Friday, 30 September 2011

Harpers Bazaar.

Originally from America the fashion and lifestyle magazine has been running since 1867. The aim was to entertain the upper classes with relevant and sophisticated fashion, artists, designers and writers. It was the first weekly magazine of it's kind before becoming a monthly.

Regularly featured photographers included Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and Robert Frank as well as many others.

Today it still withholds the values it was originally intended for. Sophistication.

Thursday, 29 September 2011

Foam magazine

This magazine is an American fashion and art based publication. Its mantra is ‘fashion, ocean, art, music’. It likes to contain features about cool laid back surfing clothing brands such as ‘Bamboo Island’ and ‘Element’ as well as other similar laid back clothing ranges. Foam magazine will print an annual beach guide as well as features on the best places to go to surf and relax on the American coast.

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Dem Dazed And Confused Tingzzz

dazed and confused is a magazine containing articles and photographs surrounding fashion editorial, photograhpy/art, film and music. it has a huge amount of fashion advertising at the beggining and will probably take you a while to start finding the articles but they are quite indepth reviews on the latest fashion and artistic cultural trends around at the time. MOST of the photography in the mag tends to be very edgey, stylish, and un-stereotypical (allthough some of the fashion work is exactly the opposite :P ) they have also had a website set up for the last year showing all the latest issues :)
www.dazeddigital.co.uk

Thursday, 22 September 2011

The Countryfile Calendar Competition 2011

http://www.countryfile.com/tips-techniques/inspiration-years-countryfile-photographic-competition-2010-winners

The Countryfile Calendar is an opportunity for amateur and professional photographers to gain recognition for their work on a national basis as well as raising money for children in need. The calendar is comprised of twelve images chosen by a panel of judges. The images are sent in by photographers up and down the country based on a number of themes. They haven't displayed this years winners online yet, but here are last years.

Monday, 19 September 2011

Long exposures




Susan Derges


Susan Derges is a photogram artist. I first found out about her work when we visited the 'Shadow Catchers' gallery that was at the V&A. Her work really stood out to me and I found it really interesting how she can make the photograms look like they are actually photographs.
You can find out more about her work on her website http://www.susanderges.com/

Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins uses photogram as a method when creating imagery. The way that she creates her photograms is different from other photographers or artists. Atkins makes her photogram on location and she uses natural materials. I think that this way of creating a photogram is diffent because it is done on location and not in a darkroom. I like this photogram because the feathers are very detailed and they show up well I also like the way they have been arranged on the page. :)

dirty sexy things



i got this image from a programme called 'Dirty sexy things.' i like this image because it is like a David Lachapelle shoot and its something that i want to do for when we have to re do a photographers shoot.

Amazing long exposure




http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/amazing-long-exposureeee-roomba-photography

I recently found these great long exposure shots of a roomba robot vacuum working round rooms.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=blue+print+skateboards&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enGB447GB447&biw=1366&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=2HJsiUv-D3zxeM:&imgrefurl=http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/skate/skate-news/blueprint-skateboards-ohio-tour-edit/&docid=2TtAH2uGrltd-M&w=360&h=250&ei=i4d3TpihLMOV8QOzsNzbDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=179&vpy=199&dur=58&hovh=187&hovw=270&tx=173&ty=122&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=187&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

Brutalist Architectural Photography - Le Beton Brut: Brutalist architecture, sometimes confused with modernism, is a style that developed in 1960s London. The term was first used in by Le Corbusier describing the poured board markings on concrete on many of his post WW2 buildings and in 1953 British Architects Peter & Alison Smithson coined the term.  (French Beton Brut = Raw Concrete)The term became much more widely used when a book “The New Brutalism: ethic or aesthetic” written by Reyner Banham was published in 1966.I guess just about every large city in the world has good and bad examples of Brutalist Architecture - some of them good and some bad. I think the Brutalist style suits the Australian landscape and cityscape well compared to say London - where I found many of these buildings simply empty and  depressing. Perhaps its the light, perhaps its the way they seem to age and take on a lovely patina here, whereas in London they often just look dirty and black. From Wikipedia : Brutalism is criticised as disregarding the social, historic, and architectural environment of its surroundings, making the introduction of such structures in existing developed areas appear starkly out of place and alien. The failure of positive communities to form early on in some Brutalist structures, possibly due to the larger processes of urban decay hat set in after World War II (especially in the United Kingdom), led to the combined unpopularity of both the ideology and the architectural style.All the images below are from Flickr. The first 3 images are from the stream of Wotek Gurak who has some fantastic Architectural Photography in his stream. Skerman Building. University of Queensland. Brisbane80 George Street. BrisbaneBrian Wilson Chancellery. University of Queensland. BrisbaneUTS Sydney - one of my favourite pieces of Architecture in Sydney, although “Brutalist” and totally dominating its nearby cityscape it has an elegance about its proportions and great lines which many Brutalist buildings lack. One of the Air-Vents at the side of UTS Sydney This apartment block (above and below)  is very near the Opera House in Sydney, Love it! The much photographed ceiling of Surry Hills Police Station - enough to make you repentent!The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne is Brutalist, and I think it is one of the mostbeautiful buildings in Australia. Surprisingly its very hard to find a full shot of it - probably because it is just so massive. All good architecture should “lift the human spirit” and entering this building verges on a religious experience, especially when you enter the “Great Hall” shown below, which is in the centre of the building  Finally, the shot below is from fellow Modernist and blogger in Canberra, Martin who’s stream is full of great images of Architecture in Canberra. Have a look at his photo stream HERE , and Martins Modernist Architecture blog - Canberra House - HERE” The Student residences at the University of Canberra were designed by the internationally acclaimed architect John Andrews in 1973 and constructed in 1975. The residences are listed on the ACT Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects RAIA Register of Significant Twentieth Century Architecture…….” More images of this building and text in Martins photostream.

Concrete Staircase 2


well basicly i was looking for some photographers who do work with Brutalist Architecture (basicly big monstrous buildings mostly made from concrete) and i came across this guy called RayG who has just set up a website to post all of his work on, he has some very interesting architecture work on here as well as a few other types of work. i picked out my two favourtie images to post and have posted the link. if your interested in architecture i would deffo give it a look yallll :) <3

Sunday, 18 September 2011

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Ethan Jantzer is a photogram artist which i came across whilst looking for ideas for our own photograms. I particularly liked his work because it is so unique and different to any other photogram i have seen before. I think that the gold fish image is the most clever/interesting because of the way the movement was captured.

Thursday, 15 September 2011


I found these on the V&A website and it took me a while to figure out how they were actually created until i read the description about the photographer Gary Fabian Miller and instantly thought about what Ian was telling us the other day about creating different light patterns in different ways onto the photo paper ( :

Garry Fabian Miller is one of the most progressive figures in fine art photography. He has made exclusively 'camera-less' photographs since the mid 1980s. He works in the darkroom, shining light through coloured glass vessels and over cut-paper shapes to create forms that record directly onto photographic paper. These rudimentary methods recall the earliest days of photography, when the effects of light on sensitised paper seemed magical.


Wednesday, 14 September 2011

BINTM Make Up Tutorials

Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model's website is full of make-up tutorials from the artists they use on the show. Useful for the keen fashion photographers among us.

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Frank Schott





I recently came across these photos and spent ages trying to work out what they were about. Eventually I found the relevant information and was taken back by the harrowing story behind them.There are some pretty original and effective ideas here!

Photography by Frank Schott.

Joseph Paul Jernigan (January 31, 1954 – August 5, 1993) was a Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection at 12:31 a.m.

In 1981, Jernigan was sentenced to death for stabbing and shooting 75-year-old Edward Hale, who discovered him stealing a microwave oven. Jernigan spent 12 years in prison before his final plea for clemency was denied. His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center.