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

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

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 :)