Digital 1 Final (Ground)

digitl 1 proj. 3 object

 kitchen

bedroom

 my random stuff

 bathroom

 family room

walls

each photo is a set of three.

Response: Photography as art

To determine if photography is an art depends on a couple of things. For one I think it has to do with the photographers themselves and I say that because different photographers shoot many diverse subjects. Maybe a photographer is shooting commercially or traditionally and in their mind the photo has no artistic characteristics.   And then you have the photographers that all they do is shoot there own work for art purposes. It is made to be art.

Another thing is being able to understand art. To the general public a photo is just a photo. It is a pretty picture on a wall with no meaning. With contemporary photography there is always a purpose. Art has purpose and meaning and when changing the medium to photography you shouldn’t change anything. You are creating your own art though your own medium. Photographers’ including Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman, and the Becher’s changed the way artists, photographers, and the general public view photography. They gave photography a purpose and meaning in their work. It wasn’t just a photo on the wall. Every photo was part of a collection of work that all had the same overall idea.

Now within photography there are several techniques and styles of work. With Black and White everything is created in the darkroom and therefore each photograph produced is unique and always will be. In digital you can create similar effects but the results will always be the same each time that you print. But when editing and creating your own technique and using it to be your trademark that right there is creating art because you are consistently making work that can be shown together with your personal artistic technique.

5 Object Photography Examples

 Stadium Seats

 Untitled

 Elephant Cactus

 Jack

Pumpkins

Project 2 so far

Tierney Gearon: Response

After viewing a video in class titled The Mother Project, it made me look at my life and think about how I would go about emulating her. I guess what i mean is that I can relate to Tierney photographing her mother. Her mother having bi-polar disease and probably some dementia made a very difficult subject. At the same time though she is also very photogenic in her natural state. When the mother actually in a good mood for her photograph to be taken the result is usually quite beautiful. The lighting created and the softness effects in the photographs bring out the beauty in the mother exponentially. After seeing the movie and viewing how Tierney is photographing; the conditions she is in and the attitudes of everyone around you can really start to see why Tierney does what she does.

Gearon's photos from a technical standpoint are controversial, influential, and lifting. She is photographing life. The raw emotions presented in her photos to me say a lot about the type of work that she prefers to shoot. She doesn't like candid camera. She will photograph you in your natural state as is. If you wanna be naked on a beach with a mask on so be it. Your just living your life.

Nate Larson

         While looking at Nate Larson’s work, the projects that stood out to me the most were of the Kirlian Photography, and Burden of Proof. For me Nate’s work is seems to be mostly idea. His religious work seems to be all posed. He is clearly placing objects in the frame to create his photograph, where as I like photographs to be natural or abstract. I do not like using photography as if I were painting on a canvas. I like finding and shooting as is. This is what in intrigues me about the Kirlian work. Every photo is a complete mystery on how it will turn out. The colors suggest manipulation, but the photo is completely as is. It is a photo of a simple object that is captured in a way that it creates an abstract result.

         While going through his Burden of Proof work I liked how he kept everything consistent with a black background. I realize that I said that I do not like using photography as a canvas, but for this style of work I think it looks all right. Nate is using the photos and text together in a way to that there is this separation down the middle, but there is also a connection with that. For the print Ceroscopy, 2005 he is showing you in the photo himself pouring the wax, and then the end result. All right there in the frame with text. This concept is very unique and I believe that Nate pulled it off very successfully.

5 more Photos from 5 Photographers

http://www.lemephotography.com/portfolios/11871-personal-projects

Adam Leme's photo series of libraries is really interesting. His use of symmetry in all of his photos with the lighting conditions, he really creates some amazing shots.

http://www.adamryder.com/category/work/
 Ryder sticks to architecture in his work, but also does landscapes as well. His series involving space/ hazmat testing was kind of an interesting mix of reality and sci-fi.

 Ami is a photographer and also does multimedia as well. her work in africa and other third world countries documents the cultures in such a way that it looks like she worked for national geographic.
http://www.amivitale.com/

gunters work, all in germany, consists of multiple genres of photography, from his personal stuff to contracted work for companies. I love that his photos are very saturated in colors and have just the perfect amount of contrast
http://www.gunterkloetzer.de/

Aaron's photos consist of people in their natural setting. Just everyday people doing their own thing. The thing with his photos though is that they are all taken directly so you see all of the person plus their surroundings.
http://www.avephoto.ca/portfolio/

5 Project 1 Photos

5 Fotographers Fotos

http://www.photographer.ru/gallery/179.htm

Found this photographer on Conscientious.
I found it really fascinating how she uses long exposure to capture the lighting of shadows and highlights in her shots.

http://www.adamthorman.com/neworleans4.html

I enjoyed looking at Adam Thorman's series on water, mostly for the fact that they were mostly photographs of great detail that used natural sunlight of the beache scene. And that's one thing i prefer to photograph.

http://www.andresgonzalezphoto.com/

Thought this photographers work was interesting. Most of the work seemed to have had a cultural background meaning. This selected photo stood out to me and reminded me of a photograph taken for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

http://www.subotzkystudio.com/die-vier-hoeke/

Photographer found, as well as one above, on aphotostudent.com.
This gallery seemed to take place mostly in Africa.
This photo made me think of what these two men were trying to accomplish. Are you breaking into prison?

http://www.newshatavakolian.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=9

This last photographers work is very controversial. The gallery i selected and looked through was of Iraq. This photo above is the first and least graphic in the series. I actually liked this one the best because of the use of wide-angle, and the neutral-toned landscaped scenery in the background with 2 dark green men in the foreground, just kind of standing however keeping the natural feel to the photo making them un-positioned.

5 Photgraphers Websites

http://www.photographybysteele.com/

http://www.schillingimages.com/

http://www.johnreiterphoto.com/

http://www.meredithstevens.com/

http://www.natureshapesphoto.com/index1.htm

5th Post

Stop Motion: The Games We Play

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFHxz00gdlk

Third Post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBfk2p7J_s
Self Portrait: Stop Motion

Second Post: Response to The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Photography, as an art form, has gone through many artistic changes and many techniques have been formed over a development of 150 years. When looked at today, photography is used as more of a culture. The techniques that have been developed are now being taken into the digital era to be apart of everything in our society.

Stop motion has been used in multiple tv commercials over the past 3 years.
Music is being introduced with photographs to make a more slide-show feel in a large group of work, mostly in the newspaper/magazine buisiness.


Photography, either as an art form or a way to show our culture is growing; is sadly easier to get into and easier to do with digital point and shoots, that it is hard to find a photographer now that can compare to ansel adams or annie leibovitz because it has become so commercial and now experimental.

First Post

http://www.craigsterling.com/