Post assignment two my tutor advised me to try and create more suspense in the series of image I produced. She suggested a few artists among which was Lydia Goldblatt.
http://www.lydiagoldblatt.com/projects/still-here/
Images above as examples taken from the artists website. Goldblatt over a series of three years took pictures of her ageing parents. She has used details of wrinkled flesh, a mole, bodily fluid. She has portrayed all this in an elegant and beautiful way. Goldblatt in these personal images of her parents tackles the theme of immortality. The suspense in many of the images a closed eyelid for example at first we do not know what the series is about the series talks for itself in the end.
Penny Klepuszewska’s, Living arrangements.
Klepuszewska in this series looks at how the home once a place of sanctuary can become a solitary prison for the elderly awaiting perhaps only a different person from home care to visit them each day. Again the images add suspense. A pot on the stove, a person in bed. It is only when we view the entire series that the story becomes apparent.
Les Monaghan
Images from The Forest. This set of images instantly gets your curiosity. You are not sure what is is you are looking at and requires investigation on your part. The accompanying text helps. See his blog for images.
While reading Photography by Stephen Bull I took note also of the image P 54 of Helmut Newton, Self Portrait with Wife June and Models, Vogue Studio, Paris.
Certainly the first thing we notice is the model naked from behind, then we see the photographer in his trench coat in the mirror, we know he is a fashion photographer however his clothes and his view in the mirror make the image seem voyeuristic. Then while looking at the image for a while your eye eventually lands on his wife June or perhaps it was only reading the text that I noted his wife was in the picture and looked for her. This is certainly a technique of adding suspense and something I am researching for my next assignment Self Portrait.
References.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/10312393/Lydia-Goldblatts-Still-Here-an-essay-born-of-the-intimacy-of-family-love.html (first accessed 26/09/2015)
http://www.lydiagoldblatt.com ( first accessed 26/09/15)
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/2/307.full ( first accessed 26/09/15)
http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/artist-members/penny-klepuszewska/( first accessed 26/09/15)
http://www.artlyst.com/events/penny-klepuszewska-living-arrangements-end-part-the-art-house ( first accessed 26/09/15)
http://lesmonaghan.blogspot.com ( first accessed 26/09/15)
Bull, S. (2010) Photography. Abingdon: Routledge