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My new unit is on reflecting my world i need to think about how i would reflect my own Area ( i decided that would be peebles) in photographs to attract new businesses and tourism. i first decided to look into other artists who use reflections in there own work. i decided to first look at Esher, as i already new about his use of reflection in his work and thought it would get the ball rolling a bit.  M.C. Esher was a Dutch graphic artists who specialised in lithographs, woodcuts/engravings, drawings and sketches. i started looking into his work that uses reflection.  Hand with reflecting sphere - 1935 Still life with spherical mirror- 1934 Three Spheres 2 - 1946 I decided to try some of these, as photographs, myself. i wanted to see how these turned out and if i could develop them into my unit later. i really liked the idea of having an image that reflected another image inside it. This as a photo dose not work, the composition is wro...

I have been asked to research the characteristics of photography by exploring the works of professional practitioners. I started by looking at the works of Edward Henry Weston. i first decided to look at his biography and some of his work to get an idea of what kind of photographer he was. I found out he was born march 24th, 1886 in Highland Park, Illinois and was considered One of the masters of 20th century photography. From what i read it seemed weston helped take photography out of the victorian age and make it modern. he said he wanted "to make the commonplace unusual" and looking at other photography of that time i can really see how he applied that to his work. To me his work, that i have seen so far, makes the common place beautiful, to stop for a moment and really see something, almost outside the subject itself. I learned that Weston would capture a nearly over exposed photo, and then altered by hand processing the film in a diluted developer solution. Then he wou...

Pop Art Pop art  is an  art  movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States. Among the early artists that shaped the  pop art  movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States.   it is art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.while i was looking into the pop art movement i found an artist called Andy Warhol he was an American Artists who was as leading figure in the movement. his work explored the relationship between artistic expression,  celebrity  culture and advertisement that was flourished by the 1960's. campbell's soup cans - Andy Warhol- 1962 Triple Elvis - Andy warhol - 1963 Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artists in the 1960's along with Andy Warhol he became a leading figure in the pop art movement....