Sequential Images - Ideas & Research

After practicing in class with various sequences, I began to think of my own idea of a sequence, I remember this painting by Reynier Llanes a Cuban artist, this painting called "The Poet" used as the cover of an album for a Mexican singer. The album's cover art features the phrase from the children's book The Little Prince  "The essential is invisible to the eyes" From my perspective this represents the connection between what we are and the little things we are made of, that we take for granted and the connection we have with what surrounds us.

The poet (2021) Reynier Llanes

I would like to create a series of still images that represent the connection between something sometimes invisible, so I created a storyboard, of the sequence and images I would like to create, I will take these pictures using my iPhone 13. I would use a garden space and a tree cause I want to portray the connection with nature. 

Considering how I will elaborate this piece I look at Ansel Adams work based on nature and landscape like Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park (1934) which explores landscape in black and white. 

Yosemite Valley (1934) Ansel Adams 

His photographic work features his effort as an environmentalist "That first impression of the valley-white water, azaleas, cool fir caverns, tall pines and stolid oaks, cliffs rising to undreamed-of heights, the poignant sounds and smells of the Sierra...was a culmination of experience so intense as to almost painful. From that day in 1916, my life has been colored and modulated by the great earth gesture of the Sierra." Adams says, to me it seems he discovered the natural art he wanted to transmit to the world, but he also discovered his intention in life. Which included making nature photography included as an art.

Sand Dune. Sunrise. Death Valley National Monument, California (1948) Ansel Adams

Throughout his life, he contributed to the conservation of natural ecosystems by capturing the natual beauty they had in within, showing is a way of speaking, which is the way of nonverbal communication we sometimes lack. I find his photographs very sumerge in attention to detail is very impressive "Such prints retain most of the original negative quality. Subterfuge becomes impossible. Every defect is exposed, all weakness equally with strength. I want the sharp beauty a lens can so exactly render." Edward Weston commented on realistic photographs.

This piece is the study of motion through photography it was used to study medical motion conditions in animals and humans. It was revolutionary to capture movement in such way, this sequence is part of a large project called "Animal Locomotion".  I personally really like he fact that this piece and some others of the project portray motion in dancing, and not only in sports or walking or jumping but in a more soul hearted way. And that the model is possibly enjoying it. "The breakthrough is that the camara can see things the human eye can't see, and that we can use photography to access our world beyond what we know it to be."  Shannon Perich says. Camaras on my perspective help us see things differently, we are so used to the same pair of eyes, the same angles, that we are able of discovering new things with the help of other eyes.

In the following post, I will show the creation and final piece of my images

References

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SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2014). Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park. [online] SFMOMA. Available at: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/57.941/.

Mary Pham ‘26 (2024). Ansel Adams: America’s Greatest Photographer of the 20th Century. [online] The Monarch. Available at: https://amhsnews.org/11602/photography/ansel-adams-americas-greatest-photographer-of-the-20th-century/ [Accessed 5 Oct. 2024].

“Woman Dancing (Fancy) by Eadweard Muybridge.” Sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk, 2024, collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8338771/woman-dancing-fancy-by-eadweard-muybridge. Accessed 11 Oct. 2024.