Initial Ideas

Although I've only had one lecture so far for this module, within the first lecture I was shown a lot of work by lots of different photographers.  This has got me thinking about what my first ideas were for this assignment, and how I'm going to come up with an essay and 6 final prints.

For each of my other assignments I am researching about the 'body' and 'body movements' and my tutor knows this.  For each photographer mentioned about the body,  I would be advised to look further into them.  And I have no objection to carrying on this module about 'the body' either as, it would actually make it a bit easier and would carry on with my particular style that I am trying to stick with.

My initial ideas for my journal research and my final outcomes are to stay working with people, portraits, and the human body.  A lot of what was shown in my first lecture was landscape based, and as much as I find the work fascinating, I would like to stick with a particular style of portraiture.
One Idea that had ran thought my head from the beginning is to work with the process of 'deadpan photography'.  This is something I will look further into and decide if I want to or not.

My initial ideas for my Essay are very much similar to my journal ideas.  I would like to write my essay about the changes of deadpan photography through the years.  My next blog is about the Dusseldorf School of Photography and New Topographics, with this being the beginning of photography but a change on deadpan photography, I want to explore the changes through the years and see why deadpan is so popular today.

Although most of the New Topographics that I have learnt about and will show include Landscape photography, I am still interested in this genre.  My ideas could possible change at any point and I could find myself photographing landscapes.  But for the mean time I will focus on my ideas written above.

I like my ideas for both and think I could potentially have some very interesting subjects to research about and find a creative idea to finalise with.  A lot of artists and photographers I have looked at today and will show, have some sort of relevance to my ideas.