New Objectivity

Final Show .

This project is the final project for my degree. I will be looking at a style of photography that emerged from the 1920s art movement that was born out of a reaction against futurism and expressionism. Early work made during the Great War, German artists depicted the horrors of war. This anti-war movement gave the genre of New Objectivity its direct and sincere, honest character. 

 

I have drawn on the theories of New Objectivity in my previous project, to help get the aesthetic and help with the contextualisation that I needed to produce the work. The images where clinical and matter of fact, to ensure the viewer saw the object with no distractions. 

The images for my final project will follow the New Objectivity philosophy, showing the beauty of the object and their existence. To make the object to the viewer as the form is to the function of the object. A realisation can be made as to why things are the way they are or why they have been created that way. This can lead to a deeper thinking of that object, its beauty, its creation, the mind of the creator and the thinking behind its creation. To extend on this, why the author has decided to create the image, Renger-Patzsch, for example used this style of photography for an advertising campaign for coffee. So the style can be used for motives or an agenda. And that seems logical and the image is making the viewer concentrate on the object. So maybe, New Objectivity could be employed to create an awareness, a tool to steer the viewers thoughts, especially if a series of objects is viewed together.

A pioneer of New Objectivity in photography, Albert Renger-Patzsch applied these qualities to his photographs. Seeing the subject as an object and making a faithful representation of it. Observing the beauty in all objects, in their detail or their complexities. 

"... the eye is subjective; it views with pleasure the essential things and completely overlooks what is unimportant. The camera, on the other hand has to reproduce the entire image in focus and in a particular size. It will see the essential and the inessential with equal clarity." Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1937.

Do I have an agenda? Yes, of course I have an idea of a message to be conveyed. My project will be a spin off from my two projects preceding, continuing the theme  of the CoV saga. maybe the message will be obvious to some...

To make more of the Renger-Patzsch quote (above), I will be looking into the details that are easily missed. By way of macro-photography, I intend to show what is missed because it can not readily be noticed or seen in great detail.

These images are a work in progress,

 a rough cut,

not a complete or final edit,

or even a completely post-processed image collection....

 Vit D3

Control and Test?

      Sample, Specimen? 

I have chosen to create three series of images, the subject matter are; hypodermic needles and syringes, vitamin d3 tablets and the swab and test kit. 

I shall choose a collection for my final pieces from these three series. 

a couple of these images will be made into large scale prints, to make the micro into macro.

....to be continued...