so about my photographer reports....
i want to do all four.
but if i do the one that is due tommorow like a different day will i get marked down...even if i do the other two that are left? or would it just count as the one i could pass on?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
final? alrreaddddy.
welll i am having a hard time deciding on what to do for my final project... It has to relate to time somehow. All these thoughts are in my head but i just keeping thinking about doing something on aging...or growing up. to me that is the ultimate way to invovle "time". i could take three different age groups. so id use a child, middle age person, and a senior. i think id have to plan out more of what i am going to do as far as age and what not. but that is my general idea that maybe altered...
Thursday, April 2, 2009
HENRI CARTIER BRESSON.
The photographer that I chose to learn more about for my first research project is Henri Cartier-Bresson. Henri was born on August 22, 1908 in a little town right ouside of Paris. He was one of five children and his father was textile manufacturer. As a child Henri had a Brownie box camera then upgraded to a 3 by 4 camera which disappointed his father because he thought Henri would take over the family buisness....but he was wrong Henri had his own agenda. Henri first decided to be a painter while he was in catholic school, then he followed to an art school to pursuit more painting. During his college years he attended Cambridge, then went to the french army. When he returned from the military he first was inspired by a photograph Martin Munkacsi of the boys in Africa, from there is when he started his true passion of photography.
Henri explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant." He started taking up photography seriously he went out and shot all around Europe the photos he first took were entered Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1932 and subsequently at the Ateneo Club in Madrid. In 1934 in Mexico, he shared an exhibition with Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In 1934 Cartier-Bresson met photographer David Seymour and Hungarian photographer Robert Capa. The three shared a studio. After he traveled everywhere except his home country he went back and did a ton of work about the returning french prisoners. Twards the end of the war rumors spread that Henri had died, but in 1947 on his work came out at the MoMA along with his first book The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Later in 1947 he along with his coworkers founded Magnum photos. Then Henri traveled even more everywhere along to India and Indonesia he also started gaining respect from the Dutch, along with his home country where he earned is exhibition at the Louvre. He was consitered the first photographer that shot freely in the post war Soviet Union. Henri retired from photography in 1975 and put his camera on display in his home. Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation was made by his wife and daughter in 2003. On August 3, 2004 Henri passed away.
Henri Cartier-Bresson really inspired me, in both his life and his work. He was an example of a artist who didnt think photography is his first love. I also think it's amazing because of all the places he has been and seen in the world. His photography is something that i haven't seen. He takes real concepts and real life throught the whole world and make them look interesting. I also love all the work he has done during war because usually I dont like photographs about war. I am glad I did my research on Henri.
PHOTOS:
i like this one above because henri does a lot with prisons, but this one is different. it's different because you dont see any faces only the feet and the arms kind of saying help me but it adds mystery because you dont know who is behind the iron gate.
i love this one because of all the work ive seen by henri this one is the most laid back photo. i have seen all his work on war and rough times. this one is great because it just shows kids in spain being kids and i like it very much. i also love the place where he chose to shoot it with a little bit of the wall where there is a hole.
Henri explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant." He started taking up photography seriously he went out and shot all around Europe the photos he first took were entered Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1932 and subsequently at the Ateneo Club in Madrid. In 1934 in Mexico, he shared an exhibition with Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In 1934 Cartier-Bresson met photographer David Seymour and Hungarian photographer Robert Capa. The three shared a studio. After he traveled everywhere except his home country he went back and did a ton of work about the returning french prisoners. Twards the end of the war rumors spread that Henri had died, but in 1947 on his work came out at the MoMA along with his first book The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Later in 1947 he along with his coworkers founded Magnum photos. Then Henri traveled even more everywhere along to India and Indonesia he also started gaining respect from the Dutch, along with his home country where he earned is exhibition at the Louvre. He was consitered the first photographer that shot freely in the post war Soviet Union. Henri retired from photography in 1975 and put his camera on display in his home. Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation was made by his wife and daughter in 2003. On August 3, 2004 Henri passed away.
Henri Cartier-Bresson really inspired me, in both his life and his work. He was an example of a artist who didnt think photography is his first love. I also think it's amazing because of all the places he has been and seen in the world. His photography is something that i haven't seen. He takes real concepts and real life throught the whole world and make them look interesting. I also love all the work he has done during war because usually I dont like photographs about war. I am glad I did my research on Henri.
PHOTOS:
i like this one above because henri does a lot with prisons, but this one is different. it's different because you dont see any faces only the feet and the arms kind of saying help me but it adds mystery because you dont know who is behind the iron gate.
i love this one because of all the work ive seen by henri this one is the most laid back photo. i have seen all his work on war and rough times. this one is great because it just shows kids in spain being kids and i like it very much. i also love the place where he chose to shoot it with a little bit of the wall where there is a hole.
Monday, February 23, 2009
hmmmm extra credit?
just like a one winged dove.....
kay that song has been stuck in my head alllll day, good ol' stevie.
now let's get down to buisness.
one picture that i wish i took but never did?
this is the worst subject to write on ever, but i am going to try.
when i was in california earlier this term i was so excited to go take pictures down there... when i arrived i noticed i forgot one little detail to my photography packing this would be my tripod...
as you know i am glued to my tripod (which worries me still but slade said it was cool). anyway. the whole time i was there i was beating myself up because everywhere that i looked there was a perrrrfect shot waiting for me and yes for my camera because everytime i take a picture withought that thing it turns out to be garabage. as i was on my vacation wishing i had my buddy tripod i was walking down melrose avenue one day going to my favorite store on the whole stip-spoty l.a. it has every possible tennis shoe known to man in every different color under the rainbow,its A H MAZING. as i continued to walk. there was this man on the street rapping and for all i know he sounded amazing. he looked the part. a man who's been through a lot, wrinkley skin, beat up clothes, skinny. he was rapping about his living status and right behind the wall he was sitting by was a mural it covered the whole wall and it said free city with all these way tight colors i thought at that moment i would love to get the man ongoing rapping with the wall right behind him. i wish i could have taken the picture beause as you have noticed in my past blogs that i am very into the whole inner city/ghetto/city life. and taking this picture would be awsome because for how much i enjoy looking at that type of photography i could actually take it myself.
although i didnt take one picture while i was there it taught me something. that always to pack my tripod duh. and everywhere you go there is an oppurtunity too take some really great pictures. it also taught me that i would love to round myself as i continue my study in photography. to change things up. right now im doing all my photos in like the same place. im going to try next term and from now on to find some differnent locations because i want to see how my work is when there is other surroundings... if its good or bad in different places would really help me grow i think. and that is what i am going to try to take from this assignment and apply it to the future.
kay that song has been stuck in my head alllll day, good ol' stevie.
now let's get down to buisness.
one picture that i wish i took but never did?
this is the worst subject to write on ever, but i am going to try.
when i was in california earlier this term i was so excited to go take pictures down there... when i arrived i noticed i forgot one little detail to my photography packing this would be my tripod...
as you know i am glued to my tripod (which worries me still but slade said it was cool). anyway. the whole time i was there i was beating myself up because everywhere that i looked there was a perrrrfect shot waiting for me and yes for my camera because everytime i take a picture withought that thing it turns out to be garabage. as i was on my vacation wishing i had my buddy tripod i was walking down melrose avenue one day going to my favorite store on the whole stip-spoty l.a. it has every possible tennis shoe known to man in every different color under the rainbow,its A H MAZING. as i continued to walk. there was this man on the street rapping and for all i know he sounded amazing. he looked the part. a man who's been through a lot, wrinkley skin, beat up clothes, skinny. he was rapping about his living status and right behind the wall he was sitting by was a mural it covered the whole wall and it said free city with all these way tight colors i thought at that moment i would love to get the man ongoing rapping with the wall right behind him. i wish i could have taken the picture beause as you have noticed in my past blogs that i am very into the whole inner city/ghetto/city life. and taking this picture would be awsome because for how much i enjoy looking at that type of photography i could actually take it myself.
although i didnt take one picture while i was there it taught me something. that always to pack my tripod duh. and everywhere you go there is an oppurtunity too take some really great pictures. it also taught me that i would love to round myself as i continue my study in photography. to change things up. right now im doing all my photos in like the same place. im going to try next term and from now on to find some differnent locations because i want to see how my work is when there is other surroundings... if its good or bad in different places would really help me grow i think. and that is what i am going to try to take from this assignment and apply it to the future.
eanst haas
earnest haas.
there is a specific reason i like this photo so much. yeah sure the lighting is nice. and i love the backround its awsome. but my grandpa was in the navy and seeing that hat and the uniform remind me of him. he always used to ttell me stories of the navy and all his adventures, and he always had his uniform hat in the dashboard of his car. it seemed when he was in the navy he accomplished so much and grew as a person, when i see this man i wonder what stories he has to tell... i think that is an important componant when we take portraits now that i think of it that's exactly what slade said to doo....hahah so it must be double important. but i definatley love this picture one of my favorites for sure.
mark doyle.
mark mark mark.
this photo was taken by mark doyle.
as i continue my search for photos i like, i stumbled across this one. yet it is so plain, simple, and doesnt even look like this weas suded for art...and that is what i liked about it. this picture is boring yeah sure admit it but that is why i love it you can take something so simple and nothing to build the picture and that makes people stop and is like is that even supposted to be along with this artist's other work? thats what it made me did.... i also like the light is very intense it makes the color bright, im only used to seeing cinemas at night.....
Thursday, February 19, 2009
sllllllllllade read.
sladeeeeeeeee i am one percentile offff an solid a with is a 93... how can i get my blog grade up because i know if i do i can bump my overall grade...right? should i just blog more about other photographers? and are you gonn give us that little writing assignment!??? let me know man
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