Final Project–An Eternal Existence

Nature is an eternal existence for me. Mountains, rivers, and trees span time, space, and emotion. The animals that alternate in the cycle of seasons are a mere existence to mountains and rivers, but nature still hold up the birth and death of animals. Even though animals are tested by lightning storms, hunted by natural enemies, whipped by winter, behind the cruel nature is the endless mercy. For tens of thousands of years, these old-growth forests and grasslands have been living in the eternal harmony and tranquility in order. Nowadays, however, human intelligence has gradually disintegrated nature, and has to live in the neglected cracks of human life. 

    Being in nature is a luxury and a pure baptism. It will be moved by the unpolished purity and mystery, rather than by the artificially-codified objects of the city.Nature is not an object created by man’s subjective will, but a recorder and transmitter of time. This was my first visit to antelope valley, and I marveled at its sheer size and subtle texture. It presents the original nature, allowing me to explore the most real and hidden halo. With no moss or trees to hide it, bare skin and changing light pulled me down into miyazaki’s utopia.The bare skin without moss or trees to hide it and changing light brought me down to Miyazaki Hayao’s utopia.

COLOR PORTRAITS

Lily: Lily likes to read fictions and fantasy novels. I found this lake in Rhode Island on fall bread and reminds of Lily’s color. The reason for putting a camera in the picture is to make the beautiful scene more like a fantasy, not reality.

Mitva: this photograph was also taken on the Rhode Island.  Mitva likes sculpture and skateboarding. She liked a graffiti photograph the Professor showed in class. So I think she will likes the dark yellow woods.

PechaKucha Summary

                                                                            Edward Steichen

 

         Edward Steichen was a pioneering champion of fine-art photography and famous for commercial fashion photography. Although Steichen did not invent fashion photography, he was the founder and pioneer of modern fashion photographer. He was a regular photographer for various fashion magazines such as Vogue,Vanity Fair. Because the style of his early work was influenced by illustrators, the photographs style was very dreamy and emphasizes the romantic atmosphere. Meanwhile, he was also the first director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and created the most popular photography exhibition, Family of Man, in 1955. During World War I, he served as the chief of photography section to document the war. He then moved from the soft-focus, dreamlike style of photography to pure photography or straight photography which focus on detail recording and clean lines. 

         Photographer,  Ansel Adams, used the terms straight photography and pure photography to describe this new style. Advocates of straight photography argue that this is a more pure form of photography than Pictorialism. In my presentation I will give four examples of pure photography: old classic—-Ansel Adams, Adward Weston; contemporary artists—  Alexander Coggin,Maisie Cousins. 

                                             Resources:
https://theartofdress.org/2015/07/16/the-art-of-imitation-edward-steichens-modern-fashion-photographs-of-1911/
https://blog.fitnyc.edu/materialmode/2013/05/11/steichen-poiret-the-first-fashion-photographs/
https://www.phillips.com/detail/EDWARD-STEICHEN/NY040118/116
https://media.artic.edu/steichen/2-untitled-vauquois-191819/index.html
https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/ansel-adams-photos.html
https://www.wikiart.org/en/ansel-adams
http://alexandercoggin.com/photos/overview
https://collectordaily.com/maisie-cousins-rubbish-dipping-sauce-grass-peonie-bum/
https://amanostudy.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/edward-steichens-the-family-of-man-exhibition/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/edward-steichen
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/46116?artist_id=5623&locale=en&page=1&sov_referrer=artist
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