Landscape myths fantasy and ritual
E- resource moodle


Stories like little red riding hood Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz all happened in and were related to the landscape.



David LaChapelle: Forgotten Doll, 1998

taken from:http://www.focus.de/fotos/david-lachapelle-forgotten-doll-1998_mid_161408.html


David LaChapelle

LaChapelle’s stylish base is made of obsessive scenarios erased on extremely artificial scenography, often on piles of details among which are sitting, lying or standing some of the most important products of American dream factory: actors and actresses, singers, starlets, those who had ones started the yellow road aiming for their five minutes of fame.

"My role is to find beauty in what is ugly to others. for me its like really, she is beautiful, when I photograph her its like celebrating the idea of finding the beauty in her."
His works are screaming, pre-apocalyptic landscapes of Hollywood and visually aggressive images of hedonism in its final stage. David LaChapelle started his work as an artist in the world of fashion photography, from where he turn aside to the sphere of art, using all means of modern technology in the creative process his thoughts are
“well the computer is slave to the camera, because without a good photograph all the technology in the world doesn't take a good picture you have to have a good photograph to begin with.”


Thomas Joshua Cooper-
centered his early his work around the ritual and ceremonial he treated the landscape as a place full of rituals such as pagan rituals places like Stonehenge for example paganism used the landscape narrative and seasons to inform their practices.




Magical moment' ... Thomas Joshua Cooper's best shot http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/aug/28/photography.art1#

This is what he had to say:

“This rock is perched on a cliff, behind which is a sheer drop of 500-600ft. I made the picture in 2004, at the southernmost point of the Cap-Vert peninsula near Dakar in Senegal, which is the westernmost point of continental Africa. It is part of a project I've been working on since 1990, to make pictures looking out to sea from all the extreme edges of the land masses around the Atlantic ocean.
The Dakar army base is situated on the cliffs above this rock, and it's extremely hard to get to because of the high-level security. My guide had grown up in the area, however, and knew of some holes in the fortifications. So we snuck through under cover of night, with armed guards all around us. The swell of the sea in the background was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. My guide whispered to me, "We really have to go as soon as possible, because if we're caught, we're both in jail."
When I started to look at the scene more closely, I noticed that at the base of the rock was a graffitied double arrow, almost certainly a reference point for some refugee boat, which is one of the reasons why the place was so heavily patrolled by the army. What made me extraordinarily happy about the arrow was that it was pointing to the easternmost point of South America, where I was heading next.
I had to be quick, but I just had time to make the picture, which was a long exposure of maybe 15 minutes. Behind the rock, you can see there is a white slanting line, which is a long breaker that fell more or less regularly because of the underwater geography. It happened over and over again during the time of my exposure, so that I got a continuous but fuzzy white line. The picture is one of my favourite things in the world. If it doesn't sound too silly for an adult to say so, this was an entirely magical moment”