Andy Warhol

Title: Marilyn 1967
Artist: Andy Warhol
Medium: Screenprint
Year: 1967

Artist's Biography – Andy (Andrew) Warhol lived from 1928 to 1987. He was the leader of a visual movement during a time known as the counterculture in American history. He worked with a concept known as pop art, which works to isolate the subject from its original context to focus on the subject alone. He repeated the images several times using vivid colors and turned the images into one piece. He became a very successful artist in his time, selling his highest priced painting at $100 million dollars for a painting called, "Eight Elvises" developed in 1963, which only compares to the selling prices of top artists like Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso.

Personal Reaction – I enjoy seeing the works of Andy Warhol because he is a large part of American history. His works are extremely popular and creative. His methods and techniques are very original. He is extremely famous for several of his works of art. It amazes me how inventive he was with his mediums and the trend he was able to set based on his works of art.



Kathleen Martini

Dye transfer

Medium: Dye Transfer

Process Description – (50-75 words):
Is a process to make colored pictures using black and white film. The process was done using a stationary camera and using black and white negatives and three different colored filters- red, green and blue. These negatives were exposed on sheets of Matrix film composed of a gelatin coating over an estar base. Each was then soaked in its filter color and the heavier coating absorbed the color, after this process each was lined up over a sheet of special paper, each was carefully rolled onto the surface creating a rich and deeply colored print.

David Goldblatt- Web Research 2

Title: Listening to the cricket commentary on a Saturday afternoon, before the destruction of Fietas under the Group Areas Act
Artist: David Goldblatt
Medium: Silver Gelatin
Year: January 1977
http://www.goodman-gallery.com/artists/davidgoldblatt

Artist's Biography –
David Goldblatt was born in Randfontein in 1930. His parents came to South Africa to escape the persecution of Lithuanian Jews in 1890. Due to religious persecution and alienation, David began photographing and documenting South African society. He ended up doing it for over 50 years.


Personal Reaction –
David Goldblatt's photos seem to have a lot of emptiness and emotion at the same time and in a way relates to his personal viewpoint of what society is like in South Africa. It is nice also how he has his subjects looking right at the camera in some of the shots because it makes them personable.



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Almir Hodzic

Visual Literacy

Medium: Visual literacy
Year:
 
Movement/Vocabulary Description – (50-75 words):
The visual literacy movement began when teachers and educators noticed a change in students after television arrived.  The IQ scored of young children rose greatly yet the number of students having trouble learning to read and write were decreasing.  The meaning of visual literacy is the ability to understand and express your-self in terms of visual material and to relate to visual meaning beyond the images themselves. 
 
 
Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):
It is very sad how much television can affect people. Especially for young children.  This relates to photography because we have to see images and be able to comprehend them with meaning.  Or if there is a message in our photography we want others to be able to comprehend that message.    
 
 
 
 
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Kelsey Hafstad

Title:RA-4
Artist: kodak
Medium:
Year: N/A

Process Description – (50-75 words): RA-4 is a chemical process that makes color photographic prints. It is used in photo labs and used for digital prints. It is a standardized process that is used around the world to make prints with diversity or certain equipment, chemicals and photographic paper. It is also the type of processing of RA-4 is Type C Print.



Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):
I think pretty much any chemical process is cool. It is interesting to think how chemicals go together to create something. Other than that I really don't understand much about it. I am more of a visual learner and would be interested to see this process being done. I am always willing to learn more.



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Title: Conceptual Water towers
Artist: Bernd and Hilla Becher
 
Artist's Biography –
Bernd and Hilla were a German couple that were best known for their photography of industrial buildings. Together, the Bechers went out with a large formant camera and photographed these buildings from a number of different angles, but always with a straightforward "objective" point of view. The images of structures with similar functions were then displayed side by side to invite viewers to compare their forms and designs. These structures included barns, water towers, storage silos, and warehouses.
 
Personal Reaction –
It's a very interesting way of doing photography and is kind of cool to look at all these different pictures right next to each other.  With them all being in black and white it makes it seem more dramatic but eerie at the same time since there are never any people in their photographs.
 
 
 
Name : Brittany Howard

Hue/Saturation/Luminance

Hue/Saturation/Luminance also known as HSL is one of the most common cylindrical-coordinate representations of points in an RGB color model. Developed in the 1970's and used for computer graphics, color photos, image editing software, and a few other things, HSL is an cylindrical geometry, that starts at red at 0°, green at 120°, and blue at 240°, and is a total of 360°.Hue/Saturation/Luminance also known as HSL is one of the most common cylindrical-coordinate representations of points in an RGB color model. Developed in the 1970's and used for computer graphics, color photos, image editing software, and a few other things, HSL is an cylindrical geometry, that starts at red at 0°, green at 120°, and blue at 240°, and is a total of 360°.