Monthly Archives: January 2012

1/26/12…working on Day & Night project

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Alot of my blogs haven’t been turning up on the photography blog site…buuuut hopefully this one will!

The more I’ve been shooting and developing and as I explore more artist works via the internet I find I’m becoming increasingly obsessed and transfixed by faces captured in black and white. I get bored shooting and looking at nature and buildings…but faces, the bodies connected, emotions and stories that they can express through a single moment captured in shades of black and white! For example, the portraits of Richard Avedon…I’m interested in how he explores expression through a series or set of images (seems relevant to our Night & Day project too), but most of all I’m blown away by the power behind each captured face and gesture. I was also particularly struck by Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s photography. I was intrigued by the way he utilized nature/the scenery surrounding to communicate with the viewer. Sometimes the scenery offsets the figure/s (like in the masked portraits) creating a sort of juxtaposition, while other times the scenery emphasizes the emotion communicated by the figure/s. The framing in his work is interesting to me.

I’m loving shooting people…but I’m getting tired of shooting my housemates. If anyone would like their photo taken OR would like to bring some friends OR model clothes/dress up OR just mess around and take pictures I WOULD LOVE TO TAKE YO PICTURE and friends! AND I’LL MAKE YOU A PRINT!

Im friendly! If your interested message me- kazanje@students.wwu.edu

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Henri Cartier-Bresson’s (1908–2004) “inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book.”

MoMa has some online exhibitions of Cartier-Bresson and an interactive gallery (this one is of his USSR photos).

“Cartier-Bresson was the first Western photographer to be admitted to the Soviet Union after the death of Josef Stalin, in 1953. The pictures he made in the summer of 1954 were news in themselves, and several magazines reproduced quite a few of them. When he returned to the U.S.S.R. nearly two decades later, in 1972 and 1973, his image of Soviet life developed a new dimension—grim, barren, and bleak.”

I’ve been wanting to post about a street photographer, but wanted to find one who was more inspirational/less pretentious than The Sartorialist (pretty much the only contemporary one I’m really familiar with). So I wikipedia’d ‘street photography’ and came across this guy. He seems pretty awesome, so I plan on learning more about his work!

Hi everyone. My name is Gary.

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well. I am enthusiastic… and I have a camera….um. I hope that as the quarter progresses my pictures will improve in quality.

Looked cool at the time...


Here is one of my self portrait daily photos from our assignment