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A2 exam combinations and alliances
1. Combinations and Alliances
Half term tasks
Visual Collage
Read the whole exam paper. Brainstorm the words- use a thesaurus and
dictionary to do this thoroughly. Present a collection of images related to
your initial research either in your photodiary or in a new tab for unit 4 on
your weebly. These should include relevant, known photographers.
Gallery Visit
Visit: The Sunday Times Magazine 50th Anniversary Exhibition at the Saatchi
Gallery. 31 January - 19 February 2012 (The exhibition is closed 11-14 Feb)
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/magazine/article858993.ece
Document your visit and discuss the work of at least three different
photographers. Consider how themes link to the exam title- celebrity,
politics, fame, conflict.
While at the Saatchi also check out the current exhibition, particularly Hello
World! Or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise by Christopher
Baker.
Practical Work
Using your brainstorm and gallery visit as inspiration, record three starting points within your first set of
observations. Your initial ideas must be in a format that can be presented to the whole group during your first
lesson after half term.
2. Still life: combination of objects
Sam Taylor Wood: ‘A Little Death’, 2002 Sam Taylor Wood: ‘Still Life’, 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIl9rO9sURE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIzXWGcb3u0&feature=related
Laura Letinsky
3. Modernism
In their Cubist paintings Braque and Picasso began to
bring different views of the object together on the
picture surface. This inspired the ‘joiners’ created by
David Hockney.
Edward Steichen Bill Brandt Rene Magritte
Depicting everyday objects within abstract compositions was a concern of Dadaists, the F64 group and Surrealists.
These combinations of objects challenge how we view these objects and allow us to appreciate the formal
qualities.
5. An alliance with the camera: the process of recording and documenting the everyday.
Henri Cartier Bresson
Nan Goldin
6. ‘She takes a photo every day: 4.5 years’ ‘Noah takes a photo of every day for 6 years’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1llHXUfEdrI&feature=endscreen&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo
7. Documentation of personal experiences.
Tracey Emin Francesca Woodman Tracey Moffatt
Creature Comforts Gillian Wearing ‘2 into 1’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-OVUoJ1RM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7y5uvyhHgc
8. Me, myself and I…
Lee Friedlander
Chuck Close Mariell Amelie Andy Warhol
10. Combinations of Movement
Steve McQueen
Thanks to the fortuitous positioning of a window, McQueen survives Buster Keaton’s famous gag
sequence in Steamboat Bill Jnr. (1928) where the side of a house collapses on top of the hapless
Keaton again and again. Each time his survival is filmed from a different angle. But whereas Keaton
ran through a windstorm in Steamboat, in Deadpan McQueen doesn’t move.
Different views of the moment of impact are repeated and reversed to create a sequence where the final
Moment is suspended.
http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-steve-mcqueen-deadpan-1997-5703453.html
A response to Buster Keaton’s falling house stunt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4
Steven Pippin Kevin Batangan Harold Edgerton
