Chuck Close does photo-realistic paintings in really cool ways! He uses photography. He's pretty much my favorite ever.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Chuck Close is a baller
Chuck Close does photo-realistic paintings in really cool ways! He uses photography. He's pretty much my favorite ever.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Emulation....
Photographers that I found in the PhotoNow folder on the computer in the lab:
Bérubé-photographs of children. whimsical lighting. holga! for dreamlike quality.
Chamberlin-images of people interacting with technology. captivated by screens. eerie. still.
Connell-photoshopped images. same model twice in same location. interactions with self. social norms/preferences?
DuBois-family. relationships. play of emotions. passage of time. not routine. just moments.
Glickman-dc metro. :) awkward interactions. taboo. strangers who know each other.
Hanasik-relationships between close people. how you are allowed to be yourself with room for growth.
Heykants-pop art. pop culture. views of women. hmmm. i don't know how i'd do this but the images are ace.
Pinney-moments. family. passage of time. if you take pictures long enough you get something truthful/mysterious.
Rinnhofer-renaissance images. christian idols with pop culture references today? maybe i could do things vaguely renaissance but add odd little things: ipod headphones, a cell phone, whatever. something to be like oh wait it's today.
Skarbakka-constant state of falling.
Smithson-whistler's mother. lmao. i could pick another painting or continue with this. very interesting. pliable.
Bérubé-photographs of children. whimsical lighting. holga! for dreamlike quality.
Chamberlin-images of people interacting with technology. captivated by screens. eerie. still.
Connell-photoshopped images. same model twice in same location. interactions with self. social norms/preferences?
DuBois-family. relationships. play of emotions. passage of time. not routine. just moments.
Glickman-dc metro. :) awkward interactions. taboo. strangers who know each other.
Hanasik-relationships between close people. how you are allowed to be yourself with room for growth.
Heykants-pop art. pop culture. views of women. hmmm. i don't know how i'd do this but the images are ace.
Pinney-moments. family. passage of time. if you take pictures long enough you get something truthful/mysterious.
Rinnhofer-renaissance images. christian idols with pop culture references today? maybe i could do things vaguely renaissance but add odd little things: ipod headphones, a cell phone, whatever. something to be like oh wait it's today.
Skarbakka-constant state of falling.
Smithson-whistler's mother. lmao. i could pick another painting or continue with this. very interesting. pliable.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Offensive Image 1: John Paul Caponigro, I detest you.
It's not that it is a particularly distasteful image, for reasons either cultural or aesthetic. It's that I do not, under any circumstances, agree that this man should be considered a photographer, or his images photographs. They have nothing to do with documentation, light, or a wonder at the way things really are, which tends to be my basis for photographic inspiration, and something I see other photographers inspired by. They wish to capture something. Interest is sparked and recorded. Like Pipo quoted on our syllabus, "I photograph things to see what they will look like photographed."
John Paul Caponigro's images have nothing to do with any of that. They are his self-indulgent Photoshop ejaculations. He is an artist, to be sure. Some of his images are quite striking, but they are not photography, and to call them such degrades the entire medium.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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