Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Artist #10



Sally Mann
1972-1973



OMG! this image is so breath taking and i love this earlier work of hers.  I love her work and it takes my breath away because they way she captures the light peaking through the clouds and the highlights of the valley just give it a fantasy feeling because this image is beautiful in its many ways.  I am intrigued by this collection because i love landscapes and black and white imagery. (:

Artist#9:


Naoya Hatakeyama
A BIRD/Blast #130, 2006; #3 from a series of 17 chromogenic prints,
8 in. x 10 in. (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art



Hatakeyama approaches his subjects -- whether they are factories, sewers or demolition sites -- with a peaceful and distanced attitude, capturing the changing landscapes from various vantage points and in different moments in time. In this way, the photographer is able to study the collisions between nature and civilization as they occur, imagining and re-imagining processes that were intended to mold the surroundings but were eventually claimed by the unpredictable whims of natural forces like earthquakes and tsunamis.  I found his work really interesting and beautiful because he captures nature and the corruption of human civilization.  The explosives on the ground strikes my eyes.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Artist #7:


Artist: Anna Atkins
"Spiraea Aruncus (Tyrol)"
Cyanotype
1851-1854


Anna Atkins photography interested me only because we experimented with cyanotype and its process ourselves.  It was a fun way to capture art!  I love the process of creating these images because it is hands on and it creates amazing images.  This image i found interesting because it looks like my comforter (:

Artist #6



Artist: Adam Fuss
Butterfly from the series "My Ghost"
Daguerreotype
7 X 5 inches


Adam Fuss' work is known for its contemporary re- interpretation of photography’s earliest techniques, particularly the daguerreotype and the camera-less photogram. Fuss states that in "order for any photographic technique to work, it should be personalized and transfigured into a greater metaphor, engaging processes that take place in the natural world."  This particular picture captures this statement because the butterfly represents natural world, life, and beauty!  The metaphor that i get in this image is "beauty is within, beauty is transparent" because people in our culture see beauty "outside" of something or someone versus looking inside deep within.  His photography is unique and metaphoric.  (:

personal project #2


Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Artist #5


        TITLE: Untitled [cafe at night]
ARTIST: William Eggleston     
WORK DATE: 1970 - 1973
CATEGORY: Photographs
MATERIALS: Dye transfer print
STYLE: Contemporary  
SIZE: h: 20 x w: 16 in / h: 50.8 x w: 40.6 cm
                      
This particular picture is interesting to look at.  Me personally i like night and dusk pictures becasue the colors of the sky are blue and beautiful.  The lights from the sign and from the cafe brighten up the image and makes me want to look at it more and more.  Each time i look at this image i see something new that i didnt see before.  I like the ice cream cone on the top of the sign becasuse it just pops.  I love the feel of this image becasue it gives a hometown feeling like this cafe is just around the corner from where i grew up.  I like the vignette becasue it focuses the eye in the middle where all the lights and centerpoint of the sky resides :)

Tech #2


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Artist #4



Artist:
Todd Hido
Title:
7373
Year:
2009
Medium:
Chromogenic print


I have to say Todd Hido is one of my favorite artists of all time.  His work is amazing.  His work i can relate to with my life because it seems like he takes his photographs from all diferent areas and neighborhoods in the world, during different seasons and etc., I too have also moved all over the world and some of these photographs gives me a homely feeling like i have seen these places.  Also this photograph seems so "real" and scary.  The lights contrast the sky and the image is beautifully done.

Artist #3

Wes Naman:

I think this artist has a very fun and hilarious creative eye.  The scotch tape series is fun to look at because the people in them have distorted faces and the images itself are sharp.  The shadows and highlights work very well.  This artwork is one of my favorites

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Artist #2


Artist: Peter Beard
"Elephant in Front of Kilimanjaro
Gelatin silver print with gelation silver print collage, found objects, blood, ink
50-1/8 x 88 inches
(126.7 x 223.5 cm
Unique


There are many reasons why I enjoy this photograph taken by photographer Peter Beard.  First of all, I love elephants and giraffes because they are exotic and beautiful creatures.  My personal type of photography i enjoy creating is black and white.  In this picture he used a great deal of that aspect.   The highlights and shadows of the elephant bring it to life and mesmerizing to look at. What i found interesting was Peter Beard used actual animal blood in this photograph.  His inspiration came from his trip to Africa in 1955. He took many pictures of the wildlife there and began putting them into collages and using animal blood and remains along with clippings to create his work, he sometimes used his own blood too.  interesting...
What i get from his technique of using blood and found objects and quotes in the collages of his photographs is he is a traveler and wanted to capture every moment of his trip.  His inspirations and creativity created great pieces of art that tell a story.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Artist #1:

 
 


Thomas Demand
Clearing
2003
192 x495 cm C-print/Diasec
VG Bild Kunst, Bonn


Even though Thomas Demand stages his photographs I still love the way he captured this image with the rays of light beaming through the leaves of the trees.  The light creates shadows and dark areas in the picture and gives me the feeling of fantasy or adventure.  It's definately amazing how real this looks and feels.  I think what he was trying to say in this picture was a  "one moment" to capture and to see the light shine through and give romance. 
The way he captured this photograph was he constructed the Clearing in the huge former warehouse that serves as his Berlin studio. This stage model was a handmade forest, embedded in a steel frame that measured approximately 50 feet long, 18 feet high and 32 feet deep. The 270,000 paper leaves were die-cut in 80 different shapes, then glued one by one to cardboard trees and bushes.

Tech 1:

 
Depth of Field:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Freezing Motion
 
 
 
 
 
Motion with Blur: