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

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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.



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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!

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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