Night time photography at media City

Night time photography at Media City

Light display at night time at Media City, Salford Manchester.

Taken in March 2013

Saima Akram make up artist workshop

Saima Akram international celebrity makeup artist.

Workshop images

photoshop compositing - selection secrets

photoshop compositing

selection secrets

Using quick selection tool, Refine Edge, copyright (select T, alt g on keyboard)

cmd shift3to take screen print

sam 

to get copyright sign select T type tool. On apple alt g on keyboard

sweet shop background

Montage inspired by Manchester's Northern Quarter

Research Music, Art, Location

The Northern Quarter in Manchester x

Music sculpture in the Northern Quarter 

The Northern Quarter in Manchester

The Northern Quarter in Manchester was chosen for unit 23 as an area for research as a Location for Art and Music expression. 

The idea was to convey through images why the Northern Quarter is considered to be the centre of alternative and bohemian culture in Manchester.

Popular streets include Oldham Street, Tib Street, Newton Street, Lever Street, Dale Street, Hilton Street and Thomas Street.

The "Northern Quarter" as such did not exist as a distinct area until the mid 1990's.
Today popular for its numerous bars and cafes as well as its mix of music and clothes shops.

Posters, fly posting  lyrics in the pavement and plaques on the wall give  relaxed references to music and the creative life in Manchester.

Meanwhile, the area is something of a mecca for DJs, with shops such as Piccadilly Records, Vinyl Exchange, Vox Pop Records, Beatin' Rhythm, Eastern Bloc Records .

The Northern Quarter as a whole is characterized by its offbeat, alternative atmosphere. During the daytime, trendy hangouts. There are Cafes bars and restaurants offering a variety of for, culture, alternative information about events and music

Nightlife in the Northern Quarter includes music venues The Night and Day Café, Band on the Wall, the Roadhouse and The Ruby Lounge, The Mint Lounge


The area is also known as a home to the creative industries, and in particular fashion design, with various designers, agencies, and clothing wholesalers populating its back streets. There are also a number of commercial art galleries in the area.

Infact a interesting exhibition of photos by Kevin Cummins was held in Lever Street (March 2013). The exhibition showcased iconic photos of Morrissey and The Smiths.

Kevin Cummins is one of the coolest photographers working in the UK. He is most famous for his photographs of rock bands including including Joy Division, The Smiths and Oasis.
Here are a few images from the exhibition:-

Affleck's Palace is a former department store which has been turned into a multi-storey bazaar for alternative clothing and nick-nacks captures the alternative feel of the Northern Quarter. Here are a few of the many images i could have posted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Quarter_(Manchester)

Fashion Photography - Edward Steichen

Fashion Photography

Edward Steichen

Agnes Inspired  by the image above

Inspiration from EDWARD STEICHEN

THE FIRST "MODERN" FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER: EDWARD STEICHEN

Edward Steichen: Self-Portrait with Photographic Paraphernalia, New York, 1929

Edward Steichen: Evening shoes by Vida Moore, 1927

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was already a famed Pictorialist photographer and painter in the United States and abroad when he was offered the position of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair by Condé Nast. Upon assuming the job, the forty-four year old artist began one of the most lucrative and controversial careers in photography.

To Alfred Stieglitz and his followers, Steichen was seen as damaging the cause of photography as a fine art by agreeing to do commercial editorial work. Nevertheless, Steichen’s years at Condé Nast magazines were extraordinarily prolific and inspired. 

He began by applying the soft focus style he had helped create to the photography of fashion. But soon he revolutionized the field, banishing the gauzy light of the Pictorialist era and replacing it with the clean, crisp lines of Modernism. In the process he changed the presentation of the fashionable woman from that of a distant, romantic creature to that of a much more direct, appealing, independent figure. At the same time he created lasting portraits of hundreds of leading personalities in movies, theatre, literature, politics, music, and sports, including Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Colette, Winston Churchill, Amelia Earhart, Jack Dempsey, Noel Coward, Greta Garbo, Dorothy Parker, and Cecil B. De Mille. 

Edward Steichen: Actor Gary Cooper, 1930

Greta Garbo

Steichen's approach to fashion photography was formative, and over the course of his career he changed public perceptions of the American woman. An architect of American Modernism and a Pictorialist, Steichen exhibited his fashion images alongside his art photographs (generating quite a bit of controversy among contemporary artists at the time). Steichen's crisp, detailed, high-key style revolutionized fashion photography, and his influence is felt in the field to this day—Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Bruce Weber are among his stylistic successors.

Above are just a few examples of an extraordinary body of work by Edward Steichen.