Content
- Abstract
- Assignment 01 – Light and Form
- Assignment 02 – Pinhole
- Assignment 03 – Portrait 30's, 40's, or 50's style
- Assignment 04 – Modern Portrait
- Assignment 05 – Landscape
- Assignment 06 – Interior
- School Day 01 – Foam
- School Day 02 – Introduction
- School Day 03 – Light and Form
- School Day 04 – No School
- School Day 05 – Pinhole & Sally Man
- School Day 06 – Portrait
- School Day 07 – History
- School Day 08 – Interior
- School Day 09 – Assessment
Abstract
This is a selection of the results generated during “Module 11 - History & Quality”.
Module Content: Photography in a historical perspective.
Module Teacher: Kees Rutten.
Assignment 01 – Light and Form
Description
Using Piet Zwart, André Kertész, and others as inspiration, create an interseting image with little means, using light to make an interesting form.
Plan
I planned to use different sided dice, but as it turned out, their form (and colour) was too distracting to my liking. A suggestion by the teacher to use paper on a roll was much more fruitful.
Results
 Light and Form I |
 Light and Form II |
 Light and Form III |
 Light and Form IV |
 Light and Form V |
 Light and Form VI |
Assignment 02 – Pinhole
Description
Make a pinhole camera and make two proper images with it. Film/photographic paper to be developed yourself as well.
Plan
Out of Conflakes box, build a pinhole camera for photographing directly on photographic paper (13x18cm).
Results
 Pinhole |
 Pinhole |
Assignment 03 – Portrait 30's, 40's, or 50's style
Description
Take a portrait in 30's, 40's, or 50's style.
Plan
Use Edward Weston's images of nudes as example.
Results
 Nude after Edward Weston |
Assignment 04 – Modern Portrait
Description
Take a “modern” portrait.
Plan
Create a Picasso-style portrait using multiple photos and some wacky colour effects.
Results
 Modern Portrait A total of five portrait shots were used to create the resulting image. |
 Modern Portrait Second, more graphic, version of the portrait, created after feedback from the teacher. |
Assignment 05 – Landscape
Description
Write a report on a number of landscape photographers. Respond with your own landscape photograph.
Plan
Use group f/64 as the base for the report and image.
Results
The report on group f/64 can be found in this pdf.
Three triptychs in the style of f/64 (everything sharp):
 Snow Tracks |
 Snow Tracks |
 Snow Tracks |
 Tree Tops |
 Tree Tops |
 Tree Tops |
 Ice Forms |
 Ice Forms |
 Ice Forms |
As a response to “everything must be sharp”, a different approach with a very shallow depth of field.
 Reed Stems |
 Reed Flowers |
 Water Level Meter |
Even more radical: everything unsharp.
 Tree Top |
 Leaves |
 Frozen Ditch |
 Reed Flower |
Out of the above shots, the following selection “Tracks of Nature” has been made as final result for this assignment.
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Tracks of Nature – I |
Tracks of Nature – II |
 Tracks of Nature – III |
Tracks of Nature – IV |
Assignment 06 – Interior
Description
Take a series of images of the interior of the building of the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology.
Plan
As there are so many things worth shooting a series off (the building has many, many appealing design elements), I decided to (severely) limit myself to the subjects “seats”.
Results
 Stalks |
 Mounted |
 Purple and Blue |
 Red and Blue |
 Wired |
 Stacks |
School Day 01 – Foam
As the teacher was ill, we made a visit to Foam to view the exhibition of photographs by Sanne Sannes.
School Day 02 – Introduction
Introduction of the module and its assignments.
School Day 03 – Light and Form
A video on Jeff Wall and time in the studio to work on Assignment 01.
School Day 04 – No School
Due to illness of the teacher, no school today.
School Day 05 – Pinhole & Sally Man
With the pinhole camera built earlier, we visited the Royal Acadamy of Art in Den Haag to take our pinhole shots and develop them in the darkroom. The results can be found under “Assignment 02 – Pinhole”.
A visit to the Fotomuseum with an exhibition of Sally Man (short review) completed the day.
School Day 06 – Portrait
Time to work, in the studio, on the portrait assignments.
School Day 07 – History
A visit to the ICM (Institute for Concrete Matter), a large collection of vintage prints. Certainly worth a visit if you'd like to know more about old photography (and its techniques)!
After the ICM, we visited Spaarnestad Photo, the largest photo archive in the Netherlands, containing about 12 million press and documentary photographs.
School Day 08 – Interior
A visit to the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology where we were given the last assignment of this module:
School Day 09 – Assessment
My Own Learnings this Module
- Yes, again some more creativity and freedom! Still room for more though…
Input
The following material was used as the basis of the Assessment:
- Results of all the assignments.
- My own learnings.
Results
- Study Points: 6
- Advise: None
- Additional work required: None
