Final Pieces

This is my final piece. The response

Artist Research

Bill Brandt

Robert Frank

I chose to respond to Bill Brandt and Robert Frank because I found that these artists along with Henry Callahan responds best to my contact sheet. Bill Brandt's images focus on the foundations of architecture compared to the final product, these ideas link to my photographs because of the nature of the environment; a building site.

Robert Frank's images link to my photographs because he involoves people within the architecture, which connotates that people built the architecture and are a fundamental part of the creation of monuments such as St. Pauls Cathedral.

Artist Research

Henry Callahan



This is my first response to Henry Callahan's photograph of the outside of a reflective office building. My photograph is of a building that is in construction because it shows that in order for it to be completed, people need to be present. Both photographs have been taken at a front on angle, looking up at the building to show the enormity of the architecture. Similarly, they both have dim lighting, therefore there isn't a lot of tone in the images. There is pattern within both photographs, they have horizontal and vertical lines which add texture because the lines create a grid.

This is my edited respose to Callahan's photograph. I think that it is successful in terms of angle, tone and contrast because all aspects relate to Callahan's image. However, I think the brightness of the image could be improved but if that was to happen the black of the building would not be as effective. In order to improve on this I need to pick my objects more carefully and think about the current lighting and composition of the camera.

However, I am choosing not to use Henry Callahan as a main response because I feel that my work does not respond as well to his as well as it does to Robert Frank's. This is because Frank's work portrays both contemporary and traditional ideologies of architecture.

Contact Sheet

This is my first contact sheet for the 1st trip to London assignment. These photographs are taken in response to Robert Frank's images of involving people within the architecture to show the origin of the architecture itself. I also incorporated Bill Brandt into my photographs because he studied the foundations of architecture.