Reflection Week 2 "Photography and..."

It has become clear that Photography does not exist in a vacuum. It compliments and enhances many other disciplines. For instance, medicine uses photography as a form of reference, and it is used document architecture and art. 

I was impressed by a couple of the collages I was shown, as they hark back to two of the  periods of the evolution of art I enjoy the most, namely DaDa and the punk movement of the 1970s. I must say I had never even considered collage, but I can see the challenges it creates now.

I want to highlight the way science can play a part in creative photography. Since it's invention, people have been fiddling about in dark rooms, pouring chemicals and experimenting with new ways to create photographic images.

I want to do much the same, but not with chemicals, with light. I am fascinatede by the way light can be manipulated, polarised and coloured to create stunningly beautiful images.

http://www.crafthubs.com/light-paintings/12390    
accessed 29/09/2016








 

 http://tullyphotography.wikispaces.com/acongelli+light+painting+reference+page
accessed 29/09/2016

And one of my own efforts,

 


Disturbance 1


This image was made using Leds, a long exposure and music to create the pattern. I will be making a series of these to see if there are any similarities in pattern within a certain genre of music. So this uses three disciplines rather than two. 

To sum up, photography finds itself linked with many other disciplines, for many diverse reasons and serves to augment and enhance those disciplines.

Interdisciplinary Approaches

"Other than" Photography

Thinking about what other media,or writing, or music could relate to the practice of photography led me to this,







 accessed 24/09/16
"The Fighting Temaraire" painted by JMW Turner in 1839. We see HMS Temaraire, the hero of the battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames for disposal and breaking up. Turner depicts her as a ghost. She is fading away before our eyes, already dead just waiting for burial. But could Turner have known this painting can also be seen as an allegory for the fate that would soon befall documentary painting?
At precisely the same time Turner was painting this masterpiece of naval allegory, Louis Daguerre was taking what was the first photograph believed to include people.
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre.jpg accessed 24/09/16

"Boulevard de Temple" a Dagguerrotype made in 1838, shows a street scene. Because of the lengthy exposure time needed, none of the traffic shows up. But we do see a man cleaning another mans shoes in the bottom left of the frame.
So what? my point is that within a quarter century of this picture being made, photography was documenting the world. The American Civil War (1861-1865) brought documentary photography truly into it's own.
So turner's painting serves as an allegory for itself to some extent, as documentary painting such as this was gradually fading away, just like HMS Temeraire, to be replaced by something more modern.