Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh is a photographer from India who focuses her attention on photographing middle and upper-class families in her home country. Her photos show a unique perspective of Indian life that isn't often shown.

This is another effort at a shiny surface. Again, I use digital for exposure, then shoot film. Since my background is commercial work, I tend to think in those terms when solving a problem.

shiny thing

Piotr Uklanski

122 culled photos of American and European actors portraying nazis displayed in identical dimensions.

Non-Traditional Portraits

I discovered this artist after talking with one of my co-workers about the recent assignment. She suggest that I check out Jeremy Cowart He started out as a designer and would take photographs that he could use as textures in his work. He began to fall in love with the world of photography. He does a lot of portrait work. A lot of his work deals with shooting famous people but some of the other categories on his website deal with different subject matters. Below I have posted some of the images that have captured my eye for this assignment... Enjoy!

Photo within a Photo.

 Here are two examples of photographs within photographs.  The first is by William Eggleston.

The second is by Stephen Shore.

I hope that helps a bit.

Photomontage

I was having a little trouble finding examples of photographs within photographs so I decided to post examples of photomontage artist Scott Mutter. I've always found his work interesting and I didn't know his name up until now.

http://www.photographymuseum.com/mutter/scottmutterNewGallery.html

http://1x.com/photos/still-life/2075/

Hopefully, the above link will give you a taste of what I have in mind for shiny surfaces. This image was shot on digital so I could determine my exposure. This is indicative of where I am going with shiny surfaces.

Missy Gaido Allen

I feel like Allen's low camera angle in Iowa spring creates a sense that the flowers are actually bigger than what a flower should be. They feel almost like trees due to the low angle, like the viewer is standing below them looking up at these huge beautiful flowers.

Dirk Mai Portraits

Apparently, Dirk Mai has moved on to include even more famous celebrities over time like Hey Monday, Lights, Demi Lovato and 3OH!3. I love his portraits. There's something very raw about his work. I found him on myspace a couple years ago. I am not sure but I think he got more and more famous through the social networking sites. I might be wrong about this but it seems to be pretty good logic.

http://www.myspace.com/dirkmai

http://www.dirkmai.com/

Lee Friedlander

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Robert Frank: The Americans

Frank found a tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences, which gave Frank's photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques.

My first assignment deals with isolating your object using shallow depth of field which is a great method of creating a concentrated focus within an image. I have the luxury of endless possibilities which can sometimes make it a challenge to narrow down your conceptual ideation.

Check out this site :

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Collection/Resources/40Photos

This is a great recourse to view some historical imagery, creating somewhat of a timeline of photography. You will recognize many photographs but some were new to me and possibly to you.

I was personally drawn to the image above by Chris Killip who is well known for shooting in North East England during the industrial decline in the 70's and 80's. Obviously a great example of a shallow depth of field along with other compelling aspects.

Curtis Mann

Here is his website, click on me!

Mark Peckmezian

Mark Peckmezian is a photographer living in Toronto.  He works with black and white film and darkroom processes a lot.  It seems that he experiments with papers and chemicals to achieve interesting effects.  Check out his site for a lot more images.

markpeckmezian.com

These are a few of Frank Gohlke's photographs

Welcome

Welcome to our new blog Art 341 students.  Let's get started.  The image above is from Bas Jan Ader's "I'm Too Sad to Tell You".