Stephen Shore influence

I First looked at Stephen shores work in a lecture in uni. I didnt know really what to make out of his work other than it was sure that he photographed things as it was in america and now bacause i look at it and see that all his work has a date of histoy due to the time he taken the photograph. I think the work i done in liverpool is simular and does have a type of style to his. When taking photographs in liverpool i wasnt thinkinag about the style or the work of Stephen Shore but after paying mor attention to his photography i seen a resebalince right away.

Stephen Shore
Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975

Ryan Williams (me)

The docks. Liverpool. May 2010

The photograph i taken above has a lot more colour and tones but i can tell the to are very simular. The angle of my camera and also it is portrait view had a differnece but you can see what i mean. 

My new work flow

This is the new work flow i done due to the problem i was faced with the software called Xmind. The problem i had was the software Xmind was something i am not used to. I also had a problem printing the wok flow out at home and in uni. The business planning unit 13 i thought was a different subject compered to the other units given to us. I found this unit challenging and new, i researched a lot and think there is a lot of businesses out there doing what we are doing. the business we are doing is wedding photography and we called the business timeless weddings. This is my new work flow which i think is a lot better to the first one i done. I talk about how i start my day from meeting up to giving them the portfolio.

    
I have also printed this out and i need to put in to my business planner folder.

Robert frank research

Robert Frank

Robers Frank was born in November 1929 and is Jewish living in Switzerland. You could say he is renown for his American photography and film. His most known notable work is the 1958 photographic book called the americans. I find Robert Franks work quite interesting because i cant seem to put a style to his work and also in some of his photographs i cant seem to understand what it is he wants to photograph. To me i have a subject and photograph it but with Robert Frank his subject matter is hard to understand due to the composition and the way in the people and place he photographs.

Parade Hoboken

This photograph above is in his book the americans and is bably one of the most iconic visual books on American life ever. This book inspired many photographs such as Francis Bacon and Robert Mapplethorpe.

in my opinion i really like the composition and the crop. i think it is great the way the flag is taking out the persons head in the window and to my this is what makes the photograph work well.

Below is more work of Robert frank.

Untitled By- Robert Frank

This shot has a mood to it which i really like and think as a photographer it is hard to get a feeling and a mood in a shot. i like the contrast and how there is more back ground as the subject matter but yet the ladie is the centre of attention.

 untitled by - Robert frank

 untitled by - Robert frank  

Research on Ian Beesley

Ian Beesley

He was born in Bradford in 1954 and went to Bournemouth Poole college of Art in 1974 and graduated  in 1977 with a double distinction in documentary photography. Ian Beesley has been a professional photographer for over 30 years now and exhibits most of his work world wide.


One of my favourite photographs Ian Beesley done was this one.  

  Esholt

I think what i like so much about this photographer is that not only does the people who he photographs have a lot of feeling and emotion to them but its the place that the photograph is implying. The area of his photographs make the photograph to me  because of the mood and the environment that humans work under. Ian Beesley in my opinion has great powerful series of work that shows the human environment at work.

 Esholt the press house

Again this is another example of someone at work in his environment. The places that he photographs have some sort of feeling and remorse. You could say that this was meant to be staged but personally i think this photograph if it wasn't staged makes the photograph and it works for me. 

CROSBY BEACH.

GRAVEYARD.













The sereas of Crosby beach images are a fine art project i was set out to do. I started of photographing in the studio of a student and really liked the photographs i preduced. I felt confidant that the pictures i had fitted the Fine Art set perfectly untill i had a one to one assessment with my tutor who is marking this unit. the photographs had where more bassed around fashion and not fine art as such. I come out of the assessment a bit down because i felt that my photographs are strong for this unit. Unfortinatly i could not hand the set of images in so my next step was to think about how i can do a fine art shoot and use a set of images that went  well together and had a relation to the human condition.

First i come up with an idea of photographing my nan in her house but felt that this could be done for a future unit. The photographs i had taken at Crosby Beach was to relate to the human condition and i was thinking about having a human next to a sculpture to try and capture still ness and pease. I thought if i used a dress that flows in the find and looked naturel and then having a strong sculpture that is solid then it sould be sereal and give the vuewer i different perseption of just a beach with iron men on. I felt that the shoot went really well had was a great do to take photographs.On the day of the shoot i had the model and an assistant who helped me with this shoot. The model, Christy Litter who done a great job dealing with the dress and having to walk in wet sand in her boots, All this was for me and i couldnt of done this with out her. Also my assistant was faye rowley who also helped me with the dress, keeping it up right and tiet to her body using safty pins and a lot of pashints due to the safty pins coming undone everytime she moved.

The dress was a size 14 and the model is only a size 10 i think but i thought thats a good idea to have the dress big so it can flow in the find. Unfortinatly it wasnt so windy that day but i cant canplain coz the weather was great. I wated to have a old phone in the shoot to make it more interesting and also makes the images stand out. The idea with the telephone was really for the shhot in the graveyard. Again i liked the statues and grave stones and wanted to portray comunication in to worlds. The underworld and this world.  

Fine Art Research

The Steerage. Stieglitz

This is a photograph of working class people crowding two decks of a transatlantic steamer to me it is a photograph that shows how life is even in this day and age. You still get the people that cant afford the luxury of 1st call because they simply cant afford it but in the way people who can afford the 1st class are looking down at the people who are unable to pay. This photograph was first published at "Camera Work" 36th October, 1911.


Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and is known for introducing fine art photography into museums.




Websites i have looked at when researching Fine Art


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24X3YPmhpsE&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mU_T2G3Gvw&NR=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art_photography
http://photography-now.net/masters/master_photographers.html
http://photography-now.net/ansel_adams/