Evaluation

Evaluation

Photographers I Researched?

The photographers I researched were Duane Michals, Robert Frank, Tom Hunter, Jeff Wall, Stephanie Sinclair, Gregory Crewdson, Martin Parr, Cristina De Middel, Cindy Sherman, Anders Peterson and Nan Goldin.

Tattoo Artists I Researched?

Keith Riley, Brian Cummings, Alex MacNaughton, Ryan McGinley, Steve Bonge, Tony Cohen, Ina Saltz and Kat Von D.

The Camera I Used?

The camera I used for this project was a Canon 500D

The Series of Photographs I Took?

The series of photographs I took are a mix of the tattoo shop Ink Bar people who work there the tattooists designs the tattooist tattoos that they have got done at the shop and the equipment they use I also took photos of people they have tattooed and other people tattoos.

The Single Image I Took? 
The single image I took was of a bar, tattoo shop and clothes shop the bar is called The Twisted Lip and the tattoo shop is called Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde. 

My Idea For My Single Image

For my single image I'm going to take photos of Baker Street in the town of Middlesbrough. Baker Street was a street full of houses before then the houses got boarded up and the street was closed down for a bit then a few years later the council gave money for the streets new image and they used the houses houses for shops, cafes, hairdressers and so on.

Duane Michals

Duane Michals

Duane Michals is an American photographer Michals work makes innovative use of photo-sequences often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. In the 1960s Duane Michals worked as a freelance fashion photographer and portraitist while his artistic work began to address literally and philosophical ideas about death gender and sexuality. Working with staged scenes he experimented with multiple exposures sequences and drawings with his images.

Robert Frank

Robert Frank

Robert Frank is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work the 1958 book titled The Americans was influential and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville. It was fifty years ago that Robert Frank released his iconic and historical work The Americans. Robert Frank’s work is now widely considered an important intimate peak inside small-town America but originally it was not met with open arms by all- at the time of release many of the images were considered controversial while other critics just outright dismissed his work as a blurry mess of nothingness.

Photographers

Tom Hunter

Stephanie Sinclair

Jeff Wall

Nan Goldin

Robert Frank

Duane Michals

Cindy Sherman

Cristina Middel

Ryan McGinley

Anders Peterson

Gregory Crewdson

Martin Parr

Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter

Tom hunter is a London based artist working in photography and film. His series of photos Life and Death in Hackney paints a landscape creating a melancholic beauty out of the post-industrial decay where the wild buddleia and sub-cultural inhabitants took root and bloomed. This maligned and somewhat abandoned area became the epicenter of the new warehouse rave scene of the early 90s. During this time the old print factories, warehouses and workshops became the playground of a disenchanted generation taking the DIY culture from the free festival scene and adapting it to the urban wastelands. This Venice of the East End with its canals rivers and waterways made a labyrinth of pleasure gardens and pavilions in which thousands of explorers travelled through a heady mixture of music and drug induced trances 

Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall is best known for his large-scale colour transparencies mounted in wall-hung light boxes which combine  the seductive glow of a cinema screen with the physical presence of sculpture. Wall’s works are typified by two approaches which he characterizes as either cinematographic or documentary. For his innovative mise-en-scenes wall has pioneered state of the art film and digital techniques to compose meticulously staged scenes.

Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair is an American photojournalist who focuses on gender and human-rights issues such as child marriage and self-immolation. Her work has been featured in such publications as the New York Times Time Magazine and National Geographic.

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson works within a photographic tradition that combines the documentary style of William Eggleston and Walker Evans with the dream-like vision of filmmakers such as Stephen Spielberg and David Lynch. Crewdson’s method is equally filmic building elaborate sets to take pictures of extraordinary detail and narrative portent. Sanctuary his most recent series was shot amid the grounds of the legendary Cinecitta Studios outside Rome. Abandoned by the actors and crews that brought the sets to life Crewdson decided to make the film sets themselves the subject of the photographs. Despite this change of direction the artists vision persists.

Martin Parr

Martin Parr

Martin Parr has worked on numerous photographic projects. He has developed a an international reputation for his innovative imagery his oblique approach to social documentary and his input to photographic culture within the UK and abroad. In 1994 he became a full member of Magnum Photographic Corporation. In recent years he has developed an interest in filmmaking and has started to use his photography within different conventions such as fashion and advertising.

Cristina De Middel

Cristina De Middel

Cristina De Middel is a photographer based in London that has been working for different newspapers in Spain and with NGO’s such as Doctors Without Borders or the Spanish Red Cross for more than eight years. She combines her strictly documentary assignments with more personal projects. This B-side of Cristina’s work deliberately asks the audience to question the language and the veracity of photography as a document and plays with reconstruction or archetypes that blur the border between reality and fiction.

Keith Riley

Keith Riley

Keith Riley is a freelance photographer based in Newquay Cornwall but he will travel throughout Cornwall, Devon the rest of the UK and abroad. He discovered photography ten years ago since then he’s been addicted to capturing moments that otherwise would become forgotten in this fast world we live in. He has also worked on tattoo photography.

Brian Cummings

Brian Cummings

Brian Cummings is a commercial photographer and director known for unique conceptual images and ideas. His interest in satire and narrative influence his work behind the camera. A former creative director with a BFA in graphic design Brian has over 15 years experience in the commercial field. After years of working with some of the industry’s top photographers and directors on advertising campaigns for several global brands Brian’s passion and pursuit of photography led him to start working from behind the camera as a commercial shooter and director. As a photographer specializing in lifestyle fashion and editorial work Brian draws on his conceptual chops and design sensibilities to compose striking images that tell stories ranging from humorous to dramatic to surreal. 

Alex MacNaughton

Alex MacNaughton

Alex MacNaughton has been working as a photographer since the early nineties. He has previously published three books focusing on graffiti and the street art scene. The idea for his fourth book surfaced during a less inspiring PR job which involved photographing a journalist getting a tattoo. As it turned out Alex started chatting with the tattooist and pretty soon new ideas began to take form. Alex wanted the book to have a consistent look over all the pages.

Tattoo Artists

Alex Macnaughton

Brian Cummings

Keith Riley

Kat Von D

Ina Saltz

Photography Analysis

For my photography analysis I looked through my photographs of tattoos and compared them to photos of tattoos on the internet

Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley is an American photographer living in New York City Ryan McGinley began doing photography in 1998 in 2003 at the age of 25 Ryan McGinley was one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ryan McGinley also has a book called Whistle For The Wind.

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer she does self portraits of herself from films and people she also did the photographs for the book Fitcher’s Bird based on a tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Anders Petersen

French Kiss

Anders Petersen is a famous photographer who takes black and white photographs of places and people he captures the right moment for a photograph of people doing there own thing in their home or outside.

Nan Goldin

I’ll Be Your Mirror

Nan Goldin is a famous photographer who has took photos of her life for the past twenty-five years of the 70s with her party years in Boston and New York she also took photos of her deep and complex midlife portraits her photographs show relationships and identity her photos also show her struggle against death and loss.

For me taking a picture is a way of touching somebody-it’s a caress. I’m looking with a warm eye, not a cold eye. I’m not analyzing what’s going on-I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.”

(Nan Goldin)

My Idea For My Series of Photos (Ink Bar)

Ink Bar

Paul Reed = portrait of him, his designs and tattoos

Ink Bar shop take photos of people who have had tattoos done by Ink Bar, Karen and Paul. Take photos round the shop.

Karens Tattoos

Grape Vines done by Paul Reed

Penguin Salairo done by Chris Edwards

Bumblebee Butter Cup done by Chris Edwards

Abi's Tattoos

Roses and a Butterfly

Mexican skull

Flowers and diamonds

Abi and her sister got matching tattoos ( i love you more, i love you morer

Pauls Tattoos

Victorian woman holding a bunnies head

Rose

Caterpillar with a moustache

Photography Project Series

Ink Bar

Ink Bar shop take photos, people who have had tattoos done by Ink Bar Karen and me, take photos round the shop outside the shop and of the Ink Bar sign.

Karens Tattoos

Grape Vines done by Paul Reed, Penguin Salairo done by Chris Edwards, Bumblebee butter cup done by Chris Edwards.

Also do photos of the tattoo artists and their art work.

Steve Bonge

Tattoo’d with Attitude Steve Bonge

Steve Bonge is a tattoo artist and photographer he’s one of Americas best tattoo photographers he has been photographing his tattoo world for over 15 years his style of tattooing is portraits, flowers, animals, tribal, skulls, Japanese, typography, clowns, pin up girls, angels, devils and puzzle pieces Steve Bonge is also a member of the New York Hells Angels.

 

Tony Cohen

The Tattoo Tony Cohen

Tony Cohen is a tattooist who has a very short story about his life he says he was born to be a tattooist and the type of tattoos he does is animal tattoos, samurai warrior tattoos, Chinese dragon tattoos, portrait tattoos, back pieces and chest pieces and sleeves. Tony has been tattooing for over 20 years he also has a wife named Jenny and two children Brett and Brooke.

 

Ina Saltz

Body Type Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh Ina Saltz

Ina Saltz is a photographer who has worked on many tattoo books and has a particular favorite type of tattoos typography tattoos Ina lives in New York City with her husband she has no pets or tattoos but she does have favorite typefaces Body Type is her first book.