Prof. Heinrich Hoffmann

Christmas Tree Decorations

Nazi Propoganda Booklets

Photographed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 22/10/09

Was looking around the display of books for reasearch on book project when came across these, quite amusing really

Hans Eijkelboom

World Financial Centre 12.00 - 12.00 hours,

Manhattan, New York

May 8, 1996

Image photographed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 22/10/09

For the last 15 years Hans Eijkelboom has been studying three major cities in the world, chosen for their high status at the time. Through his photographs he studies the cultural, and urban life style throughout the cities making comparisons between all. In his images you can see the similarities made between each location.

Paris, New York, Shanghai

A book about the past, present and (possibly) future capital of the world

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Water Towers

1970

Image photographed at the Baltic centre for contemporary art 22/10/09

Series of images by Bernd and Hilla Becher of various water towers across America. They were particularly facinated in structures that had similar designs. All images were photographed with a straight forward, informative type of view; therefore making all images very similar and very 'text book' looking

Framework houses, area

1989

Thinking is dangerous

Through school and whilst doing my A Levels i was always forced to take a fine art kind of approach to everything because thats what my teachers thought i'd get my marks in; and fair enough i did get decent grades. But all that forcing to do artsy kind of stuff put me off and for the past three years almost i've being almost scared in a way of touching a pencil or a paint brush; i have a half finished painting of my mum that i've been looking at for almost three years now in my kitchen.
I always said to myself i'd never stop drawing and painting, but here i am, not a piece of work in years, not even a doodle.
Do you ever get the feeling like your scared to do something that you were once so good at just incase you've lost it and people are dissapointed?
I'm sick of copying and pasting.

Nick Waplington

'Fly on the wall' type of photographer, turns mundane subjects into something you double take at.

Advertising technique

Two adverts that use shock tactics to get the point across to the viewer, harsh but effective:

Sorry, i had to...

Brains perform best when hydrated.

http://www.martinparr.com/

Martin Parr - Playas

Another collection from Martin Parr that i found whilst searching for his Common Sense work. These images are a little less in your face than the common sense series.
The series 'Playas' was made into a book, which was completely designed by a Mexican design company with the final decision on Parr, who chose the design he thought fitted best, which ended up being brightly coloured and over the top (think an over the top drag act). The bad taste of the book design i believe reflects on the images themselves, with once white tourists spread across the South American beaches

Martin Parr - Common Sense

Photographer Martin Parr produced photographs that bring up emotions of discomfort, and lead you to forget about those photographed but about the emotion which they add to the image. Shocking pink nails against an over tanned aging body adds a cringe worthy element to one photograph in the collection along with again barbie pink slippers with crusty nails sticking out of the end. You feel as though you are almost forced to see the unsettling truth that the images show.Away from Martin Parr's 'Common Sense' he always approached his subjects in a more polite way, and his photography was not in anyway nearly as shocking as this one collection. Perhaps this is why it it his most famous collection to date? Common sense. Begun in the mid 1990's

Zines???

Over the past few days i've been trying to do some research on zines on the net, and all i really come up with information on zine libraries that stock them (all of which seem to be in australia stragely), which really doesn't help me because i havent got a clue what to do! I think this kind of does say something about exactly what a zine is, it shows that they are basically chucked together and rushed out and there is no time to do the little complicated things like publish them online; although it is a bit annoying that i can't find anything!

Did some research!

I forgot to mention that it was christian and graham that first showed us alex humphreys work when we first started so thankyou!!!

Yesterday i tried to make a decent start on the reportage work of leeds that i needed to do seperate from the group work that we're currently doing, i started off by having a look on http://www.leodis.net/ for old pictures of leeds, because i grew up in leeds i wanted to find old photographs of the areas that i already know but shown in a different era.

<-----Look i know where that is! Its an absolute dump now though (one of them estates you avoid), i used to live just a few minutes walk away and always used to walk the long way around to the shop just so i wouldn't have to walk through it!

But anyway, the point i was trying to make is that even though you live somewhere and you think you know everything and everywhere there is always another side if you just look for it.


Also after i did a bit of research on leeds i decided to take some pictures of my own, so i started at the doors of college and walked down to the train station, every 100 steps i took a picture of straight ahead and the floor; where i am where i'm going. I thought i'd do that because i didn't have a clue what i was going to take photos of but i knew where i was going, so there you are! I actually got some quite interesting images!

Whilst i'm here i really thought i should comment on the work of one ex vis com student called alex humpreys (i think thats it) that i thought did i great project named 'the husband project'. To put it basically she based her project purely on just trying to find herself a husband, the first entry in her blog shows her initial attempts to capture the eye of a fella along with the help of an interesting dialogue from her housemate; which to my suprise actually got quite a bit of interest!

I think i find this quite interesting because she took quite a different approach to a project and i think that i am often quite similar in the way which i work. Whilst looking through her blog there are various area that i find myself linking my own work to. Can't believe it made the news! Feel quite bad for her though, because even after all the effort she put it by the end of the course she was single and just left on internet dating sites, oh well at least a great project came out of it!

Have a looksies:

http://joyfulcynicseeksimilar.blogspot.com

http://i.abcnew.com/international/story?id=7102603&page=1

Well here we go!

At the moment i just don't have a clue, trying to think of a first post is a hard job, afterall its the first one that people will read when they come to view your blog, and afterall i don't want to look stupid so i best say something smart.... erm... you've got to be joking, me say something smart?

Well here we are anyway, i'll give it my best shot...