SHARED BY: / Jon Nicholls
TITLE / KEY THEME: / More is More: Exploring Multiple Images
SUITABLE FOR: / GCSE students
OVERVIEW / SUMMARY: /
A Year 10 student’s response
Sometimes the single photograph is insufficient and photographers use multiple images to communicate their ideas. This can take a variety of forms: scientific studies of movement, photomontage, narrative sequences, typological studies, multiple exposures, Joiners, contact sheets and photo sculptures for example. Students can consider various reasons for needing more than a single image and explore various strategies for taking, editing and sequencing multiple images together. There are also opportunities for exploring a variety of strategies for the publishing and display of larger numbers of images, including the photo book.
KEY OBJECTIVES:
·  To investigate the relationship between single and multiple photographic images
·  To research examples of artists/photographers who have created multiple image works of art and their reasons for doing so
·  To experiment with a range of strategies for the use of multiple images
·  To develop, refine and evaluate the progress of these experiments
OUTLINE OF ACTIVITIES / SEQUENCE OF LEARNING:
·  Why do we think of photographs as single works of art? Discover what students already know about multiple images in photography? How many different kinds of multiple image photographic works of art do they know?
·  Research and analyse notable examples of multiple images (http://tinyurl.com/nrrygzu).
·  Select at least two approaches to research and respond to in greater depth.
·  Develop own ideas. Refine and evaluate.
·  Consider appropriate display strategies (http://tinyurl.com/o5nmntg). Present outcomes appropriately.
KEY ARTISTS / REFERENCES / PROMPTS:
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject. – Wolfgang Tillmans
Movement: Eadweard Muybridge, Gjon Mili, Phil Stern, Harold Edgerton, Robin Rhodes
Photomontage: Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Hoch, Peter Kennard, Alexander Rodchenko, Ashkan Honarvar
Narrative: Mari Mahr, Duane Michals, Elliot Erwitt, Robert Frank, Wolfgang Tillmans, Judith Golden, Sophie Calle
Typologies: August Sander, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha, Lewis Baltz, Hans Eijkelboom
Multiple Exposures: Harry Callahan, Ray Metzger, Stephanie Jung, Pep Ventosa, Idris Khan,
Joiners/Photo weaving: David Hockney, Maurizio Galimberti, Seung Hoon Park
Contact Sheets: William Klein, Martin Wilson, Thomas Kellner
Photo sculptures: Matt Lipps, Lisa Kokin, Robert Heinecken
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES:
Students could consider animation and/or moving image, particularly stop frame and time lapse techniques.
Students could also research the history of the photo book and experiment with editing and sequencing a larger body of photographs for publication in book form using s elf-publishing service like Blurb.