“ … photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest” – Lee Friedlander
Introduction:
I have chosen the topic 'openings' because I think it is a unlikely topic to focus on, I also feel as though we don't realise how much it affects a photograph and how many we see in everyday life. I am looking forward to making some photographs and using the openings that are around me.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lee Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.
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Assessment Part 2
For this part of the assessment I recreated the image of Shizuka Yokomizo. I tried 3 different ways of taking the photo the first one through the front room door this worked well because we have the lines going through the image and because it has he same lines as Shizuka's one. The second one I took from the outside looking in the front room through the window , which I like but it could be improved by looking in at a different angle or having different props. The third and final one I took from inside looking out into the front garden, Im not sure if I like this one as its not as effective as the others , and has more light in the image. Something I would improve on next time is maybe what props I use also the tone of colour that's involved and even different angles and perspectives.
Shizuka Yokomizo
Shizuka Yokomizo was born in 1966 and is a Japanese photographer and installation artist , originally from Tokyo , she now lives and works in London she moved to the United Kingdom to study fine arts at Chelsea College of Art Design. Her work has been displayed throughout the United States, Europe, South Korea, and Japan. The conditions under which Yokomizo captures the image are essential to her work—she states, “many people will call me a photographer, but I don’t think of myself as one... I chose the medium of photography because it allowed me to visualize my perspective and I wanted to confirm my existence and verify the state of my being in those places.”