Susan Derges-Tadpole Photograms

Derges has created this piece through looking at tadpoles throughout their stages of metamorphus

Susan Derges is a English photographer who specialises in cameraless photographic procedures such as photograms. She takes here pictures at night and uses the moon to her advantage.

Here she has looked at tadpoles though their transformation from tadpole to frog. I find this piece is remarkable because of its contrast between the two photos. There embryo stage of the tadpoles are really organised and looks like an intricate pattern, whereas the tadpoles which have grown legs and developed have created chaos in formation and pattern. 

source for photos:http://artcatalyst.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/shadow-catchers-victoria-albert-museum.html

Adam Fuss- Untitled Photogram (2003)

This piece by Adam Fuss, a British photographer, was one in many photograms of babies. What Adam Fuss did was he put the baby onto a shallow bath with photographic paper, which catches the ripples of the baby moving in the water which create this really amazing effect.

This photogram is unconventional compared to the other traditional photograms. As most photograms are on the colour spectrum of greys, blacks and whites, a lot of Fusses' work is in colour. As seen here, the baby is seen moving through water which gives off the rippling effect. When i look at this piece, i find the ripples expand into circular forms which have a transparent, yet solid, look about it. I find these forms like looking into a microscope and seeing the microscopic cells inside plants, animals etc. It is as if the baby is still inside the mother's womb and is still developing because if one was to look at the baby's hands and feet, the details such as fingers and toes are either not there or distorted and half formed.  Obviously, this is because of the water but i think that maybe this is the effect Fuss was going for. Overall, i really like this photogram.

source of photo: http://www.luxe-immo.com/fiche-oeuvre-en-9701.html

Man Ray-Photogram/Rayograph

This photogram was created by the surrealist artist Man Ray. Man Ray created a lot of these pieces throughout his career as well as paintings. He called his photograms 'Rayographs' because his photograms had a surreal value to them in the sense that a lot of the objects he used to create his pieces were either barely unidentifiable or could be thought of as another object.

I find the photogram i have chosen really interesting. This is because i find the white sticks in the piece are debatable into what they actually are. They remind me of candy sticks which was one of my favourite sweets when i was growing up; i used to pretend they were cigarettes. On the same theme, i could also say that they resemble a stick of filters for roll up cigarettes. There is also a smoking pipe in the background which ties in with my theme of smoking; i can only keep thinking that Man Ray was trying to do a statement about smoking but this theory can be proved wrong when looking at the rest of the objects. There are other objects in this piece which i really cannot think of what they are. The only thing i can guess is that one of the objects (left hand in the center) looks like a mini old fashioned microphone.

source of photo: http://aqua-velvet.com/2010/06/man-ray-photograms/

Photography around College

This is a slide show of photos I took around college. I tried to spot objects that people may not notice and walk past.