Final_Project

Final Project redo

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Artist: Robert Adams

Date: 1969

Title: Frame for a Tract House, Colorado Springs, Colorado

I really enjoy Robert Adams landscape photography and it resembles Lewis Baltz work.  I think they did work together and their black & white work really amazes me.  This photo shows a house under-construction that isolates humans and shows space.  The composition and how the house is center completes this image.  I also like the mountain in the horizon that kind of does not look like its there and is far away.  There is also a great balance between the tension and the foreground with the pictorial frame is the key to this image.  Overall i enjoy the black&white and the landscape photos by Robert Adams.

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Artist: Diane Arbus

Date: 1962

Title: Boy with Toy Hand Grenade 

The boy with a hand grenade in Central park seems no different from any other child his age; his strange face expression and posture makes us view the image different.  The boy's photo is caught with a strange look on his face with one hand gripping a toy hand grenade while they other hand poses the same grip with nothing in it.  To my understanding and interpretation the image represents the time period that the boy was in when young boys were drafted to go to war in Vietnam and his face seems to be uncomfortable and exasperated.  This image is one of many in a series Diane Arbus took of the boy while he was at the park and this was the only image that was out of place because the rest of his images were happy and he looked to be an ordinary kid.  Arbus's work seem to be a stab across American culture and she usually photographed the inhabitants of New York city.  She seeks those at the edges of society and reflecting daily life.

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            My artwork takes a critical view in the beauty of details that we don’t usually pay attention to.  I developed a series of 5 images of different objects that are cut up into pieces to show the detailed beauty of the object.  I’ve done my job as an artist if I could make you realize that an object is not just an object but it has it’s own beauty in every part of it.  I was inspired by David Hockney and really enjoyed the different collages that he has done.  There are endless sources of information that can be created through collages.

-Bao Giang

                                                                       

               

Reading_Review

Yesterday's Sandwich

This reading was written by Boris Mikhailov a Russian photographer who inadequately superimposed two slides together and created a montage of different images.  He would call the series a 'Sandwich' which could never be exhibited for people to see.  There was a well known official Serguei Morozov that Mikhailov showed his series to who refused to let him to exhibit his series to the public due to the content he had in his images.  Also the story about one of the greatest post-war Soviet photographers Vitas Luckus who was offended about his work and let the anger out to kill a man over it was very crazy!  To think a man at his peak would let a simple criticism destroy his whole life and career.  I also enjoyed the part when Mikhailov highlighted the different countries montages and how they were all different.  Lastly i found it really interesting when he spoke about his "Creative life" and the three traditions of Russian culture that survived during the Soviet regiem. 

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Artist: Curtis Mann
Date: 2010
Title: Second Sky

This collage by Curtis Mann is beautifully portrayed with a feel of a pinkish orange sunset.  These are huge prints of Chemically altered chromogenic development prints which contains one or many layers of silver halide emulsion, along with dye couplers that, in combination with processing chemistry, form visible dyes. In processing, the silver image of each layer is first developed.  I never knew about this process and it's pretty cool the effects it creates on the images.  In this collage by Mann it looks as if there are about seven different scenes with the same exact sky which makes the collage a lot more interesting to look at. 

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Artist: Joyce Neimanas

Date: 1982

Title: Alice In Wonderland

Joyce Neimanas's Polaroid collages are really chaotic and amazing to me.  You have to actually look closely to see what is going on in the images, but you can tell right away what is in the photos right away.  There is a baby sitting in the left with a man lying down on the right and also a woman's feet on the top of the image in high-heels.  I really like the quality of the Polaroid's colors and how some images are really clear and some are a bit of a blur which brings out the subject of the composition. Overall collages from Neimanas really catches my eye and the quality and quantity of the photos used. 

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Sometimes in life we have to slow things down to catch the beauty in it.

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Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto
Date: 1978
Title: Theaters

I really enjoy all of Hiroshi Sugimoto's work with the slow shutter speeds, black and white, and symmetry.  This is a series of theaters that he took with no one attending the movie with the movie playing.  The detail and intention of great symmetry is pretty amazing and the sense of people that you expect to see in a movie theater but are not there.  It is also interesting that he investigates the notion of how time is captured on film and the photographs test the limitations of time within the context of two dimensional representations.

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Amplify Subject with use of Artificial Lighting

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Artist: Jim Campbell
Date: 2011-2012
Title: Exploded Views

This installation done by Jim Campbell was really interesting to me by the way it works.  The installation had 2000+ led lightbulbs that exploded images into three dimensional objects.  It's pretty cool how the computer controlled led lightbulbs can capture shadow-like images of objects moving under it.  It also amazes me how far technology has gone to achieve something like this is pretty awesome.

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Disfigure your Face, Professional Portrait 

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Artist: Arnulf Rainer
Date: 1971
Title: A Nose Adjustment

This image by Arnulf Rainer has a man making a weird face and outlined with another face painted over it with a side view of a face with a bigger nose.  From the title it seems to me that for one he is trying to make the nose a lot bigger than the image displays the man's nose.  Most of his work shows self-portraits of people with paint splashed over them to either emphasize the person with distorted and bigger noses or hair, moles, and even resemblance of blood.  I enjoy his work in a way that they are mostly black and white, also they are not your average self-portraits and his subjects all have funny looks on their face.  Also some of his work seems a little demonic or evil in a way as i see it but that could just be me.

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Instagram inspired photos.

 #cutebaby #nephew #babybuddha

 #sushi #yum!

 #whip #nicecar #gt86 #toyota

 #cabin #Taos #Eaglesnest

 #snowboarding #ride #686 #blackandwhite

#beautifulsky #clouds

#OOTD #lol #watches #Toms

#drinking #party #Corona #Heineken 

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Artist: David Levinthal
Date: 1975-1977
Title: Hitler Moves East

This photo displays troops on the move replaying WWI when Hitler moves East on his rise in Europe.  David Levinhal reenacts the war scene with little toy action figures which looks like actual people.  The Black and white also brings out how real the photograph looks and David also takes all of his photographs with shallow depth of field.  In my opinion it is pretty awesome that he could make these little toy figures look so real and create images that could fool someone who did not know about his work.  He also uses dramatic lighting to bring the image to life and also portrays movement with small toy figures.  
I enjoy his work and i think its pretty cool that he could use small toy figures to create every series of his work.  I also enjoyed this series because of the black and white that he uses to resemble the time of WWI and the reenactment of these troops.

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Artist: Martin Parr
Date: April 26th 2012
Title: Too Much Photography

I think it's pretty hilarious that while they are taking pictures of things around them Martin Parr is taking pictures of them.  This image was taken in Barcelona on April 26th, 2012.  The image consist of tourist taking pictures while on a tour and Martin Parr's statement was "The question i keep asking myself is what happens with all these images? i assume most are loaded onto Facebook or other social networking sites."  The image to me is trying to say that no matter where our photographs go to whether it be social networks, personal portfolio's, or even as a profession; photographs are all taken the same way from our attractions to what we take in the photo.

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Wide Depth of Field

Shallow Depth of Field

Freezing Motion

Motion Through Blur

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