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Hippolyte Bayard   Drowned man

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Constructed Reality Semi-Contemporary Photographer Presentation

Yasumasa Morimura

 

A man with a motto after my own heart but first a little bio.Yasumasa Morimura a Japanese appropriation artist was born June 11, 1951 in Osaka, Japan he graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1978, Philadelphia College of Art in Philadelphia in 1982, and Columbia Unversity, New York in 1985. He began with a self-portrait as Van Gogh. He is a skilled master of costume, painting, cosmetics, and computer manipulation. He bursted onto the international art scene 10 years ago with his series "Art History" were he took replaced the famous faces of historic pieces of art with his own mug. He was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1996.
What makes his work so interesting is that he borrows images from historical artist (rembrandt to cindy sherman) and puts his own face and body into them. these self-portraits are mostly computer-processed. he creates with his work an an ambiguity between painting and photography, performance and photography, past and present, original and copy, male and female. Thus it surprises and destabilizes the viewer, and raises the question of defining the notions of fiction and reality, as well as defining the limits between them, in contemporary photography.
What made me choose him was his motto, "Art is basically entertainment, even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is FUN." And so he has  some of his piece are really funny and you can get a real kick out of seeing them I did.

Constructed Reality Historical Photographer Presentation

Kansuke Yamamoto



Born March 30, 1914  he was a seminal experimental photographer, a poet, and a prominent Japanese Surrealist. Born in Nagoya, Japan to Goro Yamamoto who was a founding member of Aiyu Photography Kansuke was the oldest. though the poetry magazine "Cine' "by Yamanaka Chiruu Kansuke encountered both surrealism and dadaim. He graduated from Nagoya Second Commercial School in 1929 and the Meiji University School of Arts and letters in Tokyo with a major in French literature. His work was published in many different magazines and journals one was the Independent (in English) by the Independent Photography Association when he was 17. He coached the younger generation as an adviser of Chubu Photography Federation of Students from 1965 to 1975. He died April 2, 1987
He was active between the eras of the daguerreotype and the disposable camera 1931 to 1987. the work he created indicated liberty, antiwar and anti-government in surrealist ways. He used highly aesthetic imagery that had such a strangeness and transgressive nature to it that it was considered threating causing presecution by the Tokko (Thought Police).
What I liked about his work was how simple it looked yet how strange it felt like after looking at it for a little you get uneasy about it.

Blog Prompt #22

Watch the video in the link below. Write a few sentences in response to this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYDxWSjVJw

My Response:
   Using CG to map out a photo before its taken is quite interesting. CG may seem easier to use but it is every time consuming and just to have it to map out a photo is a waste but the idea is different and makes since you're seeing the scene before to take it. The editing too is something to take the photo and change the model used to take the photo and change her into a mannequin. The whole concept is just intriguing its a new take on photography and the use of CGI.

Also, see these links.
http://www.canstockphoto.com/images-photos/cgi.html
http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/featured/if-it-seems-too-good-to-be-trueits-cgi/
http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/176/32/

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Popular Media Semi-Contemporary Photographers - Robert Flick

Robbert Flick

Robbert Flick was born in 1939 in Amersfoot, Holland and moved to Canada after six years in Dutch West Indies. He began to explore photography extensively in 1963 while working in logging camps on Vancouver-Island. He has a BA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a MA and MFA  from the Graduate School of the University of California he also studied with Robert Heinecken. He has received many fellowships and his work is found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He taught photography at the University of Illinois and now teaches at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Robbert started out with grids devoted to urban streets, ocean water, and the rural Midwest. The views overlap or omit at varying intervals creating rhythms paced like film strips and sequences patterned like contact sheets. What I like is the simplicity of some of his pieces and his grid work they really are similar to contact sheet and the he positions some of them they almost create an image on their own.

Popular Media Historical Photographers - John Heartfield

John Heartfield 

 

Born Helmut Herzfeld on June 19, 1891 in Berlin. John was a pioneer of modern photomontage and helped to transform it into a powerful form of mass communication. He developed it into a form of political and artistic expression after meeting Bertolt Berecht. Heartfield's work was symbols that were photo-based. Some are images of clenched fists, open palms, and raised arms these all implied bold actions and determination. He would use recognizable press photographs of politicians or even events from the mainstream illustrated press then disassembled and rearranged these images to radically alter their meaning. Some of his strongest work had a frightening visual impact because of the way he used variations of scale and stark juxtapositions which activated the already gruesome photo-fragments. Through photomontage John was able to create images that were both loaded and politically contentious. John worked for the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung or AIZ a magazine that published what he is best remembered for and his longest engagement entailed designing book covers for Malik Verlag, run by his brother Wieland Herzfelde, the dust cover was important in attracting attention. His work is still used today by bands mostly such as System of a Down and German bands. What I like about his work is how bold it is and that the meaning isn't always straight forward. Not big on the gruesome part of them but the statement how he presents his views.

       System of a Down                                                            John Heartfield

Blog Post #21

A. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of “news”-related photographs.
     News photos tend to be very dramatic what they are covering needs to be eye catching and draw people's attention because its important imformation as it tells whats happened in the world thats new.

B. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of “snapshots”, including family photographs, cell-phone shots, photos posted to facebook,
    Snapshots tend to be more personal and invole events or moments in a persons life that are considered valuable to the individual.

C. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of advertisement photographs, including fashion photography, product photography, etc
    Advertisement photographs focus on the product trying to be sold using positioning, lighting, special affects (sometimes) to best show off the product to get consumers to try and buy them.

D. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of film/movie and television stills.
      Movies tend to have very dramtic lighting, fast blury movements, and various emotional scenes from funny to sad that help in telling a story.

E. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of yearbook photos, senior pictures, and team/club/sports group shots.
      Yearbook photos really focus on the individual and bring out who a person is with how lighting is used and the position the subjest takes.

F. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of stock images. http://www.corbisimages.com/ http://www.gettyimages.com/
    Stock images seem to be pretty plan nothing really to them just simple done.

G. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of fashion photography.
     Fashion photos tend to be vary sexual in a way cause they're trying to show off the outfits and the best way to do that is to make it look sexy just in the way the models are caught posing.

H. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of paparazzi shots or celebrity photographs.
     The shots of celebrities or photos taken by the paparazzi are cannied shots unless its at a red carpet event where celebs will pose but the photos are usually cannied and try to show the celebs in ways that come off as being shocking or unual behavior for a celebrity.

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