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Curatorship Film
For my curatorship task I made a video, my video details the theme of my imaginary exhibition and my initial aims for it. With my chosen photographers, I detail why they are so versatile at capturing moments from 'City Spaces & Urbanites'. I split my exhibition into 3 rooms, New York, London and Paris. I did this because I feel that these 3 cities are pioneering locations when looking at a developing, well cultured cities.
I wanted photographers from different time era's to show a wider time scale of a cities development. Photographers and filmmakers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Eric Rohmer capture the French capital through its industrialist regeneration, and through its darkest times in the years of World War 2. I felt doing this was important, as a city is shaped and moulded by its past experiences whether they are good or bad.
Many of my chosen photographers mastered the way to capture their own cities, with most of them shining light on parts of city life that its inhabitants do not notice. This voyeuristic approach that is commonly seen amongst my chosen photographers has helped them capture moments in time that speak volumes of the attitude and lifestyle the people have in their respected cities.
However, one photographer that I used called Rutt Blees Luxemburg does this in a different way. I included her work because of the attention to detail she shows. Luxemburgs work still captured the raw beauty of an urban city, in her case London. She uses its empty skeleton to show the environment Londoners live in, photographing the less glamourised yet far more commonly seen parts of London, using the ambient, unnatural street lighting.
I wanted photographers from different time era's to show a wider time scale of a cities development. Photographers and filmmakers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Eric Rohmer capture the French capital through its industrialist regeneration, and through its darkest times in the years of World War 2. I felt doing this was important, as a city is shaped and moulded by its past experiences whether they are good or bad.
Many of my chosen photographers mastered the way to capture their own cities, with most of them shining light on parts of city life that its inhabitants do not notice. This voyeuristic approach that is commonly seen amongst my chosen photographers has helped them capture moments in time that speak volumes of the attitude and lifestyle the people have in their respected cities.
However, one photographer that I used called Rutt Blees Luxemburg does this in a different way. I included her work because of the attention to detail she shows. Luxemburgs work still captured the raw beauty of an urban city, in her case London. She uses its empty skeleton to show the environment Londoners live in, photographing the less glamourised yet far more commonly seen parts of London, using the ambient, unnatural street lighting.