Our first term started by looking at the work of Robert Brownjohn. Specifically looking at his photographic series published in Typographia no. 4 in 1961. In this series Brownjohn captured vernacular typography in London in a myriad of locations typical of gritty, early 1960’s London.
Our task as students over the summer was to document the vernacular typography of our home town. For the final submission we needed to have 6 photographic Images displayed in a sequence on a A3 pdf page & 1 final selected image.
" If they want six photos take six hundred"
After watching many Chris DO (way too many) videos on Youtube over the past few years, I know that when you are asked to take 1 photo for a submission your ratios of photos taken per submission must be at leat 1/100 (especially with my photography skills). Therefore one of the first things I realised was that even though I woukd love to capture these photographs on Film like Brownjohn, I would have to take my digital camera, and then later on I could always create my desired effect on photoshop.
-Photo Cut & Final Film Edit-
After taking 369 photos the time came to selecting my final six. I wanted to really focus on the letter forms like Brownjohn, rather than focusing on what the words actually said. I eventually selected photos which I felt represented Oxford in a venacular and true way. I felt like monochrome was the right way to approoach the final edit, as its not about colour in this insance, its just about the letter forms and added a RBJ inspired film effect.
