Collage Photograms

Original collage 

Prints

For this project, with such a unafying medaium as the collage, I really had fun with it. It seems to me that you can throw anything into a collage and iti'll mesh together somehow, so if you have a strong theme, the collage fits together like butter on a bagel (well). I was disembowling magazinbes with the intension of creating one collage, not knowing I kneeded two. I was selecting scenes that could be compiled into a scene that had things that apeared in, and out of their element at the same time–a sort of juxtoposition. As it happened my first collage, with the old couple and the people in the car, left out all these propper looking business men and ocean backround scraps(these formed my second collage). I chose the ocean as a background becasue the ocean is a timless place, with a constant amount of nastalgia to all generations. 

For my first collage I placed the afluent looking couple into the ocean scene, which is maybe somewhere they would travel (the carabean) but not the jungle with giant king fishers and leopards. Yet the leopard and the old couple seem to sit well together, I think becasue of the photo I have inserted below, and the lepord representing Cartier and afluence. Then theirs the lost row boater, who looks very at home in his row boat but not in the jungle with the raft. And the car at the bottom matches the coulpe and the boater with it's more family photobook style of photography. However the car and its people are very out of place deep inthe ocean with a scuba diver swimming buy their passenger window. 

For my second collage, I layered all the business men looking to the snorkeler in the middle. The business men all ogling the snorkeler makes him seem out of place yet they are in the middle of the ocean, so he really fits in the best and the business people are really the most out of place in the scenario. 

Finally to printing the collages, after they were scanned and converted to black and white photoes in PS. They were printed into what's basicly a giant negativ. With the F stop set to 11 for both my prints, to draw out greater detail and get a finer idea of what exposure would fit my print best, I moved through the typical priting process with few hinderences save for time. The only difrence is the negative is directly ontop of the photo paper instead of in the enlarger.