Week 8 - Time and the image

We had the opportunity in week 8 to print out our A3 image process document on an ink jet printer. We then had a discussion about our work in front of everyone explaining the process of the image. I learnt a lot about different processes which was interesting because I didn't know many before.

During week 8 we were given our next project, time and the image. We have to produce one image that represents time and the image. It can be from "long-exposure work at night to moving objects to working with a scanner to explore the recording of time in a digital photographic image" From this I went out and did some research. 


I first looked at a book on Irving Penn - Still Life. His work was producing a series of objects portraying still life for Vogue magazine. Still life photography allows the photographer to have full control over the subject matter which John Szarkowski  ( he wrote the introduction) compared to portraiture photography which has produced in earlier issues of Vogue. He tried to find out more about still life within Vogue but found nothing, showing that it was Penn's invention.

Irving Penn - frozen foods with string beans, editorial for Vogue, New York, 1977

I felt that this image really related to time because of the food being frozen. It shows the stillness of the food and how the icy texture on top is what has stopped time from decaying or cooking.

Sources


Penn, I P , 2001. Still Life. 1st ed. United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson Ltd


plUMage : Uma Nair's blog-The Time Of Indian. 2011. plUMage : Uma Nair's blog-The Times Of India. [ONLINE] Available at:http://blogs:timesofindia.indiatimes.com/plumage/entry/still-life-in-photography-irving. [Accessed 04 December 2011] 


Google image. 2011. Google images. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi [Accessed 04th & 09th December 2011]