Year 10 Photography students started Term 3 by completing a unit of work on ‘The world of Advertising’. They focused on completing design based activities and in the process have studied the American conceptual photographic artist Barbara Kruger. Much of Kruger’s work is developed by merging found photographs from existing sources with pithy (vigorously expressive) and aggressive text that involves the viewer to consider political, racial and gender issues to name a few. Kruger’s compelling works primarily depict a struggle for power, demonstrating notions of control and identity that her iconic red and white captions speak to.
In a recent online learning activity the student's attempted to create their own Kruger inspired photographic images. As you can see they have done an amazing job!
Great work Yr 10 - Mrs Eggleton
The New Life Saving Accessory
The Future is Female
What WE Caused
Woman Don't Work
You are made of Light
The Role of the Woman
Equality
Lady Like
The Role of Women
Female Expectations
Boys will be Boys
Remember
The Power of Women
Secrets
Equality
All Actions have Consequences
The Role of Women
She Could have said 'No'
War Doesn't Work
Women don't Work
Lockdown... Just one more week
Girls just want to have fun
She was asking for it? Or was she?
Men will be Men
During this project, students created or found paste up images in which they had to photograph over a period of time.
What does ‘home’ mean to you? and how can I symbolically represent it in my photos
Is 'home' simply a place, a feeling or does it remind you of a person?
How can students demonstrate this term originality,
What thought provoking features/symbols can I capture in my photos
Have I considered lightening, angles and the overall composition of my image correctly? These are all ideas that stuents explored in their image for this task
Selfie Experiments: The following experiments were designed to encourage students to get to know some famous (and not so famous) examples of self-portraits in art and photography and to use them to help you create their own selfie examples. Rather than relying on the current, limited, stock of poses and facial expressions that tend to dominate Selfie culture, these experiment images broadened the students notion of the Selfie.. to stand out from the crowd!
Selfie Experiment #1: The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2: The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1: The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3: The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3: The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #6:
The Feet Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #6:
The Feet Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #5:
The Shadow Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Dog Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #6: The Feet Selfie
Selfie Experiment #4:
The Eyes Closed Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie - My Space
Selfie Experiment #5:
The Shadow Selfie
Selfie Experiment #6:
The Feet Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #2:
The Disguised Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #5:
The Shadow Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7: The Surreal Selfie
Gallery Workshop - The Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
Selfie Experiment #1:
The Reflected Selfie
Selfie Experiment #3:
The Obscured Selfie
Selfie Experiment #7:
The Surreal Selfie
David Hockney, was born in Bradford in 1937. He is known as an English Painter, Draughtsman, Printmaker, Stage Designer and Photographer. Due to his contribution to Pop art movement of the 60’s, he is now recognized as one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.
In the early 80s, Hockney started to produce photo collages he called ‘Joiners’. He started out using Polaroids – instant photographs, and processed colour prints. One of the first images he produced using this particular method, was one of his Mother. The orientation of each Joiner varies, and can either be portrait or landscape.
The production of ‘Joiners’ happened accidentally. He didn’t like the way photographers took photos in the 60’s as they seemed quite unoriginal and distorted, and while he was working on a painting in his living room, he took photos of the room using a Polaroid and stuck the pieces together. He realised he had created a narrative picture, and stopped painting for a bit to pursue his new found creation.
Students in Year 10 Photography have employed Hockney's photographic practice into their own artmaking.