Visual Analysis of culture

this picture i have taken i would say show a more lower class type of person and atmosphere. for example the people in this phootgraph do not look as though they are particularly rich due to the observation of clothing and posture. their clothing is basic and could be work clothing probabky a more meanial job on less pay as they are all in town around the ‘metro’ a cheap convinience shop on the outskirts of the city centre.the aesthetics of this image create a colour op feel where its needed but makes the people in the image seem dull and almost ghost like. the bus and ‘metro’ sign stand out because that is what i wanted them to do the colours pop and make your eye bounce around the image at all the components of the image. but this is an old image and i need to write more of the new images i have taken that relate to culture and social life in derby.

Looking back on how my childhood was i didn’t have lots of technology and was an outdoors child but children nowadays are leading different lives due to culture in the present day being different for children causing them to have a very different childhood type. ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between).

in the contemporary world children have barely any responsibility and are nurtured bought nice things and typically treated well. whereas back say one hundred years children had to focus on production not consumption and labor not play which shows just how much things have changed culturally and socially and how this has affected children.

children are fascinating and such dreamers i wanted to capture the curiosity of children and how we may lose this as we develop and forget how to image and dream as adults. the first image i took here the curiosity of this little girl was amazing always learning like everything she was seeing was something new, but as her mother pulls her away from fascinating new things she’s looking back wondering what I’m doing. as she stars into the lens i see possibility in her eyes, she could turn into anything and the woman who is pulling her is her mother and the main influence in her life that will guide her and develop her into the adult she inevitably will be soon. i have tried here to take images from a curious and new interesting way in order to see the world like a child again and see that there is always so many new things to learn.

its quite sad that the amount of economical status someone has is what raises their children and gives an education to both child and parent, sadly money is a crucial part of life without it we do not have a quality of life. a child raised in a less economically benefitted atmosphere won’t have the clothing and the pocket money or experiences say a child from a wealthy family may have.

Quad Format 2015: Evidence Project

http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/exhibition/format-international-photography-festival-2015-beyond-evidence

0for 2015 the quad are having their annual Format festival this year’s exhibition is based unto the legendary ‘evidence’ work by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel from 1977.

from 1975-1977, Larry sultan and Mike Mandel selected photographs from a vast amount of images that were considered before they looked at them only in the genre of industrial, scientific, governmental and others. their project “evidence” was one of the first conceptual photographic works of the 1970s to demonstrate that the meaning of a photograph is conditioned by context and more important the sequence it is seen.

to me the images below when shown together suggest that someone has made a mess with rope. either the rope has been holding something up and then has been dropped creating a mess this is a more literal interpretation. but this could also have a deeper mean such as that the rope has been used to destroy someone’s life so maybe someone has hung themselves and that this is ‘evidence’ to a crime scene and that the ‘mess’ on the end represents a traumatic mess of them mental when committing suicide or the mental state of the suicidee’s family after they have died.

the concept behind a photograph can completely change somebody’s opinion of an image.

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Eliott Erwitt’ has also done a sequence of work similar to the ‘Evidence work’ of Larry Sultan and Mike Mendal he said that images shown in a sequence are more interesting he has also said that:

Little story of an umbrella that didn’t want to be closed, by Elliott Erwitt.

i find this set of images interesting as he right, i that if you saw one image just one by itself they would be boring, but showing the story of how they can’t close they’re umbrella at the beach, especially on a windy day, this becomes humorous and interesting, well to me anyway.

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Evidence definition:

NOUN

the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
“the study finds little evidence of overt discrimination”
synonyms: proof, confirmation, verification, substantiation, corroboration, affirmation, authentication, attestation, documentation; More

LAW
information drawn from personal testimony, a document, or a material object, used to establish facts in a legal investigation or admissible as testimony in a law court.
“without evidence, they can’t bring a charge”
synonyms: proof, confirmation, verification, substantiation, corroboration, affirmation, authentication, attestation, documentation; More
signs or indications of something.
plural noun: evidences
“there was no obvious evidence of a break-in”

SYNONYMS: signs, indications, pointers, marks, traces, suggestions, hints; manifestation

“the room showed evidence of a struggle”
verb
verb: evidence; 3rd person present: evidences; past tense: evidenced; past participle: evidenced; gerund or present participle: evidencing
1.
be or show evidence of.
“the quality of the bracelet, as evidenced by the workmanship, is exceptional”
synonyms: indicate, show, reveal, be evidence of, display, exhibit, manifest, denote, evince, signify; More
antonyms: disprove

IDEAS:

• attitude evidence
• how someone is stood
• caption each image i take with an attitude (bitchy, rude, chav, snob)
• go into deep explanation and analysis of characteristics of attitude
• explain stereotypical poses or attire for each attitude

Chris’s words lesson

In this work load we explored the concept of connotation so explaining something without actually using the thing itself.

below are the words to which we were given by chris out lecturer and there are all around it connotations or words which we related to the words we were given.

we were told as a group to take pictures of these words but we could represent the word with its visual match we had to find other ways of representing the idea of for example a sandwich, grass and scissors.

this is my representation of the sea and rain and proportion. you see the rain is very in-proportionate to the sea but the rain when collected makes something bigger puddle, lake and even the sea. idea of this is that the pages in the notebook are the rain and that they overall make up the book and the book as a whole represents the sea.

the wordsblack&white, mother, father, scissors and seperation have been represented in this image. i have cut a photo of my mother and father in half using the scissors (which shouldnt really be in the picture but oh well). the mother and father are ‘seperated’ and this is shown by the cut in the photograph being between them. the black and white represents ethnicity and also how a mother and father can have very black and white roles in the household, bredwinner and housewife.