These are my notes with some explanation to each slide for my top 6 artists/photographers influence presentation powerpoint.

1. Gregory Crewdson - Gregory Crewdson: 2003 Untitled (Maple Street)
One of his pieces from his ‘Twilight’ series of photography, 2003.
- Powerful and in depth, lots going off in the shot.
- Creates a mysterious thriller-like scene, as shown by the car door being
open, why is the woman hasn’t got any shoes on and where standing in the
middle of the road and also why stop outside this house.
- The rule of threes is used effectively as there is like three main focus points
of the shot, the woman, the car and the house.
- Mid shot landscape camera shot.
- Cinematic setting, why I like his series of photography as he creates each
scene to create a still/moving image film with his photography.
Robert Rauschenberg
Signs 1970.
American painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer and
performance artist, also he acted as an important bridge
between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and can be
credited as one of the major influences in the representational
art in the USA. And started in 1962 he began screen-printing
with magazines, books and photography on canvas.
Medium: Screen-print
Dimensions - Composition: 35 3/16 x 26 3/4" (89.4 x 67.9 cm)
- Collage of photographs that shows what’s gone off in the
year.
- The composition and the cut out shapes of the
photographs links to one another and have an in depth
content that explains by each one to stop hatred, war
and ‘love’ each other. John Kenning, Vietnam War and
Bob Marley, Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Contrast- co-operates with each other as they are bight
and eye-catching which gives dominance to the collage.
Born: 26th
September 1962
Occupation: Fine
Art Photographer,
Landscape
Photographer, and
Professor.
Style: American
Realist Landscape
Photography.
Credit
Gift of Leo and Jean-Christophe
Castelli in memory of Toiny Castelli

2. Orson Welles, 1951 – Jane Hope Bown (Born: 13th March 1925
Died: 21st December 2014. Studied photography at the Guildford Schoolof Art.
English Photographer, whoworked forThe Observer newspaper from 1949).
Orson Welles was an American actor, dictator, writer and producer in theate, radio and
film.
- Chiaroscuro- use of black and white, which makes the photography have a
dramatic effect, by the only light shading onto the face of Orson Welles.
- I like how she uses a balance relationship between the positive and negative space
to make the photograph have more a powerful approach to the viewer, as it makes
the piece three dimensional.
-
Tim Laman- An Orangutan climbing
the tree to feed on figs, 2016.
- High angle shot
- Composition is well planned
as the picture tells the
viewer the narrative of the
still life image.
- High-tech camera to capture
all the features on the shot
in detail.
- Contrast- bright and natural
as it shows the natural
colours of the rainforest and
orangutan.
Wildlife Photojournalist and Ornithologist. Born and raised in Tokyo in
1961. Known to be the first photographer to, photograph all of the
species of birds of paradise in their natural habitat. And in 2016 won
top prize in wildlife photography for the above picture.

3. Jeff Walls – A Sudden Gust of Wind, (after Hokusai), 1993
Born in 1946, and lived in Vancouver, Canada, where he studied art history at the
University of British Columba in the 1960s. He became interested in Vancouver’s
experimental art scene and self-taught himself photography, as he seen that
photography was the ‘best tool for expressing his conceptual ideas.
- He uses a ‘large-scale back-lit cibachrome’ effect in his photographs, which
caught that specific moment and tells a story within the image. For example one
of his pieces ‘ A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993’, as from the left
handed side, you can see the individual’s papers from his suitcase is blowing
away in the wind, as others behind him are covering themselves from the gust of
wind and looking with what’s going on around them.
Furthermore, Jeff Walls has capture that moment with the camera at the certain
time, as this makes the photograph significant and illustrates a story to the
viewer, that they have to finish the story off in their version to the story. This is
one influence that I will considered when I specialize in photography as I will
take my images carefully as I want to caught that moment that illustrates a
multiple endings to the story in that photograph to the viewer, just like Jeff Walls
does in ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993’.

4. Found in the ‘Vogue 100: A Century in Style’ exhibition in Manchester’s
City Gallery, within the 1960s section of the exhibition.
Properties of the Photograph:
- Strong use of the light beaming onto the actor’s face making the
actor, the main focus point of the photograph.
- The contrast was well planned to make the composition eye-
catching, as the ‘black’ colour background is representing the
negative space. In which the black fades into the ‘white’ colour in
which is representing the positive space of the photograph.
- The dark parts of the photograph only highlights the actor’s face
which makes the photograph powerful and have an in depth
message to the viewer.
- The scale of the photograph on the vintage bromide print is clearly
balance between the monochromes used and the relationship
between the close-up camera shot of Terrance Stamp, and the
distance, he is from the camera.
My personal interpretation to this photograph is that the black and white
contrast is the reason why the photograph of Terrance Stamp is eye-
catching, and has an in-depth, powerful message. As the photograph
highlights the young age of the actor in one of his first films.
Title: Terrance
Stamp in For From
The Madding
Crowd.
By Terrance
Donovan, July 1966.
Printed on Vintage
Bromide Print.
Medium: Black and
White Portrait
Photograph on the
actor being
photographed on
location for the film.