001 - Research Unit 12

Stage 1 (Research and 3D Response) Approx 1 week

(1). Create 2 design sheets, one for the research and the 2nd for the practical work. Make a decision as to whether you're going to use 3 or 4 columns.

(2). Write a basic intro to the brief in the first column of the research design sheet as this will be your first page when the whole thing is completed and handed in. The intro needs to be an over-view of what the brief is about, when the deadline is and what the learning aims are (These are on the front of the brief). Mention the fact that the work you need to produce is both 2D and 3D and that it's a mix of digital and analogue photography.

(3). In the first week as a minimum research...

Andy Warhol "Brillo boxes"

https://www.christies.com/features/How-my-fathers-Brillo-Box-that-made-3-million-8028-1.aspx

https://www.phillips.com/detail/andy-warhol/NY010110/135

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81384

(2) Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (Brillo Boxes) - Music By Brian Keane - YouTube

Look at the footage at about 2'51" and you'll see the technique and the process - use screen grabs with an explanation.

Christianne Feser "Models".

https://www.designboom.com/art/models-by-christiane-feser/

https://christianefeser.de/works/modelle/

Irving Penn

https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/portraits-in-a-corner-1948

https://petapixel.com/2018/06/22/10-things-i-learned-from-irving-penn/

https://irvingpenn.org/portraits

With all of these artists the main focus of your research relates to MTP's and equipment. One thing I'd like you to be aware of an comment on in the Irving Penn image is the inclusion of the black film border - known as the film 'Rebate'. Some Photographers insist on the images being printed with this border so that Picture Editors cannot make decisions about how the image appears. With the inclusion of the film rebate we see what the photographer saw through the view-finder, this is the Photographers true vision and not a version that the picture editor believes is an improvement. 

Practical_____________________________________________________________________

When you produce the practical work try and shoot enough images to fill complete pages... either 1, 2 or 3 pages per activity.

Always start with a plan, followed by the practical work (Photography and the production of the work). Get people to photograph you doing the work on your phone, your 'Sets' (Lighting and the background/set up for your images) shot as wide views so that we can see your working process. Images of your camera, contact sheets, equipment used and a good selection of the images you shoot. Always aim to do more than you need. If you make any adjustments using Photoshop do before and after images and include screen grabs if the Photoshop work you do is new learning. Finish off with a Gibbs reflection analysing what you've learned focusing on materials, techniques, processes and equipment. Also write up a What if within the analysis, suggesting how you could have done it differently so that it may have been better. Also in the analysis mention why the work that you're producing with each is meeting the requirements of the brief (2D and 3D work, using digital and analogue equipment, learning about MTP's). 

H&S (Health & Safety) With each activity - write about H&S considerations in conjunction with the work you do. This is essential in order to pass.

By the end of this week have the work done with the 3D tasks completed and in your design sheets. 

Work smart get your images off of your devices and into folders for each of the shoots. 

Other photographers and artists you can look at include...

3D - David Hockney Joiners "My Mother - Bolton Abbey"

3D - Gwon Osang "Deoderant style"

2D - The Bechers 'Typologies" No portraits here, but the objective style and the way the images are presented is useful and they go into a lot of detail about their methods, process and equipment. 

2D - Joni Steinbach "Surfland"

Production Values...

Click image to open video

In the work if you're aiming to attain higher grades discuss Production Values in terms of if you were to push the 3D work on to a standard that it might be deemed as a fine art product. Producing the images on photocopy paper isn't going to cut it in the world of fine art - the images need to be presented at far higher standard...

Photo & Art Mounting | Mounted Photo Prints | theprintspace

https://vimeo.com/367057456

More useful websites you may wish to use Quotes from 

https://www.christies.com/features/How-my-fathers-Brillo-Box-that-made-3-million-8028-1.aspx (1)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGvE9za2W-E

 

Modelle – Christiane Feser

Christiane Feser: On Not Expecting a Window : Saint Lucy (saint-lucy.com) (2)

Additional guidance regarding Research

Ideally you need to keep on top of this work and get it into your design sheets as you go along. Remember you're doing this using the creative process, so at the moment you should be at the stage where you should have the following work already in your design sheets.

Page 1 & 2 - Page 1 - Write the title of the Unit and your name Then write an intro which basically explains what the assignment involves. Read through the assignment if you're not sure and write up an explanation. Copy the 'Learning aims' from your assignment and explain that these are what you will be learning, identify the deadline and what you have to produce at the end in terms of final pieces/images.

The rest of the page and the following page should be artist research - a column per artist is enough and the focus of your research is the materials, techniques and processes they use to produce their work. The artists/photographers that you've been told to look at and research are as follows. Use as many as required to fill your 2 or *3 pages. Leave a space at the end to reflect on the usefulness of the research.

Christianne Feser "Models"

Andy Warhol - "Brillo boxes"

Gwon Osang "Deodorant types"

Irving Penn - "Corner Portraits" 

Joni Steinbach - "Surfland"

The Bechers - "Typologies"

Finish off with a Gibbs reflection that analyses the usefulness of the research in terms of learning more about the use of MTP's (Materials techniques and processes). 

When writing this work up use the term "Materials, techniques and processes" or MTP when writing about the artists/photographers as that's what you're being assessed on and it's the wording seen in the criteria. 

*For the sake of neatness and presentation try and keep this stage of the work to either 2 or 3 full pages.