I needed to make an A3 print to hang in the gallery, I had a selection of my ‘scanner art’ images that I liked, but they were made on my A4 scanner and I didn’t want them to lose detail when printed large. To avoid this I decided to put two images together on one page. I wanted 2 that weren’t too similar, but had a connected theme. I chose these 2:
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| Light, white, fresh & clean - Summer Scan |
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| Cold, distant, dark, spooky - Autumnal Scan |
I had to think about the layout the images on the A3 page, and I decided to keep it portrait and have one above the other, as next to each other they looked like 1 long image.
After hanging the work in the gallery, we discussed each others work in a group. I found this insightful, as infact people didn’t perceive the message I was portraying about weather, a lot of people suggested dreams and floating. This made me think about Stuart Halls essay 'Encoding/Decoding' (1993) and his idea about how everyone will perceive things differently due to their cultural backgrounds, life styles, gender etc. This made me think I need to be more careful about how i want my work to come across, be sure I’m sending out the right message i want. Another way that images are perceived differently, incorrectly is where they are published.
"What a photograph can mean changes as it moves through different contexts: the message conveyed by a picture made for a newspaper or an agency report is informed by the publication in which it runs, where it is reprinted, reposted, recaptioned, positioned alongside other images, and thereby reconstructed." (Leo Hsu 2010)
"What a photograph can mean changes as it moves through different contexts: the message conveyed by a picture made for a newspaper or an agency report is informed by the publication in which it runs, where it is reprinted, reposted, recaptioned, positioned alongside other images, and thereby reconstructed." (Leo Hsu 2010)
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| note- clear pins for hanging so not to distract from image. |
My summery image actually really reminded me of the shoot for the September 2011 cover for Elle UK of Kirstin Dunst, photographed by David Slijper.
Sources
Hall, Stuart. 2009. 'Encoding/Decoding'. in S. Durring (ed.) The cultural studies Reader. London: Routledge.
Elle UK Magazine, 2011. Elle: Cover Page. September.
Hsu, Leo. 2010. Photo Contests/Photo Contexts. Foto8.com [online]
http://www.foto8.com/new/online/blog/1135-notes-on-photo-contests-as-contexts.
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