When I search the word landscape on google, there are lots of different types of landscape, being drawn or a photograph, of nature or a city, day or night, and of anywhere in the world, like Scotland or Canada or Japan.
When I look outside the window from my bedroom, I can see the neighbour's gardens which are filled with things they never use, the road with some parked cars, and on the pavement the name "Ellz" with a heart above it. Ellz is the nickname of my neighbour's brother, Ellis, he died and they wrote his name on the pavement as a way of remembering him.
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Geraldo de Barros is a photographer that cuts out his black and white photographs and rearranges them to create a new minimalist landscape.
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Liz Nielsen is a photographer that uses negatives and lighting to recreate landscapes with as little information as possible.
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In this task we used our hand-made negatives version of our minimalist paper landscapes to create paper negatives. My first test I had 5.6 aperture for 5 seconds, and it developed with some white areas, but it looked good. My second test was 5.6 aperture for 4 seconds, and that came out darker and less clear than my first test. My third test was 5.6 aperture and for 6 seconds, and that came out really clear and the contrast is amazing.
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In this video Dafna Talmor talks about how this idea of a utopian space has influenced her work and how she tries to create that utopia in each image she produces. Dafna Talmor cuts up and reconstructs negatives to remove all personal links and create "a space that only exists in a photographic sense". Dafna Talmor is also inspired by contradictions and "how it gets played out through the image". She also points out how a photographs nature is dependent on the context.
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Drafts from Dionne Lee on Vimeo. |
In this video Dionne Lee shows her process and experimentation while creating landscapes. She overlaps, cuts, tears, rotates and folds photos that seem like they are from a book, considering that some have rows of text next to them. Her work is constantly being changed and improved. I feel like the video is quite convoluted and confusing as Dionne is constantly changing what images and materials she is using while remaining silent. She does not explain what she is doing with the photo or why she is doing it, which just makes her actions and method feel random and create the impression that she is putting very little effort into creating this landscape.
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For this set of experiments I used photopea to edit my images and add text onto them in different fonts and colours. The image I would go back and edit would be my first one, with the text "FREE PARKING" because I had attempted to recreate the drawings and graffiti I added to with my last experiments, but it ended up looking messy, so with my other 5 I chose to not add any drawings or graffiti. I think that my most successful image is my third one, with the text "IN TRAFFIC FOR 1 HOUR". With this image I had figured out how to move and layer my images to create a more clean and neat cut using the eraser tool, by changing each layer's opacity to make it easier to identify what I had erased from each layer, and to see what areas I needed to erase on the next layer.
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