chungsamantha_#4 Style Paragraphs

Samantha Chung

Eric Roman

Photo 202

27 March 2019

#4 Style (Paragraphs)

Barbara Probst

She is a photographer born in Munich, Germany. She currently lives and works in New York and Munich. Her works overall focus on the movement of exposure from different angle points. In order to achieve the image, she would use a radio-controlled release system or have multiple photographers to help her take pictures from various viewpoints. When taking the photos on her own, she would set up cameras on tripods at different viewpoints. She will then have the cameras’ shutters to capture the image simultaneously by radio control. This will result in having an image captured at the same time, place and subject but from multiple angles. Compared to working alone, she will sometimes have multiple photographers to help photograph images from different perspectives than using a tripod. Probst wanted to show that what’s in the image isn’t the only thing that matters, but rather the situations or events that are happening at the same moment from different perspectives. By having multiple photos from different angles allows you to recognize things that you wouldn’t see from a first glance. Her works allow the viewers to interact with her pieces by having to physically move back and forth between the individual images that represent the entire work. It becomes what she calls “a hunt” for connections and details as an attempt to piece together different versions of the same moment into a meaningful whole. Her exposures usually consist of an even amount of black and white photos and color. Depending on what she is taking will result in the number of photos she will take from multiple angles. In order for me to replicate her style, I will have multiple cameras set up at different angles and capturing the image at the same time similar to what Probst did or I will have myself move at different angles as my location and subjects remain still.

Thomas Demand

He is a German sculptor and photographer born in Munich, Germany. Growing up in West Berlin, he focused on sculpture and using photography to document the three-dimensional models that he created to look realistic such as rooms and various spaces made from paper and cardboard. Later his focus shifted from sculpture to photography where the photographs were the end product and the sculptures were the sole purpose to the end product. Photography plays a huge role in his creative process. By achieving the right image, he would take the photo of his models by using a large format camera and his photos were the final part of his works and the only works he has left because after photographing his works, he would destroy his models. Demand’s works grab the viewers attention by creating an illusion and a role in the illusion. From his models, he wants to show the gap between truth and fiction by showing how they are very detailed but not completely perfect. His overall his works consist of close up photos that show lots of texture and capturing images of various spaces that are small and large. By replicating his style, I would photograph existing objects and spaces instead of sculpting them and capturing an image that creates an illusion of what is real and what isn’t. So, different spots in the images wouldn’t be as perfect as space or object I am focusing on. I will always capture close up photos of objects that consist of many textures similar to what Demand did with his sculptures.

Matthew Brandt

He is an experimental photographer from and currently living in Los Angeles, California. His works consist of large scale photos that go through the intensive labor process of the 19th century of photography. His works are known to incorporate a physical element similar to the subject itself in the photo. Brandt works are inspired by the classical American landscape photographs. By photographing and collecting materials from the environment he visited, he will incorporate it into his works. His photos are very different from the photos that we usually see. He integrates the chemistry of image making into the development process by experimenting with the effects of various materials that he had found. His works become more texturized after soaking the images into the material he photographed. The process development of his work is that he would visit the location he wants to photograph and collect the material similar to the image. He would then make a C-print of the image and soak it in the source he collected over a period of time. Brandt wanted to create a unique style of photograph that is creative and inventive that creates a new way of seeing and thinking about an image. His works, unlike other photos, have a relationship between the subject and the matter that represents it. By differentiating what is real and what is not, he is able to see how the image reacts to the element related to the subject. In order to replicate his style, I would photograph an image that I choose and collect the element that represents it. I will then print the photo and soak it into the same matter that I photographed.