Print selection

Found Performed Construted/ Slide List

Found Performed Constructed Pt.2                                   

Raimond Wouda                                                 Linde College I, Eesveen, 2005

Raimond Wouda                                                 Dasmateda Amsterdam 2003

Andrew Bush             Man traveling southbound at 67 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Montecito, California, at 6:31 p.m. on or around Sunday, August 28, 1994

Andrew Bush             Man heading south at 73 mph on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow Drive outside of Bakersfield, California, at 5:36 p.m. on a Tuesday in March 1992

Andrew Bush             Woman gliding southeast at 64 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbara at 4:39 p.m. sometime in March 1990

Amy Stein                                                             Steven, Route 10, Louisiana

Amy Stein                        Route 14, New Mexico

Amy Stein                        Canadian Girl, Route 65, Alabama

Michael Wolf                                                            Paris Street View 2009

Michael Wolf            Street View: A Series of Unfortunate Events 2010

                                                           

Michael Wolf            Paris Street View exhibited in Amsterdam 2010

Mohamed_Bourouissa                                    Périphéries

Mohamed_Bourouissa_                        Le téléphone,  2006

Mohamed_Bourouissa                        La fenêtre

Mohamed_Bourouissa                                    Le groupe, 2007

Mohamed_Bourouissa                        Le cercle imaginaire 2008

Alex Prager                        Eve 2008

Alex Prager                        Annie 2008

 

Alex Prager                        Sunday

Inez-van-Lamsweerde                         God 2005

and Vinoodh-Matadin

Inez-van-Lamsweerde                         Dakota Fanning

and Vinoodh-Matadin

Clare Strand                        The Betterment Room 2004/5

Clare Strand            Lisanne wears wool shift dress, felt scarf and leather gloves with bell sleeves by Emporio Armani

Matthew Brandt             Fall Creek Lake, OR 7, 2009

Matthew Brandt             Klamath Lake, OR 2, 2009

Dirk Braeckman              Pyramid Club N.Y.

Dirk Braeckman             E 113

Dirk Braeckman             N.P.-I.K.-04

Alexander Binder             from the Allerseelen series

Alexander Binder             from the Allerseelen series

Book Design / Natural Lighting

Over the weekend, I discovered an online book editing program,  called Blurb.  It allows you to import images from a number of web locations, as well as your own computer.

I had been looking mainly towards my mothers, family and landscape,  snapshots relating to my childhood.  I thought it fitting in gaining some balance in adding a contemporary element to the natural lighting  project.

All images were taken on my youngest child's (name omitted)  much converted  iPhone S4.  

The purchasing of the iPhone, by said child, was given the go ahead  for two main reasons. 

1. She saved the money for the phone herself.

2. SIRI !   Voice activated technology, in the world of dyslexic-child, priceless.

- small print she had to share... 

The out come was a memory-bank of  snapshots an element that has been missing in our family, for far too long

- lugging around a D90 does not really scream 'spontaneous'.

It was also interesting finding editing programs and web uploading/sharing solutions,  instagr  by far my favorite.

The fact that in answer to public demand publishing companies such as Blurb, work in alignment with  web-based social-networks,  may mean that the family photo-album, is not heading for extinction.

cover

flaps

Spine

                             

  Tuesday/22/May

Removed flap to correct spelling mistake... this will go on for days as I spot more...changed cover removing 'A Picture book' and just leaving K.B.N

Pages 1 - 13

Pages 14 -29

Pages  30 - 36

UKIYO-E/ Floating World

http://www.katsushikahokusai.org/

Hokusai: Peonies and Butterfly  

“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.”
― Hokusai

 

Hosoda Eishi: Yang Guifei

 

Floating World Exhibition

http://karenlamonte.smugmug.com/Works/Kimonos/Floating-World-Exhibition/19471241_PNHVtf/1427459769_JdDFK83#!i=1427463134&k=WKVXN5Q

 

 

Cropped Selection Natural Light

  

1

--------------------------------------

2

----------------------------------------

3

--------------------------------------

All images taken by my Mother, Dawn Clark.

 In approaching the selection /editing process I was first drawn to images that had children interacting within their environment - with backs towards the camera. 

The approach of section with 'child in image' was based trying to translate my own personal family, visual language.  I wanted to investigate what aesthetics within choice of composition and subject matter had been passed down, within generations, mother to child.

 I  found a shift  in styles appearing  in years 1950 -1960, that moved away from staged portraiture, to a more carefree snapshot that was well established by the time these images where taken (1970's). This would relate greatly to the change technology available to the amateur photographer. 

I believe that the  amateur photographers of this era have a very unique aesthetic. Using my mothers work as an example - my mother first took images on a Box Brownie with only 12 exposures per roll of film combined with development costs meant care had to be  put into her choice of subject and composition.

 The images above, are very much snapshots, but not taken by a person that had the luxury of a digital. They have a stillness that notes the patience's required in learning to take photographs, on such cameras as Box Brownies. There is no snapping off a  hundred images within one day... its a approach that is rapidly being lost within our digital era.

Aesthetically well  within my mothers images there are many posed family group photographs. Its her landscapes I'm drawn to. With or without a trace of a human element they speak of a very nonhuman centralist approach to her environment.  

Monday/ 21/May

Having spent the weekend working on less formal family snapshot, I have decided that the triptic is overdoing things a little to much. 

The images enlarged should be seen closer to there origanal shape. Though this may all change again if I dont like the results.

Defining Style

Start of how I may intend to use my others images... have always been very drawn to The floating world masters method of approaching their environment.

More notes latter as have a lecture to get to.

“I have drawn things since I was six. All that I made before the age of sixty-five is not worth counting. At seventy-three I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At ninety I will enter into the secret of things. At a hundred and ten, everything--every dot, every dash--will live”

- Hokusai Katsushika

Friday/18/2012


Silk Panel


The reason behind dimensions used regarding above image, was in reference to a framed embroidered     silk panel, I found in an op-shope a few weeks back. The dimensions where, 40cm x 123 cm.

In reflection I really don't think it works... or, is too overstated, not to mention would cost an arm and a leg to print, and as my printing skills are very much in need of improvement that idea may such have to be put back on the shelf.

Another reason I was drawn silk panel was the the embroidery itself. 

Embroidery is a craft I learnt from both my mother and grandmother - along with sewing, knitting and crochet. I'm very much interested in the knowledge that is passed down from generation to generation.

 

Artists of Interest/ photography

Martin Stranka

http://www.martinstranka.com/

Parkeharrison

http://www.parkeharrison.com/


 Simen Johan

http://www.simenjohan.com/ 

  

 Steve Bloom

  

http://www.stevebloom.com/



 Vivian Maier

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

Yvonne Todd

www.ervon.com

Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/04/theory-nan-goldin-on-cookie-mueller.html 

Alex Prager

Alex Prager
 http://www.alexprager.com/

 Alex Prager's photographs are emblems of the joys and tragedies of living in Los Angeles. The self-taught photographer does for LA what Woody Allen did for New York, featuring the city as her muse (and protagonist). In her vivid photos you may recognize Cindy Sherman's feminine masks, Douglas Sirk's classic melodramas and even David Lynch's eye for the uncanny.
Prager's mannequin-like women are caught in compromised states; she captures beads from dripping mascara and trembling matte lips on film. Though her heroines are hurting you get the feeling they still love the drama. Prager revels in these difficult emotions, especially when it seems inappropriate to stare.
The young Los Feliz native began taking photos after being inspired by a William Eggleston exhibition. She then bought her first camera and began taking photographs of her friends. Prager is now one of the most recognizable contemporary working photographers out there today, and her friends are often the models in her pieces.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/alex-prager-compulsion_n_1300362.html

Scanned/notes

Scanned at 1200 resolution, uploaded at resolution of 72 which is fine for net

Think its the shotover, have to ask mum this weekend.

Keeping selection to the very central otago autumn tones at this point as would work well with the butterflies.

Have an idea for an edit using my mothers images as layers over some of the butterfly images.

Epson Uni Scanner

Spent day on  Uni scanner, lucky for me John past through.

Gave me some great pointers.

 Images scanned at original size but pushed the resolution up... overriding the size issue. 

Resolution for film : 9200

Resolution for reflective: 1200

Scans where lower in regards to the fact I had not taken ample storage to cover what I was doing.  

Happy with the outcome but really have to also recall to check the state of screen before I start. 

More time spent on cleaning up stray eyelashes than I ever want to do again.

Scan was taken into photoshop and slowly coming to terms with a Guy Gowan sharpening method that as yet not sure I have correct.
 But over all looks a hell of a lot better.







.

Butterflies

Absence of Man

Trace of Human Element

Once again looking through family photos, how man is depicted even in his absences within the landscape

Human Element 2 edits

Tried to re size images to the same as the snapshots from my mothers collection... really not going to work as just looks ugly...  but should be able to crop  to same size.