Jasper James

Jasper James

Jasper is an editorial photographer who has worked with many companies, for example, major companies. He has produced a wide range of portraits and editorial works. The work I have selected to annotate are from his series from, “ ‘Skyscapes” (James, 2019). The series captures people showing the inner emotion which them being hidden by the use of double exposure.

What is denoted? & What is Connoted?

 The Image denotes the subject being slightly invisible with the city being able to show in full charterer while with the outside of the subject being covered with sky making the area slightly blue. When looking at the connoted sections of the image it shows emptying and loneliness. The imaging power from here shows that we are small compared to the big wide world. These two images are showing the same theme as the top image of isolation. These two images have got more blue for the background than the first image has got more of the city the middle one has got some of the city is displayed and the bottom one is showing a tiny bit of the blue.

How are you affected as a viewer?

 When looking at the images I feel isolated with the way it has been captured with the removal of all things significant. The image communicates people not being known this emotion is big when looking at the outcome that has been produced with the message of you are small in the world. The emotion coming across from the image is that the subject is looking isolated because it looks isolated is showing that they have been disconnected from life and that they are all by themselves. The main subject is showing the background clearer to show that he is looking to give up on their life and cannot go on, I think this showing the emotion of emptiness, as he is empty inside. Contrasting the rest of the background has got sky on the image because it shows that the rest of the world is cloudy and that they do not look like that they are accepting him. The use of the shades of blue has been done because of the sky background and showing the clarity of how lost he could be. The body is darker because it showing that he is not being shown to have clarity or be accepted into life. The background has got negative space to show that he is disconnected from life and has to be in the city.

What makes this work significant to you? 

This body of work is significant to me because it highlights the problem of being alone the image captures isolation the feeling of being hidden from society. This is similar to what I am planning on doing how I am relating it to the use of mobile phones. The use of placing the subject in the centre challenges the viewer as it is harder to follow the image like this. All the pictures are trying to influence in order to show that people are a disconnect from the world and they need to respect everyone and not push them out. He uses this to create contemporary portraiture, as his work is modern and different and his work does not always have to be all so simple. The use of this in contemporary portraiture makes people think about his work and why the message is behind this and what has been contained.

Strengths & Weaknesses

My work is going to be street photography of someone at the edge of life who is about to become to the edge of society and this works with them being hidden from the world in the way that they are positioned. The Weakness in relating to my work is that I am planning on replicating it in Photoshop with it not having the double exposure.

Who is the intended audience? & What context have I seen the work in? 

The Intended audience for this are his clients and the publishers with it are shown across the internet. The Context I have seen this work has been online and recreating this in college but linking it to Brexit.

The Poses

The main subject image was taken in the studio and the background taken from a bird’s eye view. The location is showing that the powerful background looks like it is going to remove him from life. The poses are showing that they are looking over the city and that they are disconnected from to take the main subjects this would have been done in the studio. The background is a crane shot as it is wide built up and the clouds are just a blue overlay.

My Take On Jasper James In College, Day Democracy Died 

Please note

Please do not take offence if you do not support Brexit. The attempt was to make it politically neutral and that both views are being ignored.

 Now when writing this Image 1 is going to be showing a silhouette and cityscape of Folkestone. I did this when the government lost the high court battle about Brexit. I wanted this to be universal for people different from politics. My shots have got somewhat of a political message to this work because I am showing that Brexit is a good thing. After making this and realising this I remembered that I should not make my work to political. However, this has got some connection to peters to work as it brings.

These have formed an Idea For influential art for Visual Research taken for Level 2 Art and Design For College.

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell is a Scottish / British who was born in Glasgow and her work features her family and other inequality here in the UK.  Margaret Mitchell two main projects is Family (1994) and her later project in the place (2017).  Her work shows the problem with poverty in the UK and how families need to stick together to get through, her work shows that the government needs to do more work in order to stop people living in run-down areas in the UK. In the place, the book was a scary challenge as she wanted to revisit it but she was unsure what the challenges for her family would be after the death of her sister 2008. She knew her sister children faced challenges with them being emotionally, economically and personally. She felt after her sister’s death the bond breaking and she hoped that doing this project would let her back in their lives and make the family bond strong.

'In This Place' traces the lives of my late sister’s family and offers a broader commentary on the environment, opportunity and social inequality. 

Chick from the series Family, 1994 © Margaret Mitchell
Steven from the series Family, 1994 © Margaret Mitchell

Margret believes that family lives are in a certain controlled location and in the book ‘‘family’’ She used mothers, sisters with a lived with certain style background from objects from children’s daily stories. She was also inspired as she fed, clothed, washed and give support to let children live in their own world. These shots she has shown are part of the children’s understanding and shows the power of what they live like. The two books showing the following children lives show a different the story than we are used to listening to. The series of the family follow her sisters’ children Steven, Kellie and Chick, who she has close connections with. She wanted to document the lives from the involvement and experiences from the children as life had been contained, linked and inter-dependent.

Leah, Chick’s daughter, in the Backcourt 2016. At age ten, Leah had lived in over ten different places. With grandparents, another family, homeless accommodation
Steven close by both his and his youngest sister’s flats 2017. Steven is the eldest of the original three siblings. He took me for a walk, said he knew a nice place, just up the road. We walked then stopped in an area of open land. I realised quite suddenly this was where his mum - my sister - had lived before she died in 2008. Steven had lived there with his mum. ‘Nothing left here’ he said; we took a few photos and walked on

Margret lived in Raploch, Stirling, Scotland, which is one of the highest places in Scotland and is high on the Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) and the reputation is not normally seen in through the nicest ways. Margaret saw the location as not being important as it was about children and childhood.

Leah, Chick’s daughter 2017. Chick mourns her losses, a mother for herself and the grandmother Leah can’t really remember. “We would all be together all the time if Mum was still here, me and Leah and Kellie and the kids.”Liam, Kellie’s son 2017. “I’m going to get a really good job, I will be very successful at my job and I’ll have a girlfriend and a few kids and I’ll take care of them and we’ll have a good life.

The latest book highlights some cultural problems with most people and is what choices do we have in life where some of the predetermined or has been made for us. The book uses the workplaces to show some of the mental and physical problems we put ourselves in. this could be with drugs, politics or it could family issues she uses this book to explore her great-nieces and nephews to see how they have used their choices. As this book focuses on what her nieces and nephews would have gone through with the loss of her sister. From looking at it from my angle I understand how hard at times people can take it this shows some of the emotional aspects from a viewer with the loss of family members.

 Kellie from the series Family
Kyla, Kellie’s daughter 2017. Kellie’s girls tell of how they get ‘slagged off’ at school for living in a flat. In this town, most people live in houses with a front and back door and a garden.

The problem with this area of town is the area poor and almost slum-like condition. The images show a personal message of her family with the loss of loved ones, new love and survival in a socioeconomic context. This will be the death of her sister but everyone can relate from having a perfect life and then some you are close to dying and your life can get of control. Even with the death of her sister and loss of parents and no good opportunities of earning a decent living, the family is almost like glue as they have not really moved from the town and they are in the same area similar lets and but they keep the independence going since they were children. Most families will go through loss and will stick together this what I am so fascinated that she can come back 20 years later to the same place and they have not moved.

Leah in front of her flats 2016. “Hopefully, I will stay here forever, in this area, this place”
All three siblings and their children still live in flats yet to be touched by regeneration.
A circular bus runs through the town, from one area of economic deprivation to another. Within this social landscape, all that has changed for the children from 1994 is moved from one area scoring high in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation to another. This is a simple bus ride across town.

Some people believe that life just stays the same nothing happens when living the conical housing estates in central Scotland. As the world changes the families shown the series ‘In the Place’ stay in the same place. In the landscape and the movement has occurred to another area that is still too high with deprivation, which is a bus ride across the town. Some towns will always have a close effect and people at times will not want to leave their own they have grown up.

Add caption Chick and her daughter, Leah 2016. Chick always wanted a little girl. After she got pregnant at 16 and had Leah she knew she didn’t want, or need, any more children. She had her daughter.  Chick and Leah got a necklace out of Argos. One half says ‘I Love You’; the other half says ‘To The Moon and Back’. They separated the necklace and each wear half.Kyle, Steven’s son 2016. Kyle was born at 28 weeks, weighing less than 2 pounds a born fighter, always.

Problem with politics and not helping the situation

In areas like Raploch, Stirling these are small towns and cities and have been ignored in favour of big towns and cites was there are more people and more interest. Over the 20 years gap, there was not really any positive development. The city might be huge but as with London, they neglect the small people, as they know it will not have an effect on this. Most people in this area rely on benefits at times, this has been ignored in the area by the main parties and in the UK parliament is currently controlled by the Conservative government: in the 1st election since the area was formed was in 1983 with Michael Bruce Forsyth, Conservative – he was the MP when ‘family (1994)’ was created, while in 1997 Dame Anne McGuire, Labour became MP, then afterwards it became in 2015 Steven Paterson SNP, he was in power when ‘in this place’ was done finally, in 2017 Stephen Kerr of Conservative is the MP. In the 2019 General Election, it went back to the SNP While with the Holyrood since the creation in 1999 of the consistency of Stirling it has been held by Labour of the SNP only. 1999 & 2003 was Sylvia Jackson for the Labour Party, after 2007 it changed to the SNP: 2007, 2011 and 2016 are Bruce Crawford for the Scottish National Party. The voting patterns reflect the problems of wealth and poverty and this is why the Conservatives have not held it in Holyrood. 

(Wiki, 2019) (WIki, 2019)

From the series Family (1994) 

The message from the captions

The messages from the captions are done to describe what the shot is about in the place. The captions shown provide relevant information to the viewer at home to understand what the images are going to be about. The captions show some of the feelings of what her nieces and nephew children are going through and give the context to the viewer. It is important to understand that in Family (1994) the are no captions explaining about the models in some cases just there names

Leah 2016  Chick’s advice to Leah: ‘After school, get a job, a decent job, have some partying time, a wee place to stay, a wee car, meet the man of your dreams, plenty of money coming in, settle down (if serious), get a place together, everything all nice in the house...then have a family’ Kyla in her auntie Chick’s house 2016. The original three children remain close, in both emotional and physical distance. Their children live in and out of each other’s homes.

Unlike her first series of her family she has changed the mood and the tone of her shots which shows them growing up in candid and sombre shots. Unlike in Family (1994), she has chosen to focus on the outside of the flats because the family was:

 ‘Less about the place, but more about the children and their interior world’

A huge challenge was she had to represent this truthfully in her shots to use of the crucial elements of body language and story line in Documentary and Contemporary Portrait Photography, which makes the viewer understand the connections with the location. Both of the projects include the personal story of her nieces and nephew while in the latest book their children as this show family, love, loss, love and survival and exploring some questions in life and why at times it looks like they are having a train of bad luck. The location runs on a circular bus route from where the lived as a child to where the currently live they both have huge deprivation caused by housing income, health and opportunities.

I want the viewers to maybe ask themselves a question about how society operates, how choice is related to opportunity and environment. To see that lives are complex, as are wants and needs, and that sometimes people choose what they do because actually, not much has been offered in the first place.”

I believe the way that Margaret has shown the models from inside and outside it highlights the problems with areas having a huge deprivation problem. She does make her work look all-political and blame the government for doing nothing to help them out but it shows the social problems. These areas here are the ones who will do loads of protest votes to make them heard as they are ignored.

Chick and her sister Kellie From the series Family (1994).
Andrea, mother of Steven, Kellie and Chick. From the series Family (1994)
Leah From Family (1994)

How does this fit with the Contemporary and Documentary Portrait Photography

Margaret’s work is a perfect example to explore Documentary and Contemporary Portrait Photography, because she has shown, is what Morden day life is going on. Her work shows the negative power of deprivation and what the problems can come from poverty. I like how she documents and tells of a story of her family and the social and finical problems that they suffer from. With her documentary that shows her family getting together, it is interesting that with the 20-year gap that nothing has changed and that her family are together. This series works in this style because they are related and have a good relationship, in the future, I want to something similar in the future. I like that she shows the truth and she does not lie in her work she is a silent campaigner for the better shots. In the future, I will use her style to build a document series based on peoples home lives.

The series Family 1994

References Rewritten in my own words

(Mitchell, 2017). (Mitchell, 2017), (Family, 1994), (Fulleylove, 2017)

Bibliography

Family, M. M. -., 1994. Family. [Online]
Available at: http://margaretmitchell.co.uk/projects/family/
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Fulleylove, R., 2017. Margaret Mitchell re-shoots her family over 20 years since she last photographed them. [Online]
Available at: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/margaret-mitchell-family-in-this-place-photography-110717
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Mitchell, M., 2017. AWARDS: In This Place. [Online]
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Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Portrait

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Portrait

Saint Vincent Ferrer

(Cossa, 1473-1475) Saint Vincent Ferrer

What is denoted?

The painting shows a saint giving a seroon to a church with him holding a bible in hand so it can stand out and for this to come together.

What is Connoted?

The connotes is the preist giving a sermon with the red table being shown to give him more power to the conngeration. The information coming from there is power to highlight that he is in control.

How are you affected as a viewer?

When looking at the painting I see the preist first holding the bible. I feel intrested in what he might have had to say the painting is bright so it will mean that it is not negtive painting.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

The lighting with the blue make the painting stand out with the painting having a lot of detail in use but this works as it adds more attenetion to the working that goes on in there. I think that I am going to use the way it is format to be bright to work with it to make sure that it can stand out and work togther.

Strengths and Weakness

The Strengths is that it is busy with information going and this works at times to make people come back to the priest in the foreground. The weakness of this painting is that it hard to understand what the preist is about and this might be done for his attention.

Who is the intended audience?

Some of his works were done for roylaty which meant it was for the dukes and kings to see these but this has changed with it being owned by the TNG so everyone can see it.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

The artist has proudced a wide range of works about religon and preists and they all are done to go with his era and religon being big where he was from.

A Young Astronomer

 (Ferrer, 1685) A Young Astronomer

What Is denoted?

The image donates the young boy holding a globe. The painting also highlights the map on the table which located next to the ink to show the what the work is shown around them.

What is Connoted?

The image of the young boy reading the globe to show him charting the course. With him reading the map and the globe it is connoted that he is looking a consolation to make it easier for him to go to certain places in the future. The books shown next to him highlight that it is going to be an important night with the way it is shown on the painting with the globe and the map coming together.

How am I affected as a viewer?

On first imposition on the looking at it highlights a young man looking at the globe planning on going somewhere. The image struck me as interesting as the boy is young and it is normally an older person planning a major trip due to the time of the year when he is done due to the way it done. The work makes me happy for him as he is going to find the correct constellations.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

The work is significant to me as it shows what it like to do a set up and show the members working and understanding to what this work is all about. I am going to use the simplicity to build my project to turn them into master pieces.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

I am planning on taking forward the simplicity of the work with it not being overpowering but showing the subject in the correct location to get the images to all come together and work as a family.

Who is the intended audience?

The indented audience is for people interested in the style of highlighting what people do to. Work and also to show what they are about the painting is simple so it has making impact on the viewer in the gallery.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this on the computer screen but it would look different seeing it in person because it is shown to be bigger and you can understand it in the full tense in order for this to stand out to the user.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

It is not part of a bigger series. The artist has produced other work about people working and what jobs they do. They all show the same theme of them working.

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Still Life

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations): Still Life

Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects

Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects (Ast, 1630)

What is denoted?

In the painting, I can see a verity of flowers that are placed in the vase with colours with the shells shown next to the vase.

What is Connoted?

The connotations are of positively with the flowers to highlight life and light with the insects showing what the life cycle that it is going on. The black highlights death with the way it is dark and it is hard for people to understand what is going on in the area.

What are your interpretations of the image?

The interpretation of this image shows his problems with health with the darkness but with the rest showing that life must go on. The images communicate darkness with things of insect and the blackness and the flowers show how people get on with life after everything might have gone wrong.

How are you affected as a viewer?

The 1st thing that the viewer sees 1st is the flowers of brightness and happiness while the insects show with dread with it connoting that he feels small inside. After reading about the artist it makes me feel sad as it highlights the health struggle that he went through in his life.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

The work is important to my project as it highlights issues with mental health and this forms the project by showing what you want to show people of being happy. With the negative space being shown about depression and suicide. The colour works and stands out on this style.

Strengths & Weaknesses

The strengths of this painting are that the viewer can see light and dark and makes it easier for them to understand what is going with the user and highlight and death. I think that it could do with more denoted signs about his struggle to make it easier for the reader to understand.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

My work will be done with using the theme of light and dark to highlight depression being hidden from everyone in order for them to think that it is correct for them to fit in and socialise with everyone and who try to fit in.

Who is the intended audience?

The indented audience is everyday people as he spends time with normal people understanding what is going on in life. He painted some of these during ill health and he wanted to make his work connect with the working class in France. (Wiki, 2019) The audience now has changed with it being people seeing it in galleries.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

He is doing similar paintings with flowers as this was his area he has also produced work relating to food as well for romance purposes I believe.

Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell

 Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell (Bonvin, 1876)

What is denoted?

The painting denotes a close up of a worker’s desk where they are working with glasses and books.

What is Connoted?

The connotations from this image show that this was painted in a study showing someone doing work on what life is an all about to make sure that it all stands out to the average viewer. The book style has been painted in a way that shows that the guy is going to be a catholic scholar with the bible shown in there with the ink showing what he is studying and to make notes for a sermon.

How are you affected as a viewer?

The 1st thing that sees it the book and as I study the painting it makes you wonder with the glasses placed to show the religion. It makes me happy as it is being shown for the correct reasons to understand what the painting is all about.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

What is important to me is looking at the bible and the glasses and making the connotations that he is a religious scholar the use of negative space makes me think that he is looking at the bible somewhere quiet to connect with God. This work signifies religion in this period where it was important to loads of people compared today.

Strengths and Weakness

I think the strengths is having everything in the middle of the painting to show concentration and it also highlights what needs to be done when it comes to his work. I think a weakness is that on the screen that the painting comes up dark and that is the only thing that I would change going forward.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

What I might take from this image is where the objects are placed and with working with mental health it could be shown with stuff that people drive themselves to the edge to change the feel and make it a sad and depressing image. My work would follow some of the placings to make it easy on the eye.

Who is the intended audience?

The indented audience will be people looking in the galleries at the painting to understand what it is. I also think it works with people thinking the connotations with it being for people of a religious context for it all to come to understand what a priest has to do.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

The artist has done similar artworks of still life which show off what his style is all about. I like the way he has made sure that it looks all simple with no major negative conations. The work connects the viewer to make sure that it all stands out.

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Landscape

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Landscape

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (Turner, 1844)

What is denoted?

The information denoted from the artwork shows a train going across the bridge in the fog. The images denotes that the train is coming towards the painting at a fast pace.

What is Connoted?

The information connoted is the power of the steam train coming down the emotion shown from this is power because of the speed that the train is coming down. The painting is communicating styles that the train is coming into the station across the river. From Looking at the image. The power of the steam coming up highlights the effect from this.

How are you affected as a viewer?

On looking at the painting the first thing that I see is the viaduct coming down to the train this makes the painting look different because of the way it has been portrayed to the viewer as the drawn down by using leading lines to join up with the trains. I am amused with the way the photo has been presented.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

The work is similar to what I am thinking about producing with taking the leading lines and working with them. The composition of the train has been done to draw but show the area off. The painting works with how I am wanting to shoot by project with something going on. A parameter of emulating this would require me to get a photo of the train coming into the area. Then make the model stand out in the studio.

Strengths & Weakness

The strengths of this work highlight the time that the steam trains came past the area in the times with the steam captured by the style that has been achieved with the style of the white. The weakness is that it is hard to follow what is going on with the train hard to spot in the painting. However I think this is what he wanted. I would probably make the train slightly bigger to make it easier to follow

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

In my work will be different as we do not have any steam trains operating anymore in kent apart from the heritage and this would also be done with a fusion of a landscape portrait to highlight suicide on the railway this will be done to highlight the personal consequences and of other of suicide.

Who is the intended audience?

The intended audience for this work were people at galleries as it was displayed shortly after, this was contemporary for the time that turner was alive. It is similar to others I have seen as photographs on the wall in similar styles. The image has changed the way I have read due to the idea I have formulated to do a piece on mental health awareness and suicide to go with introduction to Creative Photographic Practice with linking it cruel and tender.

What context have you seen the work in? & Is the work part of a bigger series?

I have seen this work on the computer screen which removes the power of the steam and the sky which in the secondary source area due to this. I think if I saw this in the gallery it will be powerful as I could communicate with the painting and see the effects that painting has on me. Turner has done other works in his life and he has done similar images to what he has done.

Art Movement

The work is all landscape painting in the movement of Romanticism which the artist moves freely and is true to themselves

Interior of St Cunerakerk, Rhenen (Bassen, 1638)

Interior of St Cunerakerk, Rhenen

What is denoted?

The images show an inside of the church with people walking inside there.

What is Connoted?

The connotations from this painting is that it is emptiness and that no one is really here the image depicts royalty only caring about the religion. The painting makes it look big and so it can stand out to people in there.

How are you affected as a viewer?

The 1st thing that you see when looking at the painting is that people are looking at the colours which are in the centre. The emotions are emptiness because there are hardly anyone there which is bad on mental health and that they are invisible.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

I think the colours work well as it shows what the church looks like and the use of negative space makes it look like a blank canvas which he wanted in his works. I think I will use the space to make it look empty with the idea of mental health.

Strengths & weaknesses

I think that the strengths from this painting is that it captures what is like being inside the church and captures the mood. The weakness though it does not show more people enjoying what it going on there.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

My work will be done with landscape and portait to make sure that I can show what is going on with peoples health and what needs imporving to make them feel better in the long run.

Who is the intended audience?

I think the audince was meant for people who saw what he had done as an architect and they can see what he paintited before or after to get insipration. This was intended for a gallery.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh. Also reading further into this he was an architect which meant that he could desgin the area and then pain on this.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

The artists have produced more similar paintings of different churches and castles to show the interior and to be shown as interior design.

Statement Of Intenet: Influential Art

Statement Of Intenet: Influential Art

For the project of Influential Art I am going to be taking the Landscape Painting By Turner Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway. I am going to take this and convert it into a portrait image relating to mental health. The end images are going to be done with the inspiration of jasper James, with the subject becoming hidden because of the reliance on the phone. I am going to work on this project with the skills I have been designed in college when I did something similar relating to the High Court decision on Brexit. The images are all going to have models who have got the phones out and make them invisible to show how we have become invisible. For the end version, I am planning on using the logo by CALM because I want to show that people can get help.