MACHINES - An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task.
I chose this topic because photographs of industrial machines interest me and I would like to be able to recreate images that reflect this. I would like to attempt different ways to express the idea of machines by using the photographers I research as reference to my own photographs.
Machines Pinterest board...
Hiroshi Sugimoto...
Hiroshi sugimoto is a Japanese photographer that moved to New York to live in 1974. He has won multiple awards for his work and is still working in a New York based area. He has won many awards for his work and is still working in a New York based area. His series 'conceptual forms' he used parts of machine such as gears and pumps and other industrial tools that show movement. All the photo in the series are in black and white and consist of centrally framed photographs.
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Richard Kagan...
Richard kagan is an American photographer, however a large number of the photos he takes are from Europe. Similarly to Hiroshi sugimoto he uses industrial tools and photographed them in black and white, capturing the delicate details in the tools by using light and shadows to emphasis the shapes of the photographers. The shadows and light make the slim detailed objects stand out significantly in contrast to the plain dark background.
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kevin Twomey...
Kevin Twomey has taken a much different approach to the theme of machines, rather than photographing large industrial machines he has chosen to take images of more delicate and smaller machines. One reason I like the way that he take this photos I because it shows the details of the objects and not just the shapes of them.
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Olivier le queinec...
albert renger-patszch
Albert renger-patszch is a German photographer who takes photographs of different types of machinery. Some of the photographs he takes are close ups which show the detail and simplicity of an otherwise complicated machine. All the images that he took of machinery are in black and white, one reason for this might have been because it means that you aren't distracted by the colours in the photo and you are able to focus on the detail and textures in the image itself. I would like to try and respond to some of this photographers images as I think that they are quite different to the other photographers that I have research, but at the same time still very similar in that the things that he has photographed are showing the same things as the others but at a new angle.
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Bernd & Hilla Becher
Bernd becher and Hilla becher were German photographers that worked together They are best known for series of typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. They take their photographs in black and white film which lets you focus on the objects in them, they are also all central to the frame which draws your attention to the photo straight away.
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Experimentation...
These photographs are my first response to the topic machines. One thing that I think went well Is light and shadows on the metal reflecting on the shiny parts of the machines. However next time when I do my second response I will take more photographs that are slightly less busy, by taking photographs of the machines or tools isolated for others.
experimentation...
How I would like to develop my ideas...
These photographs were taken in colour in multiple locations outside, I used photoshop afterwards to make the photographs black and white. one thing that I think went well was that the photographs all show a type of machine successfully whether they be manual or electric. My next step will be taking more photos like this and also cropping in the images I already have in order to get another perspective.