Experimental Photography

Experimentation in your sketchbook

In your sketchbook you must demonstrate:•2-4 Photoshop techniques (include before and after of images), this can include: layering of images, photo montage, double exposure, HDR, colour isolation

•2-4 Tactile experimentation on prints, this can include: burning, scratching, folding, photo sculptures, painting on prints, sewing on prints

surrealism

A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

For more info go to: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phsr/hd_phsr.htm

Ger Van Elk‘What I am after is a realistic depiction of non-realistic situations’When Ger van Elk was in Los Angeles in 1971 he was confronted by the aftermath of an earthquake. Under a chunk of asphalt from a road that had been torn open he found a cigarette packet with some cigarettes still in it. This gave him the idea for the two photos of The Discovery of the Sardines. He replaced the cigarettes by sardines because he is crazy about sardines. Emerging from the cracks in the road, the small silver fish at first seem to be emerging from a dark underworld of human society, making a fascinating surrealistic image. In contrast with this enigma from another world, a fast car is speeding by whose chauffeur apparently has no eye for miracles.

The subtitle Placerita Canyon, Newhall, California indicates that the artist has not yet relinquished the documentary character of The Discovery of the Sardines; he is eager to convince us of the veracity of his vision.So in addition to an affinity to Dadaism Ger van Elk's work has a bond with surrealism, the movement that was to succeed Dada historically. Van Elk's surrealism, however, has no Freudian overtones, nor is it in any way didactic, probably because wonder is its source of inspiration. What Van Elk offers us is not figments of the imagination but, like Picasso, finds and inventions.

Photographic Art

Adding Paint and Surface Texture

Betty Hahn

Maurizo Aneri

Daneile Buetti

Craig McDean

Daune Michals

Nick Knight

Joachim Schmid

The Starn Twins

Photoshop cloning

Kelli Connell

Benjamin Lee Ziggy

Paul Smith

Chino Otsuka superimposes her adult self

into photos from her childhood

Tilt Shift

Tilt Shift technique by nathan kaso – Toy Boats

Video: http://vimeo.com/53247454

Tilt Shift by Richard Silver

OverlayingImages

Alexander Apóstol

Jon Clang - Being together

Craig McDean

Albert Chong

Betty Hahn

Tatiana Parcero

Montage

Melinda Gibson

Pierre Radisic

Pierre Radisic

Joachim Schmid

Barbara Kruger

John Stezaker

Dominic Rouse

Eva Stenram – Family portrait

The order of age within the family has simply been reversed – Stenram has become the oldest member of her family and her father has become the youngest.

Eva Stenram

Double/Multiple exposure

Jerry Uelsmann

http://youtu.be/zVHVN_mqkro

http://youtu.be/Gf9ubzJMILA

Terney Gearon - Explosure

Fred Holland Day

Robert Heinecken

Fred Holland Day

Jerry Uelsmann

Clarence John Laughlin

Clarence John Laughlin

Kathryn Hunter

Mari Mahr

Michael Szulc-Krzyzanowski

Clay Lipsky - reflections in a portrait series

Nicky Walsh

• Minimalistic, abstract images.

• Composition, colour and tone key elements

Foodscape photography by Carl Warner

Chema Madoz

Chema Madoz

Joiners and Cubism

David Hockney

David Hockney - Joiners

Sohei NishinoThe creation of a Diorama Map takes the following method; Walking around the chosen city on foot; shooting from various location with film; pasting and arranging of the re-imagined city from my memory as layered icons of the city.

www.soheinishino.com - The Diorama Map

• The Diorama Map, which is almost a bird's eye view of the city, is not a precise google map, but presents the key elements of the city in a form closer to my own memory and observation. Therefore, every single element amongst the enormous mound of pieces reflects my own act of photographic creation itself.

• Diorama Map series is ongoing and will be developed in cities all over the world in the future.

Antonio Girbes

• My contribution to the project Art for Venice is part of a five-year work in progress: the building of an excessive, unreal, out-of-time town called Delirious City. In order to recreate each one of their buildings I have borrowed architectural scraps taken during my trips to Paris, Moscow, Naples, New York City, Shanghai, Barcelona and Vienna. The result, often erroneously identified with a collage made out of several images, always originates in a single image that I still take with the same analogue camera I have always used. After being reworked in an endless digital mirror game, a kaleidoscopic representation of this delirious city is born. I reinterpret these chunks of reality, bestowing on them a different function to the one envisaged by the original architect for the real building. Excess, ambiguity and timelessness are crucial in my corpus.

Jean-François Rauzier• he created the “Hyperphoto”, a concept which enables him to deal with the impossible: to combine both

infinitely big and infinitely small things in one same image, out of time.• To simulate the illusion of reality, Jean-François Rauzier first had to cope with all the inherent limits

inherent of the photographic and technological equipment.• He found his way by juxtaposing, duplicating, twisting images with Photoshop, making it possible for him to

reproduce human vision more accurately.

Jane Ward http://janewardart.wordpress.com/

Slow and fast shutter speed experimentation

HDR – high dynamic range images

HDR by Richard Silver

Wes Naman

Robert Heiniken

Robert Heiniken

Michael Wesley

Michael Wesley

Michael Bosanko – Light painting

Michael Bosanko

Size and Scale

Duane Michals – Things are queer 1973

Video on scale and perspective:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zFI_j3E2nk

David Levinthal

Laurie Simmons

Photographic Sculpture

PERRAN COSTI

Baggage series:

The Baggage series explores and expresses those things in our life we hold onto. Memories, hopes, ideals.

UV prints on glass, suitcase, wood, lights, audio

http://www.perrancosti.com/WORKS/Pages/BAGGAGE_-_PORTABLE_CITY_10_09.html

http://www.noemiegoudal.com/thelovers1.html

SYZMON ROGINSKI

From the collection of work O Mia O.

Inspired by cubism, photo shoot was made for a fashion designer.

http://www.szymonroginski.com/Site/o_mia_o.html

Resettlement series:

“I have deconstructed and subsequently reconstructed these buildings to form a three dimensional model of the settlement depicted in the original image.”

http://www.juliacurtin.com/resettlementoverview.html

PERRAN COSTI

Skyboxes series: attempts to capture those moments of everyday life which are often overlooked and yet profoundly beautiful.

Printed onto three layers of glass using special UV inks designed to recreate the properties of natural light.

Each image has been separated into foreground, mid-ground and background, and the three pieces of glass, form to create a three-dimensional scene

http://www.perrancosti.com/WORKS/Pages/SKYBOXES_11_10_09_08_07.html

JOHN STEZAKER

John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture.

MARLO PASCUAL

MARLO PASCUAL

http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/artists/marlo_pascual/01.html

Valerie Green

Susy Oliveira

Manipulating colour

Edward Steichen

Steichen

Craig McDean

Daune Michals

Students’ work

Layered 3D image

Layered 3D image

3D constructed landscape

Low relief with button and knitting needle