A great discussion featuring one of my grad school professors talking about the future of photography. Has the rise of social media sites like Facebook turned photography from an object to more of a shared activity?
http://www.oliverwasow.com/AIA.pdf
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
"Being Upstate"
A new photographic exhibit called "Being Upstate" by Carlos Loret De Mola is being shown at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. It is a show that expresses the artist's feelings about upstate life. Take a look at the work here:
http://www.carlosloretdemola.com/index.php?/projects/being-upstate/
What do you think of the work? Does it relate at all to your thoughts of being upstate? Do you feel the pieces (done with color film in a large-format camera) work well together?
http://www.carlosloretdemola.com/index.php?/projects/being-upstate/
What do you think of the work? Does it relate at all to your thoughts of being upstate? Do you feel the pieces (done with color film in a large-format camera) work well together?
Monday, March 7, 2011
Photo exhibit call for entries
http://www.vtphotoworkplace.com/id105.html
Here's an opportunity at a great gallery in VT that does only photography. Every month or so they do a call for entries based on a new theme. This is their annual photo open: any theme and process is allowed. I encourage you to enter!
Here's an opportunity at a great gallery in VT that does only photography. Every month or so they do a call for entries based on a new theme. This is their annual photo open: any theme and process is allowed. I encourage you to enter!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
This series of pictures is very interesting, both as fine art photographic objects but also as anthropological studies on how we live and what we live with. Cool stuff.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/08/10/129113632/picturingpossessions
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/08/10/129113632/picturingpossessions
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Duane Michals & John Hilliard
Here are links to the two photographers whose videos we watched last night:
Duane Michals
John Hilliard
Please consider writing about these artists' work in your journal/blog!
Duane Michals
John Hilliard
Please consider writing about these artists' work in your journal/blog!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Welcome to Photo II (A)
Welcome to the official Photo II blog, soon to be as popular as Justin Bieber....'s dentist. This is where you will go to read about assignments, find links that may or may not help you out with your own notebook or blog, and will hopefully make more sense out of whatever insane ramblings I spout during class.
Photo II A is the advanced black & white course. You've learned the basics, now it's time to have your mind blown a little bit. You'll be learning how to print on fiber-base paper (it's about just same as RC, just a lot sssslllllooowwwweerrrr), how to tone using selenium, sepia, and other poisonous chemicals, and you'll be learning how to use a large-format 4x5 camera, which half of you will love and the other half will vow never to use one again. You will also learn how to cut your own window mats for your work, which is a job NONE of you will like but it's very important and you'll need to do it until you become wealthy enough that you can hire someone else to do it for you.
You'll also be spending some time learning about contemporary photography (1980 or later) and will do a presentation on a photographer of your choice. We'll discuss this later. Ultimately you will finish this half-semester with a fully finalized, well-thought out 'exhibition', including artist statement (yuck!), that will act as your final portfolio. I figure that since you've opted to take Photo II that you like the art form enough that you might just try to do something with it after college. If this is the case, then having a good portfolio that shows you can work in a theme is crucial to any field of photography you go into.
The first week of class we will watch some films on photographers who have done interesting things with the process in order to understand it better, and we'll go over the basics of fiber base printing. All the while I expect you to keep taking pictures, at least one roll a week. Looking forward to a good spring!
Photo II A is the advanced black & white course. You've learned the basics, now it's time to have your mind blown a little bit. You'll be learning how to print on fiber-base paper (it's about just same as RC, just a lot sssslllllooowwwweerrrr), how to tone using selenium, sepia, and other poisonous chemicals, and you'll be learning how to use a large-format 4x5 camera, which half of you will love and the other half will vow never to use one again. You will also learn how to cut your own window mats for your work, which is a job NONE of you will like but it's very important and you'll need to do it until you become wealthy enough that you can hire someone else to do it for you.
You'll also be spending some time learning about contemporary photography (1980 or later) and will do a presentation on a photographer of your choice. We'll discuss this later. Ultimately you will finish this half-semester with a fully finalized, well-thought out 'exhibition', including artist statement (yuck!), that will act as your final portfolio. I figure that since you've opted to take Photo II that you like the art form enough that you might just try to do something with it after college. If this is the case, then having a good portfolio that shows you can work in a theme is crucial to any field of photography you go into.
The first week of class we will watch some films on photographers who have done interesting things with the process in order to understand it better, and we'll go over the basics of fiber base printing. All the while I expect you to keep taking pictures, at least one roll a week. Looking forward to a good spring!
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