Schad was an 18th century photographer who had a passion for Photography, as this was the 1800s there was no sustainable "camera" to be used. Schads passion for Photography did not stop there, he experimented with light sensitive paper and began to place inanimate objects on the paper, later developed then became a photograph. I also experimented with this and developed my own photos. I took inspiration from this particular photo with the flowers, as I find it creates more personality rather than the usual elementary objects. when using light sensitive paper for photographs its difficult to get inanimate lines onto paper without it looking choppy or too straight. Schad explored this concept with living plants such as flowers, trees, and leafs . this helped produce more life looking photographs without it looking too abstract. his work influenced the aspects of cubism and futurism, this began when he took a trip to italy in the 20s and developed a smooth and clean flare towards his work. his work is not celebrated and recognized within the art world and has many of his pieces in museums such as 'The Tate, Museum of modern art NYC and even the Neue natoinalgalery in Berlin.
what i personally like about Schads work is his idea of realism and where the aspect of cubism plays into his work, i also relate my light sensitive work in relation to his as i particularly like the small detail which is applied to the photograph which means it was placed in a specific way which i relate to as when in the making of these photographs we had to carefully place the objects into specific areas into the way in which we wanted to photo to turn out. when doing this next time i would choose to add more minimalist details such as string or anything with a thin produce to be applied as it would take up more negative space and also add more intimacy towards the photo.
Man Ray.
man ray was a spontaneous photographer who explored with various different techniques in the photography industry. he explored techniques such as close up photographs of different human body parts, he favoured eyes and close ups of peoples faces. I particularly like this photo as it has sparkle gems on the subjects eyes, we can also pay attention towards the eyebrows and lashes, which are not 'in style' for Morden day. I like this aesthetic of the makeup department as its not an as common factor compared to Morden day makeup. the eyelashes highlight the emotion of the eyes, not only the eyes but also the eyebrows have a massive factor in the emotion being evoked.
what i enjoy about these photos is the beauty which is brought to the photograph, such as brining in aspects of makeup and also fashion such as the photograph shown on the far left, i love the concept of the eyelashes and the what seems to be dew drops under the eye. it helps the implied audiences perspective drift to questions such as what is she looking at? is this even a woman? it makes the audience want to learn more about the history of the subject and leaves the interpeartation up to the audience.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Nagy was a highly experimental artist according to 'Peter Schjeldahl ' which is what made him most popular. this was due to his pioneering in the art industry, experimenting with different techniques such as drawing, painting, collage, writing and even in the film industry including writing. this made Nagy known to many different connections due to his previous experience in the media and arts industry. one of his primary passions was photography starting in 1922 where he explained that his love for photography begun with his belief on that the photography camera could create a whole new world which the human eye can not capture. this theory then determined his future in arts and photography.
i enjoy these photographs/art as they as abstract and all have meaning behind them. this could relate to my natural light images
Negative light images.
my negative light images. when producing these images I installed them into photoshop and inverted them. this is what produces the inverted black and white filter colour. I then changed the colouring to black and white to help invite more contrast and depth to the photographs. I particularly like the way the branches on the inverted photograph of the trees stand out in a more lighter light. I have now based the two inverted photos on the same sheet of cyanite paper and placed onto of each other. this will now be left In natural light for 20 minuets and wait to develop. once developed we will see the outcome of the photograph on the cyanite paper and can we shown through the light.
LUMEN PRINTS.
Before After
These prints are light sensitive paper, meaning you can place whatever you may want to take a photograph of and place it on the paper. This will create a silhouette like figure and create a 'photograph' print. this is achieved by placing the paper in direct sunlight, this will begin to develop vastly and begin to become more opaque depending on how long you leave them into the sunlight. This is a photographic process as it is part of the negative light process, including others such as cyanotypes. this will create negative lighting space between the photograph and the sun. When creating my piece I collected some flowers and a leaf, I ensured that the flowers had smaller details to it so that they would appear greater and more fine on the print when it comes out. I then placed these flowers onto the paper and placed the frame on. what I think went well with my print was the detail of the flowers which I pre planned and it then produced me with the desired result. I also an fond of the colouring it produced, I enjoy the lighter look juxtaposing with the darker areas. For further noting I would get a more diversity of flowers and not all similar, I would also experiment with pulling the petals off the flower and placing on the paper, this would ensure the more unique look rather than the same flower.
pinhole camera experiments.
The making of the camera.
This is called a pinhole camera, which is a light sensetive developing paper which helps develop photographs later in the darkroom. When making this camera it is crucial to ensure that the camera is entirely covered in opauq black paint to enforce the idea that no light must get it, with the exception of the small pinhole which is vital for the camera to even work. The small pinhole which allows light only needs to be discovered for a few seconds otherwise the paper will be over sensetive and when being developed it would be entierly black.
These two photographs were taken using a DIY pinhole camera, this is the most sucsessfull of the photographs that i have taken with the camera. this is due to the trial and error of the camera not being dark enough inside and not enough of a solid opauqe look, allowing light to enter inside and the photos not being fully developed. i particularly like this photograph as it shows more contrast and brilliance opposed to the other photographs,