What made me choose openings is that anything can be made into an opening or is already an opening
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a photographer that is interested in human body part in weird and un-normal shapes on an open area or lake
His work:
Minkkinen was born in Finland in 1945 he started taking self-portraits in 1971. later on he studied in a school of art and got his master of fine arts in photography in 1974. During his career he has gotten many awards: National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship. Order of the Lion First Class., conferred by the Finnish government. Grand Prix du Livre, 25th Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival. Scritture d’Acqua Prize (given in Literature, Art, & Science), Italy. Still Not There. Finland’s Emmy Award entry. Still Not There. Prize of Honor. Art Film Triennial, Kalmar, Sweden. Still Not There. Silver Key, 6th International Art Film Festival. Geraldine Chaplin, juror. Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Finnish Photographic Arts Council Book Grant Lianzhou International Photo Festival Special Jury Prize for SAGA, Lianzhou, China. Finnish State Art Prize in Photography Finnish Film Foundation grant for re-edit of Still Not There Finnish Film Foundation Grant for The Rain House Screenplay Nancy Donahue Professor of Art Award
And has been doing solo exhibitions from 1972-2013
Bill Leslie sculptures
Who is Bill Leslie?
Bill Leslie is an artist/photographer that is interested in make and taking pictures of sculptures and film photography.
Bill Leslie's work:
Can anything be called a sculpture?
Me and my teacher had a discussion about can anything become a sculpture we came up with this i have made a tea cup into a sculpture by .getting a tea cup .moving it from its original position .flipping the cup upside down .giving it a name and writing your name or write a fake name .the date it was done and what it's made off
to make all that happen we had to think about what actually makes a sculpture and why it is called a sculpture and we thought about all types of sculptures and then we was talking about why are they called sculptures. Then we came to the conclusion that anything can be classed as a sculpture if it has minor changes done to it.
Bill Leslie's workshop
Bill Leslie came to our lesson and during it we made a large sculpture out of cardbord and other
Question 1 - What do you see in this photograph?
In this photograph i can see a man standing in the middle of a open room with small objects crapped up on shelfs and sides. Everything in the picture has small holes and gaps and all the net curtains are open. There is also a small amount of colour within this picture as well with it mostly being white or black.
Question 2 - What things do you recognise in this photograph? What things seem new to you?
It is kind of hard to tell what is in this picture due to the main focus being the middle ground with the foreground and background being out of focus which makes everything out of focus and hard to identify what it actually is but what i can possibly see within this photo is an old radio in the background but i also see a possible mirror or a hole in the wall to see in a different room, and shelf full of glasses or jars. That's the most I think I can recognise but most i can't recognise or make out what they are.
Question 3 - What does this photograph remind you of?
This photograph kind of reminds me of an insane asylum due to the small amount of colour the room has with it mainly being all white and the way the guy is standing and the facial expression he is making looks like he isn't very happy.
Question 4 - Is this a relatively naturalistic or relatively abstract image? Explain
I personally think that it has a mix of both but more on the abstract side than naturalistic because in the picture it confuses the person that is looking at it about what is happening around the person standing in the middle of the room. I think that for some people their main focus will be the guy standing in the middle of the room but as you look around more little details start to show.
Question 5 - Which formal element seems important? How would you describe the lines in this picture? The shapes/forms? The colours/tones? The textures and patterns?
I think the shapes are the most important/seen the most formal element in this picture because in this photo there are a lot of rectangles seen within the whole picture.
Question 6 - How has the photographer captured the play of light in this image?
The photographer has captured the play of light by making all the light inside the room with no light outside of the room and using the window as a border to separate the lighting.
Question 7 - How is space represented in this photograph (foreground, middle ground, background)
The photographer has used space in a interesting way but making the middle ground the most open area and making the foreground and background look the most crapped and bundled with objects just left there.
Question 8 - How has the photographer dealt with space and time?
The photographer has used a variety of space with large and small gaps all around the picture.
Question 9 - What is in or out of focus? How has the subject been framed/cropped?
In this picture the foreground is a tiny bit out of focus whilst the mid ground and background is in focus and the main focus of this picture hasn't been cropped out of the photo.
My pictures:
My picture evaluation:
Final outcomes:
For my final outcome i have chosen to combine 4 images ( 2 images to eachother) and then combine the that outcome with eachother and it turned out to look like this
First image:
Second image:
Final image:
Final evaluation
For this project i choose opening as my option to explore. At the beginning of the project i was confused on what it was confused about what to do and