Object and Body Assessment

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Body and Object

Jade Perry


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Body Idea/concept

For the body unit I was started by looking at the elderly and the type of social clubs and

help there was available for them, as my nan at home is fully disabled and when mygranddad died she needed a full time career but refused to go into a home. She needed

somewhere to just to be able to make friends and talk to people. So as not to become

isolated and lonely.

- I went to Age concern in Chatham and the place and people there were really inspiring

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My idea become about the people who go to this place and the idea of the elderly being

venerable but come to a place to feel independent and gain a social life that they might

have not had before. Its about showing the fun, youthful side of the elderly. Although

with getting older they are not able to do as many things as they used to they are still

young at heart.


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These articles show how important it is for the elderly to be able to get to places such as the

Hopewell center,


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The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings

KayLynn Deveney

These photographs really show the personal life of Albert, a man living on his own and caring

for himslef. They show a sentimental sympathy, although you can tell his happy in his own little

world caring out his day to day routines. The shallow depth of field and muted tones really add

to the sentimental feeling of the photographs.


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Visual References

I looked at Rineke Dijkstra as her photographs showed this transaction from childhood to

woman hood, you can see a slight awkwardness and vulnerability about them. Im looking to

show this transaction from adult hood to almost back to childhood as when you get older you

may need looking after again for certain reasons and there is a vulnerability that re appears asyou get older


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Contextual Research

The Hopewell Centre is closing down due to

there not being enough funding to keep the

center running as they rely on charity funding

and a small admission fee from the people whocome to the center.

I looked into the amount of money that goes

into charities and charities for the elderly is

amongst the lowest with only 8% charities with

only 3% of the total amount of money goinginto charities.


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Contact sheets Task 1 Shoot 1 Rochester high street


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Task one - shoot 2 Age concern centre


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Task 1 Age concern shoot 2


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Task 1 Age concern shoot 3


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I wanted these photographs to be my final images for

task one as they really showed the character of this man.As his memory, hearing and ability was detereating he

looked a bit lost and confused but was always looking to

his wife for what to do.

I didnt use them because I shot them at quite a low

aperture and I didnt quite manage to focus on his face

they was slightly out of focus so I had to re-shoot.


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Task 1 Age shoot 4


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Task 2 Environment shoot 1


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evaluation


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Studio Shoot


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I prefered the black and white

studio shoot as she was a lot

more relaxed and they looked a

lot more softer


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Final Images Task 1

These photographs were, slightly more personal as they where done at there home and

they was in there pyjamas. Although the lighting was really bad as it cast really odd shadows

under her neck.


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Final Image Task 2

I this photograph I wanted to focus on the one person but have the rest of the people in the

room gentally fall out of focus, I included the arm of the wheelchair that the lady is sitting in to

show her disability but I also choose this lady as she was so happy to just be there and be with

people despite her unfortunate broken leg. Also in the room you can see the buntings andentertainer for the day setting up as they was celebrating someone's birthday.


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Final Image task 3

I chose this image as its really soft and

gentle and shows her in more of a soft

caring side.


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Object Idea/concept

Looking at teenage alcoholism and underage drinking.

- A realization of how young people are starting to drink from

- Binge drinking

- Drinking culture

- School children/teenagers drinking

- Damaging effects

- Parental influences

The amount of teenage binge drinkers there are is shocking and is a social issue that

needs to be tackled, through research it seems that parents are not to blame but can be

most influential on there children and need to realize that there children could be

drinking dangerous amounts.

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Object Contextual Research


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My idea had narrowed down to

teenage girls binge drinking being the

highest in the western world, I

thought about showing the effects of

these and how venerable it can makegirls. Then I started thinking about the

reasons young girls/teenagers drink

and why there is such a big problem in

the uk. I started thinking that the

audience would be parents to show

the young age that there children maystart drinking as I think a lot of parents

are in denial about there children and

what they get up to when out with

friends.


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This photograph links to my

idea as it shows how the

parents are actually giving

into there children's wants,

although this is only a top it

shows how parents can be tosoft on there children.


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Visual References

Richard Billingham

Bullingham photographed his father who had

a drinking problem, they was very much

documentary photographs. I was looking at

these to get an idea of the type of lifestyle

they live and I was looking at the furniture

and the state of the house. As this shows a

lot about how they care for the house and

the effect that the alcohol has them as a

family and there living conditions. What I

found from these photographs is that is a

very destructive problem and the

photographs show a feeling of not caring and

being discarded forgotten about.

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Visual References

Advert for binge drinking, aimed at girls. Uses shock factor and shows the effects of alcohol in

reverse. Show how self destructive alcohol abuse is.

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Wolfgang Tillmans

I like how Tillmans uses photographs as an object themselves and the actual photographbecomes this object, also his use of darkroom techniques where he paints with light in

that he creates abstract images by only using light and the photographic paper in the

darkroom.

I would like to use my photograph as more of the object itself and destroy the photograph

showing the destructive effects that alcohol has on school children.


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Andre Kertesz

Uses mirrors to distort the image. Links with

my idea of distorting my images.

C t t h t


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Contact sheets

The black and white photographs where test shoots to check the composition and lighting in

the first one there was a strong shadow being cast that distracted from the object, where I

wanted the photograph the desk to be more in blackness almost in complete darkness, with

just the desk in the light, to emphasise the empty space around the desk.


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I was aiming to destroy one of the negatives of this image and keep a normal one for a

contrasting print, but I didnt leave myself enough time to destroy the negative and get it

printed but I wanted to create a really destructed image of the school desk showing the

destructivness of alcohol on school children. Although this could have bordered on looking to

much like its just about schooling.


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Photographed through glass

These photographs I took through a beer glass, I tested other alcoholic items such as vodka

bottles and beer bottles but these just become completely abstracted and you couldnt work

out what the object was. So I used the beer glass to slightly distort and blur the image. I really

wanted a more destructive image photograph so I could have had a battered up desk to show

more of the destructive side.

D bl d th ti t th


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Doubled the negatives together

I sandwiched the negatives to

create a more blurred and

distorted image, this works

better as you get the idea ofalcohol being a problem and the

desk relates to school and school

children.

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Final Images

This photograph was of two of the

negatives sandwiched together, one

normal and the other taken through the

glass, I felt that there wasn't enough blur ordestruction in the photograph. So then

experimented with sandwiching 3 negative

together.


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I feel that this image works best as you can

clearly see the blur, but can also still make

out the object.

I i d i h i j h


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I experimented with using just the

two blurred photographs taken

through the glass. I think this works

well in showing the alcoholism but

makes it quite difficult to she the

object and become a bit to much

abstracted from the idea.

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