The Genius of Moving Image (PART 1)

1. List two specific key relationships between Sam Taylor Wood's photography and film work?
- She uses people and their emotions to narrate a story for both photography and film
- He own feelings and emotion have a powerful meaning and personal message. Its all highly emotional scenarios to provoke different social and psychological meaning.

2. How does the use of multi-screen installation in her work reflect narrative?
It reflects a narrative by allowing the audience to piece together their own interpretations instead of a specific story being dictated the viewer can relate and conclude other narratives.

3. What other photographers use film as an integral part of their work. List two with examples?
- Gregory Crewdson, an American photographer who takes inspiration from films and recreates his photography as a staged film set/scenes. They show drama with a cinematic element. As a photographer he takes influences from such films as: Night of the Hunter, Vertigo and Blue Velvet.


- Tim Walker, an English photographer who is a successful fashion photographer. Takes inspiration from film and has gone onto film directing. He made a short film called 'The Lost Explorer'.

4. Research three other Video artists and explain their working philosophy
* Andy Warhol who was a controversial visual artist in and explores the relationship between celebrities, artistic expressionism and advertisement. He was a film maker in the 1960s and he made a series of silent, black and white short films. Between 1963 and 1968, he made more than 60 films, he was very experimental with film and devoted his energy around this art.

* Tim Burton is an American filmmaker and artist, and is most famous for his dark, quirky themed movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Alice in Wonderland. His work is expressed through artistic visualisation which he had discovered in his childhood and brought it into art and cinematic recreations to his films from imagination. His unique style of thematic fantasy life and emotional core that is captured in his work, creates a sense of feeling of being in a dream mode of his and takes you on a visual exagerrated story through any of his films.

* Alfred Hitchcock a British film maker and video Artist, he conveyed many techniques in the thriller and psychological genre of their time, he has a distinctive recognisable direction in film and often portrays anxiety, fear and empathy are evident features in his films. The idea of being harshly treated and wrongfully accused is frequently reflected in his films and this stems from his childhood growing up with a strict father.

5. Show an example of a specific gallery space or a site specific location where a video artist or filmmaker has created work specifically for that space and been influenced by it
King's cross station Harry Potter. Very iconic place and they even have a trolley sticking out of platform 9 3/4 there permanently as a tourist attraction.

The Genius of Photography (PART 1)

1. What is photography’s “true genius”?
Over 170 years, photography has intrigued us, delighted us, outraged us and provided many other emotions by showing us the secret strangeness of the worlds appearances, and that itself is photography's 'true genius'

2. Name a proto-photographer:

Henry Fox Talbot

3. In the 19Th century, what term was associated with the daguerreotype?

The term 'mirror with a memory' was associated and it fixed images on a mirrored metal plate, light is reflected and produces one of images. Unique!

4. What is the vernacular?
A snapshot taken by an amateur/unknown photographer who takes shots of everyday life and common subjects.

5. How do you “Fix the Shadows”?
They say in 1839 photography was invented in this year french man Louis Daguerre and English man Henry-Fox Talbot, came out with rivalling inventions to 'fix the shadows'. Fox Talbot was through a camera obscura, (mouse-trap camera) and Louis's creation to fix shadows was using mirrored metal plates. We see Abelardo Morell turn a room into a camera by completely blackening out all light and cutting out just a small hole at the window for the light to come through and project the outside world into the room.

6. What is the “carte de visite”?
Carte de Visite is a process created by a French man, which took portraits where you were photographed 8 times in a rapid sequence.

7. Who was Nadar and why was he so successful?

Known as Nadar Gaspard-Felix Tournachon took photos of up and coming stars of that time, and became famous for photographing them naturally in a studio for who they were, he expressed them as who they were rather than their profession.

8. What is pictorialism
Pictorialism is an artistic creation, rather than simply recording, it can be said to carefully be constructed and resemble paintings.

The Genius of Photography (PART 5)

1. Who said 'The camera gave me the license to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you can't help people knowing about you' and when was it said?Diane Arbus said this statement in the early 60s, where she often went around the streets photographing unusual people and not the 'norm' to society. Its said that she was photographing people and reflecting her own personality and issues through these.

2. Do photographers tend to prey on vulnerable people?
Photographers can tend to prey on vulnerable people because they are out on the streets and capturing people showing their true emotion. These people who are exposed socially and culturally and the person behind the camera can either feel compassion or too drive by their hungry eye.

3. Who is Colin Wood?
Colin wood in 1962 was a young skinny 7 year old boy who was photographed by Diane Arbus in Central Park, she captured many photos of him that day but chose only one shot where he clutches a toy hand grenade in one hand and has a tense claw like hand in the other. She was very curious of him and although he loved being photographed and gave her funny expressions, he was on his own and his parents were going through a divorce, she found it to be a reflection on herself.

4. Why do you think Dian Arbus commited suicide?
She had so many issues and didn't want to be herself that you can see in photos of different people a reflection on herself and her insecurities. Most people did not get her work and was against it, she photographed out of the 'ordinary' people and must have all got too much when she started to become too famous for such work.

5. Why and how did Larry Clark shoot tulsa?
Larry Clark shot Tulsa the way he lived it, he photographed everything around him, what was happening with his friends, taking drugs, messing with guns, violence. He documented close up personal things that nobody else would of at that time (1970s)

6. Try to explain the concept of 'confessional photography' and 'what is the impolite genre?'
Confessional photography is about the truth of real life and the misunderstanding of the world. Its photos with meaning, and intimacy, things that people don't want to know about. The impolite genre is the oposite its photos that are rude, descriptive and quite often shocking and disturbing.

7. What will Araki not photograph and why?
Araki photographed everything and anything that went on around him if your not taking a picture of that moment you won't really remember it so much. He now only photographs what he wants to remember.

8. What is the premise of Postmodernism?
Our culture now is so saturated by the media and media models of how people live and we believe thats how the live their lifes but its all made up by the media myth. It goes against the idea of portraiture because going into a studio all dressed up is not really revealing your character or identity.