Assignment 2

Frame

Vantage Point

Detail

Fast Shutter

 Slow Shutter + Tripod

Hand Held at Night

Night + Tripod

Great DOF   F/36 

 Shallow DOF   F/5.6

Flash

The Thing Itself

I felt this image portrays what John Szarkowski says about a photo challenging reality.  Someone might look at this image and think that there has to be something at the end of this cord.  Truthfully, the cord is not plug into anything but is just next to my camera creating this illusion.

Assignment 1 Photograph

The Path

My Comments on "The Photographer's Eye" by John Szarkowski

At the beginning of this reading, through the introduction, it addressed what made photography different and how it made some feel.  Some wondered how it could be creative, and those were the ones who were stuck in the traditional ways of thought. They couldn't see how a picture created by someone stroking a paint brush could be overran by someone with a quick snap of a button.

A big issue between paintings of photographs was the ability to tell a story through the work.  Later on, in the growth of photography, paintings were becoming less useful because of the time it took to create one piece.  Photographers started to learn how to set a scene, or just shoot the right angle to be able to tell a story with a single photo.

Photography has been used for it's meaning since it was created, either by artists trying to establish a new medium of work or just by an average person with the right amount of income.  This new medium was created by scientist and painters says Szarkowski, and those who were involved, changed art forever.

Artists' Point of View

Materializing New Space by Kelly Urquhart and Jaime Kennedy was very powerful.  The art itself really had its own voice and was detailed and colorful, but it was the way Kelly and Jaime were able to collaborate their different styles and mediums of work to come up with such fantastic pieces that impressed me.  I loved how they brought her drawing and his photography into one and then added a sculpted piece to the mix.

The pieces that stood out to me the most were, of course, the Avian Flying Apparatuses.  By of course, I mean the great attention to detail, especially when the work isn't real.  I could never imagine spending so much time on something like these pieces, and by that, I have gained so much respect to the artists, not just Kelly and Jaime, but to every artist.  

With Materializing New Space, I could not really say if my interpretation differed from both Kelly and Jaime's because they were able to explain it to us first hand what the meaning of each piece was.  I actually enjoyed this because it was my first time actually getting an artist's point of view on their own work and what they really wanted to come out in every piece.

Interpretation of Parr

by: Marin Parr

In this photograph, I see a caucasian person. They are smiling big, seemingly happy, more of a grin. The person has red lips and strong bone structure. I can't really tell if the teeth are real or fake but they have some specks of red on them.  The focus is fully on the mouth area, very dark background, and is blurred anywhere else.  

I think Parr was trying to get across how we, in everyday life, go about our routine without a thought of how the tiniest things, we aren't even aware of, could be wrong.  I think he likes to show us, or even prove to us, that nothing is perfect and does it in a humorous kind of way.

I feel like my perception of Parr's photograph is right because everyone has those little, embarrassing moments when something is either on your face or in your teeth and no one wants to be the person to break the news.