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Worksheet In The Style Of Photography

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In this project ‘In the style of’ I began to research a variety of photographers based from 1850’s onwards, I wanted to mainly focus my project on an earlier genre of photography to present different techniques and styles of photography at this time. For this body of work I researched photographers from the early 1930’s as I was interested in the edgy and contextual background of the work and photographer produced throughout this era. For this project I wanted to look at something different that is taken away from typical photography that I focus on now, and to set my work like the year I have focused on. I was inspired by photographer from the 1930’s, Berenice Abbott, I was intrigued by her images as she based her work on different genres …show more content…

I also wanted create a theme throughout that documents my work that was inspired by Berenice Abbott. Throughout my sketches of the architecture I put them in order and try to present the theme that I wanted to be created throughout, which was to give a sense of a journey and something that tells a story through a simple image of architecture. I found images that documented New York that I could emulate into a similar style throughout such as bridges and tall skyscraper buildings, that were there to compare the before and after of the New York modernisation. To get an idea of how I wanted my images to look I started to take test shots of images that imitate Abbott’s work, I then developed the photographs with Photoshop to create a similar style of Abbott’s documentation of New York. I found that these images were very similar to her work and carried on with the same style when producing my final pieces of …show more content…

I set each location of my images somewhere different to separate the style of the series but also having a similar theme. I developed each of the image with black and white layers to link my work to the edgy and urban style of the 1930’s, like Abbott’s New York series. I also found that looking at her work when developing my photographs helped inform me and helped me to produce images for my project. When producing this series of photographs for my project I also developed my insight on the history and context behind the 1930’s, I found that looking at the background information on this specific time helped me understand and how to produce certain pieces. I also found that her the photographs and work that were produced throughout this era were for a reason, and this made me develop my photographs and understand Abbott’s idea and why she did her documentation of New York, and her other style of photography. I took in to consideration why she produced this certain style of work, and found that I could develop similar images to more important areas around me as she took images of well-known areas that were telling a story and taking the audience of a

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