Seeing Is Stealing

I was snooping around Alex's blog today and discovered this delightful link which I shall also now share.

SEEING IS STEALING

Basically, it's a blog full of fascinating photographers.

I'll write more on this when I find something relevant to my work/ check out the blogs that guy follows/ have a chance to check out the archives properly.

Typologies

After completely failing to find the book Rachel mentioned to me in class and/or recall the name of the typology photographer I researched last year, I decided to do some internet snooping which to my surprise led me to to a bevvy of information.

I found a whole heaps of artists who create typologies...
Stephen Shore
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Jeff Brouws
Amanda Keller-Konya
Francis Poole
Rafal Bigda

And a few blogs like this one discussing typologies...

Ground Glass

This particular blog references an amazing Typology project also referenced in Rachel's blog called Exactitudes.

Finally I also found an artist on Flickr who's work has given me a rather large spark of inspiration.
Jessica Greaves is a french photo student interested mostly in nature photography.
I am mostly interested in her typologies as well as her photo processing and the way she uses heavy vignetting and colour distortion to give her images a vintage feel.

These are my favourite sets:
Train Ticket Typology
Coastal Expressionism

Along with these images:
Set
Single Image

Angela Strassheim

This isn't related directly to my project, but I stumbled upon a great photo blog today and thought this post was really cool.




This is from a series called "Evidence" by Angela Strassheim. For this project Strassheim researched the locations of violent and horrific crimes, then approached the new land owners and tenants asking if she could uncover the history of their residence.
She used a substance called the "Blue Star" solution to activate the physical memory of blood through its contact with remaining proteins on the walls. Her long exposure photographs reveal the blood as "a lurid glow".

Margi Geerlinks (Netherlands)

Rachel kindly sent me links to 3 artists relating to my ideas. This one caught my attention in particular...

Margi's work deals with human image and idealism. Her images depict construction and reconstruction of the body in order to achieve ideal beauty.
In the below image "Gepetto" a man is constructing a 'perfect' woman, just as makeup artists, photographers and photo manipulators engineer perfect women for media images.


Her image "Mirror" relates directly to my mini project, as she has used photoshop to create an image of an old woman restoring her youth with a makeup pad.
This image made me think of how I could present the original photo of myself next to the heavily altered image, or even merge the two so that the ideal and the real is split right down the middle.

There is a sadness to all of her images as all her subjects hold a certain shallowness and disregard for inherent human beauty. Their achievements are unnatural, unnecessary, and seemingly only to impress other people.

Photoshop Disasters

This is what happens when you take photo manipulation too far.

Photoshop Disasters is a site updated regularly with all the worst adverts and magazine covers, where the quest for ideal beauty has resulted in deformed freakazoids.


Behold... Armpit boob girl! Now with 80% less ass.


The original model must have been pretty damn ugly for them to think that this looks better.




You get the gist...