Signs Mood board

This is a mood board I created of humorous and silly signs. I like this idea as it messes around with normal things you would walk past in the street. I am going to be making signs like these myself and putting them in different places.

Hand Made Experimentation

These are some hand made experiments I created in a group. On the first one we cut up a picture of a map and then made a video putting all the pieces back together. On the second video we ripped up a load of different pictures and photographs where we then scattered them on a big sheet of paper and squirted paint all over them to make it creative and messy.

Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller (born in 1964 in Erlangen, Germany) is an artist and fashion photographer.

Teller entered the London photography scene through the music industry taking photographs for record covers, it was Teller’s photograph of Sinéad O’Connor for her single Nothing Compares 2 You that marked an important moment in his career. Teller’s photographs first appeared in fashion magazines in the late 80s, and included portraits of Kate Moss when she was just fifteen years old. Teller’s images could be described as the antithesis of conventional fashion photography seen perhaps most markedly in his campaigns for Marc Jacobs.

This is a photograph for a Marc Jacobs ad campaign spring summer 2008 that Teller created. The image is of victoria beckhams legs hanging out of a Marc Jacobs bag. My first initial reaction was that this image could have a meaning behind it and it could be a sexual meaning by relating his other work around the gallery to this image to. Firstly it is not obvious that the female is victoria beckham, it just appears to be a random ladies legs. This could symbolise that Marc Jacobs products and the things that come out the bag symbolise being able to have access to a ladies body. Another theory could be that it could represent a women giving birth in style from the shoes she is wearing, usually when a woman gives birth the child is seen as a gift from God, so her legs being parted on either side could represent the product being a gift from God as it is coming from inbetween her legs.

The picture looks very clean cut and proffessional, the main colour is white and black and the white background gives it a clean cut look. I think the shoes and the tanned legs are effective as it draws your attention and makes you focus on it. The image looks natural and raw and not much editing has gone into it, this is a good effect as it doesnt take away the realism of the photograph. The shoes in the image look luxury and of an upper class which makes the brand Marc Jacobs seem like an expensive brand.

This photograph is inspiring and Juergen Tellers work is strange and not really my style of photography but his technique of using two cameras is effective and interesting. I like the meaning behind this photograph and the fact that we dont know it is victoria beckham it gets the audience thinking. I especially like the realism of  this picture and the rawness.

Experimentation

This is an experiment I created on photoshop where I cut out the mountain and filled it with a photograph of cars on a main road. My aim was to combine two images together and create a strange but interesting kind of image. I could have improved this experiment by maybe using a more obvious subject and linking the pictures together. My aim was to combine city life and life away from the city. I think it worked well but there is a lot of room for improvement.