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.

Personal Project #3