Ed Ruscha
This picture is composed of multiple shots laid out next to one another to create a continuous city scape of Sunset Boulevard. The shot is called Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). He has managed to capture an image in which you can see the entirety of Sunset boulevard in a single view which would not be possible when stood there in person. This format condenses and extensive scene into an easily viewable medium. He has cleverly juxtaposed the different sides of the roads separating them with a block of empty space. This space represents the area in which the view could stand and view the scene as if looking up and down the Boulevard. i like the way Ruscha has condensed the entirety of the Boulevard into a single viewable image without distorting the look of the street. Id like to capture a landscape shot in the same way as Rusche, using multiple images to create a view of a real place which is impossible to see naturally.
Thomas Demand
In this shot a real room has been re created in miniature and details removed. This creates an unreal environment that looks plausible to that of the real thing. The scene is created with miniature models made from card and then photographed. The scene is very organised, with the main features placed in a grid like fashion. It is an abstracted view of an office, taking away the essence of a working office. The artificial lighting visible in the scene draws your eye towards the back wall of the image. The lighting provides the only softness to an otherwise harsh linear environment. I’d like to use Demand’s idea of removing the identity and the individual defining features of a place but in my image I’d like to keep the human element of the environment which this lacks. Whereas Demand creates an artificial scene without features, I’d like to remove the identifying features and characteristics from an existing landscape to make it ‘anonymous’
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