Thoughts on Photography

 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...

 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...