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

http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouch/retouch/index.html