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P8 - Revised Statement of Intent - Part Two Final Piece

P8 - The Constructed Image

Third Statement of Intent for Part Two Final Piece

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For Part Two of the P8 - Constructed Image module we are required to produce a an edited and professionally presented final body of work that explores and evidences our understanding of the constructed image. We are required to produce a series of narrative images that displays our ability to create and weave into the work elements that construct and further the narrative of the individual images and the body of work as a whole.

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Intention:

Our judgement of the aesthetics of a chosen object is closely associated with Bourdieu’s theory of taste and the importance that this taste has in anchoring our place in society. Of course with the increases in the reach of the taste makers throughout the mass media in the last decade a shared consensus of what is aesthetically pleasing has spread through a larger segment of society and crossed class divides. Why should this be? Aren’t we all individuals with a unique perspective on the world around us and our place within it?

Aesthetic beauty has been a concern of the philosopher for millenia and throughout the many writings and different philosophies the overriding theme was that ideas of aesthetic beauty originated from an emotional and sensory response to the object that is judged as opposed to the theories of “taste” that is a response to previously learnt experiences.

For Part Two of the P8 - Constructed Image module I intend to explore ideas of the aesthetic beauty of an object by confronting the viewer with a large selection of identically framed and presented items with a purely aesthetic function. That is to say they have no other use than to offer the viewer something to view and reflect upon. The reason that I have chosen to present my work as an archive is to provide as little confusion as to the various objects aesthetic appearance and also enable a comparison between these objects so that they start to question why they may prefer one objects aesthetic value at the expense of the others. The anti-hierachical structure of the archive also serves to highlight the authority we place in the "truth" of photography, that is to say it's role as a documenter of evidence. My intention is to subvert this by presenting an archive with no apparent practical use.

For my final body of work I intend to produce a series of five separate images that will be themselves made from a grid of nine photographs to produce an archive of aesthetic objects. These prints will measure 16.5 inches square. The length of an A3 sheet of paper on its longest aspect.

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Equipment:

For this project my intention is to shoot in a studio environment using the Phase One H20 medium format digital back in conjunction with a Hasselblad 503 camera. 

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P8 - Revised Statement of Intent - Part Two Final Piece

P8 - The Constructed Image

Second Statement of Intent for Part Two Final Piece

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For Part Two of the P8 - Constructed Image module we are required to produce a an edited and professionally presented final body of work that explores and evidences our understanding of the constructed image. We are required to produce a series of narrative images that displays our ability to create and weave into the work elements that construct and further the narrative of the individual images and the body of work as a whole.

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Intention:

Our judgement of the aesthetics of a chosen object is closely associated with Bourdieu's theory of taste and the importance that this taste has in anchoring our place in society. Of course with the increases in the reach of the taste makers throughout the mass media in the last decade a shared consensus of what is aesthetically pleasing has spread through a larger segment of society and crossed class divides. Why should this be? Aren't we all individuals with a unique perspective on the world around us and our place within it?

Aesthetic beauty has been a concern of the philosopher for millenia and throughout the many writings and different philosophies the overriding theme was that ideas of aesthetic beauty originated from an emotional and sensory response to the object that is judged as opposed to the theories of "taste" that is a response to previously learnt experiences.

For Part Two of the P8 - Constructed Image module I intend to explore ideas of the aesthetic beauty of an object by confronting the viewer with a large selection of identically framed and presented items with a purely aesthetic function. That is to say they have no other use than to offer the viewer something to look at. The reason that I have chosen to present my work in this way is to provide as little confusion as to what the objects look like aesthetically and also enable a comparison between these objects so that they start to question why they may prefer one objects aesthetic value at the expense of the others.

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Equipment:

For this project my intention is to shoot in a studio environment using the Phase One H20 medium format digital back in conjunction with a Hasselblad 503 camera. 

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[jgcphotothing]

P8 - Statement of Intent - Part Two Final Piece

P8 - The Constructed Image

First Statement of Intent for Part Two Final Piece ___________________________________________________________

For Part Two of the P8 - Constructed Image module we are required to produce a an edited and professionally presented final body of work that explores and evidences our understanding of the constructed image. We are required to produce a series of narrative images that displays our ability to create and weave into the work elements that construct and further the narrative of the individual images and the body of work as a whole.

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Intention:

Taste in the sociological sense as described by Bourdieu helps to define who we are and how we find our place in society by processes such as cultural, social and economic capital. The importance of this can not be underestimated in our modern consumer society and subsequently this knowledge has been commandeered by the advertising industry to create a language of aspiration and advancement.

Within the visual language of consumerism there are a number of common elements that are used to create a narrative of what you’re taste should be. these are universal regardless of the product or service that is offered and are, as with the verbal claims of advertising, irrational and often unfounded.

For Part Two of the P8 - Constructed Image module I intend to explore the ideas of taste and aspiration in the bourdieuian sense by juxtaposing various objects that may be of questionable taste to the aspirational classes with the media’s modern and contemporary visual ways of presenting us with the next must-have objects of desire.

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Equipment:

For this project my intention is to shoot in a studio environment using the Phase One H20 medium format digital back in conjunction with a Hasselblad 503 camera to produce some potentially large scale images as used in the advertising and editorial genres of photography.

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P8 - Statement of Intent - Part One Portraits

P8 - The Constructed Image

Statement of Intent for Part One Portraits

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For Part One of the P8 - Constructed Image module we are required to produce a series of Five colour portraits of the same model using Five varying lighting techniques, either studio flash or using the available natural light from a window or other source. They are also required to be shot on a Phase One digital back in the studio or a similar indoor space.

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The portrait genre is as old as the human ability to comprehend his environment and record it on the wall of his dwelling. From this earliest of beginnings the portrait has also been a vehicle for the recording of human achievement and wealth, be it success in the fending off of starvation or as in latter centuries accomplishments in the areas of trade, increased social standing and piety. 

For my Part One portraits I intend to use the Phase One H20 medium format digital back in conjunction with the Cambo SC2 large format view camera in the studio. This is because of the camera's ability to shift it's planes of focus. 

My final portraits will focus on key elements of the models face and upper body to reveal their character. I don't intend them to have any interaction with the photographer and to subsequently not look at the camera or even seem to be aware of it. I also intend my final images to be very homogeneous and sit together by selecting the same background and clothing for the model.

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