Unit 30: Location Photography

Street Photography is capturing images of life on the streets, it’s candid so unlike photos taken in a studio the photos are more unplanned, however that means that it’s essential to have good observational skills.Street photography is about observing things happening around you and documenting it through photographs. It’s a very wide genre and can include landscapes and portraiture and still life photography. However the main focus is that street photography must not be set up or staged and is an accurate record of what’s happening.

Eric Kim

Eric Kim is a photographer from San Fransisco born on January 31st 1988. He’s an international street photographer based in Los Angeles. He teaches others the beauty of street photography through his blogs and workshops and helps people to find their own style. He has collaborated with big names such as Magnum, Leica and Invisible Photographer Asia, now he currently teaches a university level street photography course. Kim said that it took him a year or two of experimenting with different types of photography before he found his passion for street. He was first interested by landscape photography, flowers and portraiture but something drew him to street photography, he thinks it was because he is fascinated by people and faces. Photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz and Robert Doisneau inspired his work.

What I particularly like about his work is that instead of taking really subtle

 

 

Unit 10: Graphics Materials, Techniques and Processes

Activity 1: Album Artwork

 

Cover artwork on albums helps sends the message about the artist and the contents of the album. The artwork can either make or break the album itself so it is very important that the artwork sends the correct message. As well as this, the choice of wording on the album cover is important and the way that its displayed. My favourite album covers are ones that are slightly abstract but I also like quite simple ones with just an image of the artist because I think that can be quite effective too and makes it easier to recognise the artist.

 

Storm Thorgerson

Storm Thorgerson (born 28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was a British graphic designer and music video director. He is best known for creating the artwork for album covers for rock artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Biffy Clyro, ACDC and Muse. He studied film and television at the Royal College of Art where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree. Along with Aubrey Powell, in 1968 he founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis and between them they designed numerous famous single and album covers. Thorgerson had a limited edition book and box set titled ‘Taken by Storm: The Album of Art’ priced at £500 a copy. Thorgerson and Powell also made some of their original artwork available to art collectors for the first time, selling a selection of best pieces through Heritage Auctions Galleries. He was a teenage friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, where he would later go on the design Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ cover.

Thorgerson’s style is very abstract and surreal, a common theme within some of his covers are capturing a landscapes and having enlarging the object in it. His most successful album cover is probably the ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ by Pink Floyd as it’s an iconic and easily recognisable album. He includes bright and vibrant colours in his work which makes it stand out and this is something that I would incorporate within my own work because I want to create a bright and bold album cover. One of my personal favourite album covers of his is the bottom right AC/DC ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’, this is because I like how theres a group of random people with their eyes covered for no apparent reason, I think it looks really effective. Also, in the Muse ‘Black Holes & Revelations’  cover, I like how there is a group of men in the middle of no where casually sat at a table minding their own business as if there’s nothing wrong and are oblivious to the fact that they are on another planet. For my album cover I think that I will definitely include rather the artist or a group of people because I think that album covers are more eye catching when there are people in it and theres many things to look at such as their clothes, expressions etc.

 

 

 

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