Friday, 16 September 2011

Digital Imaging and Photography MA Website

Thank you to Mike, Michelle, Graham, Sam and everyone else involved in the MA show.

 The MA website:


Saturday, 10 September 2011

Graduate Shows


My work and the work  of my fellow MA students feature in
Thank you Michelle!


Exhibitions:

Venue:

Ground Floor Gallery, Architecture Building,
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln
LN6 7TS
  

Dates:

From: 21st September 2011
Until: 25th September 2011
9:00 am - 8:00 pm

Venue:

Seven Dials Club
42 Earlham Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9LA
    

Dates:

From: 7th December 2011
Until: 5th January 2012
9:00 am - 10:00 pm


Thursday, 8 September 2011

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Fernand Léger

Fragmentation of the pictorial surface, distortion of the perspectival space and contrast of dimensions, a preference for peripheral or close-up vision,  f flattening of volumes, disappearance of the background  which gets the whole pictorial content of the picture to unfurl on a single level... The presentation of the object or figure based on several contradictory simultaneous viewpoints produces an impression that the object is revolving on its own axis. 


Contraste de formes 1913



Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Moï Ver

Moï Ver  Paris. 80 photographies, 1931




"Photography, which is until recently had a merely illustrative and documentary value, has proceeded to research of a plastic nature, which is extremely interesting. It is indisputably the cinema that blazed the trail for photography; but, by that it 'keeps,'  that it 'fixes' stereotyping, it seems to me somewhat contray to the cinematographic 'fact' which is moveable and successive by definition", wrote Fernand Léger in his preface to Moï Ver's Paris. Through the thickness of the book and in the processing of he pages the photographer rediscovers the relationships of succession perculiar to the cinema.







































Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy: Ballet Mécanique (1924)


In Fenand Léger and Dudley Murphey's Ballet Mécanique (1924) we see  animated cut out of Charlie Chaplin in a sequence called "Charlot cubiste". Esther Leslie in Hollywood Flatlands noted that the film featured close-ups of domestic items. "The simple act of close-up in itself" Leslie observes, "acted as an animation of objects , an endowment with  life and personality" (2002, p.20).

Unfortunately this does not feature the score by George Antheil with was described as a "futuristic score of the mechanical era", a piece of musical engineering. .