Previous Brief Summarised

 Multiples

These are some of my photographs from the previous 'Multiples' brief. For the brief I looked at ways of layering images, i.e. double exposures and collages.

Photomontage

Hannah Höch - Cut with the Cake-Knife

Raoul Hausmann - ABCD

Continuing on from the 'Multiples' brief, I briefly studied the Dada's photomontages as a means of layering images and manipulating photographs. 

Below are some of my own examples, using images cut out from magazines and photocopied from children's books. 

Projections

Using one of the photomontages, I began experimenting with projecting images. Projection is something I was keen to try in the 'Multiples' brief but never had time to start. There was no real reason for the selection of this image, and the main purpose of this exercise for me was getting used to using an overhead projector, and exploring how I could distort the image with whatever I chose as a background for the projection. 

Moloko

Inspired by Paul Citroen's photomontage, I made my own using scenes from the film A Clockwork Orange including all the scenes involving Milk. 

"Everyone at the Korova Milkbar drinks milk. Alex drinks milk with almost every meal. Yet, none of the adults seem to be drinking it. Hmm… Could this mean that the milk-drinking teenagers are bunch of babies? You bet. Here associated with the naïve and immature, milk is the substance for infants – unsophisticated and helpless. For the "modern youth" that nurse on the stuff laced with hallucinogens, the explanation is that they are young people who have chosen to add poison to their otherwise innocent slates, making them the evil youth that they are."


Photomontages are a form of appropriation art, because it involves using other people's work. Although the images involved are unoriginal, the new organisation of the images changes the piece entirely.

Instead of using record covers, I stuck with the film theme and used images from famous film posters, this is just a quick attempt at a similar collage. 

This is my take on Martin Arnold's work using a scene from Stanley Kubrick's film Lolita. In the scene, an argument breaks out over the main star, Lolita, and the male lead Humbert threatens to shoot another main character Quilty. I used Arnold's method of repeating shots over and over in order to make scenes of tension longer and more powerful, this works particularly well in shots where Quilty is playing the piano, and repeatedly looking over his shoulder. Where these shots are repeated and extended it emphasises them more to the audience. This is also the case in the shots where Quilty runs from the gun-firing Humbert and knocks furniture over, breaking things, but in the edited version does so again and again. Unlike Martin Arnold I left some parts of the scene in tact, so no narrative was lost in the final version. I believe this is more effective.