STYLE “identifiable, personalized way of doing things” continued
OPPOSITION
Opposition is fundamental to balance (except where static balance or "field" images in which pattern and texture dominate).
Two counterbalanced factors are best because energy works backwards and forwards.
Consider plane separation, first used by Lorrain in 17th century.
LOW GRAPHIC STYLE
Strted in mid 1970s in US, styled as New Topographics and new Colour. Willima Jenkins went for "stylistic anonymity", "....eschewing entirely the aspects of beauty, emotion and opinion."
Mirrored by Bechers in Dusseldorf (have read about this before). Subject matter is typically landscapes and built environment. The resultant imagery is "low on rhetoric".
Factors in low graphic style - static balance (no diagonals and symmetry), equal proportions (use square), passive, no surprises, normal focal lenghts, modest colour, monochrome, repetition.
MINIMALISM
"Less is more". Rejects pictorial and representational, preferring abstract geometry (Assignment 2?).
Factors in minimalism: framing - cut out elements from view; consistency of tome and colour; clean lines; emptiness.
HIGH GRAPHIC STYLE
Excitement, surprise and energy.
"It's hard to know where photography fits in the fully liberated world of digital colour..."
Heightening graphic elements by emphasising angularity.
Other techniques: extremes of placement, contrast, high saturation.
ENGINEERED DISORDER
A sort of anarchical movement to cover a host of different approaches. Attempts to "...engage viewers into thinking beyond what they are seeing." (El-Tantawy).
Uses disconnects, notably chiaroscuro lighting. Also disruptive foreground (typically out of focus), breaking the frame, superimposed layers.
