Application; When visiting the brighton exhibition we saw work from photographers such as
Stephen Gill, Rinko Kawauchi and Alec South. I think my favourite was Alec Soth's photograph of the flock of birds flying above Brighton beach. This was such a natural photo, with a very abnormal tone as the birds looked as if they were a storm. The photographers that we looked at at the gallires were different to the photographers that we'd studied in class although they did have similar styles.
A lot of the photos we looked at were portraits, these were mainly in The house of Vernacular.When we visited the University of Brighton gallery, we discovered that most of the photos had been manipulated into black and white, this was a good technique as it looked as if the people and objects in the photos were moving.
Context; Nearly all of the photos we looked at were based on a plain white canvas & a plain white wall, this drew in focus on the photograph. Hardly any photos were framed; but just pinned to the board as they were.
The exhibition rooms themselves were all very different, in the University of Brighton gallery all the walls were painted white. In the House of Vernacular it was like stepping into somebodys home, the walls had colour and there was no natural sunlight. In the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery it was more like a museum with separate rooms, plain coloured walls and an even balance between sunlight and non-natural light. All of these different types of galleries helped to set the scene for the photographs.
