Futurism

Futurism is to do with movement within a photograph using a slow shutter speed to capture whatever movement that looks like it is still moving (a motion blur)

This is a photograph taken in London using a slow shutter speed to capture the bus lights (1/30)  this makes the image look like there is movement as we can see the bus number in the top right of the image where as we cant actually see the bus just the headlights. A slow shutter speed is a setting on a camera that will slowly shut the lens to capture the image you are trying to take.

Futurism can connote war, danger & anti-nature

Using a slo shutter speed it can connote unity and far more power behind it with a stronger meaning , this style of photography is usually used with planes, cars, sports as these can al move quite quickly and can capture the speed/pace of the light.

The art of the past can be challenged as that is more traditional and we are celebrating technology with what we can do with art these days.

Anton Giulio Bragaglia

Anton is a pioneer in Italian Futurist photography, born in Italy in 1890. he was an artist with wide interests, he also wrote about film, theatre and dance. This photograph denotes a man moving about aggressively from what we can see, this connotes anger or paranoia from something we do not know but we can see the way he moves isn't quite as normal as most of us. This photograph was taken in the 1930s

Arturo Bragaglia

Arturo Bragaglia began his career making photographs in collaboration with his older brother Anton Giulio Bragaglia, his artistic training was developed as an assistant, alongside his brothers, in his fathers film production company in Rome. In 1911 he started to collaborate with his brother on photographic experiments and the work continued until 1932. from 1922 until 1928 he was the official photographer of his brothers' establishment.

Recreation

                                                                                                                                                                  

Here is my recreation in he style of an American surrealist photographer Anton Giulio Bragaglia, I have decided to that I want to recreate this image out of them all because of the meaning and journalism behind them.
This image connotes a boy that is distressed, as if the boy was caught up in a train of thoughts and no way of expressing how he feels. The meaning behind this story is that we shouldn't be alone with our thoughts and what we are thinking, we should all have our own way of expressing our creativity and not care what other people think about us. We all have our own aesthetics and appreciate life so why should we over complicate thoughts how others view us for who and what we are. If you have created anything at all you shouldn't be worried to release it, music, art, paintings, drawings you should release it for others to appreciate what you have created and expressed how you feel within however way you feel of expression.
to create this image I have used Photoshop CC 2018, this is a software used by a lot of graphic designers and this will help me to my full advantage of a recreation. The tool I have used to create the blur/movement of the boy's face is the 'Polygonal Lasso Tool' this allowed me to outline and move/enlarge the part of the face I have cut out, moving the image slightly every time I duplicate it will create this blurred distressed look. I have also used levels, brightness & contrast, opacity and greyscale. These all help with bringing in the colours and making the greyscale look more black and white rather than grey and white. Using levels also helps connote darkness and loneliness rather as it can make the image really dark and gloomy creating a more low and upsetting vibe for the people viewing the image.