhibited in 1988 is a metaphorical depiction of the communist regime in Russia; it depicts the oppression caused by the system which converts all of its citizens into mere signs. Another political inspiration on his photographs was the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. From this he created a series of images portraying the human conditions of the Russian people during this time. “To illustrate links between the past and present he created powerful metaphors by introducing long exposure and intentional camera movement into street photography.” “Titarenko's prints are subtly crafted in the darkroom. Bleaching and toning add depth to his nuanced palette of greys, rendering each print a unique interpretation of his experience and imbuing his work with a personal and emotive visual character.”

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Best known for his famous photographs of Parisian women, planes and automobiles, Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French painter and photographer in the 20^th century. From a young age, Lartigue was a keen photographer, documenting activities in his own life which incorporated movement into his work, thus becoming an integral part. He documented images in various forms and sizes. His greatest achievement was his set of around 120 huge photograph albums, which compose the finest visual autobiography ever produced. However, during this period he focused mostly on his paintings which earned him more than his initial photographs. In the 60’s when Lartigue was aged 69 his boyhood photographs were finally discovered by Charles Rado of the Rapho agency, who introduced him to John Szarkowski, then curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who in turn arranged an exhibition of his work at the museum. Consequently, a spread of his images was then shown in Life Magazine in 1963, showcasing his images to a mass audience. He was then hailed as being one of the founders of modern photography.“Striking though they are, Lartgue’s pictures are not precedent. Instant photography, which arrested movement for humorous effect, was a cliché of the amateur repertoire. Lartigue simply did what everyone else was doing but with more flair and more daring”“All the jumping and flying in his photographs, it looks like the whole world at the turn of the century is on springs or something. There’s a kind if spirit of liberation that’s happening at the time and Lartigue matches that up with what stop action photography can do at the time, you these really dynamic pictures.”

Sam Taylor Wood

Inspiration

In terms of movement in film and video the following two music videos have influenced me because of the visual manipulation of the movement in the films.

etienne jules marey

Etienne Jules Marey is best known for being a working scientist most of his life. However, he was also one of the first photographers of movement his studies with animals and natural forms in motion came to shape the landscape of modern art. "Marey's iconic work combines multiple angles of a period of motion into a single image, creating a surreal yet scientific record of the subtle changes that occur which make a swing, a gallop, or a swoop"

Unit 4

After receiving my exam paper for my next and final unit, I was undecided on which question would be most interesting and beneficial for my project and was torn between Movement and images with text. However, as I enjoy creating video work and films I think movement would be a natural pathway to take. Therefore, I began to mind map my thoughts of what 'movement' could interpret. It could be in terms of dance, passing of time, vehicles, time lapse and film or even art movements in social and political areas...