Everything has changed. Life, school, everything. COVID-19 has taken over everything in our lives, especially school. School is where infections have been and can spread quickly. This then means we have to change many aspects of our school life. We have to use hand sanitiser before and after every lesson, be in year group bubbles, wear badges, wear masks in corridors and line up before and after every lesson. In photography we also have to change certain things. We can't leave the classroom to take pictures, we can't use the darkroom, we have to try to sit socially distanced and we can only use half a table as our photography space. Just like the title, we have to Make Do & Mend.
Artists love a challenge. We can't do as we please always and we can't always have unlimited choices, this can make us struggle and be overwhelmed. Many artists don't allow this to affect us, and actually use this in our advantage. As we can use this to fuel our creativity. Artists are persistent, collaborative and disciplined. We as young photographers will have to embrace these qualities to make the best of our current situation. The phrase 'Make Do and Mend' was used by the British government during rationing in WW2. |
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I like how the photographs turned out. I'm also pleased with the different photo's I picked out. I'm impressed with the way how some photo's are out of focus. It doesn't ruin the entire picture but instead adds a different dynamic, making them not all identical. I like how some of the photo's I picked ended up having words on them. It makes the viewer question what they mean and why they're there in general. I also like how some of the photo's are cut out, so you can see behind to the other photo. |
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I wish I had more photographs to pick from. I also wish I could've experimented with the lighting more, so they're were different tones in the photo's. And different contrasts. |
My Instruction: Stand at the base of a tree and take a photograph looking straight up the trunk into the branches
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I like the angle I had to take the photo's from. It showed a perspective we don't normally see. I also like how some of the tree's leaves colour's were different from each other. How some had odd orange tones. I also like how some photographs had colder and warmer tones to them, and how some were darker than others. Overall, I'm pleased with how the photographs turned out. |
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I wish I was able to go to different locations to capture a bigger variety of trees. Some different shades and sizes and just in general had a bigger difference of looks. |
Marcel Duchamp is a famous artist. Who is most iconic for the defamation of the famous and iconic work of art, The Mona Lisa, in 1919. He decided to draw on such an iconic piece of art. However he did it for a reason. He chose this particular piece of work because he knew it would reach and shock thousands of people. He knew everyone would notice and cause a big shock. However a big question is, why is this piece of work so famous?
One reason as to why is because of the unknown woman or 'sitter' in the painting. Another reason, the amount of praise Leonardo got and the painting got and finally the theft that happened to the painting in the late nineteenth century. By 1919, the Mona Lisa had become some sort of celebrity. He knew he couldn't draw on the actual painting itself. So instead he obtained a photographed version of it. Which isn't too difficult to obtain as it is such a famous piece of work and has been reproduced into millions of versions. Duchamp drew a goatee beard and moustache on Mona Lisa's face and underneath wrote the letters 'L.H.O.O.Q'. In english this translates to "she's got a hot ass". Duchamp may have possibly been referring to Mona Lisa's beauty. This shocked thousands. One reason may be because, he put facial hair on a woman, which back then wasn't so common and casual. Or maybe because of what he wrote underneath the drawing itself. L.H.O.O.Q is one of Duchamp's Readymades. His main idea was to choose objects, and make them be seen a works of art. In order for him to do this he had to change and alter the way people viewed them. The word 'Readymade' suggests to take something that is already considered the standard of 'art' and change it to your own perception of art and make it a whole new piece of work. |
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I'm glad I was able to finish this experiment. I also like the various different photographs I had picked out. I'm pleased with the way the cut out heads turned out. |
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I wished I had more photographs to cut out and I wish I had rearranged them differently. I'm not quite fond with the squares I had cut out, I would've liked them to turn out more neatly. Overall, I wish I had experimented more with the organization of the heads and the squares. |
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I liked the photograph I chose. I also like how I decided to cut out the chair to cause a missing part of the image. I like how I had the idea to cut up the chair into stripes and rearrange them randomly. |
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I wish I had more time to actually rearrange the stripes and stick them and photograph them. I also wished that I had cut out the stripes more intricately and neatly. Overall, I wished I had been more careful and more precise with the photographs so they could've turned out better. |
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I like the photograph I picked out. And I also like how I cut out the different letters to rearrange them. |
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Overall, I wish I had more time to stick on the different letters I cut out. I also wish I cut more into the photograph. Ideally I would've liked to have made more changes and wish it had more of an effect on the viewer. |
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I like the particular photograph I chose. I'm relatively pleased with the cuts I made onto the face. As I didn't want to ruin the photograph. |
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I wish I was able to cut more intricately and smoothly, however I was unable to. I also wish I had more time to think out where I wanted to cut properly and not just cut randomly. Overall, I wish it had turned out neater and more precise. |
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I am pleased with the outcome of the experiment. I like how in certain photographs the lighting and the shades and contrast are different. I also like how you can clearly see the differently layered photographs, how some are in the foreground and others in the background etc as it brings different elements to the photo and makes it more abstract and makes it more creative. At the beginning of the lesson I wasn't completely sure if I would be able to make the photographs the stand up. I am looking forward to experimenting more with these types of collages. |
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I wish I had taken photographs from different angles. To capture the different layers at a different position and to make them more noticeable. It was harder to make the smaller photograph elements stand up, as they were more flimsy and I didn't put those on card, I might have to next experiment. However the thicker pieces of card are harder to cut out intricately as it takes more power to cut through them however it could ruin the card. |
I’ve always been more interested in looking back than looking forward.-- Matt Lipps describing his practise
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"I can’t remember a time after I began making art that I had any other idea of what I would do as a career"--Daniel Gordon Daniel Gordon is an American artist who was born in 1980, making him 40 years old. Gordon is most known for executing large colour photographs that operate somewhere between collage and set-up photography.He is motivated by a deeply felt obsession and passion with the human body and the discomforts of having one himself. He creates colourful, complex, intricate and multi-layered 3d collages, which are mostly portraits. He cuts and rearranges photographs in specific ways that interest him before collecting them to present them as a 3d collage. Finally he then photographs his final pieces of collage that he approves of best, then he would flatten them back out into 2d collages.
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Abigail Hunt is an artist that creates collages. Abigail’s artistic practice and sculptural approach to creating photographic collages is based on photographs and images she finds herself. She the delicately deconstructs these images. She can make these collaged photographs look completely different and unique compared to their original form.
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In this image. I see what I think is meant to be a jewel. It looks like a type of gem. I think it was made using a range of different cut up photo's. Stuck together to make it 3-dimensional. I think that she has used collage making skills in order to make this. I also believe that she probably stuck a piece of cardboard of something to make it stand up so it looks 3-dimensional. I feel that these type of photographs and collages are popular due to how precisely and in detail they can turn out to be. I would use these 3 words to describe this photograph:
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In this photograph I see what I appear to be an abstract image of a woman cut up in certain ways in front of a backdrop. I think Gordon made this piece of work but taking a photograph of a woman and then getting various pieces of other photographs and coloured card to cut out and cut into the shape of the woman too. I also think he used a range of photographs and pieces of coloured card to make the backdrop too. I think he has used collage skills to make the photograph. As he had to cut up a range of different things and make them stand up too, to add depth to the photograph. I think he also thought about the use of light in this photograph too. As you can see a shadow of the woman behind the actual collage. I would use these 3 words to describe this photograph:
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Klavdij Sluban decided to share his intelligence, knowledge and skills of photography with young teenage prison inmates across the globe. He does this because he believes photography will benefit these young minds that have lost their freedom in prison. He decides to work with young prison inmates because he is worried about the impacts of jail on their developing minds. He is concerned about the way the prison life is, with the lack of freedom, how harshly they treat inmates and how the outside world barely know's what's going on behind the bars.
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