Task 1 - Case Study

David Hockney - David Hockney, was born 9 July 1937 is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London. Hockney maintains two residences in California, where he lived on and off for over 30 years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, and an office and archives on Santa Monica.

This type of imagery I would of said is more of a historical type of photography as it doesn’t use tools from programs such as Photoshop it is made up of a collage of the same image with different shapes and sizes cut out from it to remake the first picture but with a different style.

Fred Holland Day - Fred Holland Day was born Boston July 8, 1864 - November 12, 1933 was an American photographer and publisher. He was the first in the U.S.A. to advocate that photography should be considered a fine art.

This style of photography is a use of collaborating photographs but making them seem as one using shadows which gives the perception of the picture to be dark or at least has the potential to be.

Jerry Uelsmann - Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. While attending public schools, at the age of fourteen, there sparked an interest in photography. He believed that through photography he could exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens. Despite poor grades, he managed to land a few jobs, primarily photographs of models. Uelsmann is a master printer, producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. He uses up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images, and has a large archive of negatives that he has shot over the years. The negatives that Uelsmann uses are known to reappear within his work, acting as a focal point in one work, and background as another.

From the photos I have seen he sticks to the use of black and white giving a dark perception of the image. And in some of the pictures it does look like a scene from a horror film, but I think its mainly to show off shadowing in different pictures and to show the light breaking through and looks better than the original colours occasionally as it can show more, To me the theme of these images is the dark side of peoples imagination or dreams some how the imagery is portrayed.

I want to create images of sorts like these as it is a mixed of light and dark but mine wouldn’t seem as negative or as dark as these sorts of photographs. But I want to be using the same sorts of key parts of making these style of experimental photography.