Presentation for capture

Next Monday you will present the findings of your research into practitioners working in a chosen medium. As an example we compared the album artwork created by Jake Walters (Morrisey) and Peter Blake (The Beatles)from different eras using different techniques and technologies that show how time has changed the way that people work in the creative industries.

Research found that Sir Peter Blake had been paid £200 for what became the most famous cover ever. It was mae in 1967 and was the Beatles eighth album. It is a collage of famous people whom the band admired. The band pose as fictitious members of a new group and there are post-modern reference to cultural icons. Blake was a pop-artist using images from popular culture and life sized cardboard cut-outs of heroes along with wax work figures of the Beatles from Madame Tussauds to create a collage which was photographed in a studio. Blake was helped by a photographer, his wife and other people who cut out the cardboard figures so it was not a solo project.

We came up with our own versions of the collage after thinking of our own icons and heroes.

The internet is rife with controversy and speculation about Morrisey who appears to court it or ironically mock the provocative nature of his character in his album art work. JAke Walters is a close collaborator who uses photography to maintain control of the image of Morrisey and to preserve and enhance his enigma. Working in arange of mediums as most modern practitioners seem to he photographs celebrities and also works in the fashion and advertising worlds. His them is striking and memorable portraiture. He employs image manipulation and hios work is highly stylised and symbolic making use of lighting, props, make-up and costume.

IN the album cover we analysed he uses a retro sixties font and the image is a throwback to masculine figures in years past with a proud fatherly pose in a Frd Perry shirt. His lean figure and pose seems rather camp to a modern audience but ther is something reminiscent of conventional Englishness about the image.

Is he saying that after years of refusal he wants to be seen as a fatherly , responsible or human figure rather than a provocateur.

He recently posed for the Guardian when he made another controversial statement about Chinese people being a sub-species because of the way they treat animals. Asked if he was racist he said he does not like anybody. He then refuseed to let the Guardian use the photos they took and got Jake Walters to take some others. Notably one with a cat on his head.

The last image shows how nothing can be taken too seriously in our post modern world.