John Rankin was born in 1966 and is an English photographer. He specialises in portraits and fashion. Rankin's destroy project which involved him teaming up with a children's music charity called "Youth Music". In the project, Rankin asked musicians and visual artists to destroy their own portraits so they could be recreated by artists. Rankin's work has been created with the collaboration with music/visual artists. The outcome begins with the photographing of the artists portrait. After the portraits have been taken, it becomes the artists turn to start "manipulating them" and make it their own work.
Panoramic Photography
Collages
Collages and text work well together in photography because I can add religious quotes and sayings around the photographs of churches and religious related buildings so they work well together. Collages look better than normal photographs because it allows you to combine different photographs together and you can make one photo look a lot different by cutting them up and putting them back together.
My collages
My thought process
When i was making these collages i was thinking about how to make each photo look different to the original while making sure the subject stayed about religion. To do this i cut up the photographs and stuck them back together while adding quotes around them. I am not a very religious person so when i was doing the collages i had to think carefully about how i could portray my feelings about religion. I could develop these collages further in photoshop by changing the colours, adding drawings or cutting parts of the photograph out. Photoshop would also allow me to add more religious related images to the collages to make it clear that they are based on religion.
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger was born in 1945, in Newark, New Jersey. She spent a year at Syracuse University in 1964 and a semester at Parsons School of Design in New York in 1965, where she studied with Diane Arbus and graphic designer Marvin Israel. In 1966 she took a job with Condé Nast, working in the design department at Mademoiselle magazine. She was named the magazine’s head designer a year later. For the next decade, Kruger supported herself doing graphic design for magazines, book jacket designs, and freelance picture editing. In the late 1960s, she also developed an interest in poetry, attending readings and writing.
Since the 1990s, she has also returned to magazine design, incorporating her confrontational phrases and images into a wholly different realm from the art world. Associated with postmodern Feminist art as well as Conceptual art, Kruger combines tactics like appropriation with her characteristic wit and direct commentary in order to communicate with the viewer and encourage the interrogation of contemporary circumstances.