10 jpegs from Shooting Assignment #4 / Documenting Your Daily Lives are due this week on Thursday, April 2 at 2:15pm. I will select one image from each student to post on the blog by the following week.
An optional Zoom meeting is scheduled next week on Tuesday, April 7 at 2 pm. I know that not everyone will be able to have internet access at that time, but hopefully most of you will. Please keep an eye out for an invitation to this meeting coming soon and do your best to join us if you can. This will be a good opportunity for some discussion about how you are all doing and about your work that will be posted.
Final project proposals are due by Tuesday, April 7. Please submit these as one paragraph (in a Word document attached to an email) describing a single theme that you want to explore for the remainder of the class. Please outline the theme: who, what, where you will shoot this series taking into consideration the limitations on what you can accomplish during this time. 12 jpegs from this series are due by Thursday, April 30. We will have an optional Zoom meeting for a final critique on Tuesday, May 5 from 10:30am – 12:30pm.
Olivia Myers
In this interview article, Samantha Cooper talks about her work in portraiture photography. One thing that she mentions many times throughout the interview is that a photograph of a person should generate a feeling in the viewer. She says that this is the photographer’s job to come prepared and learn how to connect with the person he or she is shooting so that the end results gives the viewer something to not only see, but also react to. I really enjoyed this interview article, as portraiture amazes me.
This article is about a woman that was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 29. She is documenting her treatment. She wanted to "break the stigma around the diagnosis and allow people to better understand what a person facing serious disease feels like".
This article is about Sam Contis discussing the work of Dorothea Lange's unpublished lesser known photos which have never been seen before. Dorothea Lange is a famous great depression photographer known for her photos of the migrant mother. Contis published the lesser known photos in their book called "day sleeper" and these photos are how they fell in love with Lange's work. (Sierra)
Dorothea is a professional photographer in taking pictures of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl migrants in the 20thcentury. In one of her famous images called, The Day Sleeper, shows her son sleeping with a cloth over his eyes. In this image, Dorothea explains, “his eyes are covered because we’re cut off from the interior world.” (Jordan)
Lauren Webb
The article is about the Swiss photographer, Jens Krauer's, street photography. The article explains Krauer's ideas and opinions of urban street photography, which is to document urban life, not to judge or "observe" the subjects. The article explains Krauer's tactics which include the importance of blending in with the street environment to create truly candid moments, as well as the importance of establishing trust within the urban environment. The article also tells us that according to Jens Krauer, it is vital to keep a positive mindset while working with street photography.
Cyerra Wilburn
I found this article hilarious; it comments on how before we had “smart cameras”, the difficulty this couple had in taking proper photo of their beloved jet-black fur baby. It’s hilarious in the sense that I have yet to master the DSLR camera and I would likely take the same photo this poorly. This article also comments on the fact that today everyone posts “ah-door-ah-ble” photos so easily of their furry friends on social media. Oh, how the times have changed!! (Plus, who doesn’t love a photo series staring a big fluggy fur baby?!)
Alicia Roe
This photography article shows what goes on behind the scenes specifically at the Westminster Dog Show. It highlights the grooming process, dog glamor shots and the dog owners with their dogs.
Kathryn Jennings
My article was "Mycelium Microcosm: Mushrooms Link Science with Art" By ClydaJane Dansdill. The article explores the use of mushrooms in photography and how the use has changed through the years. Photographing mushrooms was for science at first and now it is being used to promote clothing, being edited into photographs and used as the central subject. Artist have found amazing ways to incorporate mushrooms in a fantastical way.
Marcie Gonzoles
For this assignment, I read the article “Dawoud Bey: An American Project”. Dawoud wanted to make photographs that represented the community of Harlem not only in the past, but the present. Within his work, he wants the emotional response to be communicated from the subject. Bey sees people, not just visually, but emotionally.
Mackayla McBrien
The article that I chose was an interview with Signe Pierce about her body of work titled Faux Realities. The series of photographs was highly hyper realistic that had themes surrounding the presence of technology and used many tones of purple and pink. Her work is described as “exposing the absurdities of femininity.” While many of Pierce’s photographs has a strong aesthetic to them, she embellishes them with deeper undertones that are primarily left to the interpretation of the reader and are intended to leave you with questions.
Carson Haley
I chose Concrete, Plastic, and Future Landscapes: Boris Loder's Particles from americansuburbx.com as my article. In the article, Boris Loder takes inspiration from the movie WALL-E, gathering pieces of trash from public environments and packs it into a plexiglass cube. With the plexiglass being removed digitally, his cubes give us a glimpse into how our human landscape looks.
Alex Alder
Times magazine person of the year 2018 has made an impact through this powerful photography. Capturing the "majority world" as he called it representing a country and cultures who are often misunderstood and misrepresented.
Caroline Gibson
This article goes in depth about the emotional weight of this collection of photos. The author describes the feeling of old ancient horror of what lies beyond in our brains and our universe. The slight nods to esoterism and german expressionism are successful in this sense, and the author makes it clear that these tropes are used properly to elicit fear, and not to be edgy. I really enjoyed this article, as classic horrors such as Poe and Byron are very close to my heart so I love to see this aesthetic so successfully recreated.
Brad Owens
The article is an interview with the photographers. Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb seem to want new ideas, subjects and perspectives interjected into the traditional street photography genre. Rebecca mentions combining sparse text with her images in order to create a more “spacious” product. Alex talks about the difficulties inherent in controlling light. He says street photography requires careful thought about light intensity. They finish by both reiterating their desire to see something new in street photography, including private moments in semi-public spaces, and subjects that push the boundaries of what could be considered street photography.
Katy Hall
The article I chose is about the way photography has changed everything in lives and society. We now have photos from wars and other significant events to express the damage and after shocks the way words can't. People also tend to be more drawn to pictures than pages on pages of words, and photography helps to bring attention in and give a better direct look on certain topics like politics.
Raven Cordy
-The article entitled "Columbine Students Want to Share Images of Gun Violence" in Time magazine, Fred Ritchin discusses the controversial subject of photographing and sharing to the public images of people who have been killed. It states how in the past there have been instances in which this has been implemented, including violent murders and war atrocities. The Columbine students feel that sharing these photographs to social media could be a useful tool in making people more aware of reality of the horrors of school shootings.
Rachael Haley
If You Licked These Photos, They Would Taste Like New York. (So Don't Lick Them.)
Rachael Haley
If You Licked These Photos, They Would Taste Like New York. (So Don't Lick Them.)
In this article, The Times staffed photographers capture a realistic glimpse of what New York is like in every day life. This article screams, “If you’ve seen it or done it, a photographer has most likely captured it.” This article is very interesting because the pictures that are featured have been captured throughout many different years, and not just from one time period.
