For my first photoshoot I am not going to focus on any specific area on the Island, but I am going to drive around and photograph anything that I think will fit with my project. I am mainly going to look for houses as I think thank will be a good staring point.
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Saul Leiter was an American photographer and painter who’s work in the early 1940’s and 1950’s was recognised tremendously by the New York school of photography which further intensified his photography career. At just 23 years of age Leiter left Pittsburgh, his home town, and more to New York in 1946 to follow his dreams as being a painter. It was whilst he was there that the Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart introduced Saul to photography. He began with black and white photography, and n the 1950’s he started to explore colour photography in the streets of New York. He began with using slide film such as Kodak Chrome and in 2006 he released his first monography called ‘Early Color’ which contained ground breaking image which contained colour. This monography permanently changed the history of colour photography. Leiter once said ‘its not where it is or what it is that matters, but how you see it’ which was represented throughout his work. Many of his images were often taken shooting through window and using other objects opposed to the focused object to frame his images. They also include shadows and blurred objects which many said gave his images a daydreaming effect.
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William Eggleston was born in 1939 in Memphis Tennessee where he still lives to this day. He is very well know for his decision to begin using colour film in his photography as opposed to black and white which was what most other photographers at the time did. He photographed regular, everyday scenes and focused on the depth of colour in his images. He began thinking how he could use shadow and light whilst using colour kodak chrome. Eggleston was most most famously known for using a dye transfer. He used colour transparency film from 1965 and then colour negatives from 1967 and finally in 1973 he began to use dye transfer. He used it to achieve bright, vivid colour filled images which caught much of the publics eye.
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For my final exam study I want to explore the history of colour photography and how it has evolved over the years to become what it is now. One of my main inspirations is Pamela Roberts’ book ‘the genius of colour photography’ and with in it William Eggleston and Saul Leiter. Both of these photographers used different processes to achieve their colour images as it never used to be as easy as it is now. I am going to focus on William Eggleston as my main artist as I think his images all have something unique about them. As Eggleston was an American photographer my images won’t be exactly like his, I am going to take advantage of this and take images of Jersey in the style that he did of America but also in a more modern way. Many of the processes that they used back then aren’t used anymore as technology have evolved in many ways. Within my images I am going to focus on objects such as buildings ad cars and that’s what Eggleston focused on mainly. Saying this, I am also going to photograph things like nature and boats as Jersey has many. Within colour, I think that many people take it for granted now and don’t take in its true beauty. Back when Eggleston took image that I am inspired by it was seen as a great deal to be taking images in colour whereas now everyone and anyone can do it whether its on a phone or a camera etc. Over Jersey there are many things I can photograph which I think that you just have to look for, colour to us in images it just something you see everyday but back them it was seen as much more which I think people take for granted now. I hope to use my project as a way of admiring colour photography and making it something more special as it once was. The majority of my images will be taken in landscape in order to include all of the object but certain images may have to be portrait. Once I have taken my images I am going to edit them slightly on Lightroom Classic, to just make sure that they are clear, straight and focused, I am also going to experiment with a few of them. After that I am going to present them in three ways. Firstly I am going to produce a photobook with my images, secondly I am going to make some final prints where I will mount my images in different ways, some on their own and some in a collection to shoe the contrast that I find over the Island. Finally, I am going to produce a virtual gallery to show viewers what some of my images would look like in a gallery and how I would set them out in a way to show the story behind my study. My overall aim it to get viewers to appreciate colour photography once again like it used to be back when it was first introduce, and become more than people just taking images for the sake of it.
Throughs out my project I want to include more abstract views of colour. I think that in many of the images above they look as if they are been set up however, they haven’t which it what I want to try and achieve in my photoshoots. I think that this makes the images more engaging and and gives them more detail for the viewers. From this they can discover the detail and whilst my images will hopefully tell a background story, they can also use their imagination to add their own. I think a main focal point for me when taking images will be vehicles. I think that these are a good subject to photograph especially when it comes to colour. Whilst they may not look the same anymore as they have developed hugely, I still believe they will add to my project and make a great image. I am also going to look for more odd colour objects that may not jump into our mind when first thinking about the sort of things that we would typically see. I hope that these images will add to my project and give depth to it.
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