A Level Photography

Process of making a photogram- set up enlarger and four different tubs along sides and pour different chemicals in them. Place developer in the first tube, stop bath in second, fixer in the next and cold water in the last one. Man Ray Man Ray  (born  Emmanuel Radnitzky ; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.

 

Different apertures                   f-5.6                                        f-7.1                                           f-10.0 The lower the aperture the more focus there is on the object,  as the aperture was increased the focus on the main object wasn't as great. The smaller aperture had more blurred background than the higher aperture

Cubism  What is Cubism? Cubism is a new approach at representing reality. It brings up different views of subjects together in the same picture resulting in paintings or photos that appear fragmented or abstracted. Cubism is a new style of art transforming ordinary objects: people, landscapes, architecture etc, and making them into geometric shapes. Examples of cubism- My example of cubism- Here I used pictures at different angles of me and my mum and used a collage technique to put them all together and create this cubism effect. The purpose of this was to show the similarities in facial features we have.

 Surrealism What is Surrealism? Surrealism is a type of art that aims to revolutionize human experience. It uses the balance of vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams . This type of art is often described as strange, beautiful, unexpected and uncanny. Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery. Arguably, his most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory (1931), depicting limp melting watches. An example of his work: This image sends the viewer into a dreamlike and strange universe. This artwork opposes surrealism to reality and questions the ineluctability of time. The melting clocks are the symbol for he lack of meaning and fluidity of time in the dream world. Dali used the techniques of hand-painted dream photographs. He applied the methods of surrealism, looking deep into the non-rational mechanics of his mind- dreams, imagination and the subconscious to generate the unreal for...