Computers and Art 1960 - 2012

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Art History and Theory Assignment

Mark Adams

 

 

Land of Memories 1988 Te Koroka, Wakatipu Waimaori, Otago, Te Wai Pounamu

Gold toned silver bromide fibre-based Photos.

This series of Photographs Mark Adams took were from around the South Island.  Adams photography often has a cultural perspective and meaning behind. This series he did alongside Fiona Pardington, shows a journey of the history of Pounamu discovery in the South Island (Adam photographed the Landscapes and Fiona photographed the Pounamu from these sites). The end collection tells a geographical story of where this Pounamu came from which is unique to New Zealand[1].

The Iconography of these images is these photographs of these places were taken because these places are where Pounamu was found in the ground and they are completely free of human interference and show the land as it naturally was when the Maoris took this journey as they searched for Pounamu so we feel as though we are seeing the same views they saw years ago. These picturesque landscapes are iconic to New Zealand as you can only find these mountains and Lake in New Zealand without the pollution people and technology bring. They symbolise land that is scared to the Maoris back then and our culture now which we protect. The large quantities found of Pounamu found were important to the Maoris’ because of the characteristics of the stone. It was strong and tough and the Maoris’ were able to use it in weapons and tools where as now it is mainly wore as jewellery. This series of photographs show a historical journey of the Maoris as they found the Pounamu and show the land as it naturally is, without the influence of technology advancement which has seen power lines and telephone poles go up all over the natural landscape destroying places like this, but showing how our understanding of our cultural past can persevere our landscapes and our culture.[2]

The style of this photograph is naturalistic. It is a black and white semi-panoramic landscape photograph which has been captured on film and produced in the darkroom. It has few textures of the surface of the water, the sky and the rocks smooth while the hills and mountains of the horizon are covered in shrubbery but very lightly textured. The tones shown in the photograph separate these elements while linking them through similar tones and the depth in the image. The composition shows depth and separates into halves although not identical, matching which evoke and investigate the historical context. The gold toning used reduces the black and produces a more blue/black look to the photo which gives the tones a denser and more luminous look so it looks precious and valuable. The way and style it has been produced relates the photograph to history and the processes involved in creating photographs back in our history and shows how even through technology is more advanced we still have an option to let our history influence our present and our future by continuing on using these practises.

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[1]  Two Rooms, Mark Adams, http://tworooms.co.nz/artists/mark-adams/. Date viewed 27^th March 2012

[2]  The Arts Foundation, Mark Adams, http://www.thearts.co.nz/artist_page.php&aid=58&type=bio. Date Viewed 27^th March 2012.

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Digital Literacy Week 3

Scanned Image

Sarah McKay, "untitled", 2011

This was created one day when I was bored in class and had nothing to do and was playing cards on my laptop again and got caught by my teacher and sent to the darkroom to do something, anything, more constructive with my time...

It is an image of a skeleton with an overlayed strip of negative with nothing on it that I scratched with a blade randomly, then developed alternatively, rather than in the tray like normal people.

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Digital Literacy Week 2

Edited in Adobe Photoshop. I have changed the colours of the hose and the brush head, and I might have multiplied the dogs and re-sized two of them...

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A little bit about me...

I've never written a blog before so I may bore you or be unenlightening but will do my best. I am a first year Bachelor of Visual Arts student in Dunedin. My main loves in life are photography, fashion and  travel, I want to travel to places all over the world, even through I have never ventured outside of New Zealand. I still have no idea what I really want to do when I finish art school but want to do something in photography or get back to the fashion side of things, at this stage in life I still have no idea.

A few of my favourite artists, all photographers.

I found Jay Archibald last year at high school when I was looking at abstractions and lights and patterns in photography and loved his work. http://www.jayarchibald.com/

Erlend Mork, his work is very dark but I love the surrealism and colours, the creepiness that draws you in, its meaningful symbolics, its amazing. http://erlendmork.com/

I love national geographic photos, it would be my absolute dream job to work from them, as a documentry or nature and wildlife photographer, travelling to these amazing places, taking beautiful photos, I can't pick a favourite photographer or photo from this but love it. http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/

Paul Strand, I love his work, the details the shadows, the lines, the patterns, the contrast they all speak to the final work, I love the truth his photos captured the one people dont generally see because its not the commercial truth, but the real truth. http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/strand/strand.html

Patrick Demarchelier, one of the most noted fashion photographers in the world, he has a way of capturing his models in the perfect light and angles. http://www.demarchelier.net/



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