My own Berenice Abbott

This is my own image inspired by Berenice Abbott photography.  I’ve taken 20 photographs in black and white at interesting, and different angles. I chose he the best ones and photo shopped them by using curves and level tools whiten parts and darken parts to produce these photos

 

Berenice Abbott artist research

Abbott's first major photographic project, documenting New York City, began in 1929, shortly after she returned from Paris. Her documentation of this growing and changing but ultimately timeless city is one of Abbott's finest accomplishments. There is little doubt it is the best known. Abbott’s earliest photographs were simply notes, taken with a small camera for future reference. The size of her negatives and scope of her project increased until finally, by 1932, all were made with her 8" x 10" Century Universal. Many of her well known New York images were produced under the auspices of The Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939. However she continued to photograph New York City through 1956.

Hockney Joiner my example II

This is my own image inspired by Hockney Joiner images. I chose to zoom in to the eyes in the images as these are the most prominent and make an interesting subject. When taking the photographs I tried turning the camera in different angles and asking the model to move her head and her facial expressions to make the image more interesting and different. To create the collage affect I imported the best images into Photoshop and began to move them round to create the best composition possible. I like the finished final result and I would like to try more of this style of image.

Panorama my example

This is a panorama shot of Kenton School that I used for my Dan Arkle inspired project: Planet Kenton. I achieved this result by attaching the camera to a tripod and turned the camera 360 degrees in order to capture the whole of the school. When moving the camera I made sure to overlap the images so when I imported them into Photoshop, it would be easier for the program to stitch them together.

Hockney Joiner my example I

This is my photograph inspired by Daivid Hockney Joiner's photography. Simply, a joiner is a collection of individual photos which when ‘joined’ together with its brethren forms the whole. What this means is when you’re looking at my joiners, and you see it’s made up of lots of rectangles, well, each of those rectangles is one single photo showing just a small portion of the whole subject matter.

Hockney's 'Joiner' artist research

In the early 1980's, Hockney began to produce photo collages, which he called "joiners".

This is probably a closer description of how we see the world - from multiple viewpoints that are then pieced together by our mind. In this joiner by David Hockney he has tried to create this effect out of 24 Polaroid prints. He did this because he was interested in how we see and depict space and time. His is interested in how we turn a 3 dimensional world into a 2 dimensional image, how perspective is used in western art and how space is treated differently in non-western art. He did not particularly make joiners because he liked the novel effect of using photographs in this way. However, he did like the way this technique allowed the viewer to read space. He sometimes laid the images out in a neat grid.