*Coded Dreams
*Concealed wishes
*Unconscious Meaning
JERRY UELSMANN
Pioneer of Surreal Photography in the 50's...
Assembled composites using multiple negatives years before digital tools like photoshop existed
http://www.bermangraphics.com/press/jerry-uelsmann.htm
To me successful surreal photography is provoking curiosity in the viewer, by moulding real scenarios in a serial way to induce the question, is this real or not??
Playing between the realms of fact and fiction.
http://www.bermangraphics.com/press/jerry-uelsmann.htm
To me successful surreal photography is provoking curiosity in the viewer, by moulding real scenarios in a serial way to induce the question, is this real or not??
Playing between the realms of fact and fiction.
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I plan on experimenting with the following techniques to develop my composites;
Distortion..
Long exposures..
and scale..
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LOOKING FURTHER INTO PRACTITIONERS WHO HAVE UNDERTAKEN SIMILAR PROCESSES TO ACHIEVE SURREAL OUTCOMES........
JOHN GOTO
New World Circus series...
This clever series is Goto's response to the current situation in Iraq, the title is a play on words mimicking the 'New World Order'
Goto say's about this work...
‘There is an air of pathos about small traveling circuses. They’re mostly made up from members of one or maybe two families. I wanted to draw an analogy between the family, the nation state and international affairs. There are parallels – in each alliances, discords, clashes, wars, treaties and reconfigurations occur. And in each unconscious, and often murderous, states of mind come powerfully into play.’
-John Goto
High Summer....
This series which questions old and new does so with irony and unabashed digital techniques. I think because of the intellectual concept behind the images Goto manages to escape technical criticism with regard to shadow and light.
However whilst engaging in my own work I hope to make my images look more realistic.
Goto immediately saw photoshops potential back at the start of the 90's, to use the tool not just for cutting and pasting, but to pass comment on social issues, in the way propaganda sketches had done before.
Albuferian sketches. Some of his earlier work from 1985.....
Commissioned by the Conselleria De Cultura, Valencia 1985
As a foreigner working in the Albufera I was aware that my attitude to landscape was influenced by the culture and history of English landscape and that this background inevitably coloured my observations of the Albufera. But I also felt that I could not be reduced to silence by questions of cultural difference and chose instead to acknowledge these differences in the work.
If one took a scientific perspective on the politics, economy and ecology of the region, it appeared a chaotic tangle of conflicting and seemingly exclusive interests. Although sensing these problems, strictly scientific analysis is not my discipline. What role then could art play in a debate on the region's future? I felt that it might bring elements of imaginative and moral culture to bear on the situation. My aim was to observe and transform.
The region is one of mixed systems. Through a combination of painting and photography and the employment of many of the materials found in the Albufera - glass, paper, chemicals, burnt wood, earth pigments and oil - I developed my own parallel mixed system. With only a few days on location I used a notational method of recording, and later in the studio attempted an imaginative transformation of this material through drawing, collage and painting.
Oxford '85
-John Goto
The way Goto describes his ideas behind his concepts are just fascinating, I love this guys mind!
