This is quite a personal post, because I'm unsure whether this is a national theme, a district theme, or a world-wide theme. But it's my exam project for Photography this year, as well as all the art subjects, and I'm completely stuck on it. Not one clue as to what to do. So if this helps just one person, I know the purpose of this blog is working.
Discord - Ideas and Photographers
Friction / Difference / Opposing Sides / Groups / Ethnicity / War / Terrorism / Surveillance / Censorship ...
Erica Baum, Robert Capa, Don McCullum, Thomas Hirschhorn, Banksy, Sea Synder, Peter Kennard, Guy Tillim, Sarah Pickering, Geert van Kesteren, Simon Norfolk
Anger / Family / Relationships / Disharmony / Internal Conflicts / Mind-Body / Exclusion ...
Tracy Emin, Jo Spence, Nan Golding, Richard Billingham, Larry Clarke, Jim Goldberg, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank
Nightmares / Dreams / Memories / Fact-Fiction / A;ternate Personalities / Parallel Universes ...
Gregory Crewdson, Duane Michals, Olafur Eliasson, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sphy Rickett, Paul Pfeiffer, Tacita Dean, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Sueng Woo Back, Philip Lorca diCorcia
Opposites / Dark-Light / Good-Evil / Life-Death / Past-Present ...
Douglas Gordon, John Stezaker, Idris Khan, Garry Fabian Miller, Muireann Brady, Willie Doherty, Ralph Gibson
Other Ideas:
Conflict / Yin-Yang / Hostility / Warfare / Destruction / Decay / Resurrection / Restoration / Protection / Defence / Religious Controversy / Corrosion / Dereliction / Worn Paint / Dispute / Erosion / Pollution / Tension / Friction / Graffeti / Rusty Armour / Ruins / Wrecks / Scrapyards / Refue / Disused Farm Equipment / Derelict Factories-Buildings / Quarries / Buliding Sites / Docklands / Roadworks / Divergence / Barriers / Fissures / Splits / Fractures / Wrestling / Fighting / Arguing / Clashing / Noise / Disharmony / Dissonance / Contrasting Colours / Black-White / Rough-Smooth / Transparent-Opaque / Fatique / Degrading / Strength-Weakness / Clutter-Mess-Junk / Abandoned / Empty-Busy / Arguments / Out Of Place / Appearance / Tattoos / Piercings / Fashion / Beauty-Ugly / Fashioable-Unfashonable / Young-Old / Disfigurement / Normal-Unnormal / Before-After / Protests / Politics / Posters / Messages / TV Images / Composition / Unbalanced / Rips / Tears / Contrast / Mistakes
Other Artists/Photographers:
Josef Beuys, Kurt Schwitters , Paul Nash , Peter Howson, Escher, Howard Hodgkin, Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Frank Auerbach, Giovanni Piranesi, Emily Carr, David Prentice, Beverly Pepper, Graham Sutherland, Edward Burtynsky, Ford Madox Brown, Elainede Kooning, Steve Slimm, Julian Beesley, Susan Rothenberg, William de Kooning, Gillian Ayers, Barbara Rae, Gilbert and George, Vanessa Bell, Peter Blake, Marg Cassat, Velásquez, Cecilia Beaux, Augustas John, Helen Turner, Stanley Spencer, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, Henri Rousseau, George Stubbs, Ana Mendieta, Annetter Messager, Devrouax and Purnell, Enric Miralles, Leonardo Da Vinci, Luigi Colani, Jane Jacobs, Oscar Newman, Paco Rabanne, Alexander McQueen, Dai Rees, Aiveen Daly, Eileen Grey, Bruce Nauman, Immo Klink, Daniele Buetti, Marlene Dumas, Kilian Breier, Aaron Siskind, Mark Wallinger, MArc Augé, Julian Opie, Alan Fletcher, Emily Mary Osborn, Grace Hartigan, Joan Miro, Florine Stettheimer, Marcel Duchamp, Rist Pipilotti
Other:
'Unpleasantness or quarrelling between people'
'A lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, ideas or things)'
'Active quarrelling or conflict resulting from discord among persons or fractions'
'A combination of musical sounds that strikes the ear harshly'
'A harsh or unpleasant sound'
Reference Material:
www.tate.org.uk
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
www.iniva.org
www.artsmia.org
www.walkerart.org
www.getty.edu
www.moma.org
www.metmuseum.org
www.sfmoma.org
www.cnac-gp.fr
www.guggenheim.org
www.vam.ac.uk
www.craftscouncil.org.uk
www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk
www.nmpft.org.uk
www.photonet.org.uk
www.bfi.org.uk
www.icograda.org
www.theaoi.com
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7 comments:
im doing the exact same project theme for my exam for a2 photography
im struggling on what to actually focus on
Yeah, same here. Try looking at other media, like TV shows, music videos, movies etc. I found my in an All American Rejects video.
I'm really struggling with this project. I've decided on a photographer to look at and work from, his name is John Stezaker. This is a link to a google image search of his work incase you haven't heard of him .....
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLG_enGB310GB273&q=john+stezaker&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=4cGuSYXLJ4zFjAfk452lBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
As you can see he has taken two photographs of two different people and put them together. I want to take the idea of using two different images and putting them together as he has. But i don't know what to photograph that will be easy to do and stick within the discord theme?
Any ideas?
Thank you :)
ryan, who left a comment above showed me this site.
Thanks it has helped alot!
i was stuck looking for a photographer that inspired me, but you have given a huge list for me to work my way through :)
Anonymous: John Stezaker's work is awesome, and should be really interesting to 'recreate' so to speak. For the case of discord, I don't think you have to really worry too much, as the discord could by counted as the ripping of the two photographs/putting them together. Try out an ideas film, I always find them helpful, as you can go a little nuts and just take random photos to get the ideas flowing. Try working from Stezaker's work drectly, by using people, and then add in some of your own elements, like combining people with nature, or animals. And try talking to your tutor, as they may be able to point you in the right direction, and give you further ideas to base your work around. Hopefully that's helped even a tiny bit, let me know if you need more, we can puzzle it out together.
Claudia: I'm glad I could help! Hopefully they inspire you into a great project (mine has somewhat stalled, unfortunetly).
awesome, i hope this helps me, thanks! this topic is pants. lol. well ok, it's a really meaty topic but it's just a bitch to choose one thing.
i'm doing the argument of having animals in the circus... i think i've complicated things for myself and it's too late to go back! finding it really hard to do my critical studies...
Ellie
Ellie: I completely understand where you're coming from. It's a great topic, area wise, because you really can do anything, but it's so hard to narrow it down. I prefer topics that are narrower, but you can expand on. I'm doing secrets, and people revealing them, but the critical part of it is so difficult.
Good luck with your exams guys!
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