Saturday, 26 November 2011
photo-journalism tells a storey through pictures. Can these pictures be called...art?
Photo-journalism tells a storey through pictures, that evoke response from the viewer through the use of image. Can these images be called art?. I aim to find the answer to this question through researchiung primarily, into the work of Robert Polidori ,'After the Floods', which is the origional artwork that inspired me from our trip to wallsal.
I ail to research more in-depth into art and photo-journalism through books, the library and the internet, to see if and how photo-journalistic images fit into the catagory of art.
Friday, 14 October 2011
Friday, 7 October 2011
Robert Polindori...my inspiration.
During our art trip to the New Art Gallery Walsall, we were asked to do an assignment, where we had to find a piece of work that appealed to us and write about it in our own individual blogg.
Even though there were many fine and interesting pieces of art work including, The Garman Ryan Collection, I decided to write about Robert Polindori's series, 'After the Floods'.
His work was mounted horrizontally on a white wall, directly opposite the staircase on the first floor, so when I reached the top of the stairs, Robert's pictures were directly infront of me. Primarily the images captured my interest, as I felt as though I was looking at images that were taken of somewhere I should not, or normally would be. It was like I was viewing some sort of habitatual wreckage. It was!
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There were five images in total, each of the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina. Images of lives wrecked, devistated by the unstopable force of nature. Each picture telling it's own story of termoil. Tragic and beautiful at the same time. One image that particularly effected me was of one image of a room, where the furniture had been distroyed, broken and thrown about like tiny children's toys. Robert captured the distruction, but he also caught the wonder of what the family who lived there might be like, as there were still family photographs half hanging on the walls. It was this particular images that caused me to choose Robert as my chosen artist.
To be honest the scenes reminded me of images I had previously seen on ship wreck documenteries, like the Titanic. I was again feeling as though I had a sence of voyeristic unease, yet I could not help but want to look. I wanted to see what these people's homes were like after Katrina had touched them.
Robert Polindori said that each room he went into, seemed to be like a womb. He thought his images were as the work of a psychological voyer, mapping out lives of absent people through their belongings.
Personally I think Robert does provide us with a unique insight to the lives of the people who were affected by the hurricane. It shows a tragicness that has affected so many people. The heart break of what they went through with out the people actually being present in the pictures. I don not know how the images would have changes what Robert had portrayed if the people whose homes he entered whre still there when he took the pictures. How would this have changed things to the viewer?
During his time takes these photographs Robert even had the terrible experience of discovering an abandoned body in one room he went into. This reinforced his struggle with the problem of making beautiful images from human disaster.
Personally I look forward to viewing more of Robert Polindori's work and would like to look to him as a positive inspiration and influence with my own future artistic projects.
Thankyou.
Even though there were many fine and interesting pieces of art work including, The Garman Ryan Collection, I decided to write about Robert Polindori's series, 'After the Floods'.
His work was mounted horrizontally on a white wall, directly opposite the staircase on the first floor, so when I reached the top of the stairs, Robert's pictures were directly infront of me. Primarily the images captured my interest, as I felt as though I was looking at images that were taken of somewhere I should not, or normally would be. It was like I was viewing some sort of habitatual wreckage. It was!
.
There were five images in total, each of the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina. Images of lives wrecked, devistated by the unstopable force of nature. Each picture telling it's own story of termoil. Tragic and beautiful at the same time. One image that particularly effected me was of one image of a room, where the furniture had been distroyed, broken and thrown about like tiny children's toys. Robert captured the distruction, but he also caught the wonder of what the family who lived there might be like, as there were still family photographs half hanging on the walls. It was this particular images that caused me to choose Robert as my chosen artist.
To be honest the scenes reminded me of images I had previously seen on ship wreck documenteries, like the Titanic. I was again feeling as though I had a sence of voyeristic unease, yet I could not help but want to look. I wanted to see what these people's homes were like after Katrina had touched them.
Robert Polindori said that each room he went into, seemed to be like a womb. He thought his images were as the work of a psychological voyer, mapping out lives of absent people through their belongings.
Personally I think Robert does provide us with a unique insight to the lives of the people who were affected by the hurricane. It shows a tragicness that has affected so many people. The heart break of what they went through with out the people actually being present in the pictures. I don not know how the images would have changes what Robert had portrayed if the people whose homes he entered whre still there when he took the pictures. How would this have changed things to the viewer?
During his time takes these photographs Robert even had the terrible experience of discovering an abandoned body in one room he went into. This reinforced his struggle with the problem of making beautiful images from human disaster.
Personally I look forward to viewing more of Robert Polindori's work and would like to look to him as a positive inspiration and influence with my own future artistic projects.
Thankyou.
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