One of my all time favorite photographers is Karl Blossfeldt. He approached photography from a scientific botanical angle and took beautiful specimen images of many, many plant species.
Category Archives: Winter 2012 Art 290 11am
Kerik Kouklis
Laura Burkhalter
Marcus Doyle
Rob Carter
Rob Carter takes extremely abstracted Landscape photographs. He uses a combination of focal/motion blur to create painterly images out of landscapes from around the world. I enjoy looking at his images but I wonder how he could create a secondary level of interest beyond the flat, predicable plane of color.
Louise Cook
Louise Cook shoots a ton of subjects, mostly in very vibrant colors. There are a few BW seascapes though that I think are some of her strongest works. Unfortunately her images are unlinkable, but here is a link to one of the images I’m referring to!
www.redbubble.com/people/loupcooke/works/1284036-mostly-fine-chance-of-a-shower?c=79220-by-the-sea
John A. Ryan
Holga Response
I am very excited to get the opportunity to use a Holga. I have had quite a bit of experience with them in the past but it has been a while since I have used one. While I have a good grasp of the functionality of the camera, it is incredibly handy to have this packet full of useful advice. The focal lengths are particularly helpful because the ones in the camera’s instructions are so horridly off.
Reading Response 3
I particularly enjoyed reading about the reproduction of photographs because I find the intersection of mass production/commercialism and art very interesting. The invention of the negative film process was such a turning point in the ever evolving definition of what was and what wasn’t “art”. Mass production changed everything.
Reading response 2
The reading on Light and Shadow was incredibly interesting. I liked how the book focused not only on photography, but on many artistic mediums to portray the many different way light is utilized in art. I would be very interested to experiment with some of the less conventional forms of light, such as projections and exaggerated shadows.