Zeyu Li

Kira Tan

Xinyu Wu

As an abstract painter, I always feel that what we should convey sometimes is just a kind of feeling. And I also apply this rule to photography. I believe there are lots of similarities between canvas and photos. One important thing is that they are all “2D boxes” which contain emotions, memories and stories. The power of photography is not just convey a high-definition and beautiful picture but thoughts from photographer. And this makes photos lively and have temperature. That’s why I used “whisper” in the title. There a private communication happens between me and flowers. I also like taking night photos because I feel safe when the light is down and it is very quiet all around. I feel this is a way of exploration to find the secrets or share private thoughts. That’s why I choose night time to take photos with these flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Correct exposure

 

Overexposure

Underexposure

Highest ISO setting

 

Lowest ISO setting

Correct White Balance setting

 

Incorrect White Balance setting: warm

Incorrect White Balance setting: cold

 

Shallow depth of field

 

Deep depth of field

 

early morning 9/17/2018

afternoon 6pm 9/16/2018

afternoon 6:30pm 9/16/2018

afternoon 7:00pm

late afternoon 7:30pm

3pm 9/15/2018

late night 11:00pm 9/16/2018

early afternoon 4:30pm 9/16/2018

 

 

Paul Strand

Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker. he helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Strand was born in New York City.In his late teens, he was a student of renowned documentary photographer Lewis Hine.It was while on a fieldtrip in this class that Strand first visited the 291 art gallery –– where exhibitions of work by forward-thinking modernist photographers and painters would move Strand to take his photographic hobby more seriously.

I choose this photographer because his photos really catch my attention at the first sight. It gives me the first impression of simpleness, power, contrast and loneliness. And this makes me think of one of my favorite artist Edward Hopper. They are both good at using light and shadow to express a king of feeling. And they often find a unique angle in a usual life scene. When I look up his life experience i’m happy to find out that he really influenced by Edward Hopper.

And what inspired me most is the way he shoots a photo. Using his friend’s words “thick and slow” to describe, he often spends a day or more to take a picture. I feel that this is what we need today as a attitude to art even under today’s fast life style.

I choose some of his famous photos. And instead of using the timeline order I divided them into four parts to talk about, which are architecture, tiny things, nature scenes and people.

Sources:

http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-strand/wall-street-new-york-rpZSbsG8OBk61pD8S0WpyA2

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/paul-strands-sense-of-things

Paul Strand, You Ruined My Life

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