A2 Photography Exam Artists

Combination and Alliances

Com·bi·na·tion 1. the act of combining or the state of being combined. 2. a number of things combined: a combination of ideas. 3. an alliance of persons or parties: a combination in restraint of trade. Alliance 1. the act of allying or state of being allied; union; confederation 2. a formal agreement or pact, esp a military one, between two or more countries to achieve a particular aim 3. a union between families through marriage 4. affinity or correspondence in qualities or characteristics

Assessment Objectives: • Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

• Experiment with and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining their ideas as their work develops.

• Record in visual and/or other forms ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions, demonstrating an ability to reflect on their work and progress.

• Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, oral or other elements.

ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY, where shapes, colours and forms come together----------------

Wolfgang Tillmans

In the past decade Tillman has produced non-representational works that examines themes such as the process of exposure. Many of his works are poorly lit, out of focus; some even contain scratches and blemishes often making visual patterns out of everyday objects that most people would overlook. “In the last 10 years, I have worked a lot with purely photographic material and light in the darkroom making pictures I wouldn’t be able to do either with paint or with the camera,”

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans Freischwimmer

Wolfgang Tillmans

Freischwimmer 2004

Aaron Rose

Rose learned to examine objects closely and learned from an early age how light changes objects, He would use a flashlight as a child to illuminate objects from different angles to see how the light changed the image

Aaron Rose

Untitled 1946

Siskind began his career in the 1930s as a social documentary photographer. His work took a new direction in the 1940s when he shifted his focus to neglected details of the man-made environment: graffiti, decaying walls, peeling paint, tattered posters, and rusted signs.

Aaron Siskind

Congress 6 1949 Aaron Siskind

New York 1947 Aaron Siskind

South Street 7 1947

Aaron Siskind

Aaron Siskind

Hiroshi Sugimoto

SEASCAPES, where the sea meets the sky ---------------------------------------

Gerhard Richter

Seascape (Sea-Sea) 1970 200 cm x 200 cm Oil on canvas

Gerhard Richter

Seascape (Sea-Sea) 1970 based on a collage of two photographs of the sea, one inverted to appear as the sky. The painting creates a illusion of a seascape, until it becomes clear that the ‘clouds’ in the upper half of the painting are waves.

Mari Mahr

COMBINING PHOTOGRAPHS AND OBJECTS -------------------------------------------------------------------

Mari Mahr ‘Mahr generally works in series, each small collection of black and white images – half remembered, half invented – weaving dreams and telling tales, a mystery for us to unravel. Purely visual in form, they nevertheless, inspire a 'reading', in much the same way as a poem. Each image, like a line of poetry, links the last to the next but also holds a beauty of its own.’

Susan Derges - The Observer and the Observed, 1991

Psyches 2009

Laurence Demaison

Wolfgang Tillmans

‘I have always associated the underground with incredible intimacy among people, without them wanting to be intimate with each other’,

Wolfgang Tillmans - Circle Line, 2000

MEETING OF PEOPLE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ralph Gibson

Combining black and white or light and shadow

Christopher Baker

‘Hello World!’ Or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of video diaries gathered from the internet. Each of the 5,000 videos that make up the video installation features a single individual speaking candidly to an imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room. The multi-channel sound composition glides between individuals and the group, allowing viewers to listen in on individual speakers or become immersed in the overall cacophony.

Christopher Baker – ‘Hello world’

Damage Catherine Yass

COMBINING IDEAS AND MATERIALS -------------------------

Jerry Uelsmann

COMBINING IMAGERY

Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry Uelsmann's photomontages are a curious hybrid of different themes and ideas. In a single print you can find imagery that references comedy, popular culture, surreal and romantic fantasy