Capitol Pride - 06-10-06
Originally uploaded by worleyx.
Thursday, 3 May 2007
Suited and booted and hells angels
Seem to have far too many images swimming around my head. Was shocked, amused and intrigued by the press coverage of BP's Mr Brown. Lot's of images flooded my mind and dreamt of some wierd tattoos
Wednesday, 2 May 2007
Towards a print solution
Wondering if with my found images I can produce an interesting print image in the practical session. Perhaps a mock version of a Gilbert & George styled image using various tatoos and images on tattoo sites of hunky cowboys. WOuld like to play with the photocopier and layering on photoshop to try this out if only I could work out how. The other idea I have is to play around with scale using these found images a la Sigmar Polke to see to what extent their meaning alters when you blow them up several times. Need to spend more time sourcing detailed images of tattoos from sites that show the printed images you can buy online. What I love about this project is the red herring aspect of it how you can get lost on tangents.
Found photography
I really enjoyed this exhibition. Thanks Paula for recommending it and writing it up. The magazines at the back of the Cafe were a fantastic insight into what vernacular art is all about. (www.foundmagazine.com and www.ohiomagazine. I spent some time flicking through them - there really is no end to the possibilities. From prize cows (with four legs) I wandered in my head to other possibilities. Prize little madams a la 'Little Miss sunshine. Still to research that one, attractive hoovers and so on. Have found some wonderful tattoo sites but not sure how to upload families of the pictures in one go.
Joachim Schmid
Various works remined me so strongly of different films : Amelie and Central Station. The haunting pain of other peoples left overs. Whole worlds unfold in one's imagination from these snipits of other peoples' trash and Miscellaneous was very powerful.
“For the last 25 years Joachim Schmid (b. 1955) has challenged the traditional and prevailing idea of ‘art photography‘. Instead, he has championed the importance of photographs that are produced and seen everyday; ranging from passport photos, to high street studio portraits, ID cards and, more recently, the Internet.
In Bilder von der Strasse (Pictures from the Street, ongoing since 1982) Schmid has collected discarded photographs from around the world, revealing the bizarre in the ordinary and overlooked. The exhibition also includes Photogenetic Drafts (1991). Using negatives a studio photographer had cut in half to prevent their further use, Schmid has created ironic and unsettling photo-collages that play on the predictability of the commercial studio portrait. The exhibition will premier two multi-channel digital photo installations, Tausend Himmel (Thousand Skies, 2005) and Menschen und Dinge (People and Things, 2006).
Schmid‘s interest in collecting and archiving photographs reflects a concern with photography as an all-encompassing discourse that runs throughout the public and private spheres of our lives.
The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Tang Museum at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, New York).
Two publications have been produced to coincide with the exhibition and are available from the Gallery Bookshop. Tausend Himmel, published by The Photographers‘ Gallery, is a full colour 64-page artist booklet featuring images from the project of the same title; and a monograph, Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982—2007, published by Photoworks (UK), Tang Museum (USA) and Steidl (Germany), with support from The Photographers‘ Gallery and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.”
Joachim Schmid
Various works remined me so strongly of different films : Amelie and Central Station. The haunting pain of other peoples left overs. Whole worlds unfold in one's imagination from these snipits of other peoples' trash and Miscellaneous was very powerful.
“For the last 25 years Joachim Schmid (b. 1955) has challenged the traditional and prevailing idea of ‘art photography‘. Instead, he has championed the importance of photographs that are produced and seen everyday; ranging from passport photos, to high street studio portraits, ID cards and, more recently, the Internet.
In Bilder von der Strasse (Pictures from the Street, ongoing since 1982) Schmid has collected discarded photographs from around the world, revealing the bizarre in the ordinary and overlooked. The exhibition also includes Photogenetic Drafts (1991). Using negatives a studio photographer had cut in half to prevent their further use, Schmid has created ironic and unsettling photo-collages that play on the predictability of the commercial studio portrait. The exhibition will premier two multi-channel digital photo installations, Tausend Himmel (Thousand Skies, 2005) and Menschen und Dinge (People and Things, 2006).
Schmid‘s interest in collecting and archiving photographs reflects a concern with photography as an all-encompassing discourse that runs throughout the public and private spheres of our lives.
The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Tang Museum at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, New York).
Two publications have been produced to coincide with the exhibition and are available from the Gallery Bookshop. Tausend Himmel, published by The Photographers‘ Gallery, is a full colour 64-page artist booklet featuring images from the project of the same title; and a monograph, Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982—2007, published by Photoworks (UK), Tang Museum (USA) and Steidl (Germany), with support from The Photographers‘ Gallery and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.”
Non sequitur - Scary Halloween
My daughter wants to see her photo on my blog so here goes.
She has done the enhancements herself which is impressive given the fact that she is ten. No question she'd be much better at this blog stuff than I would.
Finding suitable images for practical work
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There are literally thousands of sites on every possible theme . The theme I am interested in now is Cowboy tattoos. In wandering about I also came across a bizare news story on BBC site about Russian criminals and their perverse and anti establishment use of tattoos. EG Women of colour
Many female criminals also tattooed themselves, partly as a rebellious reaction to the establishment and partly to distinguish themselves as what are known as vory v zakone (thieves in law). These women were photographed at a corrective labour colony at Kungur, near Perm. BOG
God of crime
The Russian word for God - Bog - is also an acronym used by criminals. It means "I shall rob again".
Finding suitable images for practical work
There are literally thousands of sites. The theme I am interested in now is Cowboy tattoos.
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