Blog Prompt #25

Write a detailed description of your “motivations” for your final self-proposed project. Why are you interested in this subject? What do you want to convey? How do you want viewers to respond? Why are you inspired to make these images/this project? Do you want to evoke emotions in viewers? Shock viewers? Make them laugh? Make them think? Inform them? Reveal something about how you see the world? Reveal something about yourself, a person, a place, a feeling, a memory, a moment in time?

REFRAMING PHOTOGRAPHY!

http://reframingphotography.com/

QR Code

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Web Photo Gallery Photoshop CS5 Demo

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Blog Prompt #24

A. Pick two images from any of the “constructed reality” photographers presented in class or linked on the assignment sheet. Describe how you could recreate these two images on a “smaller scale”.

B. Describe your plans for your self-proposed final project (if the plan is the same as before, paste it here again and give a bit more detail). During the final critique for Assignment #5, you will discuss/present these ideas to the class.

photoshop & paintings & photography (from hailey)

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/van-goghs-paintings-get

contest! worth submitting!

http://awards.the-aop.org/AOP_Student_Awards

Blog Prompt #23

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” ( Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler , 34).

6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” (Kohler, 34).

another contest

http://contest.pdnedu.com/?banners

art/photo sites

http://www.booooooom.com/tag/photography

http://www.swiss-miss.com/

http://ffffound.com/

http://beautifuldecay.com/

http://www.woostercollective.com/

http://www.fubiz.net/

http://www.thedieline.com/

http://vervephoto.wordpress.com/

http://exposurecompensation.com/

try a photo challenge

http://jpgmag.com/themes

midwest photographers

http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/

Blog Prompt #22

A. Series: Brainstorm various ways to make a “series” of photographic images.

B. Final Project: Your final project in this class will be designed by you. If you could tackle any photography project, what would it be? You could combine other media with photography (video, sculpture, drawing) or you could take one of your earlier assignments and expand it to create a larger project. If you are expanding an earlier project or creating an entirely new series of images, shoot for a series of at least 5 images. Describe an idea you have for your final project.

another call for photography

http://www.cms.pieapma.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=20

submit your work!

http://www.recur.msu.edu/

winners of "art of photography"

http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/2010photos.html

Blog Prompt #20

1. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of “news”-related photographs.

2. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of “snapshots”.

3. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of advertisement photographs. Fashion photography? Product photography?

4. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of film or movie stills.

5. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of yearbook photos and/or senior pictures.

Advertising Photography

http://www.fkphoto.com/

Photo History

http://www.photographymuseum.com/exhibits.html

Blog Prompt #19

Can you think of anything that:

1) should not be photographed? Why?
2) cannot be photographed? Why?

and

3) you do not want to photograph? Why?

stop motion tintype

http://vimeo.com/11809362

Photoshop Tutorials

http://photo.tutsplus.com/
http://psd.tutsplus.com/

Blog Prompts #16, #17, & #18

Please respond to three of the following quotes.

“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” Duane Michals

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.” ~Ansel Adams

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott

performance for the camera & land art?

http://www.diagonal.vancsa.com/

Show a change in time ...

you can show a change in time in your images in ways other than physically moving objects in the scene... how else can you show a change in time?

consider the work of richard long who makes changes in the "landscape" by walking...

http://www.richardlong.org/

Photo Exhibitions

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/970

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/

Blog Entries 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

#11____Memory of a Place: Try to imagine a place from your past. Do you have pictures of this place? Describe this place as you remember it. What might a photograph look like of this place if you were to go back and photograph it? What would it look like in the past? What would it look like to you today? Where are you standing in this place? What other items are in this place? What colors do you see? Are there other people or are you alone? Make a “written photograph” of this place using words/description.

#12____Memory of a Photograph: Which photograph from your past do you remember most? Describe this photograph. Describe how it makes you feel when you remember/think about this photograph. How have you changed? How has the place in this photograph changed? What would a reenactment of this photograph look like? Would you act or look differently if you reenacted this scene today?

#13____Human-Made Space: In the past, photographers who were interested in how humans impacted the natural landscape grouped together to form the New Topographics. “"New Topographics" signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field.” http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibTopo.aspx

In addition, at the same time in history artists created (and still do create) “land art” in which they use materials found in the landscape to make sculptures that remain in the landscape. Many of these works now only exist as video recordings and photographic documents.

Pay attention to the number of ways in which you encounter humans’ interaction with nature and the physical land. Write these down. Using these as inspiration, describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might create that would be documented by a photograph. Describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might make in a man-made landscape that would be documented by a photograph.

#14____Unknown vs. Familiar Space: When photography was invented, it became a way to document and reveal the specific aspects of both familiar and faraway places. Imagine a familiar place. Imagine a faraway place. How would you use photographs to convey the difference? Can you imagine any places that have been “touched” very little by humans? How might you photograph them?

#15____In-Camera Collage: Collage brings together two or more items that were previously separate. The resulting piece usually visually references the fact that they were once separate entities. Imagine an important place in your past. Imagine an important place in your present. Imagine who you were in both of these past and present places. Describe how you might use a slow shutter speed and/or double exposure to capture two moments in one image that tell a new narrative about these important places and how they relate to who you are and were.

retouch

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Blog Entries #8, #9, & #10

Please respond to the following three quotes.

“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” ~Richard Avedon.


“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams




“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.” ~John Berger


Blog Entries #5, #6, & #7

#5 Give your thoughts on one or both of the following quotes.
“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.” ~Edward Steichen



“I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” ~Mary Ellen Mark




#6 In your opinion, when is it beneficial, ethical, or appropriate to digitally alter photographic portraits? When do you think it is inappropriate or ethically wrong?

#7 Pay close attention to the types and number of photographic portraits you see in one day. Where did you see them? How do you think that the content of the portrait changes based on the context in which you see the image (news, facebook, magazine, advertisement, television, youtube, etc)? In other words, what is the difference between the portraits you see on facebook vs. those on the news? What is the difference between the “viewpoint” of the photographer in each situation? What is the difference between their “intents”?

Blog Entries #3 & #4

“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”~Duane Michals. Do you agree or disagree with this quote? Why?

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.” ~Lewis Hine

Do you agree or disagree with this quote? Why? Describe situations when photographic images reveal “the story” (as compared to words). Describe situations when words reveal “the story” (as compared to images).

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Blog Prompt #1 & #2

Blog Prompt #1: Imagine a world without photographs. Describe what this world would be like.

Blog Prompt #2: What does the word "photograph" mean to you?

Haunted: Contemporary Photography Exhibition

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/haunted-contemporary-photography-video-performance

Sweet Station

http://www.sweet-station.com/