Collaboration: A Start
Instructions are a way for artists to narrow down and create pictures with more creativity in mind: if you think about it, having a certain set of instructions means that you'll be limited to what you can do, also meaning you'll be forced to be creative in order to take an interesting photograph.
This has been used by artists in the past in order to make sure that their artwork could be kept concise and interesting.
An example of this is John Baldessari; he is one of the main artists that have used instructions for their artwork. In Baldessari's case, he was previously a teacher, so having these instructions were very useful. Being able to instruct his students with a list of instructions means he is able to increase effectiveness and simplify tasks in order to save time. Time is key in art and photography especially.
First Attempt at Collaboration
The picture above is a set of instructions given to me by someone in my class, entailing me to curated the 5 photos below to the best of my ability.
I think these went pretty well because I got a wide variety of scenes and settings which make these interesting. I thought that this was easy in the first place since these are almost kind of everyday things to be pictured, apart from maybe the bird. These were all made as part of my daily treks I take in and around London so I didn't really find this a challenge. I had a chat with the person who assigned me these instructions and they said these are good apart from the train picture because I must have misinterpreted what he meant be half of the frame being taken up by a train, maybe he just wasn't concise with his instructions.
I think these went pretty well because I got a wide variety of scenes and settings which make these interesting. I thought that this was easy in the first place since these are almost kind of everyday things to be pictured, apart from maybe the bird. These were all made as part of my daily treks I take in and around London so I didn't really find this a challenge. I had a chat with the person who assigned me these instructions and they said these are good apart from the train picture because I must have misinterpreted what he meant be half of the frame being taken up by a train, maybe he just wasn't concise with his instructions.
First Attempt: Sequel
After this, us as a class brought our pictures together and we were tasked with forming a sequence with our photographs. This proved to be a challenge. We started this off by putting all of the pictures onto a wall and then we slowly eliminate any pictures that we didn't want from the wall until we had about 25-30 images. By this point, many days of solution finding would come as we find a good sequence to fit each picture. Some parts of the sequences didn't really fit with other parts as we found different links to make everything work. The result is below.