UNCC Photography

Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven

2012-01-25T09:54:00.000-08:00

Independent photographers based in Ukraine, also known as "Synchrodogs". Contemporary photographers who shoots haunting images of their surroundings only using film cameras. Both started out with experimenting with low quality cameras. They both have been interviewed numerous times and featured in many art magazines. They now mainly do commissioned works for art and editorial shoots.

http://www.synchrodogs.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10332728@N06/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25670129@N04/

Artist Share: Deborah Oropallo

2012-01-24T16:28:00.000-08:00

Deborah Oropallo received her BFA at Alfred University, Alfred, NY in 1979 and went on the receive her MFA at the University of California, Berkeley, CA in 1983.

Deborah Oropallo makes what she calls “hybrid prints”. She uses the computer and contemporary digital printmaking methods all in combination with painting techniques. The photographs are digitally manipulated and then printed on German printmaking paper using a pigment-based process. Once they’re printed Oropallo works over them with encaustic and oil paint.

Oropallo’s current work is a deconstructing and enhancing of images to explore the idea behind seduction and power that are evoked by gesture and pose. She uses images she finds for sexy costume on the internet and combines it with images of men from the 17th and 18th century portrait paintings.

I enjoy looking at her work because every time I look at it I find something new in the image that I didn’t see before. Her process seems very interesting and intriguing. The outcome of her images are interesting to look at and it certainly makes me wonder how she creates her artwork. I do plan on using her work as inspiration in my future works.

Resources:
http://www.gallery16.com/index.php?page=artists&artist=do&thumbpage=1

Artist Share: Carrie Mae Weems

2012-01-23T13:06:00.000-08:00

CarrieMae Weems is an African American photographer who tells stories in her work.Weems was born Portland, Oregon, and now resides in Upstate New York where sheteaches at Syracuse University.

CarrieMae Weems began her interest in the arts and photography in 1973 and attendedSan Francisco City College where she studied photography and design. Shereceived her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1981. Later thatyear, she began her gradate studies at University of California, San Diego, andcompletes her MFA in 1984. Weems has had work shown nationwide in numerousexhibitions including MOMA.

InWeems’s biography, she stated, “Storytelling is fundamental to my work, a wayto best express the human condition that has been a focus of my art…” This is acommon theme throughout most of her work. What attracted me to Weems is how herwork investigates what it is like to not only be an African American in thiscountry, but how it is to be a middle class mother and wife as well. Her “TheKitchen Table Series, 1990” has to be my favorite out of all her work so far.This body of work tells a very clear story of a woman’s life in front ofsomething so simple as a kitchen table. The composition is nothing but her, thetable, the bright light above the table, and the space that surrounds it all.The wall sometimes indicates the time period or stage she is in her life.Friends, family, and love are included in this story.

http://carriemaeweems.net/

(image is from The Kitchen Table Series)

Gum Bichromate

2012-01-18T13:15:00.001-08:00

Here's a good website on gum prints that I found.
Gum Bichromate Printing

Julie De Waroquier

2012-01-18T12:45:00.000-08:00

Julie is a 22 year-old French student in Lyon. She only started digital photography 4 years ago. Her work composes of the dream and surreal quality. She likes to explore that which "society refuses." In some of her photos she states that they are not manipulated/composited, yet hold the same surrealistic quality as the others. She has held group and solo exhibitions all over France, including Paris and and Montpellier.

I really enjoy her use of color and light. Her concepts and titles are clear and interesting. I definitely derive inspiration from her work and life.

http://www.juliedewaroquier.com/

James Lee

2011-04-12T20:39:00.000-07:00

James Lee is a freelance animator who received his training at Griffith University in Australia, where he graduated with a Bachelors in Animation with Honors in 2007. For his Honors Assessment he created the short film Tarboy, a movie made entirely in Flash about a being made of tar and the souls of a million robot slaves who were dismantled, thrown away, and are now bent on revenge against their rich fat cat former masters.

Tarboy screened in several international film festivals throughout 2008, was featured at Siggraph, and won Best Animation, Most Original Script, Best Tertiary Film, and Best Overall Film at the Queensland New Filmmakers Awards.

I first saw Tarboy on Newgrounds.com (where it won the Tank Award for Best Movie of 2009, by the way) and was blown away by the fluent animation, special effects, and stylish use of color and silhouettes, all made almost entirely in Flash, except for a few 3D effects done in Maya. What draws me to it is that this is the exact sort of thing I'd like to do someday.

In between freelance projects, James is currently working on Tarboy II, a continuation of the story. Pictured above is Egz, the villain from Tarboy who will be back in the second.

James Lee's site: tarboy.com
Tarboy on YouTube: watch

Danielle Tunstall

2011-04-06T08:45:00.000-07:00

Danielle Tunstall is a 31 year old photographer based in the UK. There is not a great deal of biographical information available about her other than her age and that she has children. I was initially drawn to Danielle's work because of the controversy and discussion it has generated. A large part of her work involves images that many people find disturbing, which has provoked many outside the art community to ask whether or not there is a line between mental instability and art.

Danielle is the creator of several series including Zombie Land and Almost Human. She combines off camera techniques such as face paint with digital imaging techniques in Photoshop to create stunning images which address the human condition, exploring our similarities and differences.

In her dark yet light portraits, Danielle skillfully portrays very dark themes and emotions with very light imagery. The contrast of meaning and visuals is an interesting commentary on modernity and our tendency to make light of dark subjects, or how advertising and mass media transform dangerous things like chemical warfare into widely accepted food additives and fertilizers. Her portraits highlight the truth of human existence. We have a tendency to pose for portraits as though our lives were perfect. Family members with bitter rivalries will wrap their arms around one another and pose in artificial idyl. Danielle's portraits cut past this sugar-coated aspect of portrait photography and focus on the very real experiences that have made us the people we are.

Another aspect of Danielle's photography that intrigues me is the simplicity of her setup. She uses a few lights, a simple black or white backdrop, a tripod and her camera. Her "models" are all real people - none of them are professionals. I appreciate her ability to transform the common and mundane into high art that has captured the attention of the public and drawn them into the continuing dialogue of what art is and isn't.

Danielle's website Danielle's facebook page Danielle's flickr

Lorna Simpson

2011-04-04T09:03:00.000-07:00

Lorna Simpson was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1960. Simpson received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Then later received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Simpson’s concentration is filmmaking and photography. She has been working in Fine Art for about 23 years. Simpson become well known artist in the mid-1980s. Being African American women she used culture and gender to interact with the multi-racial American lifestyle. In addition, she likes to question the semiotics of looking, exploring the construction of difference in human beings with her art. Artists such as David Hammons, Adrian Piper, and Felix-Gonzalez Torres influenced her work. Simpson was awarded the International center of photograph’s infinity award in 2010. Moreover, she holds the distinction of being the first African-American woman to exhibit her work in Italy’s Venice Biennale in 1990 and at the Museum of Modern art in New York. Simpson’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Miami Art Museum in Florida, New York’s Josh Baer Gallery, the Wadesworth Anteneum, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She is now living in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and daughter. Currently represented by Salon 94 in New York, New York.

I really like her work because I can really relate to her work, being a female from a minority group in the big society of the United States. I like how symbolic her photographs are. They are very simple but hold very deep meaning. She uses mainly white garments with her photographic work when she photographs females. In her more recent work she uses some black.

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=44543

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/arts/design/02lorn.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

http://lsimpsonstudio.com/

Yoni Goodman

2011-03-28T07:32:00.000-07:00

Yoni Goodman is an Israeli animator. He was born in 1976 and studied visual communication at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, where he first took up animation. He worked as a freelance animator and illustrator after graduation in 2002. He was animation director for two films by Ari Folman: the short film The Material That Love is Made of and the feature-length Waltz with Bashir.

For Waltz with Bashir, Goodman invented what he calls the "Flash cutout technique" for animation. It involves cutting illustrations into hundreds of little cutouts in Flash, which are then moved around each other to give the illusion of movement. The effect is really astounding and almost looks like rotoscoping. The poster above gives you an idea of what it looks but it really needs to be seen in motion.

Yoni Goodman's site

Salvia Lopez & Fabio Costi

2011-03-17T15:22:00.000-07:00

Salvia Lopez
shes a talented photographer from Barcelona and one of her series entitled Roig 26 really caught my attention because, quite simply, no one really pays attention to old folks nowadays. if some people don't even wanna hear about them then who would want to take pictures of them.

This project is an ongoing photo documentary about the five years living with her grandparents. The pictures she’s taken for this project are for the most part intimate and honest, and done so in a compositionally interesting way all whilst providing a touching insight into the life of an elderly couple.

on a younger note...

Fabio Costi
He does digital and traditional fashion photography based in Milano.
‘Ceci N'est Pas Un Reflet!,’ - (This Is Not A Reflection) a homage to artist René Magritte in the new issue of Flamboyant magazine.
I loved his idea here! and I love how he's influenced by one of my favorite surrealist artist! i think thats why this caught my attention.
awesome photos.

Simen Johan

2011-03-16T09:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.lcstatic.com/assets/escapeintolife.com/content/uploads/2009/10/171.jpg

In his photographs, Simen Johan explores darkly the human proclivity towards fantasy and our attempts, knowing or otherwise, to craft alternate realities for ourselves. Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, Johan creates each of his images from as many as one hundred negatives, having first constructed or discovered each element and photographed it on film. Across his body of work, the viewer is urged to ponder the relationship between the real and the artificial or imagined.

http://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/simen-johan/

I enjoy the images that this artist captures because he tends to play with a lot of light and colors that you wouldn't see in everyday life. However, these are settings that are possible to see in everyday life but he manages to make it more interesting to look at. A lot of the images that he had were taken at night and he utilizes the little but effective accents that the light is able to illuminate on his subjects.

http://www.simenjohan.com/x/2000_2001/images/08.jpg

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

2011-03-16T09:01:00.000-07:00

http://s406.photobucket.com/albums/pp142/farrarmoritz/?action=view¤t=parkeharrison.jpg&newest=1
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This quote by ParkeHarrison fully depicts what his work is all about:

"My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use…. [I] strive to metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience." - Robert ParkeHarrison

I really enjoy the couples' work for they have a weird but awesome mystertious elements. It gives a different vibe of humans losing a sense of reality.

The couple has a book called: "The Architect's Brother" it is book that contains all their photography work. The book was named as one of the 'Ten Best Photography Books of the Year," in 2000 by The New York Times.

Karl Baden

2011-03-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

On February 23rd 1987 he began a long term and continuing project of self discovery in which he takes a stylistically similar self-portrait every day - the appropriately titled Every Day series.

Karl Baden's photographs have been widely exhibited, including at the Robert Mann Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Howard Yezerski Gallery, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Decordova Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Musée Batut in France, Photokina in Cologne, Germany, and The Photographers Gallery in London. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Kenan Foundation and Light Work Visual Studies. His photographs and visual books are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Polaroid International Collection and the Guggenheim Museum Library. He has taught at Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design, Clark University, Phillips Academy at Andover, and has been on the faculty at Boston College since 1989.

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/studioarts/baden.html

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/image/752556196778175982237/

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/image/97750484697193161753189543/

Artist Share: Tomoko Sawada

2011-03-15T21:42:00.000-07:00

Tomoko Sawada was born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in 1977. She graduated from Seian University of Art and Design in 2000 and completed a postgraduate course shortly after. She currently lives and does all of her work in Kobe, Japan. Sawada is a self-portrait photographer. Tomoko Sawada's style of self-portraiture is very similar to Cindy Sherman's. Sawada's works are of the different types of Japanese women.

Man Ray Photography

2011-03-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

Man Ray was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements. In 1999, ART news magazine named him one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century, citing his groundbreaking photography. Man Ray’s photography was focused on the inner feelings (associated with surrealism) and how they reflect on the outside. He went about this with portraits and photo-collage.

Artist Share: Renee Cox

2011-03-15T21:14:00.000-07:00

Renee Cox was born on October 16, 1960 in Colgate, Jamaica. Before becoming a photographer, she wanted to be a filmmaker. She was "interested in the visual" and began to get into photography. Most of Cox's work are self-portraits. Some of her most famous, yet controversial, self-portraits reflect social issues and religious. She pushes the limit and doesn't hold back.

Website:

http://reneecox.org/

Courtney Beckett

2011-03-15T20:30:00.000-07:00

Christopher Lowell:

http://www.chrislowellphotography.com/

Chris is better known as an actor. Photography is just a hobby of his. He is known among his friends for being very spontaneous. He will often go to the airport with no destination in mind and just book a flight to a location that sounds interesting so that he can go take pictures there.

Courtney Beckett:

http://cbeckettphoto.com/

Born and raised in Chicago, she photographs mostly editorial/Celebrity portraits. She went to Brooks Institute of Photograph in CA. She also shoots concert photography. She works in LA and Chicago.

Shirin Neshat- Artist Share

2011-03-02T08:46:00.000-08:00

Shirin Neshat

Born 1957, Qazvin, Iran currently living in New York. She completed her MFA, MA and BA at UC Berkeley. She moved to San Francisco after the Iranian revolution and started to study art. After she got her degree she moved to New York. Her main focus is film, videography and photography. She mainly focuses on the cultural, political, psychological and social aspects of women in Islam. It refers to cultural, social and religious code as a Muslim.

One of her series that I really like is the Women of Allah series. The women of Allah series they are portraits of females with Persian calligraphy written on them. Which is was bought by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She created this piece after her first trip back to Iraq after 1993. She used this collection of images to reflect on the violence in Iran after the revolution. The written texts are poetry taken from Furugh Farrukhzad about feminist beliefs.

In 2009 she won a reward for best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival for her video "Women without Men". This film was based on the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur.

I feel like I can really relate to her about leaving her home country and living in the United States but still relating her art to whom she is. I like that she does not forget where she is from and like to show the world through her art. I feel like I am at the point in my art where I want to depict who I am without literally telling someone who I am. I feel like with my photography I am finding myself through my images.

Her photos are very intriguing to me because she does them very discretely. I really feel like they are aesthetically pleasing.

Links:

http://www.time.com/time/europe/photoessays/neshat/

http://www.gladstonegallery.com/neshat.asp

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/may/14/women-without-men/

http://www.youtube.com/watch

the art of Pahnl

2011-03-02T06:09:00.000-08:00

UK street artist Pahnl is technically an outsider artist. With no formal training or art education, he has still gained quite an international following with his vibrant and cheeky street art. Often compared to Banksy, Pahnl's work is often site specific, though he has also done canvas work and stop-motion animation as well.

I was first drawn to Pahnl's work because of his stop-motion animation, Nowhere Near Here in which he utilized long exposures, light painting and stencils to create a beautiful and compelling short film about a dog's adventures in the city at night.

Despite his status as an "outsider" in the art world, Pahnl has gained quite a lot of international attention and been featured in many exhibits. Past exhibits of his work have been in England, Canada, Russia, Germany, Italy, and the US.

Pahnl's website Pahnl's Flickr

Cameron Gray

2011-03-01T22:49:00.000-08:00

Cameron Gray was born in 1984. He went to school in Tasmania. By 21, he had already published his first book and has published 4 more since then. He got his big break when Warner Bros. called him up to do some album work for a band. It is now used for a U.S. band, Born of Osiris', album and merchant products.

http://parablevisions.com/blog/

His tools and equipment used include a 27″ iMac using Photoshop, Bryce (3D terrain generation software), Poser (3D CGI rendering and animation software program optimized for models that depict the human figure in three-dimensional form), Apophysis (open source fractal flame (a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole) editor and renderer), Vue (most efficient and advanced solution for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments), a Wacom Tablet, Digital Microscope, a Pentax K20D and an Underwater modified HD video camera.

Some selected collaborations include: Warner Music, Dead Letter Circus, Born of Osiris, Declan O’Shea (Cyclefly/Mako), Fervor, Esoterica, Circle of Contempt, Ginger, Dyonisis, Mantris, Farebridge, Jasper Faolan, Sumerian Records, Swivelhead, My Kingdom Records, Arctic, Forever Eve, Fallujah, Anthony Karnowski, Caleb L. Mabry, nEgoist publishing.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/camerongray/portfolio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw8uBNueVRk&feature=player_embedded

I was immediately intrigued by Cameron's work by the pure visual aesthetic. I love the surreal/dream-like quality while using a medium that I am not familiar with whatsoever. I am so curious as to how he starts a piece using his camera. His final pieces are so worked over that they do not look like they were based off a photograph. They are too surreal and illustrated to be such. I love all of the detail. I become immersed in a piece with the color, shapes, lines, composition, small details, and context.

Steve Dembo

2011-02-28T08:17:00.001-08:00

Steve Dembo works mostly in black and white or monochromatic processes, where he emphasizes shapes and patterns. He has color work as well, and he says in all his photographs he tries to bring forth impressions and feelings. Aside from making his photographs his passion is teaching others about photography. He is a teacher at the Community College of Baltimore County, however he is not considered full time. He is also a mentor, presenter and lecturer at the Baltimore Camera Club.

Steve Dembo has successfully participated in juried exhibitions and been recognized by National Geographic. He has won several competitive awards and accolades; his most recent achievement was an Excellence award in COLOR Magazine’s 2010 portfolio competition.

I first saw Dembo’s work in COLOR magazine; I was immediately drawn to the technique that his uses in his photographs like the one above. It looks as if he uses a combination of filters and then hand colors the object(s) of main focus in the image and then leaves the rest of the image pretty natural. After looking up more of his work I discovered that he has some very beautiful landscapes. I also find his set of photographs title ‘cityscapes’ to very interesting. I really love the hand colored quality that they have.

http://dembosphotos.com/index.html

Kevin Carter

2011-02-23T08:29:00.000-08:00

Kevin Carter was a photojournalist that was based out of South Africa.

He was born September 13, 1960 in Johannesburg.

Growing up in a white middle class family he saw many of the arrest of blacks that were illegally living in his neighborhood.

After high school he went to pharmacy school but shortly after starting he dropped out and was drafted by the government. He started news photography after being envolved with various episodes in and out of the military. He felt it was something that he needed to do to bring light to the horrendous acts of violence that he witnessed. He never gained any formal knowledge of photography. He started in news photography but the started photographing the uprisings and other acts of violence that were going on during that late 1980s and early 1990s.

Kevin was one of the members of The Bang Bang Club.

He was the first the photograph a public execution by "necklacing".

In March of 1993 Kevin and another photographer was asked to go to Sudan and take pictures of the awful situation that the people of the area were living in. While there he took the famous photograph that would later win him the prized Pulizter Prize for Feature Photography.

Months after winning the award he could no longer take the guilt and depression caused by the experiences that he witnessed he killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning on July 27 1994.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981431,00.html

http://digitalfilmmaker.net/bang/bang_frame.html

Bang Bang Club video Part 1

Bang Bang Club Video Part 2

Matthew Cylinder

2011-02-23T07:26:00.000-08:00

http://matthewcylinder.net/fearconditioning.html

http://matthewcylinder.net/

In his own words:
"Matthew Cylinder is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores commercial media and how American society has been subjected to the pervasive use of fear. His ongoing body of work explores fear of environmental apocalypse and how the news on television changes and challenges the public's ideology and beliefs, producing fears of an imagined dark tomorrow. Cylinder creates folk tales expressing the feelings of today's youth on the 21st century climate change crisis. Cylinder studied photojournalism, environmental science and communication in Northern Arizona. Matthew Cylinder later graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with his BFA in photography. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY."

Matthew started building small scale sets to create his photography eventually resulting his thesis work “Fear Conditioning” which uses photography, drawing and sculpture. The work is dark and ambiguous in nature. The viewer is confronted with uncertainty, and forced into examining the abstracted form to make connections themselves. The work is both unsettling and beautiful, challenging and intimate.

Jen Mann

2011-02-23T06:55:00.000-08:00

I found Jen Mann while I was just looking for new artist for interviews. She paints dream like portraits of beautiful, nude, long hair girls with exotic and wild animals. She is from Canada, went to Ontario College of Art and Design and got a BFA in printmaking. I picked her because I liked her animal/human paintings a lot. She explained to me why she used the animals as the basic primal desire. I liked her concept a lot and her works are just amazing.

Jen Mann

Interview

Nina Paley

2011-02-22T22:14:00.000-08:00

Nina Paley is a cartoonist and animator, born in 1968 in Urbana, Illinois. She is most well-known for her feature-length animated film, Sita Sings the Blues, which is based on the Ramayana, the Indian epic.

In 2002, Paley's husband took a job in India, where Paley joined him soon after. While on a trip to New York on business regarding her latest comic strip, her husband emailed her saying that their relationship was over. Sad and distraught, she stayed in New York and more closely studied the Ramayana, having discovered it in India, which inspired her to create animated shorts about it. Over the next few years, she added more to the story, and the finished production became Sita Sings the Blues, which debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008.

Sita Sings the Blues uses a few drastically different animation styles in telling the story of the Ramayana as well as the parallels with Paley's own breakup with her husband.

Nina Paley's site
Sita Sings the Blues site
Sita Sings the Blues trailer on YouTube

Nancy Mcentee

2011-02-21T08:34:00.000-08:00

Nancy Mcentee teaches photography at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She received a master’s degree from The Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art and has completed residencies as well as exhibited her work nationally. I really appreciate her use of metaphors and symbolism in her photos, as well as the ethereal look. Her use of tones and dodging and burning make her focal point stand out even more. The square black and white format works well with her subject matter and she uses that throughout all her portfolios.

www.nancymcentee.com

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

2011-02-15T23:39:00.000-08:00

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre are about 30 and 23 years old respectively. They have been photographing ruins since 2005. The series The Ruins of Detriot is a collaboration started in 2005. The series Theaters is still in progress since 2005. Both have the same visual aesthetic. Photography is the most modest way for them to capture this ephemeral state of time and change. To them: ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension. The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.

http://www.marchandmeffre.com/index.html

Artist Share

2011-02-09T08:28:00.000-08:00

Shadi Ghadirian

Born in 1974, Tehran, Iran. B.A degree in Photography, Azad University, Tehran, Iran. She has had collections in The British Museum, London Musee des Arts Contemporains, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Sitftung Ludwig), Vienna Los Angeles County Muesum of Art, California and The Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian institution, Washington DC

She tries to play with juxtapositions. The contrast with the difficulties women face in Iran today between modernism and old traditions. There is not much about her work. In a interview she said “don't like talking about my work, I find that restricting, but I would say that it deals with the Iranian women of today, and with the fact that the limitations and laws that are imposed on them don't matter that much, that they still use modernism for themselves, pretty much as they like. Also, she is interviewed by Robert Adanto Pearls on the Ocean floor, which explains her Qajar series. She explains how she had poses from the former ruler Qajar poses and incorporated all the modern time editions to the portraits like pepsi or vacuums. She is incorporating modern and old.

I picked this artist because I really like how she played with modern and old traditions. She brings out the Muslim aspect of being a photographer into her work. I like her work because that is what I want to do this semester, is bring forth who Muslim females are, because after 9/11 the western society has depicted them as outcasts.

Here is her website with a collection of her art pieces: http://shadighadirian.com

This is an article about her in the Art section of the New York Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/arts/design/03isla.html

Pearls on the Ocean Floor : http://www.pearlsontheoceanfloor.com/

Tracey Emin

2011-02-09T07:10:00.000-08:00

Above: "The History of Painting" three pregnancy tests, morning after pills, five cases: wood, plexiglas with tampons,
blood, tissue

Above: "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With"

Above: "My Bed" mattress, linens, pillows, rope, various memorabilia (empty alcohol bottles, cigarette butts, stained sheets, worn panties)

Tracey Emin is an English artist, born in London and one of the "Young British Artists" (which also includes Damien Hirst). She initially studied art in Maidstone, then returned to London to study at the Royal College of Art, where she obtained an MA in painting. Her piece "My Bed" consisted of her own unmade bed including used condoms and blood-stained underwear and was the piece that brought her a great deal of attention from the press.

Tracey Emin engages the viewer with her candid exploration of universal emotions. Well-known for her confessional art, Tracey Emin reveals intimate details from her life to engage the viewer with her expressions of universal emotions. Her ability to integrate her work and personal life enables Emin to establish an intimacy with the viewer. Critics have argued that the personal nature of Emin's work is undermined by her employing a studio of assistants to produce her pieces.

Bruce Bickford

2011-02-08T21:57:00.000-08:00

Bruce Bickford is an animator who works mostly with clay. Though he received no formal art training, he began animating in clay in 1964 at the age of 17. After high school he joined the military and went to Vietnam for eleven months, after which he resumed his animations. He made animations for Frank Zappa from 1974 until 1980, after which he returned to Seattle to focus on his own projects. A documentary about Bickford's life and work called Monster Road was completed in 2004.

I didn't put up a screenshot of Bickford's work because a still image could never do justice to the amount of life and imagination that pours out of his animations. Many of them make use of morphology, with grotesque forms and faces constantly moving and shifting into other forms and into each other.

Excerpt from Monster Road where Bickford explains his motivation and how he got started.

Excerpt from The Amazing Mr. Bickford, a collaboration with Frank Zappa.

Bruce Bickford's website

Bridget Murphy Milligan

2011-02-07T08:47:00.000-08:00

www.bridgetmmilligan.com

Bridget studied painting and photography at Miami University and Indiana University, as well as in Italy through a study abroad program. She is inspired by her past memories and childhood stories, working in a variety of mediums. Her work has been exhibited all over the country. She currently teaches photography and drawing at the College of Wooster in Ohio.
I really enjoy Bridget’s “Reality Tales” portfolio. It’s surreal and ambiguous images catch my interest and remind me of stories from my own childhood. The tones and focus creates a mood in the photos make them seem even more nostalgic. They have the timeless element that I really enjoy, and using the human element in a landscape to make it more visually appealing.

Renee Butler

2011-02-07T06:18:00.000-08:00

Renee Butler earned her BA in Art History in 1977 from the University of Maryland where she also took studio classes. In the 80's she was awarded several fellowships and grants including a Rockefeller Foundation grant and a Warhol Foundation grant. In the late 80's she began working with composers to create stage set installations which laid the groundwork for her installations.

She is well known for combining various elements such as scrim, monofilaments, plexiglass, mirrors, video and sound into compelling and dynamic installations comprised of colour and light. She often places these objects in the space and projects her video onto them, creating illusory and surreal environments inspired by James Turrell and Robert Rauschenburg. She says of her work that her goal is ‘‘to dissolve the boundaries between spectator and participant, inside and outside, abstraction and reality, time and space.”

Renee Butler Art

Jason deCaires Taylor

2011-02-07T00:35:00.000-08:00

Jason grew up in Europe and Asia with an English father and a Guyanese mother. He spent most of his childhood on the coral reefs of Malaysia where he developed a love for the sea and natural world. He worked for several years as a scuba diving instructor and picked up an interest for underwater naturalism and photography. He started as a graffiti artist and earned a BA Honours in Sculpture and Ceramics at the London Institute of Arts in 1998. Later, working in set design at Canterbury Cathedral taught him traditional stone carving techniques and experience with working with cranes and lifting logistics. All of these skills are now combined to form his current work.

He creates and interesting visual seascape. They highlight the natural ecological process by creating artificial reefs that attract marine life. Being underwater offered a completely different experience than on land: objects appear 25% larger and closer, colors alter as light is absorbed and reflected, swimming rather than walking through also allows for a new experience through numerous angles and perspectives. "Vicissitudes depicts a circle of figures, all linked through holding hands. They are life-size casts taken from a group of children of diverse ethnic backgrounds." It withstands strong currents and provides home to marine and coral life. The figures are transformed over time by the environment and change the shape of their habitat. It is through this that it depicts the changes of growing up. It also shows how time and environment impact on and shape the physical body. "His work reminds us that the marine environment is in a constant state of flux, and that this in turn reflects poignantly the vicissitudes, changing landscapes, of our own lives."

>> http://www.underwatersculpture.com/ <<

Artist Share: Todd Cook

2011-02-02T06:40:00.000-08:00

Todd Cook is a graduate of ECU and is currently working as a teacher's assistant and Pitt Community College in Greenville, NC.

He is a photographer that works both in film and digital photography.

Much of his work is based around the area of Greenville/eastern North Carolina.

An important project that he is continually working on is the documentation of his good friend's battle with cancer and other battles his friend's family are facing.

Aspen brought him to my attention because his work closely relates to the body of work that I want to create this semester.

I chose him as my artist share because he creates the beautiful bodies of work that are documentary. I haven't found that many documentations that are also considered in my opinion fine art.

www.behance.net/ToddCook

http://toddcook.photography.artlimited.net

Ben Goossens

2011-02-02T06:39:00.001-08:00

Ben Goossens was born in 1945, and he now lives in Willebroek, Belgium. After four years in Art School, illustration and photography became his obsession. He worked in advertising for 32 years, mostly as an Art Director, where he gained 15+ years of Photoshop experience. His source of inspiration in advertising came from surrealist paintings and still does in his work now. His hobby and passion now is creating ‘experimental/surreal photomontages’, these images are very seamless yet painterly dreamscapes. With each shooting he tries to create his own personal image, either simple or complex the idea behind his images is more important than the technique. He believes that the work he makes now is a logical follow-up to what he did professionally.

Goossens’s images have received awards in several prestigious international photography competitions. His work has also been widely published, including an in-depth 10 page exposition in the March 2007 edition of Photo Art International.

I chose Goossens because I find his montages really intriguing. I love the painterly effect that he is able to create within his photographs; his aesthetic complements his idea of creating ‘dreamscapes’ very well. He uses rich textures and colors that find to be very pleasing. I also find that his images really challenge me to think and force me to try and relate to something whether it be the title of his image or the image itself. Another reason I feel I am drawn to his work is because it reminds me of one of my favorite photographers, Tom Chambers. Chambers also constructs these seamless dreamlike photomontages.

http://photo.net/photos/ben.goossens

another site for Goossens images

Artist Share

2011-02-02T06:21:00.000-08:00

The artist I picked is Lalla Essaydi. Lalla Essaydi is a Moroccan Photographer. Lalla incorporates Islamic calligraphy with henna and 19thcentury poses into her photograph. I really like how she incorporates both types of culture into one image. This image is from her series Les Femmes du Maroc. This series has portraits that portray females in Islamic culture. She tries to show Arab female identities, and shows them being confined to isolated places. The writing on the images is writings from her diary. The writing on the skin and cloth is henna. Henna is sort of a type of temporarily tattooing the body. I really like her work because she fights against these “stereotypical” standards for Arab women. In a part of her artist statement she says, " The traditions of Islam exist within spatial boundaries. The presence of men defines public space, the streets, and the meeting places. Women are confined to private spaces, the architecture of the homes. In these photographs, I am constraining women within space, confining them to their "proper" place, a place bounded by walls and controlled by men". I feel that in some aspects culturally not religious that women are confined to their men.

This image is one of my favorites of all her images; Les Femmes Du Maroc: Harem Beauty #1. I also really enjoy the crisp, clean feeling of the imagery. Also the very limited color in the images helps bring out her concept better, because it doesn’t distract the viewer from the connotation of the image.

For more information about her work here is a website

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/lalla_essaydi.php

Phil Hansen

2011-01-31T08:47:00.000-08:00

Phil Hansen, now 32, dropped out of Northwest College of Art in Poulsbo, Washington after only one semester. He now works as an X-ray technician. His break-through piece, Influence, is a time-lapse video that consists of painting thirty images of people or things that influenced his life.

Influence video

Influence detail

It is through fragment of perceptual memory that he, the individual, comes to understand whole individuals or ideas. He started with the tried and true process of pointillism the experimented with other mediums my torso, a tricycle, X-rays, dandelions, the Bible, key phrases out of audience stories, and so on. These became an integral part of the concept. He yearns to create a public dialog through allowing the audience to contribute in someway resulting in a connect to immediate reality.

Jimi Hendrix on Fire - Goodbye Art

Current Project: Will you be my friend?

Current Project: Will you be my friend? LIVE!

Phil In The Circle

Annabel Manning

2011-01-31T08:23:00.000-08:00

Annabel Manning is a self-described new media artist whose work includes interactive digital installations which are a collaboration between herself and UNCC professor Celine Latulipe, Ph.D. In order to make the work interactive, a series of her images is projected onto a screen where participants use wireless gyroscopic mice to explore the image.

She says of her work, "My goal throughout is to critically engage media and other images of Latino immigrants on the U.S./Mexican border so that the shadowy figures are seen as people."

She begins with found images of immigrants in digital or print media which she then reworks using a variety of digital and traditional methods until the images become her own.

She is the resident artist at University Park Creative Arts Elementary School and has also had several local shows at the McColl center and the Light Factory.

Randy Martin

2011-01-31T06:40:00.000-08:00

Randy Martin is a talented photographer that I just recently stumbled upon on flickr. He describe his work as a travel documentation influenced by his friends, travel, and big landscapes. Here is a little personal blurb from Randy on his life and beautiful images.

I shoot photographs that capture my travels, adventures, and the people I meet along the way. I move around a lot, jumping from couch to couch, city to city, state to state. Pretty regularly with all of the faces and good times flying by right in front of me. Photography makes my experiences timeless, a chance to live in them forever and I can’t help but indulge, to soak up every last bit for as long as possible.

Joel-Peter Witkin

2011-01-31T06:27:00.000-08:00

Born September 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, New York City, Joel-Peter Witkin now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He works as an American photographer and often deals with themes revolving around "outsiders" or "outcasts" (dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically impaired or "deformed"), aswell as death and corpses. His work also often relates to famous classical paintings and religious undertones. Witkin was born to a Roman Catholic mother and a Jewish father. He has a twin brother, Jerome Witkin, and a son, Kersen Witkin whom both work as painters. When Witkins was young his parents divorced in main part because of religious differences. Between 1961 and 1964 Witkin worked as a war photographer in conjunction with the Vietnam War. In 1967 he decided to concentrate his efforts in freelance photography. He achieved his Master of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Witkin claims that his "vision" for his art was initiated by an event he witnessed at a very young age- a car accident that occured in front of his house in which a little girl was decapitated.

Here he recalls and explains what happened:
"It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mother's hand. At the place where i stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it--but before I could touch it someone carried me away."
Witkin also claims that some of the family problems he experienced were also influences on his work.
Some of Witkin's works (mainly the ones involving corpses) have had to be created in Mexico in order to get around restrictive U.S. laws.
His techniques include (but not limited to) scratching the negative, bleaching or toning the print, and using a "hands-in-the-chemicals" printing technique.

Adam Phillips

2011-01-30T22:07:00.000-08:00

Adam Phillips is a freelance Flash animator, born 1971 in Narromine, New South Wales, Australia. Though he never received formal art training, he was nonetheless hired at Disney as a tweener in Sydney in 1993, promoted to character animator in 1995 and then to effects director in 1998.

In 2000 Phillips took up Flash, and then quit at Disney in 2004 to pursue his own projects. He is best known for his Brackenwood series of Flash animations, set on the fictional planet of Brackenwood and starring Bitey, a mischievous Pan-like creature possessing powers of superhuman speed and a knack for making trouble for others. Phillips is currently working on a feature-length Brackenwood movie, as well as planning a television series and books based on the same.

Adam Phillips' site

David Knox Photography

2011-01-26T12:09:00.000-08:00

www.knoxphoto.com

David Knox received his BA from Baylor and an MFA from San Fransisco Art Institute. He travels around the southeast photographing landscapes, people, and old abandoned structures. He tries to combine a sense of present and past in his work, using digital, polaroid, and darkroom processes to acheive the look he wants. He is inspired by a "desire to document those structures and landscapes that carry with them not only strong connotations of the past but also thematic symbols of the present" I really admire the sense of style behind all of his work and I think he is very succesful in acheiving the haunting look he was going for. I also really like that he is exploring new means of making his prints and combining digital with film, which also relates to his subject matter of photographing places with so much history behind them.

www.knoxphoto.com

Motoi Yamamoto

2011-01-26T07:42:00.000-08:00

44 year old motoi yamamoto was born in onomichi, hiroshima, japan in 1966. he received his B.A. at kanazawa college of art. he now lives in kanazwa, ishikawa, japan. yamamoto has had almost 20 solo shows in different countries and received the philip morris art award in 2002.

the majority of yamamoto's work is made entirely of salt. he constructs temporary installations in the form of labyrinths and other various patterns on the gallery floors. he forms 3d sculptures oust of salt as well.

motoi's sister died of brain cancer when she was 24 in the winter of 1994. most of his work is about his grief, surprise, and thoughts about losing his sister. he says a couple of times on his website that he strives to "touch a precious moment in [his] memories." i believe he has decided to do these large labours and repetitive works as a way of making a memory out of the experience of making the work. he also constructs staircases that are too narrow for a human to climb. those works seem to be more full of sorrow than anything else.

yamamoto's reason for using salt (and this seemed a little confusing to me so i'll just quote him) "i then came to choose salt as a material for my work. this was when i started to focus on death customs in japan. in the beginning, i was interester in the fact that salt is used in funerals or in it's subtle transparency. but gradually i came to a point where the salt in my work might have been part of some creature and supported their lives." he now believes the salt "enfolds the memory of lives."

he compares the process of drawing labyrinths with salt with memories. they both seem to change a vanish as time goes by.

check him out...

Duane Michals

2011-01-25T20:48:00.000-08:00

Duane Michals was born in 1932 and earned his BA from University of Denver in 1953. Initially, he worked as a graphic designer, but then deepened his art in photography in the late 1950s. Michals had been known to make significant, creative strides in photography during the 1960s. In this era, photojournalism and aesthetics was a strong influence, and Michals was able to manipulate the medium to communicate narratives using distinctive pictorial technique. He utilizes cinema's frame-by-frame format like in this example:

http://www.pacemacgill.com/gfx/images/dmi/kanddgrid.jpg

Each image depicts an unfolding event or reveals various perspectives on a specific subject. In addition, Michals sometimes uses text in his works that adds another dimension to his images' meaning and gives a voice to Michals's singular musings.

http://www.jameslomax.com/images/1225.jpg

He manages to balance between fragility and strength, gravity and humor, while representing universal themes like love, desire memory, death, etc. Michals works has been displayed and placed in permanent collections of museums throughout the United States and abroad. Currently, he lives and works in New York City.

http://www.pacemacgill.com/duanemichalsbio.html

2011-01-24T09:31:00.000-08:00

Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography because of his focus on the people and places of the American West.

Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Weston

Cindy Sherman

2011-01-24T08:51:00.000-08:00

Cindy Sherman, born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey is a well known for taking photographs of herself that are not considered self portraits. In her photographs Sherman often uses herself to represent modern issues such as the role of women in society, the role of an artist and many others. She began her art career in college at the State University College at Buffalo. She began as a painter but soon became frustrated with the art and turned to photography. After college Sherman began her work of the 'Untitled Film Stills' which became her most famous works. In her photographs she wears wigs, makeup, costumes and other disguises to help her become a new character, and each character takes on the identity of a type of person such as a housewife, prostitute, dancer, actress and so on. Sherman went on to change her style in her 'Disasters and Fairy Tale Series' in which she was not the model in all of the images. These images were more grotesque and disturbing in comparison to her earlier work. In the early 1990s, the 'History Portraits', Sherman used herself as a model again as she cast herself in roles from famous painting. In 1992 Sherman created the 'Sex Pictures' in which she was not present in any of the images. Instead she used dolls and prosthetic body parts posed in highly sexual poses. She married video artist Michel Auder in 1984 and began to explore working in motion pictures. Sherman made her directorial debut in 'Office Killers". Sherman currently lives in New York where she continues to work as a photographer.

I love Cindy Sherman because she puts a spin on stereotypical roles in society. Although she is the model in the work, they are not self-portraits which leaves much mystery as to who Cindy Sherman really is.

"Untitled 1992"

"Untitled 96"

Sources: http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml

http://www.cindysherman.com/art.shtml

Sally Mann

2011-01-23T21:05:00.000-08:00

Sally Mann, famous for her photography and writing, was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia. Her early and famous photographs are of her children and husband. She takes pictures of her three children mostly naked and dirty to show their sexuality. Her early photographs were mostly children but later in 1980s she also start taking photographs of landscapes in South-western Virginia.

Candy Cigarette, 1989 is one of the photographs from her series, which was called "immediate family". In this photograph she shows an adult behavior but also maintain the effect of children being innocent. She has many other photographs which shows our society’s problem but most of her models were her three children.

Chinue Hinds-Hazelwood

2011-01-23T21:00:00.000-08:00

Eugene Atget was born in 1857 in Libourne. Before becoming a photographer, he worked as a sailor, an actor, and a painter. Atget was most famous for photographing architecture. His work was seen as "seductive", "simple", "mysterious", and "true." One of his accomplishments was his creation of a "catalog of the fruits of French culture." Atget's photographs are authentic, rememberable, and unique.

Source:

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Eugene-Atget.html#top

Kevin Meredith aka lomokev

2011-01-22T20:44:00.000-08:00

Kevin Meredith is your average joe photographer and I was drawn to him because of his obsession with lomography. His pictures are SO bold and the colors they all have is off the wall! I've been fascinated by lomography ever since the summer of '05..and quite frankly, I still am. Anyways, I've always looked to photographers like Kevin Meredith for inspiration because not only are his shots simple but I just absolutely love the crazy colors that can be produced by cross processing film.

He also wrote a book back in 2008 called Hot Shots, which is basically a little how to book filled with tips and tricks to taking better pictures. I dont know how that has to do with anything but I just thought i'd let you guys know, if you were interested.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lomokev/

Annie Leibovitz

2011-01-22T08:17:00.000-08:00

Annie Leibovitz.
By: J. Arenas

Her work is known to be “wildly lit, staged and provocative portraits of celebrities.” I personally enjoy her work because I am very fond of fashion and portrait photography. Anything involving people. A lot of her work is featured in (some of my favorite literary sources): “Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker” As well as “ ad campaigns for American Express, the Gap, and the Milk Board.”

I like the way Leibovitz captures her subjects naturally, yet with a special twist. In my personal opinion, most of the celebrities she has photographed have a new character/’alter-ego’ but you can still recognize who the subject is. An example of this is in her photograph of Demi Moore. In my personal opinion, Moore is known to be a sexy celebrity icon (she’s naked in the picture) but at the time she was photographed she was pregnant (natural state – shows she is a reg. person portraying the essence of a ‘soon to be mom’). Moore still looked like the sexy iconic actress that she is known to be, even though she was pregnant.

Example:

Despite the some of the negative public remarks made about Leibovitz today (public announcement of financial troubles/lawsuits/other rumors) –I agree that most will always initially know her as “the most famous female portrait photographer in the world” and will remain to be a major influence towards the art of photography.

Here is my personal favorite, "The Bush Cabinet."

Sources:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/annie-leibovitz/life-through-a-lens/16/
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4860955.ece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz

(Photos from Google Search/Tumbler)

John Sexton

2010-11-30T08:02:00.000-08:00

Statement: “For me, the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.” “I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.”

In the 70’s, John Sexton began his career working as an assistant to Ansel Adams, conducting the texts that were used for Adams’ books, The Print, and The Negative. After three years working as Adams’ assistant, Sexton began to pursue his own photography. His work is firmly rooted in the West Coast tradition of beautifully crafted black & white photography. For most of his images, he uses a 4x5 view camera, using TMax 100 film and printing on fiber-based paper.

John Sexton was born in 1953 in Maywood, California and first fell in love with photography in his teens. He was a contemporary of Brett Weston and has stayed true to the F64 aesthetic. The decisive moment for him was seeing film develop in a friend's enlarger, Sexton recalls: "We took some red Christmas tree bulbs and made what I later found out was a 'safe light' and I saw magic take place that night on a shaky card table in his bedroom and a week later I had my own enlarger."

Sexton teaches numerous workshops each year that focus on printing techniques and mastery of the Zone System developed by Ansel Adams. He has written a number of books as well.

I am drawn to Sexton’s work because of the exquisite beauty of his black & white images. Most of his images do not include people, yet the images portray the presence of humans in the world. He has photographed ancient sites in the American Southwest to NASA’s Space Shuttle. He is able to find the beauty in a wide range of subjects, and his print quality is superb. Even though his process is traditional rather than alternative, I would like to take a workshop of his to learn more about printing.

http://www.johnsexton.com

Michael Kenna

2010-11-30T06:24:00.000-08:00

Artist Statement: “Life is about turning up. The more you get yourself out there, whether you wake up at 5:00 a.m. to pouring rain or not, the more you’re likely to experience the wonderful happenings that are going on all around you,” he says. “Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think you’re getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think that’s why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artist’s angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasn’t a photographer, I’d still be a traveler.” Interview with artist courtesy of http://www.michaelkenna.net/ivform.php.

I chose Michael Kenna to share because I love the simplicity and subtle beauty of his images, most of which are printed in black & white or neutral colors. Kenna has a love for exploring and has traveled around the world, something for which I too have an affinity. The fact that he travels the world and captures images that are at times quirky, at times minimalist, at times compelling, is very inspiring to me.

I am drawn to his black & white and sepia toned images that are, for the most part, devoid of people. However, the presence of the human element in Kenna’s work is clearly felt by the viewer. Another trademark of Kenna’s is his extremely small print image – typically, 8x8, that creates an intimate relationship between humans and the landscape. His minimalist style lends itself to this small format quite well. Kenna’s work is strongly influenced by Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Ruth Barnhard.

Kenna was born in Lancashire, England, in 1953, and attended the London College of Printing in London. He currently lives in Seattle, WA, USA.

http://www.michaelkenna.net

David Hamilton

2010-11-29T21:55:00.001-08:00

David Hamilton is a British Photographer and occassional film director, most famous for his images of young women. He first worked at an architect's office then at the age of 20, he started working for a graphic designer peter Knapp of Elle magazine. After becaise well known, he was hired by Queen magazine in London as art director. He also worked at Printemps, Paris's largest department store as the art director.

His style of photographs are dreamy and grainy. Which I liked a lot!!

His further success included many dozens of photographic books with combined sales well into the millions, 5 feature films, magazine publishings and scores of museum and gallery exhibitions.

Philip Klinger

2010-11-23T08:17:00.000-08:00

Philip Klinger started photographing with a DSLR in 2007, and he is studying physical geography at the University of Bayreuth. He shoots with a medium format Pentax 645 for his landscape shots. He states that he enjoys traveling and I believe its just the fact that he wants to share what he sees with others. I enjoy his work because it is something that I have never really been a fan of, but it's something about these images that capture my mind and my eye at the same time.

http://fotografie.sonator.de/index.html

Brooke Shaden

2010-11-23T07:03:00.000-08:00

Brooke Shaden was born in March of 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the "Amish Country" where she lived until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with two degrees: film and English. She now resides in Los Angeles, CA, USA with her husband and three cats.

Brooke has been said to encapsulate a new way of creating imagery for our time and has "...dramatically restated a new photographic feminist agenda for the 21st century." Her use of the square format and heavy texture work to create a painterly aesthetic is redefining the boundaries of photography. With these tools at hand, she creates new worlds through her images.

Self portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible. Brooke's photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive.

El Guincho

2010-11-23T06:58:00.000-08:00

This is the music video for El Guincho's single, Bombay, directed by Nicolas Mendez. The narrator introduces the video by explaining that this is the story of our planet:

"It's a story about us...we wish to pursue the truth, no matter where it leads. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both...the world of dreams, the world of facts." These statements lead to moving images assumed from other artists, specifically works that have been popularized thanks to sites such as tumblr or ffffound. Some have suggested that it even references the work of Keith Schofield, a director who is also known for appropriation. While Nicolas Mendez has been criticized for glorifying a trend, he makes it clear at the beginning of the video that this is simply documenting truth through depicting a certain culture that is on the edge of controversy. At the same time, the director welcomes skepticism by acknowledging that it is unavoidable and also necessary in order to observe and present honesty. This short film serves as a trailer for Mendez's full length feature of the same name.

Some References:

Lookbook for Sophomore

Carl Sagan

Erwin Wurm

Malizia

Matt Caplin

2010-11-23T06:57:00.000-08:00

NEW SALLY MANN

http://noinever.blogspot.com/

Alina Vorob

2010-11-23T06:52:00.000-08:00

Alina Vorob is a photographer who mainly photographs portraits and urban scenes. I couldn't find much information about who she is and where she is from because her artist statement is vague. I enjoy her portraits because some of them seem very personal and intimate. I really enjoy the architectural photographs because many of them begin to become abstracted.

www.alinavorob.com

Nirrimi

2010-11-23T06:48:00.001-08:00

Nirrimi started shooting since the age of 13, she was signed by an agency when she was only 16. By 17, she was commissioned to shoot diesel's winter campaign in New York. This yeah she is going to publish a book. She have won two national photography awards (youthweek and SOYA) and an international award (artistswanted).

Patricia Piccinini

2010-11-23T06:04:00.000-08:00

Patricia Piccinini is a "hyperrealist" sculpor. hyperrealism is a newish art movement where sculptors and painters are taking detail to the extreme, making work that photographs as well as a photograph of the original subject. that's the best way i can explain it at this point.

Piccinini moved to australia when she was seven. she graduated with a bachelor of economics from australian national university before she decided to go to the victorian college of the arts in melbourne to study studio art (drawing being the concentration). her work seems to mostly revolve around biology, bioethics, and bio technologies. her work is a lot about anthropomorphizing inanimate objects as well as animals. she works in various mediums but her subject matter seems to be one of her own.

http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/

the long awaiting

natures little helpers

we are family

not quite animal

kick ass drawings

Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck

2010-11-23T06:02:00.000-08:00

Danish designer, artists' book maker, researcher and lecturer. Her artists' books are handmade (hand cut and bound). They are really awesome and i love her illustrations. She also does some design work and some installation pieces that are pretty much giant artist books. Her stuff is pretty ah-mazing. I just think the ideas she comes up with are things i wish i could think of because they are just outside of the box enough that it's different, but not crazy.

Dan Burkholder

2010-11-23T05:50:00.000-08:00

“…anyone wanting to be a better photographer should carry a camera at all times. I've been asked, "Why do you always carry a camera?" My answer remains the same: "I've never made a good photograph without one."   (All images © 2002 by Dan Burkholder. All rights reserved.) Interview with artist courtesy http://www.dpandi.com/dan/dan.html.

I chose Dan Burkholder for one of my artists to share because he was pretty much the person who originated the use of digital negatives to make alternative process images. Not only do I appreciate the beauty of his images, but I appreciate the ability to use a digital camera (and negative) to create images that are a step beyond black and white photographs.

Burkholder blends the incredibly versatile new technology with time-honored alternative processes such as platinum palladium printing. His recent work adds the addition of subtle color to a process that I plan to explore next semester.

Some of his images are staged, some of his images are sights he captures in the everyday world, and some are blended together via Photoshop. It is his use of light, shadow, composition, and color, combined with alternative processes that I admire most. I appreciate the advice given on his website regarding the types of equipment and software that he uses in creating his images.

http://www.danburkholder.com/

Cut Out Paper

2010-11-23T05:32:00.000-08:00

Cut Out Paper is a small studio in London, UK. They make handrawn pieces that they then take and get laser cut on etsy paper. They put some of their work up in gallery spaces and they also make custom pieces that you can request. I found some of their work when looking for examples for a project in digital media 2. They produces some really awesome pieces!

www.cutoutpaper.com

Keith Carter

2010-11-23T05:29:00.001-08:00

"Keith Carter has the gift of taking things we have seen all our lives and giving them another dimension. A beauty that you can't easily be rid of."

Horton Foote / Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright

I chose Keith Carter for my artist share because I find his images of everyday items and events to be hauntingly beautiful in their simplicity. Carter uses light and shadow as a means of expressing the beauty in the ordinary. I am also interested in representing the beauty of the ordinary through the use of photography, and am inspired by Carter’s images and philosophy of life.

I appreciate the broad range of Carter’s subject matter. He seems equally at home with nature, people, and items that we see and use everyday. Throughout his work, his ability to capture that extra something can be seen through his use of perspective, depth of field, angle of view, light and shadow. Some of his work is staged, while other images are simply what was happened upon – but all are seen through eyes that are able to find that which is unique and beautiful.

Keith Carter is an internationally known photographer and educator, and has published numerous books of his work. The Los Angeles Times called Carter “a poet of the ordinary.” He was hooked on the magic of photography at an early age while watching his photographer mother’s images emerge magically from the developer. He still talks about the magic of photography in a documentary about his work, entitled, The Photographers Series: Keith Carter.

http://www.keithcarterphotographs.com/

Jamie McCartney

2010-11-23T05:21:00.000-08:00

jamie mccartney is a british sculptor that lives in brighton, england. he went to school at westminster in london. mccartney graduated from there with a bfa in experimental studio art with the highest of honors.

mccartney's work mostly consists of cast molds. he has also worked with metal, making animal sculptures. for a while he worked as a special effects prop maker which opened him up to using many different mediums as means to make cast molds in safe and unique ways. mccartney now has his own business (brighton body casting) where they specialize in making casts of the human body for private clients. i would imagine most of the work they get are pregnant women wanting casts of their bellies.

mccartney seems to embrace controversy (i think artists in general should). he did a body of work called "sexidermy" where he made molds of animals and worked them into pornographic suggestive shapes. he has also done body cast work of the human form in surreal ways. one way being casting the far left and right of the female form and fixing them both together to create a full body portrait of one leg, half a hip, and one breast. mccartney calls this body of work neo surrealism.

but the work that you will see if you google him is the same work that brought me to find this experimental artist. that work is called "the great wall of vagina." this work is very ballsy coming from a male artist but it seems to be a point that would have to be made in a very bold way. mccartney has been taking cast molds of hundreds off women's vaginas (the vulva area) and cutting them into squares and making a wall of all the molds. where this idea originally came from is hard for me to find but his concept i believe is universal to many different human experiences.

"For many women their vagina is a source of shame rather than pride and this piece seeks to redress the balance, showing that everyone is different and everyone is normal. I hope this sculpture will be definitive and effective in alleviating the anxiety many women feel about their genitals, just as many men do, at the same time as being a compelling and beautiful artwork."

the great wall of vagina

http://www.jamiemccartney.com/

http://brightonbodycasting.com/

Scoot Rench

2010-11-22T21:18:00.000-08:00

Scoot Rench "yosoh"

Scott is an american artist , he graduated from the university of Pennsylvania with a master of fine arts in 1994.

His most famous works are ceramic pieces. however I really like his design work too. One of the main reason why I like Scoots work is because he uses different mediums in his work. I really enjoy graphic designers that step out of box and make designs with different mediums. Scoot currently does typical graphic design work, for really big clients such as sony, motorola Coca-Cola etc.. however he still manage to make fine art work. check out some of his mixed media work and ceramics .. really unique stuff..

http://www.behance.net/yosoh

Taxi advertising agency

2010-11-22T21:15:00.000-08:00

Taxi advertising and design agency..

Taxi is one of the most popular design agencies in North America. They have several location all around the world including New York , Amsterdam, and Canada. I really like this design agency and I hope to work for them in the future. One of the main reason why I admire the work is because they are really creative, even tho they work with big clients such as MINI, Heineken, burger king, blue shield etc.. they always manage to have really creative work, in my opinion TAXI is one of the best agencies in the states and the cool thing about them is that they are not a really big agency they have an average of 4-6 designers, however they make really good work.

too see taxi's reel visit http://nyc.taxi.ca/?redirect=true

Servio Bernal

2010-11-22T21:11:00.000-08:00

Servio Bernal Aka Afromestiza..

Is a 32 year old Colombian artist. He is currently a freelancer graphic designer and street artist. He lives in Cali, Colombia and currently is one of Colombia's most popular freelancers. I got the chance to meet him 3 years ago in one of my visits to Colombia in a CD release party for a band which he created the artwork and I have to say his a really lay back guy, I recently talked to him and showed him some of my artwork and he gave me some really good advice.

One of the reasons I like his work is because is really down to earth, he has a really distinctive style, he also has a really good use of color, imagery, typography and textures.

to see some of his work visit

http://afromestiza.blogspot.com/

(500) Days of Summer

2010-11-22T19:20:00.000-08:00

(500) Days of Summer is a 2009 romantic comedy drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. The film is about a man recalling certain events of the failed relationship with whom he thought was his true love. This film is shot in a non-linear fashion with scenes jumping from one day to another, whether forward or backward. An example of this would be a scene form Day 356 to Day 1 to Day 89 to Day 200 to day 37 and so on. This film had everything going for it. It had perfect transition scenes, excellent music and they even had a musical dance number in the middle of the film. Probably the best scene in the whole film was the split screen showing the reality of whats happening to Gordon-Levitt's character versus his expectations of what he wants to happen. This scene was perfectly executed with overlapping images and same shot sequences. I got real emotional with this film (it really hit home with a high school relationship I had...) but I like to remember what was said in the fdisclaimer shown before the film. The disclaimer read:

"Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely coincidental ....

Especially you, Jenny Beckman ...

... Bitch."

EXPECTATION VS. REALITY

PRIMER

2010-11-22T18:31:00.000-08:00

PRIMER is a 2004 science fiction drama where two men accidentally discover the means for time travel. This film was written, directed, and produced by Shane Carruth, who is originally a mathematician and a former engineer. This film was made with only a budget of $7,000 and was filmed with a crew of only 5 people. The total film time took only 5 weeks but it took Carruth 2 years in post production to finish the film. This film has been marveled for its intricate plot structure and dialogue. Carruth deliberately made the dialogue of the film hard to follow (with a lot of scientific jargon and conjecture) to reflect the complexities that come with time travel. When I first watched this film I was dumbfounded and not quite sure what I have just witnessed. I then called over my father-in-law and brother-in-law I watched the film again as they watched it for the first time. Then we watched it again pausing the film every 5 minutes to discuss what the characters were talking about, which version of the character is actually talking and if time travel would be possible in the near future. There has been no other film that made me WANT to analyze every word and movement that the characters have said or performed. This film should have a course dedicated to it. TRAILER HERE.

2010-11-19T07:30:00.000-08:00

Shuichi Nakano is a Japanese artist best known for her series of paintings titled Searching for Paradise. This body of work takes from the visual idea of Godzilla and places exotic animals towering over Japanese cityscapes. At first glance, the images are soft and inviting but if the viewer should take a second look he would find an unsettling idea. Nakano makes a powerful statement about humanity and hierarchy in the natural world. Because these mega cities, and the entire planet, are concerned with removing nature and building technology, the animals will soon have no place to go. Nakano paints a picture of what could happen when the animals are left homeless and frustrated with the human race.

Rosanne Olson

2010-11-18T13:49:00.001-08:00

http://www.rosanneolson.com/

Rosanne Olson has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and has been an award winning photographer, teacher, and lecturer for over 30 years. She has been exhibited in many different galleries across the US and is currently based out of Seattle. She does mostly portrait work using digital and film processes, but my favorite series of hers, “Animal Dreams,” was made with 4x5 Polaroid film and a pinhole camera. They have soft focus and are sepia toned and have a very dream-like quality, showing people inhabiting animal forms. I love the aesthetic that the focus and sepia create, and I also like that the images don't all look staged. The depth of field she uses in each photo direct the eye to certain places that give them a sense of motion, as well as making them look even more surreal.

(ma + char)

2010-11-12T06:42:00.000-08:00

(ma + char) is a design studio based in Paris consisting of artists Mathilde Aubier and Christine Delaquaize. The duo presents an abundance of talents to their customers, which makes them a powerhouse in the art world. Ma+Chr offers web design, interior design, textile design, photography, printmaking, and the list of credentials goes on. The duo works on commission and are willing to tackle any project one may present them with. Ma+Chr will even come into your space and create an interior with items crafted from their own imaginations. The colors and textures are soft and romantic while the imagery adds a quiet punch of humor and surrealism.

REVOLVER

2010-11-04T06:30:00.000-07:00

REVOLVER IS A 2005 FILM WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY GUY RITCHIE. WE ALL KNOW GUY RITCHIE AND HIS WORKS (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) BUT THIS MIND BENDING FILM IS A DIFFERENT STEP FOR THE REGULAR BRITISH HEIST FILMMAKER. THIS FILM TELLS THE STORY OF A MAN WHO COMES INTO POSSESSION OF A FORMULA THAT WHEN APPLIED TO ANY GAME OR TRICK GUARANTEES THE USER VICTORY IN ANY SITUATION. YOU COME TO FIND OUT THAT THIS MOVIE IS SO MUCH MORE (BUT I WILL NOT GIVE IT AWAY AND INSTEAD ENTICE YOU TO WATCH THE FILM WITH A PREVIEW AT THE END OF THIS ARTIST SHARE). WHAT IMPRESSED ME THE MOST IN THIS FILM IS THE USE OF NARRATION RITCHIE USES IN THIS FILM. IT IS AS THOUGH THE CHARACTERS IN THE FILM ARE AWARE OF THE NARRATION AND RESPOND BACK TO WHAT IS BEING SAID. I WOULD LIKE TO USE THIS TYPE OF NARRATIVE STYLE WHEN I WOULD LIKE TO PORTRAY A MORE WHIMSICAL TONE WITH AN OVERALL DARK OVERTONE. THE SCENE THAT BEST DESCRIBES WHAT I AM TAKING ABOUT CAN BE SEEN HERE.

William Kentridge

2010-11-02T08:51:00.000-07:00

This guy is a really amazing digital artist that has been in the game for a long time. I love that his stuff started somewhat simple, and now his scale and ideas have grown exponentially! He plays with the idea of what is art and uses it in a more day to day way or produced way, which is something i'm interested in because that is kind of the path i'm going down. I also love the way he plays with animation and projection, something else i have played with before.

http://www.art21.org/anythingispossible/video/the-nose-opera-curtain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Radzm-Yo4BA&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63nfCe6RZ-g&feature=related

Brian Dettmer - Cut by Hand

2010-10-28T01:47:00.000-07:00

Brian Dettmer was born in 1974 and spent his younger yours in Naperville, Illinois. In 1997 he earned his BA in fine arts from Columbia College Chicago. I believe he currently resides in Atlanta. Georgia. During Dettmer's college career he mostly painted with a little bit of collage. Over time he began building layers after layers to his work that made then very three dimensional this is what lead him to the work he is now best known for...

Dettmer takes existing print media and changes to form of the bound structures by folding them inside out and wrapping the pages around to one side, or by gluing multiple books together with the pages out and the covers folded outward to touch themselves in order to create a very smooth exterior shape.

To paraphrase Dettmer's purpose for cutting, folding and changing these phone books, novels, encyclopedias, and dictionaries... these old forms of media have become obsolete over time and now only exist and symbols of what those media are meant to function as. This is evident by all the symbols we have in our computer programs: the dodge tool in photoshop, the burn tool in photoshop, google map icons, ibooks icons, and many icons in final cut are modeled after film processes. What Brian Dettmer is trying to say is that since these actual physical books and things have become obsolete and now serve hardly any function to most they now must take on a new form and become something else worth while. (i hope he doesn't find this blog and chew me out cause i miss understood his concept).

He has also used other outdated media such as cassette tapes that he melted and formed into life size skeletons. He has also used VHS tapes of gangster movies and unwound all the tape inside and has created funeral flower arrangements

check em out...

Kathleen Robbins "Into the Flatland" series

2010-10-26T13:12:00.000-07:00

http://kathleenrobbins.sites.livebooks.com

Kathleen Robbins is an associate professor at the McMaster College of Art at the University of South Carolina. She received her MFA from the University of new Mexico in 2001 and her photographs have been exhibited in the US, Great Britain, and China. She was born on a farm in rural Mississippi that her family had lived on for generations and returned there after completing grad school to photograph the house and land, as well as her family members in a documentary style. She found old 8mm film footage shot by her grandmother and incorporated some of those images into her work as well. Her work explores “conflicted relationships with home” and her personal history and also a sense of obligation to the land that her family has owned for so long. Her series is similar to one I would like to shoot of my family using film, and the emotions she evokes in her images of desolate landscapes of the flatland are very interesting to me.

Aaron Nace

2010-10-26T13:08:00.000-07:00

www.aaron-nace.com

Aaron Nace is a Charlotte based professional photographer that does commercial work as well as personal photographs, and teaches photoshop classes online to people all over the world. He utilizes all the tools he can when making images, from lighting to subjects and models to processing to get the final image that he wants. I admire the time spent on each of his work as well as his ideas. Half of the work is coming up with an idea that will be successful and translate well and the amount of work he puts in pays off. Lighting is a weak spot for me and I hope to learn more about it and how to stage the scene for the photos I want to make.

Stuart Rowen

2010-10-13T22:37:00.001-07:00

Stuart Rowen is a professional commercial photographer. He is located in Central England. His commercial work doesn't interest me too much. I found some abstract work of his that I find amazingly beautiful. It seems to me that his abstract work is mainly done with a slow shutter speed and various colored lights. But as simple as it may sound the compositions are wonderful to look at.

http://www.rowenphotography.co.uk/creative-and-abstract-photo/creative-and-abstract-photo.html

Felipe Morin

2010-10-08T15:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/metabolico/

Felipe is a college student in Chile studying psychology, and says he "will never be a photographer" but his aim is to show people something they have never seen before. He makes digital composite images that remind me of Jerry Uelsmann's work. They look extreemly real and all have that other-world quality he was aiming for.

hairy sock

2010-10-06T19:13:00.000-07:00

Hairy Sock is a jewelry label that offers unique designs made from oddities such as hair and sunflower seeds. The artist behind the designs is Ruta Kiskyte, originally from Lithuania. She received a degree in scenography from Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and is currently studying visual communication at the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts. Kiskyte's credentials also allow her to create unique spaces and moods in which to photograph the pieces. These images make way for a completely new body of work, which demonstrate the artist’s versatility in areas such as design, installation, concept, and construction. (Photo credit: Ruta Jankauskaute).

Web Riddles...

2010-10-05T08:05:00.000-07:00

This may or may not be considered "art" depending on the type of person you are. Many years ago I came across a "web puzzle" that really opened my mind and frustrated the hell out of me at the same time. I have come across a few web puzzles since then but have only given a couple a try and only two of them a lot of effort.

notpron.com started August of 2004. This puzzle currently has 140 levels. There have been almost 15 million visitors to the website and only 20 people have made it to the end.

notpron as well as other web puzzles are usually designed very simply, a white or black background with different images or text displayed on each page. Web puzzles encourage the participant to think for themselves, to research the things they see and to learn something new. Web puzzles use anything from buttons and everyday word riddles to German ciphers from WW2 and text wrapping ASCII images from the source code.

Personally I believe this is either art or displays a lot of "art qualities" because ever since I started trying to solve these puzzles I have become a lot better at researching and figuring out the things I want to know, solving problems on my own, trying and learning new things. Art isn't always pretty... but good art always opens your mind.

hd white's puzzle of doom
NOTPRON
weffriddles
404 riddles
The Da Vinci Code (book cover riddle)

Kirsten Lepore

2010-10-05T07:52:00.000-07:00

Kirsten Lepore is a "freelance animator, director, and experimental animation grad at CalArts" in the LA area. She has worked with MTV, Glamour Magazine, Nestle, Hubspot.com, and many others. There isn't much information about her on the internet, likely due to the fact that she just recently graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art (the same school Jeff Koons graduated from) in 2008. So she really hasn't been out of school that long. Her blog is kirstenlepore.tumblr.com and her site is www.kirstenlepore.com where you can view some of her films, illustrations, and client works.

Dave Nitsche

2010-09-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

Dave Nitsche creates what he considers conceptual photography. He says that photography is his way of letting the world in on his feelings. Dave does both digital and film, but manyof the images are one click of the shutter and minimal work to the negative. He believes that the process of getting the image is equally as important as the product.

http://www.davenitsche.com/index2a.php

Donato Sansone

2010-09-30T08:01:00.000-07:00

34 year old Donato Sansone " Videogico" uses slick finger action on a room sized assembly of flip (or in this case flick books) as his violent, comic book struggle between rivals erupts all over the place, the snappy camera work edited to accentuate the crossword-style permutations. Add sound engineered by Enrico Ascoli, some neat butchery and decapitations plus the cartoon style assurance that no-one ever gets hurt in the action. The head gets used as a football, which I guess gets down to basics. Videogioco is clever and absorbing both, the notes still left on the sketches to add to the homespun craft of it all. Interesting really. CG software to make a grown man weep real 3D tears and the Vimeo generation laps up crayon on cut sheets of paper. A broad church.

http://lookslikegooddesign.com/painted-motion-donato-sansone/

Steven Livick

2010-09-28T08:36:00.000-07:00

In researching alternative processes for photography, I came across Steven Livick and his work. While I do not like all of his images, I am interested in his process of using digital images or film images and combining them through scanning and Photoshop manipulation to create huge murals. Some of his murals include painting, or as he calls it, “adding free-flowing color.” I find the combination of using modern and traditional techniques to create one-of-a-kind images to be an interesting area to further explore in my own work.

Mural number is 731; Medium: pigmented inks, printed on heavy fine art paper. 

Methodology: This mural contains only two images. The base image was photographed using 8"x10" transparency film during 1979. The "face" image was also photographed on 8"x10" transparency film. The mural has been divided into sixteen panels in total, each is 40"x60". The mural is 13.3 x 20 feet or 4 x 6 meters.

This mural is comprised of two different layers. The base is a landscape image that was photographed near Sudbury in northern Ontario, Canada, it is wholly intact and virtually as taken. However, the single 8"x10" film image has been carefully sectioned during the scanning process into sixteen 40x60 inch panels. The underlying "face" image is a painted river mud and straw statue taken in India during 1993. The computer has been used to allocate the images into their respective panels and carefully blend the various components together.

www.livick.com/welcome.htm

Annette Messager

2010-09-28T07:35:00.001-07:00

My Vows (all), MoMA (top), MoMA closeup (middle), Guggenheim "Haunted" (bottom).

My Vows is presented is varying forms (circles, spirals, hearts) which then become not only photographic but sculpture-like. They consist of small detail photographs of male and female anatomy. This piece probably reflects her Catholic background and the acceptance of another person for the rest of her life.

Stephen Shore

2010-09-27T20:18:00.000-07:00

Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.

Chris Valanne

2010-09-23T09:24:00.001-07:00

Chris Valanne is a food stylist based in Charlotte, NC. She graduated from UNCC in the early 80's with a degree in photography. Not being able to find a job in photography, she went to catering. Somehow she transitioned into food styling. She is called in for photo shoots to do style the food in a tasteful manner. Her background in photography often helps.

Michael Harrison

2010-09-23T09:17:00.000-07:00

Michael Harrison is a food photographer here in Charlotte. He graduated from UNCC in 1981 with a BFA in Photography. When he got out of college he was an assistant to a photographer in San Francisco, when he came back to Charlotte h e opened his own business. He has been up and running for 25 years now. He shoots with a Hasselblad with digital back.

rebekka guðleifsdóttir

2010-09-23T07:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.rebekkagudleifs.com/

Rebekka is an Iceland-based photographer that shoots using film and digital. She has an extensive body of work of self-portraits, long exposure landscapes, animals, portraits, and creative series all shot in Iceland. Because Iceland is only daylight six months of the year she purchased filters to make her landscape images as if they were taken at night. She does as little post-processing as possible, saying that she will never fake something that she could actually make. I appreciate that she can focus on many different subject matter but her style is apparent in all of her photographs. The amount of time and work she puts into her photographs is extensive, especially considering she has two children and a job

Sébastien Nikolaou

2010-09-23T06:55:00.000-07:00

Sébastien Nikolaou was born in 1985 in Patras, Greece. Being a child of a greek father and a french mother, he flawlessly speaks both languages, while he early adopted his parents’ national culture and aesthetics.

Sébastien’s main passion and occupation is graphic design and illustration. Since his childhood he used to draw all time long. Later, being a teenager, he became a graffiti artist; a fact that taught and inspired him a lot in his coming profes- sional work. At the age of 15 when he got into computers, influenced by cd covers, music artworks and music itself, he started creating his first digital artworks. Almost instantly, it turned into a real passion.

After 3 years of experimenting, it got more serious when his first commercial work was printed. Shortly a graphic designer discovered him and employed him in his creative agency. He worked there for two years, creating posters, flyers, bro- chures, advertisings, packaging, logotypes, identities, illustrations, and web sites, gaining a lot of skills and experience. Then came the time for studies.

Sébastien is currently studying at the Graphic Design department of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. He also runs his own freelance design project called sebdesign.eu.

Graciela Iturbide

2010-09-22T09:14:00.000-07:00

icepuebla.edu.edu.mx

picsdigger.com

demeterclarc.com

Landscape photography project: 3 photos

2010-09-21T22:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.pcimagenetwork.com/IndexFrame.html

"Horse on Beach at Sunset, California Coast" Brad Perks
http://www.pcimagenetwork.com/coast/p5.html
The type of work he has done is a lot of landscapes, which are now used on a website that allows people to buy them to use in projects or even just buy a print to enjoy. He has also done aircraft and cityscape along with many other areas of photography. "You have to get out in the rain to find your rainbows," Perks.

By Danny Burk, about photo-Sunrise, foothills parkway at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.
http://www.dannyburk.com/foothills_sunburst_pano.htm

By: Brad Troy, Maryland: An Autumn Reflection; Bowie, MD.
http://www.pbase.com/troybj2/maryland http://bradtroyphotography.smugmug.com/Other/bio/10626504_zpxc6

Troy's main focus is on landscapes and mainly a lot of nature type photography. He says he tries to make photographs with "strong color/contrast and a unique perspective," Brad Troy. I really like a lot of his work that I found on the two sites above. Many of his barn photographs and country scene photographs really take me back to when I was younger. The colors seems to capture is another reason I really like his work.

*The artist name, photo title, and web address after each photo is where the photo came from *

Jerry Uelsmann

2010-09-21T18:52:00.000-07:00

Although I do not necessarily feel any strong connection to any particular Uelsmann image, I do however have a deep appreciation for his dedication to process. In his prints I see a world of possibilities and endless inspiration. Strangely, the rationale is inexplicable to me, but I imagine that although the effects that Uelsmann's processes create can be duplicated in photoshop, to produce such images through darkroom procedures must be deeply rewarding. When I think about cityscapes I always find myself wondering if all of the hulking monuments of steel and concrete are necessary, and then I attempt to image how the scene would have looked when it was untouched. I think that through utilizing some of Uelsmann's techniques I may be able to create an image that shows the interconnectedness of growth and loss.

http://www.photoworkshop.com/static/workshop/interviews/jerry_uelsmann/interview_uelsmann.html

INK

2010-09-21T06:46:00.000-07:00

INK is a 2009 science fiction film directed and written by Jamin Winans and produced by his brother Kiowa Winans. Both Jamin and his brother contributed multiple roles in the film as well as writing, directing, producing, editing, and composing the soundtrack. The film was not picked up by any major film company so all of the dvd, blu-ray, and online distributions were done by the brothers. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in January of 2009. LOOK AT THE AWESOME TRAILER!!

Carl Warner- Lanscape

2010-09-20T15:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.carlwarner.com/

I could not find any biography or anything. I have the link to his web page where all of his work is, but no info on or about him. there is a contact on his web page, and I might use it to find some things out about himself.

Dean Fleischer-Camp

2010-09-16T08:56:00.000-07:00

This is an animation that was directed and co-written by Dean Fleischer-Camp. The voice is Jenny Slate, who also helped write. Dean typically is more in the film industry, but has a lot of shorts and clients that have him do commercials for them. Check out his site: www.deanfleischercamp.com

vladmaster's viewmaster

2010-09-16T07:27:00.000-07:00

“Lucifugia means light-fleeing. Thigmotaxis is the need for pressure on all sides of your body in order to feel safe. Together these two words describe the essential nature of the cockroach. Our story concerns the adventures of one such cockroach named Stanley and the events that transpire when he dares to leave the safety of his home behind the refrigerator.”

Vladimir is an artist and projectionist living in Portland, Oregon. She creates handmade disks for View-Masters by arranging a scene and making 3D images from the stills. She first became interested in this art form while in college at the Northwest Film Center. Vladimir purchased her first View-Master and wanted to create her own minimalist approach to story telling. She began to diligently study the art of stereoscopy and 3D photography. All of Vladimir’s images were taken from 16mm movie film, which makes them a bit smaller than a standard View-Master picture. These reels can be purchased from her website for a reasonable price and are shipped in hand-made packaging. They also include stories and music to accompany the viewing. (The excerpt taken from above, Lucifugia Thigmotaxis, was a viewmaster performance that debuted at the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival).

Erik Johansson

2010-09-16T07:11:00.000-07:00

Erik Johansson is a computer engineering student from Sweden. He works on the interactive elements of the computer in order to try to make computers more user friendly.

His photography and photo manipulation work came later. Erik got is first digital camera when he was 15 years old. He made a few changes to his photos and thought it was fun. He didn't really get serious about his photo manipulations until he purchased his first digital SLR camera
in 2007

Johansson says that his inspiration in hard to pinpoint but he says that a lot of it comes from looking at other images online. "i think the most important thing is to make a note of every idea, otherwise it will might be gone in a few seconds."

He says that he always has a sketch of the final idea but at the same time it always ends up being a little different. The time it takes to create each photo varies but it's normally between 10-20 hours.

Camera:
Canon EOS 40d
Canon 17-40/4L (mostly)

Computer:
Intel i7 processor
6gb ram
Asus Radion 4850 graphics card
Eizo 22" monitor
Vista 64-bit
Photoshop cs4
(doesn't use any 3d software)

"Trying is a good way of learning, that is how I have learned most of the things I know."