Diptychs
Diptychs present two images which can be from the same session or polar opposites to show opposition or contrasting ideas
Montage theory
Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing. It is the principal contribution of Soviet film theorists to global cinema, and brought formalism to bear on filmmaking
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James Mollison
James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton's creative lab, Fabrica. His photographs have been featured widely in such publications as Colors, the New York Times Magazine, and Paris Review. Below I present some of James Mollison's diptych's which is titled 'what refugees carry with them'. Along with these images James Mollison added some text (As shown in image 3) to give the viewers some insight info about these people.
Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler is an artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s. Luke Fowler has a book called 'Two Frame Film' were experiments with connections between subjects and also how completely different photographs set juxtapose to one another in fact relate.
John Maclean
John Maclean is a British photographer based in London. He has been a freelance photographer since 1998, using commercial, architectural commissions to support an independent, fine-art practice. Although born in Buckinghamshire, England, John spent most of his childhood in Canada and the United States. He began using a camera at the age of fourteen when he discovered the book American Images, featuring the work of Lee Friedlander, Lewis Baltz and John Gossage. Below I present some of his work
Mike Terry
Mike Terry has created a series of diptychs using a variety of strategies. His images sometimes appear to be two closely related frames from the same event. Some pairs are united by the quality of light. Other pairings juxtapose different viewpoints, subjects, colours and moods to create tension.
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By Sophie Naylor and Myself
By Sophie Naylor and Myself