In Francis Wolff's photography he focused on Jazz musicians (specifically those who were signed to Blue Note Records, as his photographs would be used by designer Reid Miles who made the album covers for Blue Note). His legendary black and white photographs captured the vibrancy and personality within the music and accompanied Miles' exuberant designs so well.
I was so inspired by Wolff's capturing of the Jazz age that I bought some black and white film and went to The Domino, a local underground Jazz bar. Although Wolff focused on the musicians within his photography I focused on capturing the environment - signs, objects, the decor, the people etc. because I was thinking about one of my chosen tracks - Existence by Brugge Wesseltoft. I think that within my final design, as well as visually communicating a key idea or fact, I would like to capture the 'Existence' of jazz - like the places and the people surrounding the musicians.
Overall I am really happy with how my film turned out. One thing that i'm really happy about is that the scanner picked up on some dust and dirt and when you zoom in on the images on Photoshop this is still visible - so I am excited to crop some down and make some outcomes. I intend on taking these images further by cropping and collaging, and hopefully can come up with colour schemes to saturate them for screen print.
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