Announcement! Photography and Art Exhibitions Coming Up!

Hello Group! There are three upcoming events that I would like to share with you:

1: CGCC Student Art Show Reception
Date: Monday May 4th
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: Library

Come out and see artwork made in CGCC classes!

2: The Good Hurt - MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography by Clarita Lulic
Date: Friday May 1st
Time: 5:00-8:00pm
Location: Night Gallery, Tempe Marketplace

Link to Event

3: unBecoming - MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography by Ashley Czajkowski
Date: Friday May 1st
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
Location: Step Gallery, ASU Grant Street Studios 

Link to Event

Vision and Reality project ideas

All of the vision and reality subjects I am contemplating have to do with photographing humans and using layering or long exposure. Here are some inspirational photos and ideas. I am not sure how to successfully execute the last one. : /

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thisdotcomtaken/4383226059/

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/8478

 

https://bobcatcountry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/itsaboutme.jpg

 

Vision and Reality Project

I'm not sure what I want to do with this project. I have several ideas running through my mind and I'm sure I could make the majority of them work, but which one do I want to do?


I have my daughter and of course she has many toys and we play with them all and have huge imaginations. It keeps me a kid at heart and creative. My daughter actual inspires a lot of my photography and she helps me with projects and ideas. With asking her opinion and looking at few websites and pictures, these are a few ideas I have come up with, but with small twists.

Minions Traveling... my twist is I have small toys at my disposal (including Minion toys) and I could take their pictures in different locations around the valley.

Having several of one person in a picture. This one is a picture of the photographer and her internal struggles with herself. My twist is my daughter dislikes being an only child, so could have her be twins or triplets with different personalities.

I like the idea of a picture within a picture. I happen to have an antique looking frame that I could use to take a picture of someone in different locations and outfits and place them within each other.

Then lastly was my mothers idea. I happen to have a celebrity crush and she thought it would be funny to photo shop wedding pictures of me and Chris Pine. The picture below gave me an idea of photo shopping a little more, but it might just end up a little bit creepy. This photographer took pictures of herself with a mannequin family.

All pictures were found on http://www.boredpanda.com/category/photography/

Vision/Reality

http://petapixel.com/2015/03/18/how-i-created-a-shot-of-myself-falling-in-the-kitchen-with-food-flying-everywhere/

While I have a couple other ideas in the back of my head in case this one doesn't quite work, I hope I'm able to achieve something close to my inspiration.  This is a perfect example of 'enhancing reality', without being totally implausible.  

Anytime I choose to edit a photograph, it's normally because the image does not quite convey the scene as I saw it.  The color could be muted due to poor white balance, or the frame wasn't quite lined up properly, or any other amount of things that can go awry when attempting to capture that perfect image the first time.  

This example takes a similar approach in attempting to depict not a person, place or thing, but an event.  I imagine it to be the equivalent of being able to have photographic evidence of your most outrageous story that you've told all of your friends, and yet they still don't believe you.  

Reality

I thought that something of this nature would be kinda cool but instead of drawings real people.and what not i'm not really sure what I wanna do for this one.

Reality Project Research

Reality Project Research 

Links: http://quillaquiver.com/2013/02/09/beauty/,
http://nonsensesociety.com/2012/09/shelby-tsuji/








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For the reality project I had a few ideas and I did not know which one I wanted to pick. I have three sisters and hearing them talk made me decide on which project I wanted to try. I chose to do something with our society's perception of beauty for my reality project. While listening to my sisters talk about themselves, they had a lot more negative things than positive things to say about how they look. I want to something with how my sisters comments effect how we perceive ourselves and with how Photoshop has changed how we perceive beauty. We also tend to judge how we should look off of what we see in magazines and in the media. I want to try and show how these ideas do not match up to show what beauty really is. If this doesn't work I am going to try and solidify a new idea.

Article linkhttp://barneygrant.tripod.com/p-erceptions.htm

Project Inspiration - Vision and Reality

I have been toying with 2 different ideas for my project. The first is an idea I got from here:  http://www.boredpanda.com/recreated-historical-photographs-davorin-dinic-serbia/  They go back to a city and try to capture images from the same locations as older photographs.

My family has lived in the Valley for several generations and I am lucky to have some photos from my great-grandparents era. I was thinking of trying to get similar photos as it is seen now and merge the two. Similar to what was done in the photo above.

The other idea I am toying with was something inspired by this photo

https://500px.com/photo/59960744/masquerade-by-m%C3%B3nica-poncelas

Based on the idea that social media makes everyone feel lonely (source: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/01/the_antisocial_network.html )

The primary thought was that looking at someone else's news feed you can be led to feel they live a perfect life. An excerpt from this article helps sums up this theory.

"Any parent who has posted photos and videos of her child on Facebook is keenly aware of the resulting disconnect from reality, the way chronicling parenthood this way creates a story line of delightfully misspoken words, adorably worn hats, dancing, blown kisses. Tearful falls and tantrums are rarely recorded, nor are the stretches of pure, mind-blowing tedium. We protect ourselves, and our kids, this way; happiness is impersonal in a way that pain is not. But in the process, we wind up contributing to the illusion that kids are all joy, no effort."

I was thinking of taking pictures of examples of things someone might share on social media, and then another that shows what might also be happening that is not shared. Two-sides to every story type of photo.

Assignment # 4

International Center of Photography (Better late than never)

Photographer: Sebastião Salgado
  

The photographer Sebastiao Salgado's exhibition is called Genesis. Most of the pictures in the exhibition are black and white landscape photographs. The photographs portray nature as it should be or was before us as humans came in and took it over. He said this about his photographs; “So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence." When people see his photographs he hopes to motivate people to help conserve these beautiful landscapes for the future.

I chose this exhibition and this photograph in particular because they are beautiful. I have no other way to describe them. Landscape photography is my favorite form. Depending on where we live without photographs we may never be able to see these amazing places. I also loved how his eight year journey to take these photographs is to help us see why we should be worried about conserving nature. It would be very sad indeed if these places ceased to exist. The photograph spurs you to action (at least it did for me). 

Link to rest of photographs: http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado-genesis

Who you looking at?

A Decade of Fashion would cause me to stop and stare. A celebration of ten years since Glenda Bailey became EIC of Harpers Bazaar, she and Creative DirectorStephen Gan continue to focus on stunning photography. 

 My youth was spent thumbing through the pages of fashion magazines and gawking at the settings, models and clothes. I marveled at what was considered 'fashion' and  longed to be a model. I especially am in awe of the coral dress that resembles a wave. These images reminded my old, jaded self that fashion IS art and the model is a mere pawn in the hands of the artist- the photographer. 

ICP Exhibition Personal Best

As I scrolled through the many exhibits I wish I could have seen, I came across one that made me smile. It's Elloitt Erwitt Personal Best.


Elliott Erwitt was a photographer and filmmaker and took some of the most memorable photographs in the twentieth century, including Marilyn Monroe and astonishing everyday life. He completed twenty books of his collection and displayed over 100 photographs from over a 60 year time span.


There were a few photos I would have picked but the one below really caught my eye. He captured such a simple picture in a unique way and even if the people being photographed knew about it, it seemed like such a quite moment between two people.





http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/elliott-erwitt-personal-best

JFK November 22, 1963

JFK November 22, 1963

http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/jfk-november-22-1963-a-bystanders-view-of-history

This exhibition showed a few photos of the day JFK was killed. I would have liked to go to it because it had some different perspectives that i had not seen like the photo above. 

since this was such a historic event we have seen a lot of the same photos over and over again. so i thought it was kinda interesting to see a new angle.

SIGNS OF LIFE

    This Exhibit hosted Peter Sekaer's work who was one of the key contributors to U.S. government photographic projects during the Great Depression. I have always been interested in early American photography and enjoyed the images especially during the great depression. i would have enjoyed the chance to see his images in person.

 http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/signs-of-life-photographs-by-peter-sekaer