Other inspiration

JEAN PAUL GOUDE 

Idea- cut & stick 

Goude was born on 8 December 1940 in Saint-Mandé, a small suburb of Paris. Both his father, a French Native, and his American mother, a former Broadway dancer, had been active in the New York show-business scene prior to his birth. In France, his mother ran a dance school, which he described as the ground for his "lifelong obsession with the dynamism of movement and form." She also inspired him by exposing him to different forms of print media. "At home, we received American magazines,” Goude told Vogue Magazine. “The advertising, in the 1960s, was extraordinary. The first time an issue of Esquire arrived with a cover by George Lois, I said to myself, that’s what I want to do." He studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris before embarking on his career as an illustrator.

Goude worked closely with model-turned-pop-singer Grace Jones, consulting on her image, choreographing her live stage performances, directing her music videos, and creating her album covers. 

"I met Grace and it was a period of decadence. People were still doing lots of drugs and I had been working so hard for so long and she made me part of her lifestyle, made me go out dancing at Studio 54. She became an obsession and we did everything together." 
Grace Jones was Jean Paul Goudes muse; he took photos of her and distorted them.

I could use this idea to portray a broken family, and present it on slide film to show how people don't know the ins and outs of other families stories, yet the family still portrays themselves as okay and together when they're actually struggling.

This relates to another idea of mine, where I would manually rip a person out of an image to exaggerate the destruction of the family. I think this would make a really powerful image. 

SIMONE BERGANTINI

Idea - Cubism / dark room work

 

“Abstractions” is the first series of work which will make up observations on photography. A cycle of work whose only limit is not using a camera. A series of images and installations through which I will recount the experience and the poetics which have fascinated me over the last years and that have taught me to love photography.

These images were made in a dark room colour without negative. Each image is matrix and reproduction of itself, it is the attempt to reproduce the landscape without the aid of a camera.

 

Idea - Distortion / photocopies / photos over photos

This work was carried out re-elaborating a group of 4x5 inch negatives bought in a second hand shop in Brooklyn. They were taken between the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties very probably by the same person within an area which is relatively near New York City.I lived in the United States for 5 months and I decided to talk about what struck me most about the American people, consumerism and its consequent individualism. Use and throw away, no stratifying, always starting from scratch. I recycled pictures which had already been taken and recomposed them to give life to faceless presences where the characters try to co-exist with difficulty, to identifiable places which however are not accessible.

 

 

CLARISSE D'ARCIMOLES 

Idea - recreating old childhood photos 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOBBY NEIL ADAMS

 

Idea - young and old family faces stuck together

'Family tree' project - shows DNA going through family. 

DADA MOVEMENT

Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war.

Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality. For example, George Grosz later recalled that his Dadaist art was intended as a protest "against this world of mutual destruction."

According to Hans Richter Dada was not art: it was "anti-art." Dada represented the opposite of everything which art stood for. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend.

As Hugo Ball expressed it, "For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in."

A reviewer from the American Art News stated at the time that "Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man." Art historians have described Dada as being, in large part, a "reaction to what many of these artists saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide."

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as "a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the post war economic and moral crisis, a saviour, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path... [It was] a systematic work of destruction and demoralization... In the end it became nothing but an act of sacrilege."

I want to create photographs like these in the dark room to show how personal 'home' and family is. I believe it will show peoples different reactions through the way I compose the image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CUBISM MOVEMENT

 

Cubsism is where the artist pieces together fragments from different vantage points into one painting.

Key Dates: 1908-1914

The Cubist art movement began in Paris around 1907. Led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the Cubists broke from centuries of tradition in their painting by rejecting the single viewpoint. Instead they used an analytical system in which three-dimensional subjects were fragmented and redefined from several different points of view simultaneously.The movement was conceived as ‘a new way of representing the world’, and assimilated outside influences, such as African art, as well as new theories on the nature of reality, such as Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

Cubism is often divided into two phases – the Analytic phase (1907-12), and the Synthetic phase (1913 through the 1920s). The initial phase attempted to show objects as the mind, not the eye, perceives them.

The Synthetic phase featured works that were composed of fewer and simpler forms, in brighter colours. Other major exponents of Cubism included Robert Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Jean Metzinger, Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger.

 




Cody Rooney Photography

Cody Rooney mainly photographs portraiture, but also works with photoshop to bring out a unique difference in his work. The image above shows the use of Cubism.