Meaghan Mozingo - Artist post #8

Noa Ben-Shalom

1) Nao Ben-Shalom is a photographer who captures local conflict and human structure within Israel. Ben-Shalom's collection titled Battlefield  was taken in the Golan heights, Northern Israel, during the winter of 2006.

2) The Golan Heights are full of lush beautiful landscapes, but also houses mine fields, abandoned army posts and bunkers. Ben- Shalom examines the reality of past, present, and future wars. She shows that war can imbed itself anywhere.

3) War leaves an impact where ever it goes. Ben-Sholom captures the raw beauty along with the painful truth that lies in the Golan Heights. Her landscape photos seem to be slightly out of focus and it there natural state. Her compositions have a vast and empty feeling.

Jade P Post #8

Maxine Helfman


Maxine Helfman is a self taught photographer, she worked as a stylist and photo art director before she realize the only way to get what she really wanted was to make the pictures herself. She invokes the lighting of Baroque masters like Rubens and takes traditional status portraits of African Americans, along the same lines as Kehinde Wiley.

Hellman shoots just below the models' eye level to give a look of prestige and status. It looks like she has a very controlled set up, but keeps her exposure very dark staying true to the Baroque chiaroscuro. She keeps color out of the frame, draws the focus to either white or black. None of the models are taken straight on, all are 3/4 posed.

I like reference to historic painting techniques in contemporary art. It gives not only a knowledge of technique but also gives a comparison, whether the times are similar or vastly different. Simple idea but gives profound connotations to current issues. Hellman herself that recent events prove her premise correct: "justice continues to lie just out of reach".

Feven Asghedom - Artist post #8

Jill Quigley

- In this series Jill Quigley uses natural light, taking continuos shots of the same frame. Jill uses a low shutter speed she is able to catch the motion of pedestrians walking without any blur.

- In the photos above Jill Quigley takes a series of photos at the same location. She shows people walking in and out of the frame. No one is the subject but a part of the story. Quigley says she uses photography to explore her local enviroment in Ireland and remix traditional imagery. 

-I don't think any particular frame is great but i think as a whole it is very interesting. It reminds me of the homework we've been doing lately of taking the same frame repetitively while changing the zoom, shutter speed, and aperture. 

Cory Hogan - Artist Post #8

Patrick Joust

1.) Patrick Joust is a photographer that enjoys making pictures throughout areas in Baltimore. Majority of his pictures are made with a horizontal framing which seems to be a 5:4 ratio. Joust prefers going out to make pictures at night which requires a higher ISO that adds an interesting grain to his photos.

2.) Joust says he prefers to make pictures at night because scenes seem to "come alive". He walks around town until he comes up to a fairly lit area. Joust uses darker shadows and interesting unnatural lights to give his pictures liveliness. His images in this project seem to show this sense of loneliness since there is such little movement and interaction throughout the images.  

3.) These images have such an interesting vibe to them. They all have a sense of mystery and loneliness because of the atmosphere in the images. I love the lighting choices he made in these, for example, in the last image the picture has this blue aura to it and the other images have different colored lights as well. The images also seem so quiet because they look so very still.

Virgina Goode Artist Post 9

Evan Anderman

Evan Anderman is a social-landscape photographer who makes pictures from his airplane. Most of his work are pictures of Eastern Colorado, deserts and forests in Western United States, Antarctica, and Iceland.  His airplane gives him a better advantage to capture more of these landscapes.

Anderman’s goal is to portray these landscapes with more optimism. This could be a challenge considering the damage humanity has contributed to these landscapes. His images capture the beauty of the land as well as the perspective of humans coexisting on the land.

I think Anderman has a very abstract approach in the message he is trying to relay. Without researching more into his series In Plain Sight, I thought these images were just cool, colorful, aerial views. They’re actually represent so much more. Essentially it’s an eye-opener on how us humans and the earth should attempt coexist without damaging each other.

Sarah Ipson- Artist Post 8

Roy Lichtenstein

1. Roy Lichtenstein was the first artist to use a series of dots to create pictures. Lichtenstein made the original iconic dot based photos for comic books and comic print. Roy Lichtenstein's art is all hand drawn and usually consists mainly of the three primary colors and black and white. On top of using phrases like wham and pop, he also uses images concerning fighter pilots and planes of WWII, and women in distress or model-like women?

2. Roy Lichtenstein's intent was to show the viewers a different way of seeing photos. Lichtenstein helped to add a voice in a sense to the sound effects we picture when reading. Words like pop, wham, boom, give a heighted feeling to a person when looking at comic books, because they are mainly pictures with simple phrases or conversational text, but when reading words like this,it helps to invision a sound when looking at a photo or series of photos when it pertains to an action scene.

3. The feeling I get when looking at these is a feeling of wonderment. It makes me wonder what runs through his mind between all of the sound effects and dotted imagery. It makes me wonder how Lichtenstein pictures every day life on a regular day and how many artistic images pass through his mind on a daily basis.

Hannah Zach - Artist Post 8

Isabella Giancarlo

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2) Inspired by her own heartbreak, and the symtomatic appetite loss that came with it Giancarlo because inspired. 

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