My own archive

the male toilets

Here is an example of an archive put into context

Here is a selection of photographs of female sculptures an signs to show that the toilets are the females. It is a collection of images put in to context as a design for imagary for the toilets the same slyle was done for the males toilets. This photgraph was taken in the met quarter hopping center in liverpool .

picture of archive put in to context

Why Archives

Why this interest’s me. Most people have collections of some sort that is fascinating to them weather they realise they do it our not.
I am fascinated with what fascinates others and why different things intrigue people.
This research project will take up a lot of my time so I have chosen a subject that will keep me interested in this project. I have also the past two years been collecting my own archive of peoples beliefs you could say this is an archive within an archive.

apply collections to contxt

I will look at personal resource in any medium from any source, perspectives on meaning and interpretation to apply collections to context with a point of view and explore context as a boundary of meaning.
I will show how simulating awareness of the creative potential of the world around us can form archive, which can be brought into a graphic context
(Such as the camper shoes campaign.)

Amelie (the flim)

In ‘Amelie’ the film directed by Jeunet you could observe a serious of characters defined (or at least better illustrated) by their collections/taxonomy.
Amelie herself finds an archive left behind in her flat by a small boy; the other main character collects torn up passports photos and photos footprints in wet cement: a girl from the café collects proverbs (and judges others on their own knowledge of them). The film starts by listing the characters’ likes and dislikes.

collections

It is certainly difficult to avoid top 10 lists in magazines at the moment, e.g. 50 places to go before you die, the best 50 beaches in the world, top ten life experiences before you’re 30, ect.
What I will be looking at however is merely a list but collections that have been developed over time. Looking at things people love, hate and are fascinated by. How artist have had their own personal perspective on subjects and their reasons for their interest in them.

what i will look at

Through out my research I want to look at not just photography as a material of keeping archives but to look at flim, sound, type, image, drawings, objects, the abstract or the ephemeral

british art councel

Over the past few years the British art council have organized several major photography and video exhibitions to showcase the diversity and breadth of these disciplines across contemporary UK practice. In December 2004 Sam Taylor-Wood opens at the Engineers' Palace in St Petersburg whilst a unique collaboration with The Photographers Gallery allowed Reality Check to show in London in November 2002 as part of its international tour. Through exhibitions like Common Ground audiences can explore social documentary, portrait and landscape photography, whilst the stunning 1930s studio photographs of Madame Yevonde add a historical perspective to our work. Have a closer look at our current and archived projects below.

Anna Fox 'Archive'

Anna fox has used photgraphs as an archive her serious of 'mum in a million' this is personal archive projct of individual homes after mothers day. she has plastered the wall with thw pictures all most as a doley wall paper. In each picture has flowers on the mantel pice or on tables. the pictures show the mothers touch (every mother has her own touch ).

center of the creative universe 'liverpool'

i vistied this exbition at the tate modern in liverpool. the exibition showed documentry of liverpool life. the main mediea that was used in this was photography.

neville gabie 1959 used a serious of photograhs called playing away uk-liverpool 1998-2005. The collection of pictures showed goals that had been painted on the sides of buildings across liverpool no person to be seen in them but a deserted area with vandlised buildings as goals.

Tom Wood 1951
his collection of pictures was from citerzens on bus from the inside and out. his projct was not planned as serious from the outset part of woods everyday routine he uses reflections in bus windows and doors as formal elements. fragmenting views and questioning our our preception of the scence. bring street photography in doors

martin parr 1983
'the lens on the street' is a serious of picture from around liverpool. martin parr is known for his high colour depictions of everyday life and customs in britian like one of his great influnces tony ray jones, paris images are redolent of the quintessential oddness of englishness living on mersyside in early 1980s, parr took many images of the area, most notably his gaudy photographs of the faded resort of new brighton. the images presentd here some of which arre exhibited for the first time ever, show different side of mersyside-a derelick and dystopian vision of liverpoool in the early 1980s.
his pictures capture the character of the rtimes in these areas in one of his pictures he focus on the curtians of a house showing t he tweedness of them through the colour.

the begging of my reaserch project

I have started to look at the way that graphic artist use photograhy in there work to convey messages. An what the role of photograhy can play in grahic coumunication. Also looking at artist's that have used photograhy as part of an archived project with in there work.