The Photographer and her Mentors Elfie Huntington Bagley’s life is an interesting one. It reflects the difficulties of…
Kevin Alves Instructor Kathleen Perry Photography 50B 16 May 2016 Diane Arbus and the Unusual Subjects In today’s world where selfies and sexting are common the work of Diane Arbus may seem tame. But in 1967 when the New Documents Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art featured the work Arbus, along with that of Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, as an alternative to traditional documentary photography it was shocking. Although her intimate portraits of those outside the mainstream made some people uncomfortable, some of her photos in the New Documents exhibit became some of her most defining in her short career and forever changed photography.…
“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself” Berenice…
People have access to capturing special moments according to their preferences. However, not all the pictures can be listed under the artistic photography. Instead of taking images, photographers do make images, showing people light and shadow, color and outline, as well as personal contemplation and imagination. In addition, the process of turning negatives into photographic papers requires some technical supports to polish those images, such as the dye transfer and darkroom techniques. Telling its own story, photography describes the subject itself, then conveys the personal visual experience, and above all it can create the imagination and arouse resonance with audiences, finally moving it into fine…
In this work, Mathias J. Alten is intended to be the main subject, however, his use of texture, color, and line draw one's focus instead to the blank space where his canvas should exist.…
I believe that the public’s rejection of Serra’s sculpture was justified. The public rejected the sculpture because they thought it was ugly and disrupted the plaza. The sculpture was funded by government money and was installed in a public area. It was owned and commissioned by a government agency, the General Services Administration (GSA). The public had the right to voice its dissent and the GSA had the right to remove the sculpture.…
Adapting both Addario’s experiences and her photography together as a whole would greatly help the audience understand how every one of Addario’s assignments are significant and how they have changed countless lives. A particularly…
With 80M+ photos being shared on social platforms and 3.5B+ photos being liked each and everyday on Instagram, it is a clear example that as a society we have redefined the term photography and the ways in which we use it to share everyday life as well as to explore the world around us. Photographers don’t have all the time in the world; in fact sometimes they only have a second or 100 hundredths of a second to capture a moment. They capture these photographic images in order to invoke emotion and leave an indelible impression to the viewers. Documentary photography especially captures public attention and allows us to deepen our thoughts and understanding as a society to spread awareness in the world we live in. Documentary photography focuses on one story or theme, for example photographing the “impact on health of people, particularly children, caused by the nuclear accidents…in recent decades in Eastern Europe”…
The artwork Self Portrait As a Nice White Lady by Adrian Piper has influenced my own artwork Timeline in that the concepts, meanings and metaphors found in her artwork are not immediately identifiable. Although there is no influence of Pipers work on mine in terms of process, media or presentation, in this essay I will be discussing the confrontation that viewer experiences when faced with Pipers artwork Self Portrait As a Nice White Lady, my own artwork Timeline, and the ways in which both artworks have underlying concepts. My artwork Timeline are a group of photographic film negatives which have been manipulated by use of paint, sand and tape and further editing in photoshop. The theme of my artwork is Self and Other and my concept is based around memories and volatile nature of them.…
I have chosen to write my report on Michael Kenna. Michael Kenna was born in Widnes, England in 1953 and he specialized in artistic landscape photos. He was one of 5 children born into a working class home. He picked up his passion at Banbury school of the art where he began painting and then picked up photography later on. Michael Kenna moved to San Fransisco in 1977 where he since has lived to this day.…
Deep in the trees and wilderness of Hartley Bay sat Paul Nicklen looking out, peacefully watching the salmon migrate up the stream. Their grey speckled bodies flopping this way and that out of the water. He found them alluring to watch, repeatedly trying to jump up the stream without falling down to the bottom and having to start all over again. Paul admired their perseverance, how they never went down without a fight.…
In the article “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education by Yo-Yo Ma, he discusses how art is used in our everyday lives, such as music, which helps build culture. Ma’s main focus of his writing is to elaborate on the significant factor of art through two acronyms. The two acronyms are called S.T.E.M, which implies the education of (science, technology, engineering, math) and S.T.E.A.M, (science, technology, engineering, art, technology) which adds the importance of Art. On the other hand, in the article “We Are a Camera” by Nick Paumgarten, Nick digs into the meat and greedy of how cameras can negatively impact our lives and take away the actual experience of a iconic moment. In this writing, I will be explaining how Paumgarten…
Through his modernists theory, he helped to establish photography as an art form during the twentieth century. He is recognized as one of American greatest photographers along with Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz. The article reflects his views on photography. Strand believes that it is a fine art with the potential of its own, independent from other artistic forms of expression. He worked toward redefining and realigning photography with a new, straight approach.…
He did not focused on the formal aspects (composition) or social uses of the photograph but in actual his intent is on ontological one. His intent was to learn that what photography is in it true meaning and what are the characteristics that distinguished it from various other set of images. In the beginning he classifies the photographs in following variations. • Empirical…….Professionals,…
Simply viewing an image leaves the impression of someone who is consistent in their works. In Freeman Patterson’s “Barriers to Seeing,” he justifies how “we rule out visual exploration, and seldom discover the myriad facets of each object” (27). His perspective in photography envisions the forthcoming of labeling in sensory experiences. There is a pattern where photographers establish and rediscover environmental cues that remains fixated in their works. “Instead of seeing everything, we select a few stimuli and organize these” (Patterson 27).…