Sequential Imagery Research
In order to do a sequence of images of my own, it is important to do a research about photographers who studied this type of photography before. Therefore I choose three sequences of three different photographers who were pioners or at least had very significants works.
Eadweard Muybridge was an important photographer and eccentric inventor who is known for his pioneering work with motion.
Spetacutaculation had raged for years over whether all four hooves of a running horse left the ground at the same time. However this motion was to fast for the human eye to detect. By 1879, Muybridge devised a more complex method of photography that proved that horses do at times have all four hooves off the ground during their running stride.
Near to the end of his life, he published several books featuring his motion photographs and toured Europe and North America.
Elliot Erwitt, a Magnum photographer since 1953, is known for his often satirical humorous black-and-white images and as a master of empathic and humanistic photography. He is responsible for some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, including portraits of figures like Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, and Richard Nixon.
This series is part of "Sequentially Yours", a book that, showing the same scene or/and object, investigates the before-and-after decisive moment. In this series, a man takes a stick from his dog's mouth, then is frozen in the act of throwing the stick into the water, and finally, the third shot shows the dog standing with a circular wave in the water. - what landed what in the water, the man or the stick?
- Duane Michals
Michals first made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. He is widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. Rather than serving a didactic function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’s musings, which are poetic, tragicor humorous. (Reference: DC Moore Gallery)
Before my research, I was asked to do a sequency of photos in my lecture, since I didn't have much time and never had done some research about it this was the result.
It is entitled "The last time I saw you" because it was taken in the last days of my mother here, in Leicester, with me. We loved Castle Gardens since the first time we saw it so when i knew that I had to take some photos we just run to it.
After this I did my research and instead of worrying about the place where the photos would be taken I worried about the visual composition. I think that it turned out really well for a first task.
Looking for inspiration (2020) by Sara Silva
I named my sequence of photos "Looking for inspiration". Every artist struggles at finding inspiration, it can be everywhere but can be anywhere too or maybe it is just invisible to our eyes. We need to know how to find inspiration, anything it is not enough. Art should move people, and it's the role of an artist to find art in the simple things, in the simple moments, in the simple gestures, even if it is invisible to the others.
For these I used the camera of my mobilephone with ISO to 800 since I took it when was already night and I didn't want the photos to be too bright, for the shutter speed I choose 1/30s and then wide lens. The original photos were in colours but I liked them better in black and white. I started to clean the room, organize the scenario and putted the light to confer a certain drama to the image.
These are some of the original photos:
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I hope you liked it!
Sara Silva
Good research but again you need to add references at the bottom of the page - you also need to add your practice images from class and your self-study images with technical details, process, final images and reflection as we discussed.
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