Patrick Shanahan Photography
Hes got 30 years of experiance and is going to talk about about how times in photography has changed. he started talking to us about his recent exhibition and then went on how he started and all,
2009-10 Rupture; He was the ' fergot name' Gallery opening, he concentrats on the details of a landscape like the ground or small pebbles. he did this to draw atention on this tough area and the extent of polution still around. prodoinat colours are yeallow and oka.
Studnet Days 1976-1982: he used to do alot of insutration work so to show his teachers his work he had to photograph theses. But when he showed his teachers he said that the photos were better than hes instructures! so he started taking photos of his freinds then his freinds of freinds and so on. He said he liked to take peoples photos in there own enviroment which i find quite similar to me becuase i love photographing people being normal and as if they dont even know i have a camera like the William Klien photos in his New York collection. Then by his 3r year he stoped all the skulpure and instructures and just focused on photography. When he left college he got a job very quickly in liverpool as a photographer leclturer, which helped him in to ways firstly he got very close with the local gallery and he also learnt more about photography as he was lectureing about it all! He then decided to do a MA in the royal college of photography
His passion was working in colour and getting true colours seen by everyone! and the area which was getting he really intrested was landscape.
Editonal and advertising commissions 1982-1994; he worked for the royal acadimany magazine and weekend magazines. He also photographed fellow artists like Peter Blake. he also did a large amount of comerical work which was very good for money and did cross processing.
Personal Projects 1994+ his project called Esperantis lasted from 1998-2001 with this he only photographed at night in spain because it started by not being able to photograph in the day because it was too hot so started at night and just worked so well. He got really intrested with artifially lit areas. then he did Amonentary Pressence 2002-2006 this is the sea very comerial style of photographing. then after that, that brings us back to the pressent.
Week Evaluation
This week has been really intresting and i have learnt so many new things some of which i hate and some of which i think i'll continue to love. i've felt very inspired after this week and have gone off to do some more art and photograph beautiful areas and just in a fantastic mood all round! firstly Monday, i really enjoyed making a book it was quite boreing and not extremly hard just took some hard concentration but was really satisfiing when we finished becuase we had something to take home and use! someting i think i might do again or i would hope i find the courage to do on my own! So this was one of the areas of my week that really effected me because i had no idea it would be so satisfiing making books and just learnt so much becuase in the back of my head i always thought that making a book would not be easy! Then on Tusday we did painting which is just my passion, so this was somehting i'd been wanting to do for a lonnnnng time just get some paint and some large paper and get EXPRESSIVE! but there were some rules so this wasnt as my dream had lead me on but still i was one with my paint brush again which was nice. we did two paintings but i didnt like both of mine the only image i liked was on a rough paper were we experimented with lines and had to draw 10 lines for some reason this was on of my favourate images so far! Then on Wednesday we had a complet contrast of the last few days in a lecture which made me so angry and bored... Making things.. i just found this terrible and a waste of my time becuase it tought me nothing. enough said on Wednesday onto Thursday was such a releif having a day of JUST photography something i really enjoyed and made me think about if i wanted to do that next year full time but the only bad thing about doing that means my fine art would just not be as strong so my inital plans are do a fine art degree with a photography course ontop but who really knows! Then that brings us to today and today was a very educational and expressive day firstly we had a great lecture the best so far in my opinion from Patrick Shanahan about photography then i went down to this old abandend house and photographed it was fantastic to get such raw images was very very cool. so this week has been one of my favourate apart from a mundamn Wednesday. but i've really started to get suck into my art again which is so nice being able to lose all my school methods of thinking of art and just start doing art again becuase I want to!
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