Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky

Gursky's Landscape work is really nice, I love the urban flats image and the rural field and lake image. Gursky has been my favourite landscape photographer and his work has inspired me, although at this point I don't think I should incorporate it into my work but he has given me some great ideas for the future.

Some aspects may be added into my work but only a few. 

These images are simplistic but effective and draw the eye. Its a pleasing pair of photographs and I like that some of the windows on the flats are coloured.

Darren Pearson

Darren Pearson

Pearson's work on light drawings is truly magnificent and one of a kind. Pearson's work is whacky and innovative which is one of the reasons he caught my eye and I really like his work. I love this light drawing as it links to the project I plan on doing which is going to be on 'Paranoia'. 

The brain and eye image is like an X-ray photo and works nicely.

David Bailey

David Bailey

David is my main inspiration when it comes to portraits, he knows what looks good and knows how to execute the photo perfectly. I am aiming to get all of my portraits on the same kind of level as David's, relatively close up and mid level. I may use some black and white filters/gradients on my images like David Bailey has. 

I was thinking of doing a portrait like this one that David has done of Jude Law but without the cigarette and suit.

Research - Gilles et Dada

Gilles et Dada

Dada's work with duplication and displacement of certain areas of the object/person he is photographing is quite unique compared to most artists I have ever seen, such a simple design like this becomes powerful and effective. Dada has inspired me to use a technique similar to these in my own work but with my own style and overlays. Dada creates scenes, I wouldn't call them just portraits as each picture tells you something such as the third image on my post shows a dark and powerful piece and looks like its been sliced into a statue. 

Research - Arnulf Rainer

ARNULF RAINER

Arnulf uses overlays in his work to express his feelings of the images. These overlays would be either a selection of certain paints, pencil, pen or charcoal. Arnulf makes a bold impact on his work with every image, sometimes it may be a wacky facial shape but mainly he works with leading lines such as the image above. Rainer is the only artist I like that has used this sort of design.

Initial Ideas

Proposal

PROPOSAL

In this assignment I am going to be entering the Melbourne Festival Emerging Talent Award 2014.

My thoughts on what I am going to do so far are to do with using light room drawings as a backdrop or overlay on my images. I think that this style of imagery would work well and I havent seen any images like it yet so therefore this may work in my favor. I also have wanted to incorporate graphic design work into my photos. This technique is like the light room except all the designing will be digitally created. I am looking towards portraiture and landscape work. With these ideas I will have to use software such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. The more subtle and not overpowered design the better as I dont want to make it look bad. The more aesthetically pleasing the better. I want it to be eye catching but without being to overpowered on what I am trying to show.

I will use people and scenery.

So far this what I want to do.