Here are my Homage images to Uta Barth

Homage - Uta Barth - Contemporary

Uta Barth is a contemporary photographer born in Berlin, Germany in 1958. Now based in Los Angeles she worked as a professor of art at the university of California. I really like the techniques that Barth uses as most of her work is out of focus which shows a surrealist theme as you are almost unable to read the imagery but still can tell what the subject is. I want to produce two series of work for this homage I will shoot one inside paying tribute to two of her most famous projects ‘Passing Bye’ and ‘Draw With Light’ these two works are all shot with natural light from a window which I think will really work with the windows at my parents house as they have beautiful lighting at dawn through the glass giving a golden look.
I also want to shoot some images on a cliff in South Shields where I am from, it currently has high percentage of people falling off the edge of cliffs under the influence of alcohol, I think this would be a captivating concept that would work well with the techniques Uta Barth uses by blurring the focal points.
Here is an example of Uta’s work:

Here are my Homage work to Hannah Hock

Homage - Historical - Hannah Hock

Hannah Hock was born on November 1st 1889 in Gotha, Germany. She claimed her artistic fame during the Dada movement. While looking at her work I can see that she uses photomontage techniques by cutting out images and pasting them togeather to produce a collage of imagery that represents a human form, although most of her work the body and faces are distorted and resized which make them look unnatural. I have discovered the Hannah Hock was also a serious feminist as you can see looking at her work as most of the subjects are women. I wanted to use the same techniques that Hannah Hock used but producing them in a digital format. I also don’t want to actually use the same concepts as her work, I will produce two editorial fashion images that display two different styles of clothing one man and one woman. Here are some examples of her work:

Surrealism

Man Ray an artist Born in August 1890 in the USA Philadelphia and spent his childhood in New York is one of the most well known and acclaimed surrealist photographers, he is mostly famous for the originator of the Rayography technique where an object is placed on top of light sensitive paper, the sheet is then exposed to an enlarger which lightens only the parts that are not covered by the objects to produce a final developed image of the silhouettes of the subject. For example this image Rayography Champs délicieux no.8, taken in 1922 was made by Man Ray by cutting up strips of paper to develop an almost 3D spiral effect. I find this technique extremely interesting and would like to experiment in the 
dark room in the future. I chose this because I can see a connection to surrealism as it is extremely ambiguous meaning it is difficult to see what the photograph consists of without researching into the concept and techniques.
Reference: (The National Portrait Gallery : Man Ray Portraits : 2013) 

Constructivism

 

In this constructivism task I am going to look at the work  of artist Alexander Rodchenko, born in Russia in 1891, Rodchenko was one of the first photographers to produce work during the Russian revolution. He focused his imagery mostly around photomontage and architectural vision. This image ‘Power-station 1929’ is a great example of his work through constructivism. As you can see he uses an interesting use of perspective that is shown by the way Alexander Rodchenko photographs the building looking up from the bottom to the top. He uses the lines of the building to guide the audiences eye from the base to the top of the photo. The moment began in Russia in 1919 it was created to appreciate art as a practice for social motivations. Constructivism effected many modern art movements, influencing courses such as De Stijl and Bauhaus.