Heaven And Hell

A-Level AS Photograhy Blog 2015

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Shoot Title : Crimson Thoughts

I wanted to experiment with red ink in response to the photographer

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Analysis of Heitor Mango

The photograph is A portrait which the composition face (the person face has been smothered with even though the body languageshoes thtat the person does not seem distressed but instead relaxed as they have a cigarette in their hands. However their body may seem undistressed but their face could be in a completely diffrent stae or expression add mystery to whaqt he person is feeling and what mental state their in. The black of the charcoal could suggest a dark emotion one of hate or of darkness etc.

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Heitor Magno

Brazil-based Heitor Magno is a visual artist, Magno often mixes the human body with natural elements. Magno also likes to, quite literally, "play with fire." 

Not much else is disclosed about him.

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Photographer : Heitor Magno

Photograph Title : untrustyou

Year Captured : ?

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Shoot Title : Serbian Dream

This was taken in several location in Bosnia-Hergovina including Tuzlaq, Sarajevo and Srebrenica areas which was severly affected by the serbian army

However the ecnomic as well as the social recovery of the Bosnian has lead to increase in reliogous belief with the main lead religons being Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The change in religous belief lead to a more humble and patient judgement of what has happended however the war create a rebuttal as to why people of Bosnia should forgive the Serbians for their trechery and how religon has been the factor as to why the people will attain a need of justice.

The simplicity of capturing everday and function bosnia creates a loop that some people have the ability to forgive and move on and some do not.The white overexposure in this case is the forgivence of people covering up what was destroyed or culturally ruined.

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Analysis Of American Night by Paul Graham

This photogragh was captured between the period of 1998 to 2002, A time where American econmoy boomed to the frivolus years of American commerce and this boom lead to a below 5% unemployment. Clinton was just elected president for his second term. All in all, America was in a period of wealth and prosperity which is a periodic metaphor for Heaven, as there is a tranquil prosperous and a general high morale which the photogragher represents by using a overexposure on the photograph as a visual metaphor for Heaven.

However constricted by the endless hope that the goverment feeds to the poor the five perecent is bigger than it sounds, the under 5 perecent in unemployment live off what is found and not made and people battle for what is precived to be of benefits (physiological needs for example) but instead sends them in into a constant spiral for wealth and prsoperity to be invisoned but instead is actually spiraled into a never ending race for the poor to be richer and the richer to be poorer. This is the hell the under five perecent face. A living, Organic and systermatic hell. The photographer does this by capturing a run down working class community for a composition. This is the reflextion which the photographer has attemted to present the viewer.

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Paul Graham

English photographer. He studied at Bristol University (BSc, 1978) and in 1980 held his first solo exhibition, House Portraits (1980), which featured large format images of modern, detached suburban houses.  An initial influence from the colour documentary work of William Eggleston was reflected in his own café interiors of the early 1980s, many of which appeared in the series A1—The Great North Road (1983), a photographic record of ordinary places on an old national arterial road. These pictures provided evidence of Graham's attraction to social themes and to the traces of history in the everyday, a recurrent characteristic of his work. In 1984 he completed Beyond Caring, a series of photographs of Department of Health and Social Security offices, that could be read politically in the light of the period's high unemployment and unpopular government. A series of trips to Northern Ireland, beginning in 1984, resulted in three series addressed to the troubles: Troubled Land (1987), which looked for evidence of political instability in the landscape; In Umbra Res (1994), which concentrated on images of people; and Untitled (Cease Fire) (1994), which reflected on the nature of peace and instability in a series of images of the sky. Later he completed a series on Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, New Europe (1993); on Japan, Empty Heaven (1995), and a series of portraits of young people in clubs and bars, End of an Age (1999).

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Title : American Night.

Photographer : Paul Graham

1998 - 2002

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Shoot Title : Golden Abyss

This shoot was success as I was able to replicate the awe of the golden amber urine from Andres Serrano ‘Piss Chirst’ . The sacrilegious image creates a soothing but yet errie feel as the cross feels to be lost in a timeless flow of the golden amber liquid.

The link between something beautiful but distraught has been a concept which has been desribed in the bible several time depicting that man is tempted with something beautiful to the mind and body however peopele realised that those temptation come with concequence of going to where the demons and the Devil rest.

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Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, Many of Serrano's pictures involve bodily fluids in some way—depicting, for example, blood (sometimes menstrual blood), semen (for example, Blood and Semen II (1990)) or human female milk. Within this series are a number of works in which objects are submerged in bodily fluids notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine.

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Photograph Title : Piss Christ

Photographer : Andres Serrano

Year Captured : 1987

a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine.

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Shoot Title : Purgatory

For this shoot I decided to photograph my self in a blue drape on a white back ground. Once I had taken the picture i had edited them by removing the saturation completely creating a black and white image then I had decided to increse the exposure and contrast drastically to create these forms under the drape, The contrast created a range of monochrome tones as well as further make my silhouette dominate to the white background.

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Analysis Of Photograph

The dance was suppose to emulate the agony of grief and it replicates what reasembles a dark and shatter one as if you are not holding your inner demons but your inner demons are holding you in. The lack of complete saturation removes a sensation of life or even a sign of life and instead spiritualises the composition. The harsh light pointed form a certain angle effectuate the presence of agony as well as reduce the concepts that this being ( Martha Graham) has any humanity left and what is left is slowly being reduced to nothing. A concept which was often described in the bible as it states that it will punish the wicked and test thier level of humanity. The high contrast creates a strong diffrence betweeen the crease further create a form that is timeless as if the person is going to be in there personal hell for ever.

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Martha Graham

Performed to music by Zoltán  Kodály, Lamentation premiered on January 8, 1930, at New York's Maxine Elliott's Theatre. The  solo work was performed by Martha Graham in a concert given by the Dance Repertory Theatre. The goal was "to give annually a season of continuous dance programs which will be  representative of the art of dance in American and will give native artists an  outlet for their creative work. When Miss Graham in her Lamentation depicts the dumb agony of grief she does not droop like a flower or attitudinize like Patience on a monument, she is grief from the first stricken bewildered gropings of her head and torso to the last moment when she averts her covered head with a finality that is pitiful  and terrible.

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Title : Untitled

Photograher : Unknown 

Year of Photograph : 1935

This is a photograph of Martha Graham a world renown dancer some say to be the Picasso of dancing.

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Shoot Title : Angelic

Experimental Shoot II

This was second experimental shot this time i was experimenting with manipulating light and focus in order to try and create and angelic effect on my compositon. This result was sucssesful to me as the the imag was ableto create a angelic feelinf with the harsh light on the plants and the sheer brillince of light on the compositon face . The Facial expression gives a sense of depth with the compositon facial exppression seems to gaze in to the ever thoughtful distance of the light.

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Shoot Title : Unknown Conscious

Experimental Shoot I

I wanted to experiment with shutter speed and exposure compentsation againts a harsh light and black background. This led me to this shoot which created what reseamble a spiritual image of ghost the low shutter speed crester a blur that made my compostion spritual.