Reflection

From the work I have done so far, I have focussed mainly on my own nostalgia. For instance, I have looked at many photographs from my own childhood, and looked at toys and books I had when I was younger. A main aspect of nostalgia is places, so I think I should also look at places I used to visit often when I was little, and perhaps try and recreate some old photographs of these places. During a group crit, I was advised to look back on my own childhood memories, both good and bad, and also remember traditions, stories, things I used to eat and say. I was also advised to look into some typographers.

Observational Drawing

I wanted to do some observational drawing to see what kind of imagery I could create from my own nostalgia. I did these drawings using black fine liner pen, on a variety of different surfaces.

I prefer the sketches I did using the method of continual line drawing. This is because I think the drawings themselves are not only clearer, but more interesting as well.

Matt Schwartz

I wanted to look at Matt Schwartz because, although he is a photographer and not a graphic designer, his photographs have a very nostalgic feel to them, and I thought I could try and use his style of working in my own work. He creates his photographs by taking large format polaroids, pulling part the film and rubbing the negative onto water colour paper (polaroid transfer).

I decided to try and recreate a similar feel to these photographs in my own photographs by editing them on photoshop.

 This picture uses the water paper filter, and I like the effect of this filter. I also think it is reflective of Matt Schwartz's work due to the contents of the image, as it includes a turning page in a book.

 I used the ink outlines filter for this picture, and I like the outcome of it, as it reflects the uncertain, hazy feeling when looking back on memories and feeling nostalgic.

 I used the texturize filter on this picture, but I don't think this effect works as well as the others to reflect a feeling of nostalgia, as I think the outcome is too bright, and the lighting isn't reflective of the work by Matt Schwartz.

 This is using the water paper filter, and I think this effect works really well to reflect the theme of nostalgia and the style of matt schwartz.

 I just edited the brightess/contrast of this picture, and i don't think the colouring works particularly well, but the hazy, unclear efferct could reflect characteristics of memories, which links to nostalgia.

Photographs From A Car Boot Sale

Observational Drawing From A Car Boot Sale

These drawings were quick sketches I completed whilst at the car boot sale, using pencil. I think they might have turned out better if I had used a black fine liner pen, because once scanned in, the drawings don't stand out very much, and don't have a large enough conrast with the white paper. I think they reflect the theme of nostalgia because they show people selling their own memories, which I think would trigger a strong feeling of nostalgia for the people in the drawings.

Triggers For Nostalgia

Evaluation Of Images

I chose to work with these photographs, because I think they all reflect the theme of nostalgia; some of them are nostalgic for myself, but I didn't want to concentrate on my own nostalgia, I wanted to look at it for other people as well. Therefore, some of these photographs are nostalgic for older members of my family, and show events which happened before I was born. The different photographs show different events and circumstances, which I think would trigger a feeling of nostalgia.