Seduction by Art

Seduced by Art: Photography past and present

This exhibition was incredible because I discovers all different types of techniques photographers use in their work. To us it may look like such a simple photograph but they have spent hours getting it set up, so everything is absolutely perfect. The photograph below is by Richard learoyd, who is a real perfectionist. He says a photograph does not just happen there is a huge amount of work that goes in to it. Even in this image below, it took him hours to get the position of the hand grabbing the torso right.

The photograph below is by Ori Gersht the technique he used in this piece is incredible. He used liquid nitrogen which froze the flowers, that in it's self is amazing. Flowers which are fragile anyway become a different type of fragile like porcelain. He then exploded them and look the photograph with a really high shutter speed so he could capture ever moment and it looks like the bunch of flowers are china exploding. For some reason it reminds me of Alice and wonderland when the red queens men are painting the flowers, maybe it is because both them and Ori are doing something article to destroy the flowers. I would love to be able to create something like this but it takes a huge amount of time and money so possible in the future.

Here are some image of the whole development behind the photograph

Here is an another example of his work called the 'big bang' it is incredible seeing it in slow motion because you see all the amazing details.

This was my favourite photograph from the exhibition  is it so simple of a young man who looks Italian. However it is the slight touch of brown that is used in the image, the way the light is hitting his face and How he is not look directly at the viewer as if he is deep in though or looking quite guilty.