Combinations and AlliancesHalf term tasks

Visual CollageRead the whole exam paper. Brainstorm the words- use a thesaurus and dictionary to do this thoroughly. Present a collection of images related to your initial research either in your photodiary or in a new tab for unit 4 on your weebly. These should include relevant, known photographers.

Gallery VisitVisit: The Sunday Times Magazine 50th Anniversary Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. 31 January - 19 February 2012 (The exhibition is closed 11-14 Feb)http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/magazine/article858993.eceDocument your visit and discuss the work of at least three different photographers. Consider how themes link to the exam title- celebrity, politics, fame, conflict. While at the Saatchi also check out the current exhibition, particularly Hello World! Or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise by Christopher Baker.

Practical WorkUsing your brainstorm and gallery visit as inspiration, record three starting points within your first set of observations. Your initial ideas must be in a format that can be presented to the whole group during your first lesson after half term.

Still life: combination of objects

Sam Taylor Wood: ‘A Little Death’, 2002http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIl9rO9sURE&feature=related

Sam Taylor Wood: ‘Still Life’, 2001http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIzXWGcb3u0&feature=related

Laura Letinsky

In their Cubist paintings Braque and Picasso began to bring different views of the object together on the picture surface. This inspired the ‘joiners’ created by David Hockney.

Modernism

Depicting everyday objects within abstract compositions was a concern of Dadaists, the F64 group and Surrealists. These combinations of objects challenge how we view these objects and allow us to appreciate the formal qualities.

Edward Steichen Bill Brandt Rene Magritte

Fischli and Weisshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQvLFSMlSg&feature=related

Honda adverthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo&feature=related

Pin-pong trickshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0ov9O8L0s&feature=fvw

Nan Goldin

An alliance with the camera: the process of recording and documenting the everyday.

Henri Cartier Bresson

‘She takes a photo every day: 4.5 years’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1llHXUfEdrI&feature=endscreen&NR=1

‘Noah takes a photo of every day for 6 years’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo

Francesca Woodman

Documentation of personal experiences.

Tracey Emin

Creature Comfortshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-OVUoJ1RM&feature=related

Gillian Wearing ‘2 into 1’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7y5uvyhHgc

Tracey Moffatt

Me, myself and I…

Lee Friedlander

Chuck Close Mariell Amelie Andy Warhol

Reunions

Alfred Eisenstaedt Robert Doisneau Unknown

John Everett Millais Unknown Norman Rockwell

Combinations of Movement

http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-steve-mcqueen-deadpan-1997-5703453.htmlA response to Buster Keaton’s falling house stunt:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4

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

Explosive Action

Chemical reaction

Harold Edgerton

Political Alliance

Alison Jackson

Propaganda

John Heartfield Daily Mirror

Peter Kennard

Paul Peter Piech

Alliance of image and textVictor Burgin Daniele Buetti

Neville Brody

Barbara Krugar