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Matthew Rolston Portraiture

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 Hey Teach, Today I am looking more in depth at Matthew Rolstons work because I really liked the one image he took where the dude has blood on his hand it was super cool looking to me and it got me interested. I have to say his work is really really technical, and creative too buuuuuut. I feel like he’s missing something? Like, for my taste at least. You’ve said it many times but, he’s boring. His whole thing is being this super creative eccentric guy so why is every photoshoot the same thing in a different color set man! I’d rather you have 100 shitty photos from experimenting rather than all of them being perfect. I do genuinely think they are all incredibly good photos too, I don’t deny that. But perfection is boring to me, consistency is too. I think that’s something the entire world agrees on, someone who does the same thing over and over, even if it’s just as good as before is just kinda not interesting. I’m going to try and find if he has any more interesting portraiture and...
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Irving Penn Still Life

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 Hey Teach, I don’t know how I manage to do this every semester but this time I’m blaming myself less, because I had so much work to do. Anyways, here’s my view of Irving Penn. When you first spoke about him and showed us photos my first thought was, Oooh. Because it’s not really a style I see often, sadly I am writing about his still life’s today, but who knows, maybe those will be just as interesting as his portraits. They definitely aren’t bad, and there’s a few in here that really evoke some feelings in me, ones that hold motion in the still life, specifically one of a flower. It’s incredibly gorgeous, morning dew sitting on it, twirling in the air, striped black and white. I get the feeling that Irving Penn was an eccentric with an eye for details based on these still life’s because a lot of them are absurd, but every few are composed perfectly to the point you can tell that it took a very long time to set up. Specifically the few that two in color that are play items and kitc...
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Alana Dee Haynes

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 Hey Teach,  Let’s talk about somebody new for my final, someone interesting. Haynes is someone who does stuff like me, mixed media, dabbles in different types of art, but specifically her thread to thread photography exhibition stood out to me. Why? It’s new, it’s not what I do but inspiring, and it’s creative. It’s similar enough that it gives me thoughts and ideas but also reminds me of sigmar polke and my other inspirations. I’m quite interested in seeing more like this so I’m going to look if she has more. Work: Lo and Behold, I found more!!! They are really just genius and I enjoy them a lot. They seem like they are about self perception or dissociation, like the way people always seem themselves differently or outside of what you may think they are or different than what they assume a human is. It could also definitely be about mental health or labels, how what others say sort of mark us and force us into a cage/box. In that same vein it could be about experiences or pe...
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Magnum Blog: Peter van Agtmael

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 Hey teach!!! Its me Finn, back again with a late blog because I thought we only had the critique blog left. Straight to it then! Step 1: Look at photos. I see first things first that he seems to be a war photojournalist, I see what looks like the war America had with Iraq, and very interesting and confusing photos that seem to represent the chaos and Vietnam like war we had where innocents were mercilessly killed and harmed by both sides, only furthering the damage that we came to "stop" as well as the mental scarring and horror of the war for the American soldiers being used as the weapons that cause it. The photos are all incredibly dramatic and eye catching, they feel almost normal to me due to the heavy amount of call of duty and black ops games I have played - well normalized and also in that style, they seem like movie shots almost, unreal or detached from the horrors they show. I especially get these feelings in the ones that are clear but definitely still in the ones...
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Nick Fancher

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 Hey Teach! This is my inspiration for my portraits, I already knew what I wanted from Chip/My previous self portrait but I looked for someone even more specifically doing my work, and I found someone really cool and inspiring, his name is Nick Fancher and he has some really good work that looks a lot like the stuff I'm interested in doing! Specifically this image, it really reminded me of the works I wanted to do, almost making the projector merge into the image and really mesh well.  He seems to work really well with colors in general which will be very useful for getting better with them if I follow him farther along as I find myself still leaning toward darker colors/ black and white so I might try and replicate his style a bit, although I think I'd need some colored lights for backdrops/ color.  I do REALLY enjoy this one, it's so cool and I think it might just be two images stacked with some colors matching, but I could be wrong. If it is it is ingenious and these s...
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Annie Leibovitz

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 Hey Teach, Back at it again already huh. I guess I’ll try and get some of my creative juices flowing. I’ve heard you talk about Mrs Leibovitz again and again, but I’ve never really found myself interested in her work or more so searching after it, not for any particular reason, but that in of itself sort of says something, I’d prefer to dislike her photography rather than neutral, but perhaps it’s just that you didn’t’t show much of it but spoke a lot about her, I don’t quite remember on the best of days (and this is not one of those.) As usual it is time for me to look at her works and then come back with my thoughts. Next sentence for you but usually a good 10-15 for me. Anyways! I.. I’m conflicted about her work, a good chunk of her celebrity work is just meh to me not bad by any standard technically but just boring yknow? But then there are some gorgeous works that really stir my soul  This one specifically. I’m struggling but will break down what I’m feeling to try and e...
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Carrie Mae Weems

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 Hey Teach! I decided to do the artist Carrie Mae Weems, because her work really interested during your lecture (sorry for being on my phone) and I really liked the story she weaved with her table work. Specifically how it seemed to be about her perception of life, and of being a mature women. I like how it portrays love, not that its how I see but more so how well she explains or shows it through her writing, in fact its a dual creative work that I reallly enjoyed and it's quite cool to see somebody put it together like that. Now that I've finished speaking on my initial experience I think it's time to do a little more research and see her other works, hopefully they live up to my hype. From the little I've seen I can already tell that she is a huge activist, somebody who speaks out with her words and fights, and she seems to be very stubborn/ mature/ strong from what her art speaks. I quite like the range of work she has though, especially how incredibly pretty but al...
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