a2 photography outside, inside and inbetween
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A2 Photography Exam
Inside, Outside, In Between
Mystery and Intrigue
Pans Labyrinth- Guillermo Torro'Pan's Labyrint'h trailer
Alice in Wonderland- Tim Burton'Alice in Wonderland' trailer
In film and literature, characters often transfer from their ordinary, ‘real’ lives into a realm of fantasy through a portal of some kind.
A Parallel World.
David McKean
Illustrate a poem, lyric, fairytale... Combine real and fake elements when taking the photograph. Edit digitally or draw /collage into the image.
SurrealismMan Ray
MagritteHerbert Bayer
Olivia Parker, Whelks (from "Lost Objects portfolio), 1980
Olivia Parker often produces intricate still life photographs of natural objects. The apparent simplicity of her technique acts to emphasise the complexity of these natural forms – the hard shell which had at one time contained the soft living creature, the feather which once adorned the a bird’s exterior.
Protect and contain the insides.
Laura Letinsky Edward Weston
Inner character, outer persona.Rineka Dijkstra established her reputation with a series of photographs made of young people aged at that difficult time between childhood and adulthood which all humans must traverse.Krazyhouse
Dianne Arbus is known for her photographs of those on the ‘fringe’ or edge of conventional society: transvestites, circus performers, dwarves and so on. These people often lived within society and yet were simultaneously a set apart.
A recurrent theme in the work of American artist Edward Hopper is the representation of both the inside and outside world in his paintings, perhaps alluding to something about the relationship between our ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’ lives & emotions.
Philip Lorca Di Corcia
Lee Friedlander
Garry Winogrand
Dominic HarrisMoving between places…
Uta Barth
Cosmin Bumbut
Walker Evans ‘Subway Portraits’
Inside on the Outside
Model, Rick Genest
Katherine Du Tiel Danny Quirk
Outside on the InsideAnna Schuleit
Rob HomstraSandy Skoglund
Sometimes it is what is left OUTSIDE the image that is that is important. This is usually determined by the photographer’s viewpoint & chosen crop.
In this image by Weegee, we see inside the image children and two adults, with a multitude of different expressions and emotions.It is the dead, gunned down body that is left outside of the image which the children and two adults view.Arthur H Fellig (Weegee), Their first murder, c.1941
Inside vs outside the viewfinder.
‘The Earth Dies Screaming’
‘Mogambo’
Alex Prager
Cindy Sherman
The work of Hungarian, Andre Kertesz demonstrates compositional skills: shapes within shapes (spaces, shadows & areas of ‘light’ inside other shapes & spaces).
Frames inside frames.
In 1989, Jean Marc Bustamente began a series of images silkscreened on Plexiglas and mounted two inches from the wall on metal brackets. The Lumières, as the series is known, seem to glow as they are illuminated by light reflected through them from the wall behind.
Between Absence and Presence.
Moholy Nagy
Floris Neususs
Adam Fuss
Obsessive Compulsive
Francesca Woodman
In combining performance, play and self-exposure, Francesca Woodman’s photographs create extreme and often disturbing psychological states. In concealing or encrypting her subjects she reminds the viewer that photographs flatten and distort, never offering the whole truth about a subject.
Ana Mendieta, Silueta, 1976
The silueta (silhouette) was a series of artwoks made by Ana Mendieta in which she left an ‘imprint’ of her body in snow, mud, sand, grass etc. These were transient ephemeral artworks, at their creation a performance piece, then recorded photographically.
Artist Richard Long is known for his Land-Art, often photographing tracks made by repeated use, or arranging natural materials within the landscape and then photographing them.
Capturing moments between a beginning and an end.
Steve McQueen 'Deadpan'‘Deadpan’ a response to Buster Keaton’s falling house stunt:Buster Keaton 'Steamboat Bill'
Thanks to the fortuitous positioning of a window, McQueen survives Buster Keaton’s famous gag sequence in Steamboat Bill Jnr. (1928) where the side of a house collapses on top of the hapless Keaton again and again. Each time his survival is filmed from a different angle. But whereas Keaton ran through a windstorm in Steamboat, in Deadpan McQueen doesn’t move.Different views of the moment of impact are repeated and reversed to create a sequence where the final Moment is suspended.
Steve McQueen
Steven Pippin Kevin Batangan Harold Edgerton
Shadows
Shadows and silhouettes can be used to ‘hide’ or ‘keep outside’ information about the subject of an image.
PoL Úbeda Hervàs