Thoughts on Photography

 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...

 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...

 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...

 Hey Teach!  Heres my opinions/ quotes I chose by Fred Ritchin 1. "Rather than a "decisive moment" selected from an advancing contiuum, the digital photograph can acknowledge a more elastic sense of time where future and past can intertwine and be as decisive as the present" 2. "The contradictory "double image" is cubist; reality has no single truth, Perhaps these soldiers are heroes, and perhaps the US government is Justified in its invasion. Maybe they have to lie prone on the tarmac, anxious about an unseen enemy. The additional photograph asks the question "Is this for real?" Or is this a simulation of an invasion created for the cameras?" 3. " Paradoxically, the subject of the photograph is often voiceless, unable to  contest his or her depiction. Often the photographer barely knows the  person, yet the image could be used to define the person or to represent a  certain theme." For #1 I feel that it really hits home about...