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Teju Cole
What I found interesting of Teju Cole’s creation is “My Grandmother’s Shroud”. The picture portraits a scene that Teju Cole’s wife applies polish to Cole’s grandmother’s nail. Cole’s mother died in 2017, and Cole was not able to go back to Nigeria and see his grandmother for one last time. His grandmother was a native Nigerian and a Muslim. From the photo, we can see a young lady is holding a bottle of nail polish and trying to apply to an old lady’s nail. Cole found this picture after his grandmother’s death, and the recalled many memories with his grandmother, his mother, and also the stories about his grandmother.
One sentence that in the article really inspired me:“Images — paintings, sculptures, photographs — remind us how our loved ones looked in life. But in most places and at most times, portraiture was available only to society’s elites. Photography changed that. Almost everyone is now captured in photographs — and outlived by them.” This shows Cole’s attitude towards photography, that is not only taking pictures itself, but also a tool to recall memories, and express love and mourning to our loved ones.
Another thing is the mentioning of Muslim at the end of the article. It shows the “conflict” between politics in the U.S. and Muslim countries. After Cole read the policy about the travel restriction of six predominantly Muslim country, Cole said, “the cruelty and absurdity of the policy was vivid. It felt personal.” From the photo, his grandmother’s life is vivid and seems has just passed. However, in real world, many people in the U.S. can neither go back to their home country to see their families for various reasons, nor invite them to come to the U.S due to the policy restriction.
In conclusion, Teju Cole relates his personal story to a huge amount of people by the format of photo and text, and provokes us to think more about the world.
Project 5 Perception Studies
Protanopia–lack red color
Deuteranopes–lack green
Triitanopia–lack blue
Anomalus Trichromacy–pigment shift
Project 4 Narrative – Storytelling
Nightmare
Portrait short assignment
Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was not discovered and recognized until after her death. Maier’s photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response. Here are some of her works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
Project 3 Portraiture
–Morning person
— spring switch break
–Green nose
–Crew only?
–Woke up with purple
–Reflections
–Black&White Prom
–My true loves
–Electronic Life
Project 3 Color Portraits
Zhou Qi: Mint green
Qi likes light gree. For him, green means vitality, hope and life. He thinks green is a color can make people release pressure. Another reason is he likes mint flavor a lot. He said couldn’t live with peppermint candy. He doesn’t know is he loves mint because of its color or he loves green because of mint.
Chaosong Yan: Dark Blue
For Yan, color is important for people to escape from back & white and tedious. As a computer science major student, he was familiar with identifying color by using chroma and hue. He is not very familiar with brightness since it is excluded by the program in coding. His favorite color is dark blue. He was growing up with low self-esteem because of fat. However, he remembered once he wore a blue shirt and received much praise in his childhood. He subconsciously bought many decorations in blue color, especially in his personal and relax areas such as the bathroom and bedroom.
Project 2 Still Life – Landscape
Part 1: Green house
1. Correct exposure– 1/200
2. Overexposure– 1/30
3. Underexposure– 1/800
4. Highest ISO setting– 6400
5. Lowest ISO setting– 200
6. Correct White Balance setting– 5200k
7. Incorrect White Balance setting– 7000k
8. Incorrect White Balance setting– 3200k
9. Shallow depth of field (use wide aperture)– 5
10. Deep depth of field (use narrow aperture)– 10
11. Stopping (freezing) of rapid motion (use fast shutter speed) -of moving subject– 1/200
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12. Blurring of rapid motion (use slow shutter speed) -of moving subject– 1/8 and 1/60
13. Standard (straight-forward) angle of view upon subject
14. Alternative angle of view of subject
Part 2: Landscape
Landscape research
ROBERT ADAMS
(1937-Present) Aphotographer who has documented the extent and the limits of our damage to the American WestAdams grew up in New Jersey, he pictured heedless development but also the surviving light, scale, form, and silence of the natural world. He also examined this mixture of humanity’s imprint and nature’s resilience in the wider western landscape and in the Los Angeles basin.
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Colorado, 1968-71
Eucalyptus, Fontana, California, 1982
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Reference: https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/robert-adams
Project 0 – PechaKucha Summary
Alfred stieglitz
An American photographer who introduced avant-garde style to the U.S. For photography, he said: “fascinated me, first as a toy, then as a passion, then as an obsession.” In his early state, he traveled through the European countryside, taking photographs of landscapes and peasants. This is why his work is affected by European artists a lot. He stayed in Germany until 26 and wrote his first article, “A Word or Two about Amateur Photography in Germany”.
Last Joke, Bellagio (1887) by Alfred Stieglitz
After he returned to New York with his family. After he returned to New York with his family. In 1892, Stieglitz bought his first hand-held camera, and took two of his best known images, Winter, Fifth Avenue and The Terminal. In early 1894, Stieglitz and his wife took a delayed honeymoon to France, Italy and Switzerland. Stieglitz photographed extensively on the trip, producing some of his early famous images such as A Venetian Canal, The Net Mender and A Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris. He joined and Stieglitz turned the Camera Club’s current newsletter into a magazine and had the full control over the new publication. He led the club to be one of the the finest photographic magazine in the world.
Venetian Canal (1894) by Alfred Stieglitz
He also continued to take his own photographs. As a solid reputative a photographer, he hand-pulled a first portfolio of his own work, Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies and exhibited in shows in Europe and the U.S in 1897. He sold his favorite print, Winter – Fifth Avenue by very high price.
Winter – Fifth Avenue (1893) by Alfred Stieglitz
He used “Secessionists” for a newly formed group of pictorial photographers that he organized in New York. Unlike his early work often balances depictions of soft, ephemeral, natural processes with motifs drawn from American industry, his late works turning to more geometric motifs, effects of sharp focus, and high contrast, it celebrates a more mechanized phase of modern life in America.
In the final decades of his life, Stieglitz devoted his time chiefly to running his gallery. These final photographs, such as From My Window at the Shelton, North (1987.1100.11), were impressive achievements that both synthesized the various stages of his photographic development and solidified his position as the most significant figure.
Reference
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/stieglitz-alfred/artworks/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Stieglitz
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/stieglitz-alfred/
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/51907?artist_id=5664&locale=zh&page=1&sov_referrer=artist