In the photograph opposite, it shows a family of five who appear to be in a office of some sort.
The composition of the people within the frame is interesting to me, as the prolixity of the five people and their interactions convey different thoughts, emotions to the viewer. As well as the person, who is close towards our side of the frame, seem to be in charge or have some power and say over this family.
However, what I'm going to focus on is the relationship between all six people within the frame. There seems to be an contrast between the shoulder level of the mother and the two people either side of her. The reassuring, hiding daughter, on her left contrasting with the dominant and aggressive, to who I presume her husband, on her right, creating a sense of contrast between the two ends. Also another contrast with the two younger children, who appear to be blissfully unaware of what's happening within the scene. The man, who is closest to us, seem to be the cause of this conflict or dispute that seems to be occurring within the image.
In this photograph, created by Tina Barney, conveys the relationship between father and daughter. The photograph features social elite, very prominent in Barney's work, as they seem to be playing and talking on the daughters' bed.
In this photograph I feel like I can link with my work , through the use of objects to convey certain thought and mood's. As well as through the use of interactions and gestures to convey relationship.
Words by Johannes de Villiers
In this photograph it shows a love shared between two men who are good friends, or brothers. This photograph stood out to me as it seems to be conveying personality between these two brothers instead of possibly prejudice against them. This photograph is different to what I have seem before, as this feels as if it's more realistic and true. As it seems to be unstylised and is just showing natural and the realistic relationship between two brothers.
I can link this photograph with my work as I have been concentrating on showing personality within my images, instead of just showing interaction and gestures.
Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas - Cecil Beaton
I choose this image as it seemed to carry on and create a narrative with my sketch book. As seen in my sketchbook, it shows the trial of the SSS guard and the triangular composition created through the use of positioning within the frame. I like how the narrative seem to carry on, as for example, in this image the viewer can see what has happened from the result of the trial. I like how the triangular composition has been disrupted and that the framing seems chaotic.
I want to try and create an narrative within my photograph, through the use of objects and or people to create a sense of story behind it and help show new ways of showing and depicting relationship.
Artist research
Tina Barney
Tina Barney was born in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, in New York-America.
Barney's work is based in photography, she is most well known for her large scale portraits of her freinds and family, which connote relationships and interactions between each individual person. Barney convey dynamics and emotions of each person through the use of body codes such as facial expresions, interactions etc to show their relationship with the people within the space of the image.
As she grew up in New york, her grandfather introduced her to photography at an young age and this fueled her intrest in collecting photographs by 1971 and ignited her intrest of taking photographs. As a teenager she studied Art History at Spence School in Manhattan, and at the age of 19, she lived in Italy for a time where she was able to further study of the subject.
Then in 1976, she and her husband made the move to Sun valley, Idaho where she took photography classes at the local art centre, which led or Tina to start creatingher own photographs of higher class society and family dynamics in 1980. By using a 35mm camera she was able to depict family relationships and the wealth of the upper class family. Also, Tina was the first photographer to go beyond 35mm camera, and use large format camera to acheive more detailed work in the image.
Her artwork resemble 19th centusry portrauture of high status people who would have potraits done for their proxietory to keep in their homes, where Barney has made an more detailed and familiar enterperatation into this but adding a mordern twist and material goods to the photographer, however I feel as a viewer Barney only concentrates on the material goods the wealth and beauty of her characters not the emotion or carring, which shows there is another layer to the images that there is family tension or dynamics being hidden from the viewer which I will investigate in this page. Her work is featured in the Museum of mordern art in New York City, Museum of contempory photography and most recently, in 2011, her art was featured at the Barbican art centre in London England. Barney has also be nomimanated for the John Simon Guaggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1991.
Carrie Mae Weems
Born in Portland, Oregon on 20th of April, 1953.Weems grew up during the civil right movement.
When African American were fighting for the same rights, equality, and freedom of speech. This would of influenced her to her chosen profeshion of taking photographs of serious African American challenges as she would of witness first hand injustice that took place during the later part of the 20th centuary, especiallyduring the 1960’s.
She decided to continue her arts schooling and attended the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, graduating at the age of 28 with her B.A. While in her early twenties, Carrie Mae Weems was politically active in the labor movement as a union organizer. Her first camera, which she received as a birthday gift from her then-boyfriend, was used for this work rather than for artistic purposes.
he was inspired to pursue photography only after she came across The Black Photography Annual, a book of images by African-American photographers including Shawn Walker, Beuford Smith, Anthony Barboza.This led her to New York City, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she began to meet other artists and photographers such as Frank Stewart and Coreen Simpson, and they began to form a community.
In 1983, Carrie Mae Weems completed her first collection of photographs, text, and spoken word, called Family Pictures and Stories. The images told the story of her family, and she has said that in this project she was trying to explore the movement of black families out of the South and into the North, using her family as a model for the larger theme