Project 2 - Lens work
Gianluca Coscihttp://www.gianlucacosci.com/
Italian photographer, born in 1970.
His work is a powerful example of the extreme use of shallow depth of field, linked to an extremely low viewpoint, in order to refuse any standardization, liberty restriction and censorship.
Abstract from his statements:
"Standardisation is a tool of control and constraint of people into reassuring and harmless psychological and architectural boxes in which any hint of improbable rebellion would be easily sedated. ............ With my photographs I would like to insinuate a subtle sense of violence in our deeply hierarchical society. ........ Often we are forced to have only restricted views, uncomfortable to maintain. In spite of this, I believe that one can take advantage of this apparent fault and use it to observe and understand things in a different, unexpected way."
Gianluca Cosci, 2006
These words sound as a discrepancy between the statements and the deep use of shallow depth of field, since, as stated by Ansel Adams and F64 group, deep focus is supposed to be an instrument of freedom, while shallow depth of field is supposed to force the viewer to focus on a selected part of the photograph, as an instrument of censorship. However the real content of Gianluca Cosci's message lies in the blurred part of the photo, such as a refusal of the aesthetically rules, of the architectural schemas of a corporate power. In focus are some sprouts, hopeful image growing against all odds.
I shot the following photo in a steel factory depot, using the maximum aperture in order to get only the wire in focus. The photo, if taken with a minimum aperture, should have been the classical prospecting with the steel bars driving the view to some trees: a link between industrial product and nature.
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| f 1.4 iso 100 1/2500 50 mm * 1,6 = 80 mm |
Kim Kirkpatrick
American photographer, born 1952
As he said in an interview, " ...... "I take pictures where nature and man meet, where one is taking over the other....".
Kirkpatrick’s landscape photos are mainly about abandoned construction and industrial zones around Baltimore and Washington D.C.
His reputation is to be a master of bokeh-aji, using a shallow depth of field in the back of the picture and front focus.
I shot the following photo in the same steel factory depot, using wide aperture in order to get only the front focus and progressive shallow depth of field.
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| f 5,6 iso 100 1/400 50 mm * 1,6 = 80 mm |
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