Texture
Many photographers have explored and emphasised the texture of surfaces. Aaron Siskind photographed peeling paint and Bill Mangold photographed rusty iron work. Klaus Pichler explored decaying food whilst Marc Anderson investigated texture in tree bark and wood grain.
Why did I pick Texture?
The reason why I have chosen Texture photography is because, I thought it was different to the other topics I could have chosen eg.(Discarded items, Messages, Working, Spaces and The choice of colour). When I was looking through the images of all these topics. Texture was the topic that I found most interesting. I looked at the two different photographers Bill Mangold and klaus Pichler. Their work interested me so I decided to to some research so I decided to pick Texture.
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Bill Mangold
Bill Mangold is a photographer who takes images which reveal the surface textures of various objects. Bill Mangold takes black and white and colour photographs. He often photographs his subjects from close-range. He is interested in capturing the light that falls on the surfaces of these objects. He often notices exciting colour combinations like orange rust on blue paintwork. Sometimes the colours are complimentary (e.g. orange and b;lue, yellow and purple, red and green). He is also interested in harmonious colours (e.g. blue and green). His black and white photographs must have been taken with a wide aperture setting because they use shallow depth of field.
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My Images
I was walking behind the school and went to the football pitch. At the back of the school we also have a garden. There's garden tools at the back and their all got rust on them so I decided to image them. The imaging of the rust is interesting because the rust is peeling off and it's still on the objects. The cause of rust is when paint gets wet on metal. The water causes the paint to pill off and then you have another layer. The other layer is the metal underneath the metal.
Klaus Pichler
Klaus Pichler photographs mouldy food in luxurious items. Klaus uses a black background and see thought take and string to keep the food up and imaged them in many different ways. Also when Klaus was photographing these he was vegan and it must of been so hard for him. The black background makes the mouldy food stand out and the color of the mould also makes it look beautiful but its off putting ad disgusting. The way Klaus imaged his photographs is interesting because he used tape and string to hold it up. The way Klaus Pichler presents these foods is like he's having guest over it's so presentable that it doesn't make you think about the mould on the food. Also the colors of the fruit are bright colours (e.g yellow, red, green)
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Klaus Pichler: Dust
When he visits places he collects dust then photograph them. Klaus Pichler has been to many different places and collected the dust. Klaus Pichler said "They live in palaces of amazing beauty and it has never once crossed their minds to vanish into a cloud of dust." Most people would not agree with this statement and they would find this disgusting. What was really interesting was that he collected different dusts from different locations and inside the dust it shows all the different things that's found at different location. Pichler went to Museums, Army shop, Taylor shops, Soccer club.
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Im planning to collect dust from different parts of school and home and I will image it on a white background with a posh plate and place the dust on the plate. I will also be explaining where I got the dust and which class room. The reason why i'm using a posh plate is to relate the mouldy food and the dust together. The mouldy food klaus pichler made the food look posh with the plates and cutlery. I want to relate to that and instead of using food I want to use the dust.
Aaron Siskind
Aaron Siskind has photographed images of peeling off images, paint. Siskind's work focuses on the details of things as flat surfaces. Most of Siskind's images are close ups. Siskind's images are also black and white I guess Siskind's uses black and white because it makes the image stand out. The image would look totally different if it was in black and white. The photograph wouldn't stand out if it was in colour.
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Marc Anderson
Photographs
Close-up flower images
I had flowers at home and when I was looking at the flower I realised that the flowers are all different and they have different designs. so I decided to photograph them and they looked really nice. The images look better with colour because it brings out the shape and patter on the flower.