Thursday, May 4, 2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Monday, April 3, 2017
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The Photographer's Interview
1) What is the name of the Photographer? Annie Leibovitz
2) How long has he/she been taking photographs? Since the beginning of college where she took a photography night class.
3) What is the genre in which the Photographer works? (If multiple, list all) Portrait Photographer
4) How did the Photographer get his/her start? Began her career at Rolling Stones while still in college during the early 1970s.
5) What is it about Photography that the Photographer finds inspiring? It's concrete and could have immediate satisfaction. She says that having a camera is like having a friend and going out and taking pictures is like being on a mission.
6) Does the Photographer have a social or political viewpoint they are trying to convey? Identify. She is talking about a project that she is doing on American women and how it meant so much to the people involved in it and that she didn't want to fail women.
7) Does the Photographer discuss successes or failures? Identify. N/A
8) What Artists/Photographers does the Photographer admire/emulate? Jill Perez, Matisse
9) Does the Photographer discuss any historical aspects of Photography? Identify. N/A
10) Does the Photographer make any distinctions between Photography and other forms of visual art? She talks about how when she was in college as a painting major and that at the time everyone was painting abstract and how as a young person, you're not ready for abstract. She talked about how because of that she liked photograph so much better because it was so much more concrete and satisfactory.
11) What motivates the Photographer to keep taking photos? The immediate satisfaction from taking a picture
12) What is it about the Photographer's work that YOU find compelling? I really like how she went around the US to photograph women of America and just all the different views on women she got and all the different types of women she photographed is what I find compelling about her work.
2) How long has he/she been taking photographs? Since the beginning of college where she took a photography night class.
3) What is the genre in which the Photographer works? (If multiple, list all) Portrait Photographer
4) How did the Photographer get his/her start? Began her career at Rolling Stones while still in college during the early 1970s.
5) What is it about Photography that the Photographer finds inspiring? It's concrete and could have immediate satisfaction. She says that having a camera is like having a friend and going out and taking pictures is like being on a mission.
6) Does the Photographer have a social or political viewpoint they are trying to convey? Identify. She is talking about a project that she is doing on American women and how it meant so much to the people involved in it and that she didn't want to fail women.
7) Does the Photographer discuss successes or failures? Identify. N/A
8) What Artists/Photographers does the Photographer admire/emulate? Jill Perez, Matisse
9) Does the Photographer discuss any historical aspects of Photography? Identify. N/A
10) Does the Photographer make any distinctions between Photography and other forms of visual art? She talks about how when she was in college as a painting major and that at the time everyone was painting abstract and how as a young person, you're not ready for abstract. She talked about how because of that she liked photograph so much better because it was so much more concrete and satisfactory.
11) What motivates the Photographer to keep taking photos? The immediate satisfaction from taking a picture
12) What is it about the Photographer's work that YOU find compelling? I really like how she went around the US to photograph women of America and just all the different views on women she got and all the different types of women she photographed is what I find compelling about her work.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Friday, January 13, 2017
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Semester 1 Reflection
Quality of Work
Something I was good at doing with quality was turning in my assignments on time. Now, half the time I usually finished the assignment the same day it was due, but it was still on time. I also usually had the correct number of images for my index print as well. Now when it comes to the actual quality of my work, it was severely lacking. I can't seemed to be bothered to really try in the assignments, I have lost motivation for many things these past couple of months. I usually never go beyond my first idea to be honest, I only do when the first idea is too much work and unrealistic.
Effort
I barely ever take photos, I only take photos in convenient places for me, and I don't put a lot of effort into my photography. I don't generally think of ideas that would be hard to shoot because I honestly don't think much at all when it comes to this stuff. I also don't generally have a positive attitude towards anything in my life much less other peoples pictures and my own pictures.
Participation
I am always on time to class. I generally don't work throughout the whole class period, its too long for my attention span, I get bored. I only ever work independently, I don't like people and I definitely don't like working with them. I can stay on tasks for short bursts of about 15 minutes, at the most.
Improvement
Maybe I am just too hard on myself when it comes to these type of things, but can I really consider myself a photographer? Just because I take the occasional photo or create art every once and a while, does that make me a photographer, does that make me an artists? Cause if that's the case then anyone could be artists but I feel like if anyone could be an artist, it would take away value from art. And I honestly just need to improve in everything, technically wise, composition wise, compelling wise, confidence wise, concept wise, life wise.
Something I was good at doing with quality was turning in my assignments on time. Now, half the time I usually finished the assignment the same day it was due, but it was still on time. I also usually had the correct number of images for my index print as well. Now when it comes to the actual quality of my work, it was severely lacking. I can't seemed to be bothered to really try in the assignments, I have lost motivation for many things these past couple of months. I usually never go beyond my first idea to be honest, I only do when the first idea is too much work and unrealistic.
Effort
I barely ever take photos, I only take photos in convenient places for me, and I don't put a lot of effort into my photography. I don't generally think of ideas that would be hard to shoot because I honestly don't think much at all when it comes to this stuff. I also don't generally have a positive attitude towards anything in my life much less other peoples pictures and my own pictures.
Participation
I am always on time to class. I generally don't work throughout the whole class period, its too long for my attention span, I get bored. I only ever work independently, I don't like people and I definitely don't like working with them. I can stay on tasks for short bursts of about 15 minutes, at the most.
Improvement
Maybe I am just too hard on myself when it comes to these type of things, but can I really consider myself a photographer? Just because I take the occasional photo or create art every once and a while, does that make me a photographer, does that make me an artists? Cause if that's the case then anyone could be artists but I feel like if anyone could be an artist, it would take away value from art. And I honestly just need to improve in everything, technically wise, composition wise, compelling wise, confidence wise, concept wise, life wise.
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