Y10 Vintage PPE

'Through the window'

TASK INFORMATION• The following tasks link to your current and previous work on

VINTAGE 'Through the Window' progress test preparation.

• These additional tasks should take between 3-4 hours. You do not have to complete them all in one go or in the order they are given. Choose the tasks you find the most interesting first. They will form part of your coursework and progress test preparation. They should be completed to the same standard as you would normally.

• We understand that you have limited resources at home, do your best with what you have available.

• Each task relates to a different photographer.

SAUL LEITER(1923-2013)Saul Leiter was foremost a painter who discovered the possibilities of colour photography. He

created an extraordinary body of work, beginning in the 1940s. His images explore colour harmonies and often exploit unusual framing devices - shop signs, umbrellas, curtains, car doors, windows dripping with condensation - to create abstract compositions of everyday street life in the city.

Many of his images use negative space, with large out of focus areas, drawing our eye to a particular detail or splash of colour.

Step 1:

Research the photographer

and create some writing

explaining their

background and their

work. Use 'SEMI' analysis

to help you (Analyse the

subject, elements, media

and intention)

Step 2:

Create your own version

of this by taking your

own photographs on your

phone or camera if you

have one. Take 30+ Upload

your photographs to

google drive and create a

new powerpoint. Annotate

with keywords.

Step 3:

Use the writing frame to

analyse this work.

Step 4:

Edit the photographs

using your phone or

Photoshop.

Click to add text

TASK 1

Approx 3-4 hours work

SAUL LEITER - PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGESCover your lense in

cling film to create a deliberate blurred effect. Photograph different parts of the inside of your house.

Photograph through a steamed up mirror.

Photograph through glass. Document the view from your window.

Explore different lighting. Natural Lighting or artificial lighting.

UTA BARTH (b. 1958)Rather than showing us a recognisable image, Barth’s works

depicts her perception of her surroundings. It often has painterly qualities and abstract features due to her deliberate use of blur

“THE CAMERA WAS TEACHING ME HOW TO SEE.”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYcpPDq5iQ&feature=emb_logo

Step 1:

Research the photographer

and analyse their work in

writing explaining their

background and their

work. Use the writing

frames to help you.

Step 2:

Create your own version

of this by taking your

own photographs. Take

enough to create a

contact sheet. Upload

your photographs to

google drive. Annotate

with keywords and using

the annotation card.

Step 3:

Use the writing frame to

analyse this work.

Step 4:

Edit the photographs

using your phone.

TASK 2

Approx 3-4 hours work

UTA BARTH - PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGESPhotograph shadows

made by light coming through a window.

Photograph the movement of fabric in the wind.

Create a photoshoot exploring shallow depth of field and deliberate blurring.

Set up a still life of glass and glass bottles. Create shadows by shining light through and photograph.

Edward Hopper(1882 -1967)

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered to be one of America's greatest modern painters. Hopper's enduring popularity stems from his ability to stage scenes from everyday life in a way which also addresses universal concerns. His contemplative studies of modern life, captured within the stark interiors of automats, motel rooms, diners and movie theatres have a timeless quality, transcending the hour and the place to become profound statements about the human condition. It is this quality which has inspired generations of artists, writers and filmmakers. Hopper believed that the artist's goal was to reveal the truth about the everyday and the interior life of ordinary people. His paintings are flooded with penetrating beams of sun or moonlight which expose isolated figures in sparsely furnished rooms, portraits of aloneness, absorbed in themselves and detached from their world. Another major theme of Hopper's work is the use of American vernacular architecture, often cropped in a way to increase psychological tension and heighten the feeling of isolation.

Step 1:

Research the photographer

and create some writing

explaining their

background and their

work. Use the SEMI

approach to help you.

Step 2:

Create your own version

of this by taking your

own photographs. Take

enough to create a

contact sheet. Upload

your photographs to

google drive. Annotate

with keywords and using

the annotation card.

Step 3:

Use the writing frame to

analyse this work.

Step 4:

Edit the photographs

using your phone.

TASK 3

Approx 3-4 hours work

EDWARD HOPPER- PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGES

Explore rule of thirdscompositions by positioning your model to the left of right of your frame.

Explore framing compositions by using windows to frame your model.

Explore colour theory by asking your model to wear complimentary colours to the environment you are shooting in.

Explore different lighting. Natural Lighting or artificial lighting.

Photography is often used as a tool to document or classify objects.

A typology is described as a study or analysis using a classification according to general type.

In photography this means a series of photographs related by form - this could mean:

● Shape ● Colour ● Texture ● Form ● Texture ● Pattern ● Line

Typologies

BERND BECHER (1931-2007)HILLA BECHER (1934-2015)

Were German conceptual artists and photographers who worked as a creative duo.

They met as students and married in 1961.

They are best known for their extensive series or typologies of industrial structures.

These are often displayed in a grid formation.

TASK 1

Approx 3-4 hours work

TYPOLOGIES - PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGES

Take photographs to create a sequence using food

It could be the eating, molding, cooking, peeling etc.

Take photographs from a view of your window every hour of the day.

Take photographs of a collection (Shoes, Nail varnishes etc.)

Take a photograph of your plate everytime you eat dinner and/ or finish dinner.

Take photographs of facial features.

Take photographs of items that are the same colour or shape.

The following slides are the VINTAGE 'Through the window progress test

information.

RED pre-public EXAM CHALLENGE

Plan and research ideas for taking photographs using windows and frames within your camera frame. Think about the

following key question when doing this:

HOW CAN YOU USE A WINDOW IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS TO DRAW THE VIEWERS ATTENTION TO SOMETHING?

For your PRE-PUBLIC EXAM PREPARATION YOU WILL NEED:

1. Research of images of photographers who use windows within their photographs

2. A plan of how you will use windows within your own VINTAGE style photographs (think about how you will answer the

question above when taking photos.)

3. A series of 25+ photos showing the above

4. Present the above in sketchbook imaginatively

IN THE EXAM YOU WILL:

1. Present and evaluate your photos in your Powerpoint using RED sheet

2. Use Photoshop to edit and enhance your photos TO CREATE A VINTAGE STYLE

Lee Friedlander 2002.Las

Vegas. From inside his car

Arthur Rothstein’Christmas

window’Osego County.1937

Andre Kertesz shot through

the face of a clock

superimposing the

numerals in reverse over a

view of Paris. The concept

challenges expectations of

photographic images

showing clear information

about a subject. Links to

early 20th C painting

AMBER pre-public EXAM CHALLENGEPlan and research ideas for taking photographs using windows and frames within your camera frame. Think about the

following key question when doing this:

HOW CAN YOU USE A WINDOW IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS USING COMPOSITION, VANTAGE POINT AND LIGHTING

IMAGINATIVELY IN RELATION TO YOUR CHOSEN VINTAGE THEME?

For your PRE-PUBLIC EXAM PREPARATION YOU WILL NEED:

1. Research of images of photographers who use windows within their photographs to communicate meaning

2. A written analysis of photographs which explain how the photographers have used a window imaginatively using

COMPOSITION, VANTAGE POINT & LIGHTING.

3. A plan using AMBER SHEET of how you will use windows within your own VINTAGE style photographs to communicate a

message (think about how you will answer the question above when taking photos.)

4. A series of 30+ photos showing the above

5. Present the above in sketchbook imaginatively using at least 5 presentational devices (colour scheme, font style, tags,

windows, borders/ frames, relief…)

IN THE EXAM YOU WILL:

1. Present and evaluate your photos in your Powerpoint using AMBER sheet

2. Use Photoshop to edit and enhance your photos TO CREATE A VINTAGE STYLE

PHOTOGRAPH WHICH COMMUNICATES A MESSAGE

William Eggleston. Memphis 1992 Anne Hardy ‘Incidence’2009

Andre Kertesz shot through the

face of a clock superimposing the

numerals in reverse over a view

of Paris. The concept challenges

expectations of photographic

images showing clear information

about a subject. Links to early

20th C painting

GREEN pre-public EXAM CHALLENGEPlan and research ideas for taking photographs using windows

and frames within your camera frame to communicate a

message. Think about the following key question when doing

this:

HOW CAN YOU USE A WINDOW IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS

USING COMPOSITION, VANTAGE POINT, LIGHTING &

CONTEXT IMAGINATIVELY TO COMMUNICATE A

MESSAGE IN RELATION TO YOUR CHOSEN VINTAGE

THEME?

For your PRE-PUBLIC EXAM PREPARATION YOU WILL

NEED:

1. Research of images of photographers who use windows

within their photographs to communicate meaning

2. A plan using GREEN SHEET of how you will use windows

within your own VINTAGE style photographs to

communicate a message (think about how you will answer

the question above when taking photos.)

3. Two shoots (a series of 30+ photos for each) showing the

above. One shoot must be a development shoot from the

first ideally.

4. Present the above in sketchbook imaginatively using at

least 5 presentational devices (colour scheme, font style,

tags, windows, borders/ frames, relief…)

IN THE EXAM YOU WILL:

1. Present and evaluate your photos in your Powerpoint

using GREEN sheet

2. Use Photoshop to edit and enhance your photos TO

CREATE A VINTAGE STYLE

PHOTOGRAPH WHICH COMMUNICATES A MESSAGE

Saul Leiter’s image shot

through a steamed up

diner window is superbly

mysterious and painterly

William Eggleston. Memphis 1992 Anne Hardy ‘Incidence’2009

PPE Photo-Assignment: ‘Through the Window’

Photographers ands artists have visited the idea of windows as metaphors over time and this presentation is designed to provoke interest in ‘windows’ as a series of images that might convey a range of interesting VINTAGE style shots as a purely photographic challenge FOR YOUR PRE-PUBLIC EXAM. In pairs discuss the question: How have artists used the window in their work to create a successful, imaginative and thoughtful image?

Jan Vermeer.’Woman reading at a window’

Tom Wood ‘Woman reading eviction notice’

Photograph

PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’

In all these paintings,Dali,Picasso,Rembrandt,Dutch interior the window is in the background of the composition but still a significant feature. A window defines the boundary between inside and outside. Space opens up and air and light flood in.

PPE Photo-Assignment: ‘Through the Window’

Paintings by Van

Gogh, Edward

Hopper,Edward

Wyeth and two

contemporary

painters Ken Howard

and Charlotte

Arizzidoni all have

included a window as

fact, as a structural

device and source of

internal light within

the frame space

PPE Photo-Assignment: ‘Through the Window’

PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window

Resources to stimulate experimentation by students for personal response

Looking out from inside to outside high viewpoints offer depth of visual detail

PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’

Inside out.The window forms a secondary picture plane within the frame

Saul Leiter’s image shot through a

steamed up diner window is superbly

mysterious and painterly

Josef Sudek obsessively

photographed this window view

of his garden.

Andre Kertesz shot through the

face of a clock superimposing

the numerals in reverse over a

view of Paris. The concept

challenges expectations of

photographic images showing

clear information about a

subject. Links to early 20th C

painting

PPE Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’

A window is a key composition feature within the frame with interior interest.

Fox Talbot .1948!! Amazing choice of

view. A tonally engrossing image with

just enough exposure control to define

shape and some detail.

Marc Riboud ‘A street in Bejing’ 1985. The parallel

plane of windows to the picture plane sub-divides

the composition into to mini-frames,creating

‘pictures within pictures’.

Lee Friedlander 2002.Las

Vegas. From inside his carJohn Pfhal. Hawaii, 1978

Jean Luc Maylane.Nov-

Dec 2000-1

Bill Brandt’Eaton

Place,London’1955Gordon Parks’Harlem’

1944

Photo-Assignment ‘Through the Window’PPE

Outside to inside. The window holding fascination within.

William Eggleston. Memphis 1992Saul Leiter.NYC 1950’s

Aaron Siskind ‘New

York’1948

Anne Hardy ‘Incidence’2009

Germaine Krull ‘Pillot Shoes’ No date Arthur Rothstein’Christmas

window’Osego County.1937

PPE Photo-Assignment PREPARATION : ‘Through the Window’

TASK 1: You need to study examples of the creative use within compositions of a window feature and then to study actual

photography practice to glean inspiration for your own personal response REMEMBER YOUR RESPONSE MUST LINK TO

VINTAGE OR YOUR VINTAGE THEME. The following slides will concentrate on photographic examples from the history of

photography to contemporary sources.

TASK 2: Present your research creatively in your Powerpoint with written annotation- what do you think of the work? How might it

inspire you? THIS IS PREPARATION FOR TAKING PHOTOS TOMORROW & HOMEWORK

TASK 3: Complete plan using RAG planning proforma on central resources