Week 7 Blog

7Paul Strand

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.1100.10

This photograph screams design to me. The repetition of lines with the break of the table against the wall or ground adds a bit of variety. Throwing off the lines and causing them all not to show as well as creating another direction for your eye to follow. The minimal color palette ranging from an off-white-yellow to a dark brown/black is easy on the eyes to allow them to flow up down and around the image. Although this image is very asymmetrical the darks and lights even the weight making it very acceptable to my eye.

Imogen Cunningham

http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artwork_Detail.asp?G=&gid=423969340&which=&ViewArtistBy=&aid=4668&wid=424893232&source=artist&rta=http://www.artnet.com

This to me is a very powerful photograph. The emotion captured, which may not be easily seen at first, is almost startling. This man in this setting tells me a story. A story that he once was here chopping this wood, using that sledge hammer and working hard. Now that he has reached 90 (My father at 90 is the title) or an older age in general shows that he cannot do those tasks he once could. He put on his suit and he walks with his cane in a place he is very familiar with. Not as familiar as it used to be but very familiar. He almost has a face of confusion which just makes me further believe he does not know this world as well as he used to. Yes it is a pretty straight on photograph but there are so many subtle details that give such a story and I appreciate that a lot in a photograph.

Dean Chamberlain

http://jasonmelcher.com/LIGHT_GRAFFITI_WEBSITE/Dean_Chamberlain_FS/index.html

I am incorporating "Light Writing" into my book for this first semester of Photo II so I have been looking  up quite a few artist who incorporate it into their work as well. Shelly was so nice as to give me a flyer from a show around Philly so I hopped on there website and found quite a few people. This man stood out to me because what he does is much different than your conventional "Light Writing" rather than adding the light in as its own subject he exposes different areas to give it unconventional tones that seem to be photoshopped in. In his other work it is more prominent but i chose this one because it is a mix of both. The eye of the viewer is brought to the center of the photograph and then dispersed every which way because of the outburst of light he has created. He also gets the blue of the sky in there, most likely from the long exposures he uses.