Tuesday, July 31, 2007

ART PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY

"The photograph was thus used as a hybrid medium to create works that priviledged art-as-activity over art-as-product." I find this pretty interesting because I have never really considered art as an activity in this day and age...I have always thought of an activity as something physically stimulating, so i've always thought of it as a product, an outcome of all of the work you do is a product. there is some physical activity involved in a shoot perhaps and you get your hands dirty in the dark room. But, this is an odd quote to me. Later on in the article it goes into how photographs can be decieving and have "hidden" messages, but these types of photographs to me are mostly advertisement for the consumers, the article mentions the Marlboro man and such which is a prime example of making someone look extremely glamourous in the photograph with the intentions of your product selling. This paper talks about how photography wasn't really meant to be a fine art-it was created at first to record really what was going on, but the more people starting to look at the medium, the bigger and bigger it got...

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

MINDMAP?

LARGE SCALE!

PEOPLE

WEIRD ANGLES

SLOW SYNCHRO


POSSIBLY PANORAMA?

LOTS OF COLOR.

DIGITAL

AREAS WITH HIGH F STOP

AREAS WITH LOW F STOP

MINDMAP?

LARGE SCALE!

PEOPLE

WEIRD ANGLES

SLOW SYNCHRO


POSSIBLY PANORAMA?

LOTS OF COLOR.

DIGITAL

AREAS WITH HIGH F STOP

AREAS WITH LOW F STOP

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

color:additive or subtractive

in the reading of additive or subtractive i learned about making colors by adding or subtracting primary colors. The primary colors are red, green, and blue. Those primaries are used in the additive method while magenta, cyan and yellow are the primaries in the subtractive method. Green and red added make yellow. Red and Blue added make magenta. Blue and Green added make cyan. This is all figured out by looking at the color wheel. where yellow and cyan overlap, they pass green. Where cyan and magenta overlap they pass blue. Where magenta and yellow overlap they pass red. This is also seen on the color wheel.

-lacey

Glenna Jennings

Who is the photographer?
Glenna Jennings.

What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work about?
Her recent body of work, entitled "Inheritance", is dealing with her father's death in 2006 and the inheritance of his gun collection, as well as their relationship and women gun owners. It's told through not only photographs, but performances and writings as well.

How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
She was my first formal photography teacher in high school, but I became familiar with her work through galleries and the internet...and of course, slide shows in class.

What is compelling about their work?
Her lighting, her set-ups, and the expressions, the poses of her subjects.

Are they an insider or and outsider to their subject?
I would think an insider, as many are candid as well as obviously posed.

What kind of story does the work tell/ communicate?
Well, some series, like these "postcards" she "sent" to writers, were set-ups, but they were expressionistic in the way that they were telling the viewer that this was how Glenna felt while reading their writings, an encompassion of her visual feelings.

http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2007/artists.php?a=Glenna_Jennings
http://www.glennajennings.com/

Dorothea Lange

Who is the photographer?
Dorothea Lange
What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work about?
Dorothea Lange's work usually consisted of the conditions of poor migrant workers whom were traveling to California during the great depression.
How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
I saw a bunch of her work in many gallery's and in art semenaries.
What is compelling about their work?
Her work is very compelling because she tells the audience a story through her photographs.
Are they an insider or and outsider to their subject?
she is an insider to her subjects.
What kind of story does the work tell/ communicate?
she tells the story of the great depression.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/lange

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

David Lachapelle

Who is the photographer?
David Lachapelle

What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work about?
David does a lot of color celebrity photography. In his most recent book "Heaven to Hell", David puts together a collection of celebrity photographs but ties in references to the bible, renaissance art, and porn.

How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
I've heard about him and a couple of friends told me about him so i decided to research him.

What is compelling about their work?
His work is compelling because some of them almost look like paintings because of how they are staged and the vibrant colors in the photos. He takes celebrity photography to a much theatrical level.

Are they an insider or and outsider to their subject?
He is an insider because he is staging his photographs and his subjects.

What kind of story does the work tell/ communicate?
His art communicates growing pop culture while refelcting back on renaissance and biblical images.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Reading Blog

Hi-
FUN COLOR!...I'm writing about Ectoplasm: Photography in the Digital Age. I find it really depressing that the birth of photography already implied the situation of death. When people had their pictures taken they were supposed to stay really still or the the picture would turn out blurry. And while they were trying to stay still, they looked as if they were dead. interesting, non?

"'Space of a single minute,' in which space becomes time, and time space. I've never really thought about photography as something that combines something really still and eternal-like with something that will never occur again.

I feel so weird after having read this. Photography used to be about what is real and what has happened and its become this thing that looks like it's happened but could be a complete lie. However, this brings an element of mystery and evokes thought which is also important..

Way to make me more confused!
-Karin.
Who is the photographer?
Larry Clark

What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work about?
He does a lot of photography on urban youth including sexual behavior, violence, and the drug culture. This is depiced in his first book "Tulsa".

How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
Watching his film Kids, which his photography was featured in.

What is compelling about their work?
It's very in your face, and eye opening. It depicts what most of America ignores and chooses to pretend doesnt exist. It shows the very popular culture of the youth and is thus shocking and equally enticing.

Are they an insider or and outsider to their subject?
He's an insider because he is photographing his own friends.

What kind of story does the work tell/ communicate?
It tells the story of Midwestern youth participating in a very accepted culture.

Andreas Gursky

Who is the photographer?
Andreas Gursky

What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work about?
Gursky's work is about expressing the patterns of culture through the patterns of photography.

How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
My art teacher told me to look at his work for an extended essay that I have to write. But, I chose to write about him because I was talking to one of my RA's and they told me I should look at his work..(obedience!) and after I googed him I realized that I had already seen his work before and decided that I should do further research. I have seen his work at his exhibit in the MoMa.

What is compelling about their work?
The aesthetically pleasingly weirdness... I love patterns in photography and the patterns in his work grasp the attention of the viewer to think about the patterns- in the photo and the culture.

Are they an insider or and outsider to their subject?
Gursky is an outsider...but I can't really express why. Yes I know that is not a sufficient answer. I'll think of something clever later on in life and get back to this.

What kind of story does the work tell/ communicate?
For example, in "Tokyo Stock Exchange," he communicates the repetitive lives that the men who work in the Tokyo Stock Exchange lead. You can tell by the way that they all look the same and have the same expression. However, that's only what he communicates to me because I sort of -already know what Japanese businessmen are like so it might be completely different for people who don't know.

-Karinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/gursky/gursky2.html
Who is the photographer?
Alex Prager
What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work?
A recent body of her work is "Polyester", she works with color, and her photos are pretty amazing. She also takes portraits of musicians and actors.
How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
I saw her work in the LA Times, and then checked out her website.
What is compelling about their work?
The first time i saw it in the paper i was very drawn to it by both color and composition. I also like the subjects she photographs as well as the lighting.

David Maisler

Well, here goes another one, I guess:

Who is the photographer?
David Maisler, American.

What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work about?
I think his "Lake Project" and "Terminal Mirage" projects are the most striking--they're of toxic sites, pools and swirls of chemical waste in beautifully artificial hues.

How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
I found him on the blog Conscientious, a great art photography site kept up by astrophysicist (!) Joerg Colberg (www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/).

What is compelling about their work?
The paradox of beauty in hazardous materials. Saw his work before I read about it--at first the subjects (is toxic waste the subject?) looked natural in form, but bizarrely artificial in color. Its also hard to tell the scale of these sites when you first see them--are they the size of rubix cubes or small farms? After reading about his work, my previous reactions of awe were replaced by fascination tinged with disgust.

Are they an insider or and outsider to their subject?
An outsider, I think, because he just observes.

What kind of story does the work tell/ communicate?
It tells of planet reigned by men, and of the complicated beauty in that which destroys. It's also presents an odd cycle of excreting waste to produce, and then producing art from the waste, and then maybe one day Maisel's photographs will end up as a confetti of rubble that a sculptor in 2030 uses as paper mache? Obviously far-fetched. A toy of a thought.

-Momo

Friday, July 13, 2007

Contemporary photographers

Thanks to all of you for working so hard this week. Color printing is challenging to learn and you are all doing a great job.

For the Contemporary photographers assignment I want you to answer these questions in your response. I would like you to post a new entry to the blog, not just a comment.

Who is the photographer?
What is their work about? Or what is a recent body of their work about?
How did you find out about their work, where have you seen their work?
What is compelling about their work?
Are they an insider or and outsider to their subject?
What kind of story does the work tell/ communicate?

Take time with your responses, and think about the criticism article I handed out.

Email me with any questions.

Cheers,
Jess

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Color Photography

Welcome Color photo students.

This blog is a continuation of the blog started for my other photo classes. You will find helpful links and other information here.

Jessica