THE HUMAN CONDITION
Why i chose it?
There are so many reasons as to why I have picked the human condition. Personally, I enjoy capturing the moment. Its pretty self explanatory, in my opinion. Being able to experience the same emotions, the same events and possibly the same situations as the person in the photo, but also to express emotions to people, and reliving the image over and over again.
There are so many reasons as to why I have picked the human condition. Personally, I enjoy capturing the moment. Its pretty self explanatory, in my opinion. Being able to experience the same emotions, the same events and possibly the same situations as the person in the photo, but also to express emotions to people, and reliving the image over and over again.
COMPANIONSHIP: WHAT IS IT AND WHY DID I CHOOSE IT?
EXAMPLES OF COMPANIONSHIP PHOTOGRAPHY
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WHAT IS COMPANIONSHIP?
- a feeling of friendship - a signifcant other - a family member HOW DO WE FEEL? - the sense of feeling close to someone - being able to trust somebody the feeling of companionship ranges, wether you are with your best friend, your significant other or a close family member. and with the advanced technology today, you can capture the moment on camera to relive the moment again and again. |
henri cartier-bresson
The website i used: https://www.henricartierbresson.org/en/
WHO WAS HE?
he was a French humanist photographer, who enjoyed capturing candid images, and also filmmaking in the early 30's. He is known to be one of the most significant photographers of the twentieth century, he co-founded Magnum photos in 1947. His website, which i linked above the image, are devoting its new space to Henri-Cartier Bresson. He documented two key events in China, the fall of Kuomintang and the establishment of the communist regime. (1948-1949) and Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" (1958) |
Henri Cartier-Bresson's Photography
Henri Cartier-Bresson shows a more lucid eye to photography, simply because of the way he describes as photography as "It is putting one‚ head, one‚ eye, and one‚ heart on the same axis." and "It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy." - henri cartier-bresson .
When i view Cartier-Bresson's images, it makes me think of what it was like to be in those times, and how he watched and experienced first hand and quite possibly captured key events in time which people are looking back at today and viewing his photography and realising that he had a very good eye for capturing photography.
When i view Cartier-Bresson's images, it makes me think of what it was like to be in those times, and how he watched and experienced first hand and quite possibly captured key events in time which people are looking back at today and viewing his photography and realising that he had a very good eye for capturing photography.
analysis:Henri Cartier-Bresson captured two key events in China, The way he captures the sense of chaos in this image, which represent the events that were currently going in within China during that time.
Its quite interesting in my opinion, because you can sense the chaotic energy from the image. And almost, like you can feel what it was like to be there. I enjoy the way his photos give off that type of energy. |
BILL LESLIE'S WORKSHOP
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projections
LOUIS VUITTON from Bailey Reynolds on Vimeo.
We had used the projecter in this photoshoot, and we had decided to shoot the LOUIS VUITTON logo from the projecter. With the footage, and images i had gotten, i had edited them.
ARCHIVES:
I had been thinking about using images of my nan, in the 70s. It was after i had a long chat with my dad, and we went through these images in a box of my nan, grandad and my dad and uncle from when they were younger, and it just comes to show that once upon a time, that adults, people we look up to are not as wise as they seem because when you're kids, you think adults know everything, and that adults dont know how you think but you forget, adults were once children too. In some sort of way, there is companionship, not just in the photos but the way i am presenting these images, I am in some kind of way making people remember her, as she had passed away a couple of years ago. I am rekindling memories as i am making new ones, all because i decided to base my final project on her.
Here i have the "Archives", In my opinion, I think each of these photographs capture my Nan's personality. Almost, in a way, that she is trapped within the photos, Because it captures her natural beauty.
archives from Bailey Reynolds on Vimeo. |
I had recorded myself observing these "Archives", At first, I appear to be more fast with observing them but slowly throughout the whole video, i appear to be more invested in observing them. As they are about my nan and Some of the images i had found, were really able to catch my Nan's personality.
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I had edited the video i had recorded, of me observing these images. I had firstly, reversed the image, flipped it and then inverted the colour, and then i fit both of the videos together, one of them positive, not flipped or reversed. The difficulty was the editing because i didnt know how to reverse the videos at first but slowly I had been able to get the hang of it. They were images of my nan from the 70's, when she was in the her late teens, possibly early twenties. With the edited version, i plan to project it so in a way, I am also in the photos of her.
EVALUATION:
I began this project by deciding to use was the "Human Condition". Personally, at first, the thought of doing this theme made me unsure, because i had no idea on how to capture the idea of the Human Condition, and i had a lot of doubts about doing it at first. But, throughout the project, My emotions changed and i found something that was able to present the Human Condition, which also made me comfortable doing it. Throughout as i developed my work, I began to feel at ease presenting my own ideas which were different because i was bringing in old images and I selected images that caught my eye, and that represented my Nan's personality in a way. During this project, I had decided to select the artist "Henri Cartier Bresson', mainly for the way he had described the way he took photos, and how understanding he was to the key events that had happened whilst he had taken those exact images. One image that really stood out to me was when he captured the key event of a time in China, and the energy he had captured in one image. I like how he had described photography "It is putting one‚ head, one‚ eye, and one‚ heart on the same axis." Because he is capturing emotions. Emotions are what make a photo, a photo. The threshold concepts that i have played with, are