My Most Memorable Smells and Senses from Our Trip to The V&A and Science Museum
- The sounds of the trains going by whilst we were waiting for our trains and whilst on our train.
- The life of the train station during work hours and rush hour.
- The smells of the restaurants and food stalls within Victoria station.
- The people ordering and taking food orders within Victoria Station.
- The birds walking around Victoria Station.
- The noise of children walking through the tunnel to the museums.
- The train conductors and announcers.
- The floorboards creaking as people walked throughout the exhibitions.
- The sounds of school children in the eating area and on the way to the eating area.
- The sounds of cars beeping and driving past us
- The sounds of everyones footsteps as we walked through the tunnel on our way to the Museum.
- The textures and patterns of the marble floors when walking into the Museum and around the museums.
- The light and shadows that the sun casted as we walked through the city.
- The shadows casted by the buildings around us onto the floors and onto other buildings.
Alec Soth at The Science Museum
My Images from the exhibition
Alec Soth is an American Photographer who is well known for making large-scale American Projects, featuring the midwestern side of the United States. When looking at his photographs, they can be related to a cinematic feel with slight elements of "folklore" which can hint to a story behind the images. Soth is able to capture insightful, meaningful and raw photographs on his travels across America by photographing landscape, desolated regions and deeply intimate portraits of peoples lives.
Richard Learoyd At The V&A
Richard Learoyd, has a completely different photographic style to Alec Soth. Learoyd is a still life photographer, who's images contrast with the work of Alec Soth in his approach to photography and his style and nature of photographs. In this collection of photographs, he has tried to steer clear if the generic, digital element of photography by using a camera obscura and the photographs are mainly studies of people in the nude, pretty much life-size or close enough. He often used sitters such as Frank Auerbach or Lucian Freud, who he photographs on eerie, isolating backgrounds, often shooting one figure at a time.
How is seeing work in a gallery context different to seeing images on the Internet? What did you think of the ways in which both artists' work was curated/displayed?
When viewing a work in a gallery, you get a more personal experience with the work, it can sometimes feel like it was meant just for you to look at and nobody else, whereas on the internet, it feels like the complete opposite. When seeing them in context a gallery, they are blown up to a larger scale which makes them more powerful and more emotive because you can see every single detail much more clearly as they were meant to be seen.
When looking at the curation of Alec Soth's photographs, they were curated in a way that they exposed their true, original meaning. Due to their size and clarity, attention to detail is drawn and gives another level of depth to the photos. When looking at Soth's photographs, you cannot ignore the fact that although his images do communicate and present the detail and subject, they really tell a story and a scene as if from a movie, rather than just a single moment in someones life but a complete history behind that person because of the raw emotion and natural moments in each photo.
When looking at the curation of Alec Soth's photographs, they were curated in a way that they exposed their true, original meaning. Due to their size and clarity, attention to detail is drawn and gives another level of depth to the photos. When looking at Soth's photographs, you cannot ignore the fact that although his images do communicate and present the detail and subject, they really tell a story and a scene as if from a movie, rather than just a single moment in someones life but a complete history behind that person because of the raw emotion and natural moments in each photo.