Chan Chao

Title: Communication through body language and facial expression

Artist: Chan Chao

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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

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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
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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
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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