FINAL PIECE: lighting

FINAL PIECE: polaroid installation

FINAL PIECE: Idea

For my final piece idea, I have decided to create an installation combining both my ideas from my projection and polaroid experimentations.
This would consist of a four-way mirror box, with the polaroids hanging from the mirror frames using thread.
The images hung on the polaroids will be photographs taken from the past and will be both focussed singular images on different parts of a whole image to create one bigger picture and singular polaroid images. This will contradict the projected image which will show an image of the same photograph taken in present day.
These will show a stark difference between the past and the present, showing both the similarities and the differences between then and now.
The lighting from the projector will also light up the installation, meaning there will be no need for any additional artificial lighting.
The polaroid's will be made of tracing paper as I preferred the ghostly appearance created in my experimentation, however, I will be brightening the polaroid itself for a bigger contrast between the polaroid paper and the photograph itself as I felt the image looked rather faded and it was not noticeable as a polaroid unlike the experimentation that was backed onto paper.
The final piece will be a series of photographs which will be presented in my exhibition.

EXPERIMENTATION: Polaroids (tracing paper)

I then went about doing another polaroid experiment using tracing paper. However, this time I used a different concept, printing only a single image. This I didn't particularly like as I feel it doesn't leave much for the imagination. This lead me back to using the same ideas as the first polaroid experimentation to create an installation of polaroids, similar to the one seen in my original inspiration of One Direction's 'Story Of My Life' video.

I preferred this as it meant that the images appearance would change with every change in the positioning of the viewer. The way I lit the piece up also changed what was seen, making some areas harder to make out and others clearer. I like this as again, like my first experimentation, it is hard to make out what was in the past and what is the present, blurring the boundaries between the two. For my final piece I would like to make a structure similar to this which applies this concept.

EXPERIMENTATION: Polaroids (Paper)

After studying the polaroid works of both Maurizio Gallimberti and David Hockney, I went about creating my own polaroids using my edited overlapped images onto opaque white paper. This was then backed up onto additional white paper, to create the impression of a polaroid photograph. I used a similar layout as seen in both Gallimberti and Hockney's work by focussing each polaroid on specific parts to then use them all to create a bigger picture. I think the black and white overlapped images  

as one big picture creates a ghostly outline, however, I find that when thrown about and mixed around the image is more interesting as it is a literal jumble of the past and the present, making it impossible to see the two as separate.

ARTIST'S RESEARCH: David Hockney

David Hockney begun to produce his photo collages in the 1980's entitling them 'the joiners', using polaroid and 35mm processed colour-prints.
Similar to the work of Maurizio Galimberti, Hockey uses polaroid snaps of one subject to create a composite image through patchwork.










PROCESS:

1. Take polaroid photographs of a subject
2. Arrange them in a grid layout
3. Move the subject or the camera around the subject throughout the photography process

I particularly like the idea of creating a narrative through the movement and placement of the images, going against the conventions of photography as a 'still' image.

ARTIST'S RESEARCH: Maurizio Galimberti

I found this artist, Maurizio Galimberti through a website called 'Trendland'.

He is a celebrated Italian master of Polaroid who creates abstract mosaic portraits of celebrities by shooting a number of individual frames which is then rearranged into a larger grid.

The piece, entitled 'Celebrity Works' uses close-up shots to give an intimate quality to the photographs, whereas the layering of the images, gives the impression that the piece is 3D.

His work appealed to me as I liked the idea of using a set of images to create one impacting image.

I also like the use of Polaroid's as it is a camera which allows instant photographs to be taken and in my case as I am looking into the idea of life, it can take an instant memory within that photograph. It is also interesting to see the celebrities in such an intimate form as it is not something which is usually seen, seeing as they live in the constant eye of the public, so have to live in an environment where they must be aware of their behaviour.

I would like to go about using this idea to create a new set of experiments, to reverse the idea of creating instant memories but using the Poloroid's to bring back memories