Tag: Politics
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Photography Tweet of the day: Simon Roberts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7994687/A-Snap-Election.html?image=2 Simon Roberts is the for me the new Genius on the block of british Photography. He works the scale of John Davis yet his pictures have the cunning of Martin Parr. Off the back of his successful Be We English. Roberts landed the job of Documenting the British General Election. The picture here show Nigel Farage( the…
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Tweet of the day: David Levene
Well well…. Behind the painted smile LIES a harrowed ex leader. I’m sure this doesn’t fit in with spinster Tony Blair Labour Pr machine. This image looks more like the face he pulls when the news comes on at night with more cataclysmic colonial ideology. The harsh light of the studio on the fore head…
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A Tweet a day: Philip Townsend
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2010/aug/10/philip-townsend-swinging-sixties#/?picture=365606908&index=0 The Rolling Stones 1964 taken by Phillip Townsend. I think for a promo shot that this is pretty ground braking. its a angle that is very ahead of it time. When images in general view of the public. where sticklers to the rule of thirds and how the image should be view. It fits in with the image of the Rolling…
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Tweet of the Day: Jaroslav Rossler
http://file-magazine.com/features/jaroslav-rossler Some great examples of photomontage early origins in The former Czechoslovakia. It was a part of the constructivism movement started by Alexander Rodchenko. From what I interpritate it was under the slogan of “art for art’s sake“. I see this as doing it because you can rather a real direction. Sort of making the image work. The…
ALAN WHITFIELD 