Logan Willis - Weekly Artist Post #16

Andrew Waits

1) Andrew Waits is a freelance photographer based out of Seattle, Washington. These particular photos are out of his project called "Boondock". He features people living in the rural areas in multiple surroundings. Most of his photos are taken with a deep depth of field that features the people, their background, and the natural landscape in the background. The focal points in these are all the people but you get a sense that Andrew wants to also be sure to capture the background.

2) Andrew is focusing on capturing people in their natural habitat in these photos as well as capturing people who live a sort of rustic, on the move lifestyle. He includes vehicles in most of his photos and also the people look as if they are in their normal everyday clothing, not particularly staged. It also looks like the people are comfortable with their lifestyle as they are either smiling or showing that they are proud of their surroundings.

3) I think these photos were very interesting to me because they were photographs of people who you normally would not see photographed. He truly captured these people's natural surroundings and even the places they call home. I think this is also a very interesting collection because he captured so many people in their own surroundings yet you get the same feel from most of them. I was drawn to these photographs mainly because of the way the people were photographed.

Deja Thompson - Weekly Artist Post #16

Larry Fink

1) Larry Fink uses black and white. It is unclear if the medium is digital or analog. His subjects are all center weighted with balance on both sides of the camera. In all of the pictures he is standing with in 5 ft. Each picture seems to have a deep depth of field, possibly a f 11. It also appears to be a 100 iso with a 1/60 shutter speed.

2) These pictures are of every day moments but in the time and place of the picture they have a much bigger meaning accompanied by huge feelings. Fink is looking into the one of the most precious most moments in a woman's life. It shows the different feels that each women goes through. In the first picture the bride is excited. In the second picture the bride is anxious. In the last picture the bride is nervous.

3) All these pictures express one of the grandest moments in life. Although in the movies wedding are always shown to be disastrous or extremely happy, these pictures show a nice middle ground. The true feelings of a bride. She has all these people surrounding her and they are happy in smiling while internally she is trying to figure out if she is doing the right thing or is she about to make the biggest mistake of her life.

Joey Scolieri - Weekly Artist Post 16

Tami Bone 

1. Tami Bone is an Austin based photographer who created a series of photographs to pay homage to her childhood roots in South Texas. As a child, Bone was infatuated with ghost stories and the surrounding landscapes so she decided to create a photomontage reminiscent of those childhood stories/memories. Each photograph is a montage of five to seven exposures all shot in the rural outskirts by her home in Austin. The animals inside the images were all found at local farms and the people in the images are her daughter's friends. Just one image can take anywhere from one week to one month to complete and I could not find what kind of camera she uses as the montage process can be achieved using a film or digital camera. 

2. Each image resembles an old film photograph and because she chose to shoot the images in black and white the vibe the image gives off mirrors that of a horror movie. Each image has the feeling like it was found on the floor in some abandoned haunted house. In the first and third image, the face of the girl is faded out to white and her body is see through to give her a ghostly appearance. Every artistic liberty Bone took with her images was done to convey to the viewer a sense of mystery and wonder just like she experienced as a child. 

3. I think that Tami Bone did a great job with her entire series of photographs. She definitely accomplished her goal of making the viewer feel a sense of mystery and eeriness. I can appreciate the photomontage style and how much work is put into one single image but this style doesn't really grab my attention, maybe because its to creepy but I would never see one of these images and immediately say to myself I need to purchase this image or I want this in my home. Regardless, this series is incredibly unique and I am happy I discovered this type of photography.  

Ashanti Neverson - Weekly Artist Post 16

 Tsar Fedorsky

1.) These black and white photos capture mostly landscape of the photographer's, Tsar Fedorsky, own home. She used natural low lighting whether through windows or outside setting. Her distance ranges from two feet to twenty feet capturing outside and inside the home. Her photos show very distinctive shapes that give great contrast.

2.) In the first photo the woman is positioned where the lighting from the window creates a great frame around her. We clearly see an emotion from the woman who is framed by this. In the second she uses a similar style but the shadows of the small figures are framed instead of the actual figure which lets the viewer imagine a different story. We can only see the shadow in the lighting which looks like someone crying in the window. It is also positioned over the clock which makes me believe the figure is grieving over time or feels like they are sad from the lost of time. 

3.) To me these pictures show home life and remind me of growing apart from it. I recently got to go back home after being away for sometime and decided to visit the house I grew up in. As I walked around with family it brought back memories but the house was so different it gave me a sense of realization of how far I could go and how much I wanted to prove. 

Clarissa Stanley - Weekly Artist Post 16

Tami Bone

1. Bone is a photographer from southern Texas who experiments with photo montage. Her photos are made up of several exposures in order to layer different backgrounds, textures and subject matter. It is unclear what type of camera Bone uses, the process of multiple exposure photo montage can be achieved through traditional and digital photography.
2. The black and white contrast gives and overall whimsical and mysterious feel to the composition of the photos, as well as the way all the subjects are not directly involved with the camera. In the first shot the subject seems to be holding a glass ball with a fox in the woods inside, because of the layering  of different pictures the composition can be altered drastically. the layers appear translucent to give the composition a haunting feeling.
3. I like the way these photos look, mostly the blurs and the way the layers are somewhat translucent. the grayish brown color of them also makes them look antique and older than they are.

Dawit Samson - Weekly Artist Post #16

Graciela Iturbide 

1.) Graciela Iturbide, a Mexican photographer, portraits can be seen above. Irurbide uses the portrait orientation with the subject slightly to the right of the middle mark. In the first picture she uses the extreme contrast between the dress & mask of the subject to make them pop out from the dark background. While in the last photo most of it is dark except for the main subject's skin color, which is fairly light compared to the surrounding colors. The contrast between those colors attracts the viewer's eye to that specific area. The middle one, though there isn't opposing contrasts like the other two, uses lines to direct the viewer's eye to the subject. The shadows to the right of the subject and also the triangles all point to the subject. 

2.) The main theme of Iturbide's pictures above is varied since they were picked from different projects. Still these three pictures do still poses a common theme: a portrait of someone with their face covered. This theme can be tangible with the idea that people act the way they want to be perceived. 

3.) Graciela Iturbide's picture are lovely shots of death and the subjects' arcane story. Her use of contrast to help with focusing on something is done very well. Her story telling is even better. One of the reasons why, for me, is that she doesn't give much, she doesn't give the cliche images associated with portraits. She gives viewers a different look on life, the one that most don't want to talk about. 

Max Goossens - Weekly Artist Post 16

Tsar Fedorsky
The Light under the Door
2015

     Tsar Fedorsky takes this series of photographs at a house later in the year. Tsar shoots all of the images in this series in black and white, whether that is because she is shooting in black and white film or because she decided the digital files looked best like this, I am not sure. Fedorsky also has an interesting way of framing the images she is shooting. Rather than giving the viewer all the information available, she decides that she we take that privilege away from us. I feel like this is important because it keeps our interest in otherwise uninteresting photographs.
     Tsar Fedorsky is taking this series of photos with the women who lives in the house in mind. Fedorsky believes that there is more to life than your hometown or in this case your own home. However Fedorsky does feel that she is most comfortable at her house. Tsar decided to show exploration of the world in these photographs without ever leaving the house. She does this because of  the way each image is framed and the lack of information. This gives us the ability to decide what makes up the rest of the image or the reality that this person could be living in.
    I really enjoy this series of photographs by Tsar Fedorsky. I find it interesting how she keeps my interest even with the simplicity of the image. I also enjoy the choice of putting her images in black and white rather than color if she has the ability to. I think this choice gives us the opportunity to even further our own imagination in these pictures. As an artist, I will take Tsar Fedorsky The Light under the Door pictures into consideration as I try and create a world that people can enter and make their own.

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Garry Winogrand

1) Garry was a photographer from the 20's. He focused on the every day life of New York and its people. He photographed black and white. His subjects ranged from everyday citizens like women and construction workers to celebrities, athletes, and politicians. He photographs his subjects at different levels and distances. some are up close or zoomed in fairly close, some seem to be a few feet away almost detached from the scene.

2) In the first image regular people are sitting on a bench. There is something theatrical about this scene. It seems almost staged with every person appearing so animated. A range of emotions can be seen from the subjects in this image. In the second photo it may seem that the women looking to the right and smiling is the focal point but I find myself drawn the women who is looking off scene with a look of lost or deep thought. It draws my eye and makes me think and wonder what is she looking at or thinking. It seems like a rare intimate moment that Garry caught. The last image is very interesting. It is underexposed and taken at an off angle. The subject looks for lorn and melancholy. This image evokes a lot of emotion and really draws my eye.

3) I found these images interesting because I enjoy portraits that are unconventional. I have been experimenting with taking pictures of people on the street and them not entirely being aware that they are the focus of my lens so it is interesting to see these images and how beautiful they are. I also am drawn in by them being black and white. I find something very appealing about black and white images.

Betty Gowans - Weekly Artist Post 16

Vanessa Winship

Vanessa Winship is using an analogue, possibly large format camera. All images she takes are black and white. Image one uses line and high contrast. Images 2 and 3 are portraits. In each portrait, the frame allows space for each subject. There is a vanishing point in the background beyond the subjects in the foreground in image two. Image two has a shallow depth of field, and image three doesn't have a deep depth of field, but deeper than image two. The second image is divided in the background by the horizon line. In image three, the composition is split by a diagonal line.

These images appear to me to be about love. In the first image, there is a group of trees engraved numerous times over with initials and names presumably of lovers who wanted to commemorate their feelings by defacing a tree. Image two appears to be a young couple. And the third image appears to be a father and son. The relationships in the trees may have lasted or failed. The couple in the second image may have a strained relationship based on the awkardness in their pose and stares - same with the father and son. To me, the diagonal line in the third image is a division between this father and son. The son looks away, but keeps his hand on his father's shoulder, possibly implying a desire to salvage the loving relationship they had, or the opposite.

This series is interesting to me because it captures multiple aspects of love, and puts it in a different perspective from what is typically portrayed in photographs.

Megan Wingfield- Weekly Artist Post 16

Thilde Jensen

       Thilde Jensens work is bright. She takes all of her photos outside in nature in different scenes. She stands far away and close up to her subjects. Jensen wants people to look past what the typical beauty is. She wants us to expand our mind by not seeing sick and old as being unattractive. All of her subjects are center-weighed and scenes are proportional. 

         In her first photo she takes a picture of an older lady with a taped mouth indicating how she cant speak,which makes her want to hide and not be seen by the public. Which indicates why she's holding her jean jacket above her head. She looks out into the distance for hope to come her way. The second photo is of a man with a sheet completely covering his head. He's also holding a stick infront of him, indicating that he is blind. The third picture is of an old man who has an oxygen mask, probably because he is sick or getting to the point where he needs it because he is too old. He stands with his arms expanding outwards to show how he can go through anything and how nothing can knock him down. 

         Thilde Jensen tries to put her viewer in the shoes of the people with disabilities. Their lives are the hardest to live because they have to put in extra effort to do the things that we can do simply by opening our mouth. Her pictures really appeal to my eye because she creates pictures that mean something and will actually make a difference in society. She inspires me to bring meaning and compassion to my photography so I can end up taking photos on a new level. 

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Laura Hofstadter

1. Laura Hofstadter is a photographer based in California. She photographs anything from portraits, landscapes, black and white, and color. Her main degree from school is actually biology but she chose to focus on photography after she graduated. 

2. The photographs above are taken at night and are very vivid in color. The lights are very bright and the subjects are illuminated in front of the dark background. She chose to make the pattern in her photos a pattern of a fun, childlike mood and it comes through in each of the albums photos.

3. I chose these pictures because of how bright, fun, and colorful they are. They caught my attention instead of the other black/white ones. The subject matter was also a factor; ive always been a fan of carnivals and merry-go-rounds and this album was very fun to me.

Deja Thompson - Weekly Artist Post 15

Ezra Stoller

1) Ezra Stoller uses black and white. It is unclear what the medium is being used. His subjects are center weighted. The pictures seem to be taken in the moment. In all but the top picture Stoller is standing above his subjects, in the first he is standing below them. He seems to be using a f 16 to achieve a good depth of field on the last picture. In the first picture he could be using a f 8 because the background is not in focus. The second picture could be a f 22 or f 32 with a shutter speed of 1/100 due to the stillness of the movement.

2) These pictures are go celebration. Sailors are standing on cars smiling. People are standing in the streets waving flags and cheering. There are people kissing in the street while a man is holding news paper that reads "complete surrender. Perhaps this is the end of a war and people are happy. They are thankful that the war is over and even the police officer is just letting them celebrate.

3)This picture really make me feel something in by heart. With the holidays coming up, especially Thanksgiving this event was truly something to be thankful for. Then when you think about the terrorist attacks that just happen you know that many people are looking forward to a day like this. 

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Fred Herzog 

1) Fred strived to take highly pigmented color photos that were unposed and had historical value. He used a Kodachrome ISO10 camera. His images are of everyday city life. He explores the balance of light and color very well in his images. The images are saturated with color and vibrancy.

2) In the first image it seems as though he caught his subjects off guard. They do not seem to notice that he is taking an image. The picture feels real and genuine. He has the subjects in the foreground in focus and the back out of focus drawing more attention to his subjects. It has a shallow depth of field so he probably used a more open Fstop. The second image shows two pair of legs. The image has that same saturation of color like the first image. The reds really pop in this picture and it contrast well with the blue in the girls socks and the yellow of the ladies skin on the left. It seems like he focused on the bottom of their legs because the girls skirt appears to be out of focus or this could be due to movement. The last image looks like an unposed portrait. The man and his daughter seem to be un aware of a photo being taken. You can see a repeated color skeem in this image as well with that red and green in the background.

3) I chose these images because i found them interesting. I have recently explored the concept of taking unposed portraits of people without them knowing they are the focus of my lense. Fred's work is a good example for what I have been trying to do. I enjoy vibrant colorful pictures as well and so i find his highly saturated pictures alluring.

Ashanti Neverson - Weekly Artist Post 15

Stéphane Missier

1.) These photos are from photographer, Stephanie Missier, who explored the culture of boxing dreams in Havana, Cuba. The photos are colored and the subjects are centered. The distance ranges from four to six feet. The only light source is from the lights around the boxing ring. 

2.) These young boys are posed so strongly it comes off as if they're already professionals. In the first photo the boy's dark skin contrasts against the red and white in the background. The colors also have some blue hints in the background reminding me of the cuban flag's colors. In the second photo the boy's gloves has scratches on it that matches the color of the hard rope behind him; it shows how tough they train and have to be in their situation.

3.) To me these photos reminded me of how a lot of young black boys see sports as their way to a better life. It sometimes turn into greatness but it can be a very limited view of how they can become successful. I just wonder if they had more resources or saw more positive images of people like them that aren't just athletes what they would aspire to be.

Weekly Artist post 15 Giovann Collazo

Giovann Collazo
Shane Rocheleau
Old Dominion
Digital Photography
11/22/15
http://www.monroegallery.com/photographers/display/id/121

These photos were taken by war photographer Jeff Widner. The first photo shows an elderly woman with a bewildered look on her face. Widner probably stood about six to seven feet from her when he took the shot. The second photo shows police in riot gear brandishing shields. Judging from the angle, Widner stood on top of something, a mailbox or crate perhaps, and took the shot. The third photo shows a man standing defiantly in front of four tanks. Widner took this shot from long distance and at a higher elevation.

  In the first photo Widner tries to show some weakness and vulnerability in the elderly in our society. This woman looks as though she has seen something to shocking, but looks as though she might be harmed if she were to anything about the incident. In the second photo, Widner shows impending violence and authority by the sea of black shields and helmets. However that one hand that is seen placed on the shield conveys that this authority will be met with formidable rebellion. The last photo with the man standing in front of the tanks is to give off inspiration and motivation to the audience.

The first photo makes me feel as though this old woman is in need of help and she is looking to me for that help. I feel that she is desperate need of protection. The second photo makes me feel as if a war is about to explode right off the photo, with the cops on one side and the public in the other. The thrid photo motivates me to face my obstacles and to tackle even the most impossible of feats. 

Joey Scolieri - Weekly Artist Post 15

Weegee

1. Weegee took all of his photographs during night time with a Speed Graphic film camera around New York City. The main subjects of his images are either victims at a crime scene or bystanders. The photos are all taken using a flash for the light source and are in black and white. Weegee always seems to be within 5-6ft of his subjects and the main subject of the image is usually looking away from the camera. 

2. Weegee lived and took photographs in New York City from 1938-1947, mostly focusing on Manhattan at night. He was a former press photographer turned freelancer with his main focus on  photographing crime scenes. His intent through this series of photos was to capture the essence of New York City during that era, the city was violent, noisy, and in constant motion and he wanted to convey that to the viewer. The first image was taken towards the end of World War 2 and the focal point of the image is of the man strangling Hitler in effigy, the young men smiling and actively trying to be in the photo makes the photo feel less staged. The second image is of a man who was killed while in the process of a robbery, the dead body isn't fully in the frame but the crowd of men behind the body is. I think that he was trying to show that the individuals living in that area were extremely used to seeing dead bodies and it was a sort of conversational topic. The last image is of a cop who is using his jacket to shield a little girl from the rain. This image is one of my all time favorite photos because it captures a time in American history where cops and people in general had a sense of duty and honor. The cop isn't making a big deal about what he's doing and he's not even looking at the camera while his picture is being taken and to me that gives off the sense that this was a genuine act of kindness and Weegee happened to capture it. 

3. Weegee is one of my new favorite photographers. I really enjoy looking at all of his images because each image seems so raw and not staged. He was living and photographing in an era where America was in constant motion and almost disarray with the war going on and his images depict that perfectly. Each person that he photographs has so much emotion to them that the viewer can almost feel it too.