Research –

A series- is a group of images of the same kind related to each other e.g Bechers photographs of grain silos

A sequence- stresses within a group of images a continuity in time or thought e.g Muybridge animals running

Cohesion- a body of work can be said to be formed if the images show cohesion

Muybridge: photographed horses in motion to settle the dispute of whether all 4 legs ;eave the ground together. What he produced and other images of animals and people was the beginnings of cinema.

Duane Michaels: surrealist. “Things are queer” – photo series of bathroom , miniature and in a picture within a book. Also women in a mirror, Andy Warhol’s head and two men in an alley.

John Hilliard; the camera recording its own condition.

Ed Ruscha – 25 foot concertina phonebook of 1 .5 mile sunset strip

Nicholas Nixon- the Brown sisters. Took photograph of hi wife and three sisters every year for 40 years.

Upon finding a packet of weeds that in my childhood were called opal fruits I decided to have a playful time exploring a sequence with building a tower of these sweets.

This tower block game reminded me of doing this test with 2 year old children when you would be testing their development by seeing how many cubes they are able to balance. Because of the retro feel of this project I converted 1 series to black and white and with the other I tweaked the colours using curves to get that feeling.

I could have been more accurate with the composition if I had used a tripod and perhaps had a central point on the wall to centre up with the camera’s centre of the lens.The lighting was afternoon and quite bright at this time and I could have experimented with different lighting conditions. I may try this using a light box – see and a tripod as this would increase the clarity and give a more overhead light rather than light coming from the side.