this slideshow will help you to choose images as starting points for the exam

1. A2
PHOTOGRAPHY
ESA 2013
Inside, Outside, In
Between

2. I spent 20 minutes thinking of all the words linked to these key areas and the theme word: INSIDE, OUTSIDE, IN BETWEEN –
my list is:
Inside: private, secret, interior, confined, within, feelings, hiding, incarcerated, limited, hidden, obscure. Outside: alien, apart from, extreme,
outdoor, foreign, distant, skin, surface, top, superficial. In between: middle, mediate, transition, centre, entwine
ACTIVITY: in pairs complete the chart – be creative and imaginative – write down anything you think of
Genres & photographic First response: my thoughts and ideas for direction of my project
elements
people Skin: creases and folds, marks from outside pressure (shoes / watches / belts)
Inside the mouth: teeth, tongues, piercings, stains, food and chewing – drinking – eating – straws -
Clothing – outdoor &/or indoor – slippers/boots/sandals – putting shoes on in different locations
Clothes spilling out of wardrobes
Children playing dress up (sally mann)
locations The beach: huts, water, in between the pier struts or boards
The contrast of Shops and marketplace
Architecture and structures – Charles Sheeler / Scott Speck
Home / work
Underpasses and bridges:
Through doorways and windows – outside or in
Into cupboards – Under stairs – in boxes -
Automobiles: busses / cars / bikes : view from / into / through
Nature Woods and natural shelter
Through undergrowth
Natural spaces between buildings
Space and texture in landscapes
Objects Using gels / filters & frames
Piercings
Inside drawers: organised and disorganised
Things spilling out
Objects stacked inside each other
Shells and seed heads
flowers
technique Macro
Experiments with depth of field and changing focus
Looking through reflective surfaces
Creating natural/constructed frames that are included in shot
Photoshop effects / layers / filters & gels.
Imagination / abstract Challenging perspective: Escher / Kahlo
Exploring feelings emotions and dreams: Kahlo / man ray / Dali
Reaction, viewpoints & Fears
message Emotions
Dreams
Alienation / loneliness /
Migration / immigration
Growing old / older teenagers / babies
“7 stages of man”
Pagan concept og “Mother: Maiden: Crone”

3. Let’s look at some art to gain inspiration, so that
YOU can come up with YOUR OWN ideas …

4. Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry is a photo-journalist. His images of children around the world are
often haunting – these young humans seem to gaze accusingly at us in our wealthy
Western world and we are left guiltily reflecting on our own situations.

5. Steve McCurry

6. Olivia Parker often produces
intricate still life photographs
of natural objects. The
apparent simplicity of her
technique acts to emphasise
the complexity of these natural
forms – the hard shell which
had at one time contained the
soft living creature, the feather
which once adorned the a
bird’s exterior.
Olivia Parker, Whelks (from "Lost Objects
portfolio), 1980

7. Olivia Parker

8. Damian Hurst, The Virgin Mother,
2005, painted bronze sculpture

9. Dianne Arbus is known for
her photographs of those
on the ‘fringe’ or edge of
conventional society:
transvestites, circus
performers, dwarves and
so on. These people often
lived within society and
yet were simultaneously a
set apart.

10. Photographer Yousuf Karsh
explained that when
photographing Winston
Churchill, he grabbed the
cigar away from Winston and
then immediately took the
picture, producing a portrait
which better represented
the steely determination of
the man in his expression.
The resultant portrait was far
more effective in telling us
about the real ‘inside’
Churchill.
Winston Churchill
was often pictured
smiling with a cigar in
his hand or mouth.

11. Lewis Morley, self portrait
Mainly known for his
work from the
1950’s and 60’s,
photographer Lewis
Morley often used
dramatic lighting to
help reveal
something hidden or
inside the person
being photographed

12. Photographer Arnold Newman would often
employ backgrounds in his portraits which helped
tell the story about the subject.
Newman said that he didn’t like the “cold studio
portrait” but instead wanted to show his subjects
in their surroundings.
Quoted from the Palm Beach Post, 2006

13. Barbara Hepworth, Family Of Man, 1970,
group of site specific* bronze sculptures.
*Site specific sculptures are when the artwork is created for a specific location, which
could be outside (as in the case of Hepworth’s Family Of Man) or inside, or perhaps
even inbetween.

14. Louise Bourgeoise, Maman
(Giant Spider), inside and outside
Tate Modern 2000 & 2007

15. Howard Hodgkin
Notice how the frame becomes
part of the image rather than
existing as a simple border to
indictate the edge of the image.
Frames & Borders See:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-
resource/Borders-and-Frames-6087988/

16. A recurrent theme in the work of American artist Edward Hopper is the
representation of both the inside and outside world in his paintings, perhaps
alluding to something about the relationship between our ‘interior’ and
‘exterior’ lives & emotions.

17. Philip Lorca Di Corcia

18. Robert Capa

19. Robert Doisneau was a French
photographer now famous for his
street photography.
Here we see a Parisian lady drinking.
She is neither inside or outside,
rather she is in that area so loved by
tourists even today where one can
benefit from the service inside and
yet simultaneously enjoy ‘people
watching’ outside.
Robert Doisneau

20. Robert Doisneau

21. Ana Mendieta, from the series
Silueta, 1976
The silueta (silhouette) was a series of artwoks made by Ana Mendieta in which she
left an ‘imprint’ of her body in snow, mud, sand, grass etc. These were transient
ephemeral artworks, at their creation a performance piece, then recorded
photographically.

22. Artist Richard Long is known for his Land-Art,
often photographing tracks made by repeated
use, or arranging natural materials within the
landscape and then photographing them (see
also the artist Andy Goldsworthy).

23. Andy Goldsworthy
‘Land Art’

24. Robert Frank

25. Rieneka Dijkra

26. Rieneka Dijkra established her
reputation with a series of
photographs made of young
people aged at that difficult time
between childhood and adulthood
which all humans must traverse.
Rieneka Dijkra

27. Marilyn Monroe was a famous ‘Sex Symbol’ actress in the 1950’s and 60s.
Photographer Eve Arnold captured Marilyn relaxing off-set (times outside normal
filming) during the filming of The Misfits (Dir. John Huston, released 1961),
Eve Arnold has managed to catch something of the fragility and vulnerability of this
celebrity who would eventually commit suicide (or be murdered by the American
secret service if you believe the conspiracy theories).

28. Lee Friedlander documented
Amercian life in the 1960’s and
70’s. Many of his photographs
include or were taken from
inside that iconic symbol of
American industry, energy and
freedom – the automobile.

29. The landscape photography
of Michael Kenna is clearly
produced ‘outside’ in the
countryside, yet his
minimalist style is perhaps
more reminiscent of
dreamlike or half
remembered landscapes.
In a sense then, these
landscapes could be about
the human experience of
encountering a landscape,
the subconscious – our
hidden mental interior.

30. Artist Man Ray was part of the Surrealist
movement. One of the goals of
Surrealism was to visually represent the
unconscious - our internal dreams,
desires and fantasies.

31. Distortion, as in these photographs by Andre
Kertesz can mediate – it can come between
reality and what is presented, completely
changing our viewing experience. In a sense,
distortion can take the viewer outside their
normal experience and into an imaginary world.

32. The French impressionist
painter Edward Degas is
best known for his
paintings of ballet dancers
and race horses.
Yet Degas often chose not
to paint during the
performance or the race.
Rather, he chose those
moments of practice or
quiet reflection before or
after the performance –
outside that time when the
main action takes place.
Edward Degas

33. Edward Degas

34. Many photo journalists and photographers
also prefer to record an event after (or
before) it has taken place (outside the
‘normal’ time when the subject might
‘expect’ to be photographed).
This might at first seem odd but can
actually produce very powerful artworks as
here in Bruce Davidson’s Clown & Circus
Tent.
Bruce Davidson, Clown & Circus Tent, 1958

35. David Seymour (Chim)
This image was clearly NOT photographed during the battle and
yet still remains a powerful and shocking image.

36. How would it feel like to be an
immigrant – a foreigner in a
strange land – an ‘outsider’?
In this famous photograph
Alfred Stieglitz records
immigrants arriving travelling
to America on board the
Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907,
escaping the poverty and
oncoming turbulence which
would escalate into a world
war.
Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907

37. The work of Hungarian Andre Kertesz
demonstrates sublime compositional
skills, with shapes within shapes (shapes
spaces, shadows & tone inside shapes &
spaces).

38. Shoot through a transparent or
semi-transparent surface such as
glass with condensation or rain
drops, or even a shower curtain
as in the film Psycho.
The surface is between the
distant subject and the camera.
Images like this can obscure or
hide the subject behind the
surface, creating a mysterious,
dreamlike or scary effect.
Scene from Psycho, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

39. Naoya Hatakeyama

40. Slow Shutter Speeds
can be used to create an
impression of ‘aloneness’ or
alienation*
* Alienation is to be or feel ‘outside’
of society, lonely, alone, apart.

41. Shadows
Shadows and
silhouettes can be
used to ‘hide’ or
‘keep outside’
information about
the subject of an
image.

42. Silhouettes

43. Reflections
Reflections can
distort reality,
they can also
act as an ‘in
between’ the
subject and
the image.

44. Use Filters
Filters placed between the camera lens and
the subject can radically enhance or alter
the visual appearance or feel/mood of an
image.
Similarly a gel filter between light source
and subject will alter the colour of the light.

45. Sometimes it is what is left
OUTSIDE the image that is
that is important. This is
usually determined by the
photographer’s viewpoint &
chosen crop.
In this image by Weegee, we
see inside the image
children and two adults, with
a multitude of different
expressions and emotions.
It is the dead, gunned down
Arthur H Fellig (Weegee), Their first murder, c.1941 body that is left outside of
the image which the children
and two adults view.

46. The theme ‘Inside, Outside, In Between’ can be interpreted in many
different ways.
Here are just a few thoughts and ideas to help inspire you:
• Outside - forests, the beach, the countryside, moors, mountain passes, highways, tracks, arches,
urban landscape, architectural exteriors, the universe – stars & galaxies, aliens,
• Outside – alienation, loneliness, exclusion, foreigners (outsiders),
• Outside – skin, clothing, raincoats, hats, boots, shoes
• Bringing the outside ‘in’ – binoculars, telescopes, microscopes, looking out through a window or
doorway, greenhouses, tubing, pipes
• Bringing the inside ‘out’ - looking in through a window or doorway, X rays, ducts, conduits
• Inside - tunnels, underpasses, subways, arches, Diving, swimming under-water, birth
• Inside - cupboards, wardrobes, drawers, boxes
• Inside – emotions, fears, dreams, imagination, love
• Inside – operations, piercings, tatoos, drugs, syringes
• In between - asexuality, apathy, inaction, puberty, pregnancy, birth
• In between – thresholds, edges, cliff edges, holes, caves, tunnels, underpasses, pedestrian crossings,
bridges, mediation
• In between – filters, gels, post production Photoshop effects, windows, masks