Photographers Gallery trip

The photographers gallery is located on rambles street, around five to ten minutes from Oxford Circus tube station and is the largest public gallery dedicated to photography in London and it allows visitors to explore photography in all its forms. When we visit the exhibition the work of Laura Letinsky, Geraldo De Barros, Jan Svoboda's, Peggy Franck, Nicole Wermers', Batia Suter, Anna Parkina, Roy Arden, Clunie Reid.

Geraldo De Barros was a Brazilian painter, photographer and industrial designer and he is considered a pioneer of modern artist photography as well as for a generation of contemporary practitioners. Born is Sao Paulo in 1923 Geraldo first established himself as a painter and a founding member of the expressionist painting studio Grupo 15. In addition to painting he began experimenting with photography and in 1946 joined the Bandeirant photo club who aimed to rejuvenated photography by bringing it away from the realism in photos which come strait from the camera. Geraldo was influenced by Gestalt theory and the idea of an incomplete form in relation to the complete version. I could see this in his exhibition even though it was unintentional because he died before finishing a collection of work, the picture bellow is an example of one of those pieces.(Link)

This piece is in that unfinished style and is one of the last  in a series that he worked on. I think that the idea  of work intentionally being left unfinished expresses that the true art in in the preparation. The taking of the photo, the editing, developing and presenting of the piece. Using this picture as an example of that, the image looks as if the artist has posted a negative up on a wall to inspect the quality and details but also to compare against the other photographs they had taken.  They could all be of the same place, but on every occasions, one factor could be different meaning that every picture is unique. The Colours present to me the idea of a dream-scape. vibrant unnatural and out of this world. When I think of the significance of this in relation to the time period where there weren't computers with advanced programs like today Photoshop and illustrator and so most experiments would have been done by changing setting on the camera and by hand and most probably outcomes accidental adding o the art in journey idea. As he was elderly at the time he crated this image it would have been unintentional but the colours could be related to the prevalent underground electronic music and recreational drug culture. Psychedelically vibrant colours but also a lot of the music was created through experimentation and by accident.