Our first task responding to the work of Thomas Kellner in 'Break the Structure' we had to photograph a building/structure, taken from different angles and viewpoints, creating a distorting sense of reality. We first had to sketch out our composition onto a blank contact sheet grid, this helped us form the blueprint for our creations. When photographing, we needed to consider how the montages should encourage the viewer to look at the structures in a new way, making us question our thoughts on how we visually process them and develop a new sense of place.
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Lee Friedlander began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. With an ability to organize a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, Friedlander has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life, dense natural landscape, and countless other subjects. Friedlander is also recognized for a group of self-portraits he began in the 1960s, reproduced in Self Portrait, an exploration that he turned to again in the late 1990s, and published in a monograph by Fraenkel Gallery in 2000.
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1963 |
New York City, 1963Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.
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