Experimental PhotographyCase Study

Aby Jones

Dominic Rouse

Dominic Rouse• Dominic Rouse was born in 1959 – he is an English a contemporary digital photographer

who specialises in ‘digital monochrome compositions that deconstruct and reconstruct the human form.’

• He uses a multiple exposure technique, this is the superimposition (to lay or place an image on or over another) of two or more exposures to create a single image – like the ones that Rouse created.

• His work is in several exhibitions such as: • 2004: FotoFest in Houston and Honolulu Academy• 2003: Carmel Center for Photographic Art• 2002: XII Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia in Buenos Aires, Benham Gallery in Seattle and

the Schneider Gallery of Chicago.• He also has publications in: Photo Art International, Digital Photo Art, Creative

Photography, The Photographer, Image, Lenswork (USA), The British Journal of Photography, Black and White Magazine (USA), FotoRomania and Art Review and A Celebration of Light.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Rouse

Ladies –in-waiting-Dominic Rouse, 2005Center for Photographic Art

Hannah Hoch• Hannah Hoch was born in Gotha, Germany. In 1912 she

attended the School of Applied Arts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen, a glass designer.

• She was a pioneer of the art form ‘photomontage’ – her most famous piece is Shnitt mit dem Kuchenmesser DADA durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands (Cut with the Dada kitchen knife throught the last weimar beer-belly cultural epoch in Germany)

• Photomontage is the result of making a photograph by joining a couple of images together to create the illusion of an unreal image or object. This is usually through editing software such as Photoshop. She is a DADA artist, meaning instead of using paint and paint brushes and conventional items such as this, they get what they need from the media and other photographs, put them together to make a final photograph.

• Hannah Hoch was a contemporary photographer, she used a digital camera to capture her images and used traditional methods to make her final pieces.

• Her work is displayed in the Whitechapel Gallery therefore she is a fine art photographer.

John Heartfield• John heartfield (1891 – 1968) – he used art as a

political weapon, he also used Photomontage. • During the 1920’s he produced a great number of

photomontages, many produced as dust jackets for books – in 1934 he montaged 4 bloody axes tied together which formed the swastika to mock the ‘blood and iron’ motto of the Reich. In 1938 he fled from the Nazis – to England.

• Some of his famous montages were created during the 1930-40’s.

• He was also a contemporary photographer as he used modern photography methods but older, traditional methods for his editing.

• He is both a fine art photographer and a commercial photographer as he created montages for the purpose of posters, dust covers for books and some of his work was set up in galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Man Ray• Man Ray (Emmanuel Radinktzky) was born August 27 1890

and died on November 19, 1976. he was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He contributed to the Dada movement and the surrealist movement, however his contributions were informal.

• He was renowned as a fashion and portrait photographer, he also worked with photogram's which he called, ‘rayographs’ as reference to himself.

• ‘A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly on to the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light.’ the result is a negative shadow image – areas of the paper that receive no light appear white, transparent or semi-transparent objects appear gray.

• Man usually created photographs with unusual juxtapositions with identifiable objects such as spoons and pearl necklaces, a ruler and a pen and so on. He is also a contemporary artist as he creates images using modern photography and the use of non-traditional techniques.

• His work is in galleries such as ALAFOTO, the National Portrait Gallery and so on, therefore he is a fine art photographer.