Chance Two Frame Experiments
We played a game where we made diptychs. First, we set up two piles of photographs and rolled a dice for each pile and removed the number of pictures that appeared on the dice. The first time it was messy and out of time, so the second time we made sure to roll the dice at the same time and leave the diptychs on for 3 seconds. The third time we played random music and sounds in the background. The aim of the game was to create multiple different diptychs and let them be decided by chance.
Diptychs
Most of these diptychs I picked based on their colour or shape. I put them together because I thought they would match together. For example, I picked the one with the yellow bag to go with the yellow chairs as the yellows match and they both had red in them which made them match well. I think these diptychs are successful as they go well together due to the colours or shapes in the photographs.
Chance and Deliberate Diptychs
Deliberate Diptychs
Chance Diptychs
I created three diptychs by picking the photographs I thought fit well together (top row). I think these diptychs came out well as they look like they match together even if the photographs were of two different things. The bottom row of photographs I picked with a random number generator to create them. I also think they came out well, although it was due to chance, the photographs still ended up matching together and looking like they belong next to each other in some way. I think the most successful diptychs were a mix of both methods. Some diptychs I picked fit better than others and visa versa.
Luke Fowler
The title: 'Two-Frame Films' suggests that two photographs are being combined to make one photograph. The opening text allows us - the viewer - to understand why these diptychs were made and arranged in the way they were. Luke Fowler made these photographs with a two-frame camera which allowed him to take the pictures the way he did. The photographs in a two-frame camera get put together, sometimes intentional, sometimes not. A diptych is two photograph placed next to each other as a pair in order to convey an idea or feeling. Some similarities are the colours and subjects. Luke Fowler had little control when making these photographs. Some he had most of the control, taking them only seconds apart. Whereas some were taken days apart and could not have been planned to be next to each other and it was by luck. I prefer lots of control over my photographs, however, I do like photographs which happen by chance as I believe they sometimes look better then if they were planned.
John MacLean
John MacLean makes diptychs with prompts. Most of his diptychs are photographs of the same thing but something slightly different, e.g. lighting, angle, framing. This is interesting as it makes you think about what you’re seeing and how photographs are only one moment in time and you don’t know what happened before or after that photograph. He created a list of prompts and created diptychs based on those. It is hard to tell which prompts he used for which as all can make sense.
James Mollison
James Mollison’s diptychs show a person and then something they live with. Like refugees and what they carry, children and where they sleep. His diptychs interest me because they show what people have to go through just through two photographs. These diptychs allow you to think about different people and their different situations when looking at them you might not have thought about.