Past, Present, Future, photography, starting points, GCSE

1. Looking to the past

2. Jean FaucheurDavid Samuel SternAnonymous
Jordan Clark Anonymous

3. Andre De Freitas

4. Gillian Wearing: Fictitious Family
Using masks, prosthetics and make up Wearing transformed herself into different
members of her family.

5. Shelly Goldsmith

6. Tom Hussey

7. Influence of the past

8. Photographers Create Meticulously Faithful Dioramas of Iconic Photos.
Making of “La cour du dumaine du Gras” (by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826) “La cour du dumaine du Gras” (by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826)
Making of “Nessie” (by Marmaduke Wetherell, 1934)
Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger’s project, Ikonen, an ambitious
project to meticulously recreate iconic historical scenes in miniature.
The ongoing project includes immediately recognizable shots—the
Wright Brothers taking flight, the Loch Ness Monster poking its head
out, “Tank Man” halting tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests—
because the images have been seared into our collective memory.
“Every field has its icons, guiding stars, which reflect the spirit of time
in form, media and content,” says the photographers. And when
something is photographed, it has a way of transcending time rather
than becoming isolated. Historical symbolism is fluid and our
perception of it can change the same way history can. This, perhaps, is
why Cortis and Sonderegger pull away from their miniature scene at
the very end, revealing what each photograph actually is: paper, cotton
balls, plastic and plenty of their own spare time.

9. Hendrik Kerstens
Hendrik explores some of the many intersections between painting and photography. Using his
daughter Paula as his only subject, Kerstens not only photographs her in reference to Old
Master Dutch painting but also in relation to her own life and the world we live in today. From
early on, he became increasingly interested in combining the art of photographic portraiture
with the game of creating a conceptual and sometimes humorous dialog between past and
present. In "Bag", a plastic grocery bag is shaped to look like a lace hood.
Life Imitating Art, Imitating Life

10. ‘Referring to both vulnerability and impermanence, I'm investigating the texture and feel of
both the present and past. Since 2007 I'm working on the series 'foam sculptures': caps and
collars, inspired by 16th and 17th century paintings, made from materials currently used for
packaging and insulation. This is also an inferior material which is often discarded after use. By
using this material I make a reference to consumerism and the rapid circulation of materials.
With these foam sculptures, but also an i-pod, a tattoo and a foot in plaster, we end up in the
21st century.’
Suzanne Jongmans:

11. Tom Hunter
Life and Death in Hackney,
John Everett Millais
‘Ophelia’, 1851-52
Tom Hunter: Life and Death in Hackney
This maligned and somewhat abandoned area of Hackney became the epicentre of the new
warehouse rave scene of the early 90’s. During this time the old print factories, warehouses
and workshops became the playground of a disenchanted generation, taking the DIY culture
from the free festival scene and adapting it to the urban wastelands. Hunter’s images draw
upon these influences combining the beauty and the degradation with everyday tales of
abandonment and loss to music and hedonism. The reworking of John Millais’s ‘Ophelia’
shows a young girl whose journey home from one such rave was curtailed by falling into the
canal and losing herself to the dark slippery, industrial motorway of a bygone era.

12. Tom Hunter
Woman Reading a Possession Order
Tom Hunter: Persons Unknown
‘This series of photographs was taken in my street in Hackney, 1997. Myself and the
residents who made up this community were fighting eviction as squatters. The title of the
series comes from the wording used in our eviction orders. The postures and gestures
reference Vermeer's paintings and set out to give status and dignity to our community.’
Tom Hunter
The Art of Squatting
Jan Vermeer
The Art of Painting, 1666
Tom Hunter
The Anthropologist
Jan Vermeer
The Geographer, 1668
Jan Vermeer
Woman in Blue reading a letter, 1662

13. Surrealism movement- dreams and fantasy
Man Ray
MagritteHerbert Bayer

14. Surrealists such as Man Ray, Wanda Wulz and later Erwin Blumenfeld, used photograms,
montage and double exposure to play with expectation and narrative.

15. Passage of Time

16. Sam Taylor Wood

17. John Clang

18. Stephanie Jung

19. “The photographs were taken in Hackney Wick and later buried there. The amount of time
the images were left underground varied depending on the amount of rainfall…“Not
knowing what an image would look like once it was dug up introduced an element of
chance and surprise which I found appealing. This feeling of letting go and collaborating
with place — allowing it also to work in putting the finishing touches to a picture — felt
fair. Maybe the spirit of the place can also make its mark.”
Stephen Gill: Buried

20. Catherine Yass
I floated this image in the canal for a week. It's a
photograph of the place where I floated it. The
water peeled away the layers of emulsion within
the transparency to reveal the different colours
embedded in the film. There's a kaleidoscopic
effect as the light dances and ripples through
them – just as it did on the surface of the canal.
Burnt

21. Looking to the future

23. Ulric Collette
Ex-student:
Lydia Francis
Impossible

25. JR

27. Gomargot

28. Start to finish

29. Edwaerd Muybridge

30. Refined in the 1970s by photographers such as Duane Michals, fantasy and surrealism
continued to be a fertile ground for experimentation.

31. The present

32. An objective representation?
Rineka Dijkstra
established her
reputation with a
series of photographs
made of young
people aged at that
difficult time
between childhood
and adulthood which
all humans must
traverse.
Krazyhouse

33. Saul Leiter (Photopedagogy Jon Nicholls, Thomas Tallis School)
Leiter was foremost a painter who discovered the possibilities of colour photography. His
images explore colour harmonies and often exploit unusual framing devices - shop signs,
umbrellas, curtains, car doors, windows dripping with condensation - to create abstracted
compositions of everyday street life in the city.
Leiter was fond of using long lenses, partly so that he could remain unobserved, but also so
that he could compress space, juxtaposing objects and people in unusual ways. Many of his
images use negative space, with large out of focus areas, drawing our eye to a particular
detail or splash of colour.

34. Typology
A way to classify
an environment
and it’s
inhabitants.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Michael PennJason Messinger Mark Able
Ed Ruscha, ‘Then and Now’

35. Kerry Lynne
Hans Eijkelboom
Anonymous
Jim Golden

36. Rachel Levy
Myoung Ho LeeMark Meyer