Chan Chao

Title: Communication through body language and facial expression

Artist: Chan Chao

Medium:

Year:



Artist Biography:

Chan Chao was born in 1966 in Kalemo, Burma. He and his family left Burma for the United States in 1978 where Chao studied under John Gossage at the University of Maryland, College Park. He now lives in Washington, D.C. area and he teaches photography at George Washington University.





Personal Reaction:

I think his interpretation of the communication through body language and facial expression in right and you can definitely tell what people are thinking when you take a picture of them randomly in the street. I know I wouldn't be able to do that without looking like a complete idiot.



Brittany Howard

Simon Norfolk

Title: Afghanistan: Chronotopia

Artist: Simon Norfolk

Medium: Photography

Year: 2001



Artist's Biography – Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1963. He graduated with degrees in philosophy and sociology from Oxford and Bristol universities in England. He initially worked as a documentary photographer for a far-left publication company and specialized in displaying anti-racist activities and fascist groups. Then in 1994, he gave up photojournalism to take up his desire as a landscape photographer. He captured landscapes all over the world with his images that relay powerful messages.







Personal Reaction – I really enjoy his work as an artist. The scenes that he captures are very powerful and show a glimpse of what the environments are like around the world. It is great to view as a person that has not traveled to any of these places. It allows a true understanding of what life is like over there.







Name: Kathleen Martini

Tina Barney

Title: Jill and Polly in the Bathroom

Artist: Tina Barney

Medium: Photography

Year: 1987



Artist's Biography – Tina Barney is an American photographer; she was born in New York City in 1945 to a very wealthy upper class family. She is best known for her large-scale portraits. She usually includes her family members and close friends as the subjects of her portraits. Her images are mostly busy with decorative backgrounds and full of color. Her work is featured in several galleries in New York, and she has produced short films as well.







Personal Reaction – I think that her work is a very exciting way to shoot portraits, although her images are so busy that the subjects become somewhat lost. I do like how in many of the images, her subjects appear natural and do not look directly at the camera with a smile; instead they are in their natural surroundings.







Name: Kathleen Martini

Uta Barth

Title: Untitled

Artist: Uta Barth

Medium:

Year:

 

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words): Uta was born in Berlin, Germany. She is a contemporary photographer, and is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Barth likes experimenting with depth of field, focus, and framing to make suggestive photos. She takes her photos in an abstract way.

 

 

 

Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words): I really like her work. I like the lack of color and the emptiness of the photos. I feel some of them are haunting in a way just by the lack of subject or the sparseness of it. My favorite photo by her is untitled. I like this photo because of the lighting on the wall. I like how the whole picture seems to have the color of the couch in it. The reflections of the light on the wall are beautiful because it balances the sliver of the couch. I also find it very interesting that the couch is crooked along with the lights reflection.

 

 

 

 

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Shutter Sync

Title: Shutter Sync

Artist: N/A

Medium: N/A

Year: N/A

 

Process Description – (50-75 words):

Flash Sync or Flash synchronization is the firing of a photographic flash and the shutter. The camera or mechanism usually has a hot shoe for the flash to be mounted on. The flash is ether connected to the camera ether through cable or wireless radio transmitters.

 

 

Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):

 

I have used shutter sync a few times in dark to difficult lighting situations where a flash is needed. From my experience of sync speed the most common seems to be 250-shutter speed. Flash however isn’t what I like to use often since it tends to age the subject. For instance if you take a picture of a female age 18-19 your flash can harden the subject and make her look like a 26-27 year old. Gel can help however it still has the ageing effect.

 

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Polaroid Transfer

Title: Polaroid Transfer
Artist: Brad Gillette
Medium:
Year: 2006

Process Description – (50-75 words):
Polaroid transfer is a technique, which uses Polaroid film to be able to place an image on textiles, glasses, cups and various other surfaces. The process is done by developing the film for about 15 seconds, after pulling it out from the holder, pulling apart the two sides of the film, and placing the negative side on a surface you want to use. You let it sit for 20minutes with some pressure applied, pour some hot water over it, and the peel away the negative gently.


Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):
I really like the way that the photos turn out because they have a vintage feel to them and the textures pop out a lot more than they would on a regular photo.



Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):
Almir Hodzic

Gabriel Orozxo

Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican artist who works with both photography and objects to create a sculpture.  He likes to combine both manmade objects with things from nature.  He then frequently photographs his creations as a way of documenting his work.  His work has been shown in museums such as Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art.  I like his work because it incorporates more than just photography.  I like that he creates scenes.  

Tracey Boran

Title: Tracey Boran
Artist: Tracey Boran
Medium:
Year: born in1975

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words):
Tracey was born in a small town in New York. She went to the school of visual arts. She started to take pictures of herself and her family and friends. She liked to take pictures of intense feelings. One of her first exhibitions was in 1998. She participated in more than thirty group shows at galleries throughout the world.


Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):
I absolutely love her pictures. Her pictures tell a million different stories. I love how daring she is and is willing to take things to the next level. If I could I would want to take more dangerous and risky photos. I believe everyone that is taking photography should go out of their comfort zone and take pictures of something daring!



Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Jillian Goss

Gabriel Orozco

Title: My Hands Are My Heart
Artist: Gabriel Orozco
Year: 1991

Artist's Biography: Gabriel is a Mexican artist who has been named one of the most influential artists of this generation and maybe even the next. He doesn't stick with just one medium of work and that makes his work interesting; videos, drawings, installations, and photography are his main methods. His work and personal style create a rare opportunity for the audience to interact with the artwork!

Personal Reaction: I found a lot of his work to be pretty interesting. A lot of what I saw was photos of his stuff on exhibit. But his photography, which appeared to be on location, also seemed very interesting. He is definitely someone I wouldn't mind doing more research on!

Sam Mandt J

Uta Barth

Title: Field #23 (Part of series: Field and Ground)
Artist: Uta Barth
Medium: Photography
Year: 1998

Artist's Biography – Uta Barth was born in 1958 in Berlin, Germany. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She generally shoots her images out of focus, cropped, and uses negative space as part of her subject. Her photographs create an illusion for the audience in a way that encourages them to develop their own meaning of the subject. Her philosophy is that the lens of the camera should capture the image in the same manner as the lens of your eyes, so her images recreate a image how it would appear in our peripheral field of vision: blurry.



Personal Reaction – Uta experiments with the depth of field, focus, and framing to create original works of art. She uses photography to display the aesthetic principles of her subjects, and does so in a manner that is extremely interesting and creative. I enjoy her work, and I commend her for developing her photographs in a way that may not be comfortable for all audiences, but instead of attempting to please the majority, remaining true to her personal style as an artist.




Name: Kathleen Martini

Student Work from the Color and Design Project

Web Work 5 Artist Videos

Andreas Gursky

Link:

I don't usually like to include videos that are just slide shows with music - but there are a lot of installation images in here, you can get a sense of the scale of Gursky's images. You can boogie down, too.

Edward Burtynsky

This video from TED is terrific. Kind of long. Worth it.






From the Long Now Foundation.


Lewis Baltz






Candida Hofer


In German, but you get to see her at work.




Richard Misrach






Thomas Struth


Thomas Ruff


Hiroshi Sugimoto

Philip Lorca-Dicorcia

Title: Untitled
Artist: Philip Dicorcia
Medium:
Year:

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words): Philip Dicorcia was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1951. He studied at Boston's School of the Museum of fine Arts and received a Master of the fine arts in Photography from Yale in 1979. Di Corcia pieces were first shown, in 1977, in-group exhibitions around the United States and Europe. His first personal show was in 1985; since then he's had one-person exhibitions in galleries all over the world some including: Museum of Modern Art (New York), Whitechapel Art Gallery (London). His style was to set up lights on the street and take snapshots of people. He would also set up scenes that looked like everyday moments, but were actually carefully planned.



Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words): I love his work. The lighting in each image is just amazing. I really love how in almost every picture there are two sources of light coming from different directions and just creating this beautiful light on his subjects. I would take photos the way he did. My favorite piece is untilted. I love how he took a picture of the light source and there is a light source on the light source. The focusing is interesting as well.




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Andreas Gursky

Title: Shanghai
Artist: Andreas Gursky
Medium:C-print mounted to plexiglass
Year: 2000

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words): Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig, Germany but grew up in Dusseldorf. Andreas was the son of a commercial photographer. He went to Germany's State Art Academy, Kunstankademie Dusseldorf, and was trained y Hilla and Bernd Becher. He was highly influenced by John Davies, a British landscape photographer. Gursky's style is taking street level pictures and enhancing the colors on the computer to make them pop.



Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):I think his style is very interesting. I love how he makes the colors really pop, and how they are a wide range of colors. I personally wouldn't take pictures like his, but I do like what he does. I would like to see him use this concept on other things, maybe not such a huge area but rather something smaller. My favorite by him is Shanghai. I love the color and the movement.




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Richard Misrach

Artist: Richard Misrach



Artist's Biography – (50-75 words):

A photographer best known for his human intervention in landscapes. He helped with the renaissance of color photography and large scale presentation. For over 35 years he has been working on Desert Cantos that incorporates man and his relationship to landscapes.



Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):

His works are interesting, the color is terrific. The Subject matter is real and the manipulations he does are not abstract but could be found in nature.

Matthias Hoch by Brittany Howard

Title: Almere #11

Artist: Matthias Hoch           

Medium: C-Print

Year: 2007

 

Artist’s Biography – (50-75 words):

He was born in 1958 in Radebeul, Dresden. He graduated from Hocheschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig with a degree in Photography.

 

 

Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):

It is a very interesting way to make a photograph look. You can tell a lot of work went into the process to set this up with the zigzag pattern set up with lights. And the fact that they are different color lights than the ones already on the ceiling makes it stand out even more.

 

 

 

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Brittany Howard

John Riddy

Title:

Artist: John Riddy

Medium: Photography

Year:



Artist’s Biography – (50-75 words):

John Riddy was born in 1959 in Northampton. He was well known for his black and white prints of urban architectural spaces, but his resent work is in color. His color photography explores the relationship between modern and traditional landscapes in Japan.





Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):

John Riddy seems to be a really good photographer being able to photograph in black and white and color as well. I like how he takes interest in everything around him from the old to the new to the natural landscapes.







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Kelsey Hafstad

Kaityn Walsh Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer born in 1959 and is well know for her sets of photos of people in transition. Her photos most often have a minimal background with the people she is taking the photo of looking at the camera. When asked "What is your aim when taking photos?" by POPPHOTO she replayed "I want to show things you might not see in normal life. I make normal things appear special."

(Quote from, http://www.popphoto.com/Features/A-Conversation-with-Rineke-Dijkstra, sep. 29th 2010)

Jem Southam

Jem Southam is a British photographer who takes pictures of landscapes. He is interested in how a landscape changes over time. He returns to sights several years after his original print. An example of a series photographed over time is Rockfalls. For this series, Southam took pictures of the coastline of Normandy in northern france. My personal reaction to his pictures is that I like the idea of returning over time more so than his pictures. Here is an example from Rockfalls.

Lewis Baltz

Title: Near Reno, element No. 6
Artist: Lewis Baltz
Medium: Photography-gelatin silver print
Year: 1986

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words): Lewis Baltz was born September 12th 1945 in Newport Beach, California. His work is focused on counter-aesthetic of photography, which is searching for beauty in destruction. He became somewhat of an icon in the late 1970's during the New Topographic movement. In the 1980's he started using large prints, which were displayed in many articles and books.



Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words): I found a lot of his work to be very interesting. It is very cool how destruction can really have a moving effect on you. It reminded me of seeing images back home of the tornados that went through or the floods that have devastated recently. So like me I am sure a lot of people can relate to and find meaning in most of his work!




Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Sam Mandt J

Thomas Ruff

Title: Thomas Ruff
Artist: Thomas Ruff
Medium:
Year: born in 1958

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words):
He studied photography starting from 1977 to 1985. A couple of his main influences were William Eggleston, Eugene Atget, Karl Blossfeld, Walker Evans, and Stephen Shore. His method of photography was a conceptual serial. In 2003 is started to publish pictures of nudes with the help of someone named Michel Houellebecq, a French Author for the text. His ideas were based Internet pornography.


Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):
I believe Thomas Ruff has done many different things with his photography. I mean taking pictures of buildings to naked women are pretty one extreme to the other. Another thing that was pretty cool was the nude pictures were really blurry almost like a fantasy. I understand that people should take interest and explore many different ideas and thoughts of what they want to photograph. And you won't be able to see what you are capable of doing unless you explore.



Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Jillian Goss

Candida Hofer

< Title: Palais Garnier Parls XXXIII
Artist: Candida Hofer

Medium: Photography

Year: 2005



Artist's Biography – (50-75 words): Candida Hofer was born in 1944 in Germany. Her work utilizes large-format photographs of empty interiors in society. She focuses on the architecture of the spaces and turns them into works of art. Her work has been exhibited in several museums throughout the world. She sets up the compositions focusing entirely on the natural design elements of the architecture.







Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words): I think that her work is beautiful. I love that she focuses on the architecture and does not feel it necessary to include people. I think that the she has chosen very interesting spaces to photograph in that the elements of design at work are intriguing. I wish that there were more places like the ones that she visited around here because the places she has captured with her images are remarkable.









Name: Kathleen Martini

Walter Niedermayr

Title: Vallholmur I
Artist: Walter Niedermayr
Medium: Three Type "C" Prints
Year:2004

Artist's Biography :
Walter Niedermayr is an Italian photographer who has gained worldwide recognition mainly for large-scale photos that are presented as a multi-panel piece. He mainly photographs mountain landscape and architectural subjects. His works seem to represent beauty and subtle complexity.


Personal Reaction : I really like his works because I like photos with a lot of detail and full of color without being oversaturated. The photo above is really nice because the green landscape has so may little bits and pieces scattered about to look at.




Name :
Almir Hodzic

Shizuka Yokomizo

Title: Stranger
Artist: Shizuka Yokomizo
Medium: unknown
Year:1998-2000

Artist’s Biography – (50-75 words):

Little is known about this photographer her style of photograph involves both photos and video. She studied and exhibited most of her pictures in London and Europe. She also did some in her home country of Japan. One of her works that is called stranger had her subjects, who were total strangers to her, and had them put a sense of trust on her.

Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):

The relationship between self and others and looking beyond the representational

For ones who are strangers is a feat that is not so easily done. I’m amazed at how she was able to gain as much trust from her subjects as she did. However I also realized that it might have taken the whole 2 years that it took her to get this because I’m sure most of those she sent the letter to must have refused the offer.

Sophie Calle

Artist: Sophie Calle

Medium: French writer, photographer, installation artist and conceptual artist

Artist’s Biography – Calle born in 1953 studied in Paris. She is most often inspired by her emotions and experiences and her work reflects dealing with issues an examination of the conditions and possibilities of the human experience.

Personal Reaction: Take Care of Yourself (Proof-reader), 2007. I am intrigued by the image I feel as though she has created a mood of reflection and mystery in this image.

Name: Nancy Hammer

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys was an artist from the 20th century.  He worked as a sculptor, performance artist, art theorist.  He was born in 1921 in Germany.  One example of his work was a performance piece from 1974 titled I Like America and America Likes Me.  He flew to New York and was taken by ambulance to a room with a wild coyote  In the ambulance he was covered with a felt blanket.  In this room he spent many hours interacting with the coyote.  After three days, he hugged the coyote, wrapped himself back up in his blanket, and rode in an ambulance back to the airport.  Beuys was quoted as saying "'I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote." 

Roni Horn

Roni Horn was born September 24th and is a American artist and writer. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA and Yale with a MFA. She is well known for her photography, sculpture, books and works on paper. Her work is known to show the relationship between people and nature. Roni herself describes her work as sight-dependent and specializes in the Minimalism idea of sight specificity. Roni Horn currently has a one person exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Polaroid

Title: Scavenger Hunt
Artist: Jeff Zoet
Medium: Photography
Year: 2005

Process Description – (50-75 words): The Polaroid Corporation is most famous for its instant cameras better know as Polaroid Cameras. They were called Instant Cameras because they produced a developed film image. Edwin H. Land was the man who founded Polaroid Corporation. They introduced their first instant camera in 1948 and continued to make them until 2008. They were also one of the early manufactures of digital cameras. Their digital camera was the PDC-2000 from 1996 but they failed to become one of the leading makers of digital cameras.

Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words): Personally I love Polaroid cameras and their film. I remember my grandma always had a Polaroid camera that I would use. I loved taking pictures of people and then shaking the film until the picture would show up. Reading the article that I read was a little sad seeing that the company started to fall behind financially and decided to stop making the cameras and their film.

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Sam Mandt

Oleg Kulik

Title:

Title:
Artist: Oleg Kulik
Medium: Performance Art, Sculpture, Photographer and Curator.
Year:

Artist’s Biography – (50-75 words):

Oleg Kulik is a Russian performance artist, sculptor, photographer and curator. His work has a lot of symbolic meaning. He was born in Kiev and graduated from the Kiev art school. Furthermore, he won a scholarship from the Pollack- Krasner fund and a grant from Berlin State. His work is very domestic and involves animals such as the dog. He is most known for his performance as a dog, including Mad Dog, Reservoir Dog and I Bite America and America Bites Me. He has been exhibited and performed all around the world.


Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words): His work and images are very surprising and interesting. They go back to the basics of human and animal nature. A lot of his work is a little bit too out there and shocking and would definitely be controversial. But that is what draws attention and Oleg Kulik definitely knows how to do that.

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Kelsey Hafstad

Zhang Huan

 

Pinhole Photography

Title: Fifth Avenue Boot
Artist: R. Campbell

Medium: Pinhole photography

Year: 1998



Process Description – (50-75 words): A pinhole camera is a camera that does not have a lens; it simply has a small hole in a light-proof container that is used to allow light from a scene to pass in. The image is inverted as light rays from an object pass through the aperture, forming an image on the photo paper. The shutter on a pinhole camera is made of a flap of a light-proof type of material to cover and uncover the pinhole; it must be manually operated as the exposure time may be extremely long to allow the image to project onto the paper.







Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words): I enjoy the idea of pinhole cameras because they can be made of many different types of material and can be all different sizes; it is all up to the photographer. I like the simplicity of the camera and the creativeness the process may involve. The images made with a pinhole camera are usually very interesting as the pictures may look distorted or abstract.









Name: Kathleen Martini

Marcel Duchamp

Artist: Marcel Duchamp           

 

Artist’s Biography – (50-75 words): A French artist associated with Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He was a playful man and created few pieces of art. One of his most creative pieces was called the Fountain, which was actually a urinal.

 

Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):

Personally I don’t consider the Fountain to be art, it wasn’t created, it was just positioned differently and a signature placed on it. Some of his other works are similar where there isn’t much creativity involved.

 

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Photojournalism

Title: Photojournalism

Artist: Dirck Halstead

Medium:

Year:1972 - Vietnam



Movement/Vocabulary Description – (50-75 words):

Photojournalism is the practice of illustrating and documenting news stories with photographs and then explaining the photographs. It started in the early 1800’s and has progressed a lot. Now photojournalists do much more than just news, they do graduations, sports, religious ceremonies, weddings, parades and so much more.





Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):



I think photojournalism is a great way of capturing great moments and events. It’s a lot like regular photography but more of a story.





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Brittany Howard

Tatsumi Orimoto

Title:
Artist: Tatsumi Orimoto
Medium:
Year: 1946

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words): A Japanese Photographer and one of the most renowned. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts. When he went to live in New York he was an assistant to Fluxus artist Nam Jun Paik. He created a collaborative work with someone named Viennese Actionist Herman Nitsch. When he went back to Japan around 1977, he took care of his sick mother but still continued to work. He created a project called Art Mama.



Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):

I like how his art is about everyday life, but it's pretty trippy. Like bread man. Weird I must say, but also very creative. I am very interested that he did a project about his mother. If I started doing a project about my mother I don't think I could ever finish it. I can see why his work was popular and looked at throughout the world.


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Large Format Photography

Large Format Photography

Process Description –
Large format photography uses large film and cameras as well. Large format process generally uses at least a 4 x 5 inch film or a digital sensor. The most common large format other than 4 x 5 inches is 8 x 10 inches. There are other large formats such as panoramic formats, but they are not used as often.


Personal Reaction –
I prefer large formats myself because I like to have pictures with a ton of detail and larger formats have it. I like that large format film or digital images give you more options when editing because you have more to work with.

Name:
Almir Hodzic

Philip Lorca-DiCorcia, Erwin Wurm and David Levinthal Videos

Philip Lorca-DiCorcia







Erwin Wurm





David Levinthal

Mixed Light Flowers

A large number of students photographed flowers for their first project. I suppose photographing color in daylight makes flowers sort of a natural subject. I'm not normally interesting in images of flowers, but there was a lot of nice design and composition going on in these, so I thought I would post the best.

Again, in trying to find a balance between student privacy and sharing student research, I am posting these without names attached. If you are the student who took one of these images, send me an email and I will be glad to post your name with the image.