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.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Piotr Uklanski
Non-Traditional Portraits
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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.
The second is by Stephen Shore.
I hope that helps a bit.
Photomontage
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.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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.
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 :
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.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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".
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