David Hockney

David Hockney, is a photographer and artist who I have decided to look at as one of the photographers for location photography. His work is different to most other photographers as his photographs are built up of many small photographs that built up to a larger photomontage. I like his works as he is creative with his choice of subject matter and he sometimes gives an almost a panoramic view. I did try this myself and it is much harder than it seems to be. The small images are often of different textures such as the blue of the sky or wood of the floor. Most of his photographs are buil up with many tiny images, he does not just take a small amount and it must take a long time to take so many photographs of each small details. I like his photography where he looks closely at people and how they move, there is one with a older man with a ciggerette and you can see how the face moves and how his expressions change. He doesn't use many styles but photomontage as in many other photographers will often look to get the perfect scene, I like how he photographs everyday scenes.

O. Winston Link

O. Winston Link

One of the Photographers I looked at was O. Winston Link, an American photographer. He worked mostly in the late 1950s for which most of his photographs are known; he worked at the end of the steam railway age. He worked only in black and white. The use of black and white in his work adds age to work and makes it easier to known when they were taken, his use of technology such as trains also add a romantic age to them. In one photograph the Hotshot Eastbound he uses three forms of transport, the cars, the plane and the train. This is very good as he has been able to get them all on at the same time almost unrealistic. In one of the cars is a couple watching a movie (foreground), the cars are heading off the photograph with the eye being lead that way, but the plane leads the eye to the left on the movie screen which points to the train also going of the image. This photograph looks very complicated to get right; it looks like it is staged. The photograph is very well done and must have taken a lot of planning to get right. I like this photograph as it looks almost unreal and is focused on a man-made subject matter. There is chilling feeling to this photograph; the usage of the train feels out of date with its steam which really make the picture interesting took at.

Final Major Project

For this unit, I need to create my own brief, its unsual as I am used to be given the ask, I feel like I am overthinking ideas or even trying to force ideas. I am unsure on what I want this piece to be but the point of the brief being open is to come up with ideas and also being able to change direction if needed. I quite like the idea of using graphics, because I enjoyed this in my view point unit and also in the mermaid unit. For the idea, I thought about two things anxiety, which is quite personal to me and is something I have death with over the last few years. The other idea is based on an idea similar idea to my location photography, which I used the inteior and exteior idea of protraying the inside and outside of my house, so in a way it was quite personal, I thought the focus of this idea could be on an enviroment that can't be controled, or because the mind of the person doesn't feel they can be organised or are deserving. I want to know why some people have an ideal but others are very much stuck in there own poverty and ideas. For this I can create a supture using both graphics and photograpghy. The sculpture can be of a house and it can include an inside.