cyanotypes (same images as the ones below but these are my edited images)

cyanotype

I am not sure what I am going to do for this project, but here are a few of my ideas! I want to some how combine my portraiture with my close ups.. I used a macro lens for most of the close ups!

different versionsss

class portrait....

Reading #2 : Experimental Vision

The Evolution of the Photogram...


Here are some of my favorite of Man ray's "rayographs"

Man Ray

Man Ray

Man Ray

This article went into much detail about the evolution of the photogram. Artists began this "camera-less photography" after the debate of dimension of space. Artists wanted to create 3-dimentional photographs. They needed something new and exciting and this is what they got! The process was pretty controlled but the exciting part was how unpredictable the results were. 

I really liked this quote...

"Inventions, they say, are always made when they are needed" 

I feel like this is so true.... When there is need for something new and exciting, we always find a way to come up with just that! And this process turned into quite a success. 

I also liked some of Schads photograms: 

I really like how abstract they are. I also really like how light plays a big role in each of the images.

picture of meeeee

Assignment #2 :Cliche Verreeeeeeee

I decided to use both black permanent marker and Ink. I used the Ink to make smudges and create a sort of texture and I used the permanent marker for fine lines and tracing. I ended up tracing some of my own photographs that I took in other photo workshop classes. I also used some designs and ideas from the internet. So this is what I came up with....... :)

This one is my favorite :)

Reading #1 : Equivalence: The Perennial Trend by Minor White

I really liked this article because I feel like I can relate to it. It is very hard to set yourself apart from every other photographer..  especially now while in school. It is very easy to find photographs that you feel are "equivalent" to something you have seen before. 

I felt like this sentence made me understand what equivalence means in regards to this article the best: "If the individual viewer realizes that for him what he sees in a picture corresponds to something within himself—that is, the photograph mirrors something in himself—then his experience is some degree of Equivalence. (At least such is a small part of our present definition.)" 

I really liked where the article talked about why we remember images.  It explains that we only remember the images that we want to remember. We either remember them because we simply "love it" or dislike it.  These are those images that will always have an effect on you. When you see it, you have an immediate reaction, either love it or don't. 

It also explains how it can make us realize something about ourselves or maybe the reader has never been quite the same after looking at a certain image.  This happened to me after I started looking at abstract photography. I became very interested in this concept. It was after I saw some of John Coplans abstract photography of the figure.  I wanted to take his idea but do it in a different way and put my own emotion and feeling into it.  This is why I emulated John Coplan last semester. 

After reading this article it really made me think, "How can us photographers set ourselves apart" I think its really important while photographing to always put your OWN emotion and feeling into the way you are taking a photograph. You might get an  idea from someone else or  seen it before, but you can always take your own stance on it. Everyone has a different viewpoint or understanding of something so it is important to put that into your work and I will make more of an effort to do that after reading this article!

One image stuck out to me after reading this article and its because I remember seeing this picture for the first time... Julie had shown it to me, when I was trying to figure out what to do for my self portrait project a couple of semesters ago in photo workshop. After seeing this image, I loved it. It has always stuck in the back of my head. I tried doing something like it, for my self portraits, but it didn't have the same feeling. I felt they were not equivalent. I put my emotion and feeling into my images and made them a little different. In my photograph it was not about the nude figure but instead about the environment I was in and my reflection. I don't feel mine were as successful as Francesca, but I feel like if I took it further I could get something great out of it! 

Francesca Woodman

photomontage!

Here is my color photomontage!!

The color photomontage was the hardest for me. I didn't know where to start. So I cut out a picture of myself and put it on the outer edges of the mat board. Then I chose things that I was close to or represented me in some way. I chose the purple flower because its my favorite color and I love flowers. I chose Pocahontas because people call me "poco". I put my little sisters face in the sun because she always brightens my day. I put a picture of all my sisters because they are my best friends. And I put a hand print because I felt like it represented children and I want to be a 1st grade teacher! 

Here is my black & white photomontage!!

This one is my favorite! As soon as we were given this project, I wanted to do something with all of my old contact sheets. I felt like these were little glimpses of my past and they really represented who I am. And I love the quote in the middle!