Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell was an American artist and sculptor who focussed on creativity and memories. He collaged photos, letters, pieces of memories together. He based with film.

This photo isn't something I am going to reflect or copy it's just an inspiration of  how its set up with letters, pictures, drawings to reflect a memory. This photo is more of an inspiration of how the memories are set up and equal to one final piece, I am going to try collect photos of new and old memories and collage them together.

Holly Lackner

Holly Lackner is a freelance american photography who focusses on still life, wedding photography and real life. I am looking at her for a inspiration of still life. Her images focuss on different things such as she looks at food or cuttlery but I am going to be looking at old memories of somebody and staging them out doing a lighting shoot.

These photos aren't staged with a studio but lighting has definately been used to make it stand out. It looks like natural lighting coming through on the left of the photo as the shadow is onn the right. Depth of field has  been used to focus directly on the cup and make it stand out. The black and white effect I think looks really well with the lighting as it makes the whole image seem more contrasting.

Tom Hussey 1

This was an image of mine I took it for my Tom Hussey shoot. I took a picture of somebody with the glasses, red lipstick, nailvarnish and cigarette which I think can reflect 1950's quite well and wrote a letter and tea bagged it to make it seem more old and to show that it's a memory. I photoshopped the two images of them together and changed the opaticty to show that this is her memory and it's a past one. I also tried out a 1960's effect to warmen the photo a bit.

These were the two images before I changed them and their opacity on photoshop.

Florence and The Machine

Recently on the BRIT Awards they were doing 30-1minute/second videos of artists who were nominated for best album, they did a 5-10 second montage of her fading into a piece of paper with song lyircs on which were hers. I think this was such a beautiful piece of work as it looked so unique but quite vintagey and I want to see if I could resemble that just different context.

Tom Hussey

Tom Hussey is an award-winning, international, commercial photographer. He runs a full- production photography studio. Looking through his photos they focus on age or social everyday issues.

This photo is very creative and clear but still has a emotive context to it. This photo resembles sadness but happiness. I think as he is looking back in the mirror at himself to reminisc what his life used to be like so it could be dwelling on the past but at the same time happy it happened. This photo would be done on photoshop by using the magnetic lasor tool and cutting it out onto the mirror. Using the white sink and background gives it a clean fresh feel which could be a metaphor of his age and how he felt in the past.

For my shoot I am going to do something a bit different but I think this is a great base for this shoot. I am going to look at taking pictures of something which is a memory to someone such as a letter and take a picture of the person who's memory it is and on photoshop fade it in so it is clear that it looks like a memory and it's in the past fading away.

Films

This is quite random but an inspiration I saw for this would be films such as Cheaper By The Dozen where it's a family with 12 children so the house is all messy and nothing can be perfect as it has to be natural day to day life where things get left around like how my pictures are meant to be represented/soon.

Tracey Emin 1

This was a shoot in style of Tracey Emin but with my own ideas. I focussed on creativity instead of getting a posed/style. My theme is everyday stuff so things which get left around the house of what people do so I wasn't focussing on lighting or staging pictures it was all set up naturally. My last picture of the lighting I did use 4.5 aperture to focus on the first tap so everything else behind it was blur which I thinked look quite effective, I clarified it so it was made a bit darker/stronger so it looked really clear against the blur background.

Tracey Emin

Tracey Emins photos have a genre of the present. Her photos aren't the prettiest of photos as she photos cigarette packets, condoms, stains but its the creativity and the context behind it which shows that it actually is what everybody does it's just staged all together.
I want to try a shoot out on everyday peices which get left behind, it won't be the prettiest of photos or the most 'wow' but I am looking at context and creativy to get my point across.

This photo shows the creativity of peoples lives all gathered in one piece. Even though it is staged I like the way it does look really realistic. When I do my shoot I will consider looking at close up shots of what people leave around everyday.

Exam work

My exam question I am looking at is Personal Possessions. I thought about maybe doing documentary photography of documenting somebodies life. Starting with present photography of documenting somebodies life here and now, taking pictures of what people leave behind so it's not staged - it's general life. I would then like to move on to present and past so using people (a bit of human form) showing past and present, then past photography so memories of something in paticular to remember what their life was like.. I could try by using memory boxes, or types of fashion/music to resemble older times, or even a past hobby.