Black Light
Keld Helmer-Peterson:
Keld Helmer-Peterson was a Danish photographer, very much influenced by Albert Renger Pazsch and his realist approach to photography. He was also influenced by The New Objectivity and its focus on the machines of the industry as well as the architectural elements. His photographs often consisted of of structures, patterns and details found in industrial areas, cityscapes and nature and during the 1950s and 1960s, established himself as an architectural photographer.
Although publishing his most famous book "122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs", he also was very well-known for his books of black and white images that explore dramatic contrasts of tone. In some of the books, the photographs have been removed of all mid tones and so we are left with the stark contrast of black and white.
As you can see in these photographs, all mid tones of grey have been removed so that you are only able to see black and white. This adds to the abstractness of the photograph as the fact that there are no mid tones, it makes it harder to understand and read the photo.
Although publishing his most famous book "122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs", he also was very well-known for his books of black and white images that explore dramatic contrasts of tone. In some of the books, the photographs have been removed of all mid tones and so we are left with the stark contrast of black and white.
As you can see in these photographs, all mid tones of grey have been removed so that you are only able to see black and white. This adds to the abstractness of the photograph as the fact that there are no mid tones, it makes it harder to understand and read the photo.
My Black Light Book
I made two Black Light photobooks in total and I am fairly happy with the outcome of both of them. I wish I had used more exciting images for some of them and experimented more in the first place. In order to improve them, I decided to make changes to the images I had already edited on photoshop. I manipulated them when scanning them onto the computer and I am very happy with the outcome as all of them are very different.
My First Photobook:
For my first photobook, I chose all of the images from my interpretation of Albert Renger Patszch's 'The world is beautiful'. I did this because I felt that with some of the images I wasn't so happy with in that topic, it would be a good idea to experiment with them so that I could improve them onn photoshop with threshold. I am happy with the turnout as I really think they have completely changed the photographs, however I wish I had used the threshold editor to make the images more abstract.
My Second Phtobook:
In my second photobook, I used photos that I had taken for the purposes of this topic, so they were new and I hadn't analysed them before. With this photobook, I really tried to focus on my key improvement for my previous book, so that meant I tried tp use the threshold editor to make the images very abstract so that you were almost unable to understnad what they were of.
I made changes to these photographs by disrupting the process of scanning them. I done this by moving the printed photo around when it was being scanned, this caused the interference with the photograph. To create different ways of disturbing each photograph, I just moved the printed images around in different ways when being scanned so that it created different patterns and different disturbances. I wanted to do this so that I was able to create a whole new set of photographs for a new photobook that showed manipulation as a theme. I am very happy with these photographs as my aim was to make it as thought you could hardly see what the original photograph was like and I think I achieved this.