WEEK 2

Seminar Preparation Task

Practitioners I admire:

• Barbara Kruger

• Nick Knight

• Alexey Titarenko

• Solve Sundsbo

Most of the practitioner's work that I admire would display their work close to home as that is where they would be most recognised and known. The publicity may have biased views on their work as they may be apart of the location the photo shoots took place in or where their from.
As for the fashion photographers this may not always be the case as their work is promotional based and would get the best results by displaying there work around the most well known art galleries such as Tate Modern London, Victoria & Albert Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Exhibiting your work in such high end popular places, would give you large publicity and acknowledgement from people interested in your work.

Research Task

Locations our group has chosen: 

1. The Bear Pit, Stokes Croft
2. Clifton

Risk Assessments:

The Bear Pit- Stokes Croft- Bristol

Clifton- General area- Bristol

WEEK 1 3 Other Artists

Barbara Kruger

http://www.barbarakruger.com/

Sebastião Salgado

http://www.amazonasimages.com/sebastiao-salgado?PHPSESSID=187f769f5c2e463688562caab91afee7

Eiko & Koma

http://www.eikoandkoma.org/



Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt was born in London, England, 1966. He is a photographer who bases his work in Africa. He does this to be able to photograph and record the wild animals and places before they become destroyed from the hands of man.
He uses a medium-format black and white film camera, without zoom lenses. Most of his work is of panoramas of animals in wonderful landscapes and graphic portraits. He likes to photograph the animals up close to be able to portray their personalities.
He quotes- "You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close."

 

Some of his work:



Website http://www.nickbrandt.com/

James Nizam

James Nizam was born in Bedfordshire, England 1977. He is currently based in Vancouver, and his art work explores the links between photography and architecture.
I am particularly interested in his series of light installations called "Trace Heavens" as they are very beautiful images and they have a very unique style. To create them Nizam made incisions into a structure of a house to be able to experiment and manipulate sunlight into light sculptures.

His work has been exhibited in Canada and abroad with upcoming solo exhibitions at Birch Libralato Toronto, Christophe Guye Zurich, and the Yukon Arts Centre. 

Light Installations:
 

 

Other work:

 

 

Website http://www.jamesnizam.com/ 

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an American conceptual Photographer and also a film director. She was born in 1954, New Jersey, and is mostly known for her portraiture photography.
She creates and photographs sets in which she appears as various characters. She does this in order to borrow from certain particularities of stereotypical images of women in popular media, which makes audiences recognise the original stereotypical image. She also titles each image as 'Untitled' to depersonalise the images as she wants people to see the meaning and the character in the image rather than the photographer taking a self portrait. Sherman likes to use herself to comment on a variety of issues such as;

• The role of women
• The role of the artist

Extract from the book Her Bodies 

Rossalind Krauss- '..the condition of being a copy without being an original.'. 

Some of her work

Website http://www.cindysherman.com/