work in progress assign 5

Constructed idenity/reality

Prompt #25

You as Curator
Look through the list of recent entrants to this call for photography.
http://pdncuratorawards.com/entries.shtml
Pretend you are curating a show and choose 7 photographers to include in your show. Describe why you would pick those particular artists and what about their work stands out to you.

Keith Lewis        I chose Lewis because his work isn't in focus it was different and from a distance the girl gives off a mystical feel which I really like and the lighting and the way the colors look fit well together. The little bit of fire along the base of the wall  just awesome.
     
Molly Salzbrunn           What drew me to Molly's work was how simply beautiful her images are the color scheme here is so mellow toned that its relaxing to look at.

Grace Oh               Grace Oh's  work is just wow  the use of lighting and positioning of shadows  make this image very interesting And from the looks of it the image appears to be a CGI image a 3D model of a reflective circle. Its a piece that I'd like to see more of.

mitchell           In Mitchell's work the colors seem to be all the same and at first look you don't see the vehicle that's in the scene because of the colors. Also the way the image is set up with only having the very front and very end of the truck being used and fitting it in the aisle the whole scene just makes me uncomfortable with how the truck sits in there.
Heart & Hurt                   With this piece the emotion captured is powerful to me the lighting in it really emphasizes it and being in black and white helps with emotion better than if it was in color.
Jim Tetro         Tetro's works is mind boggling with it being mirrored the affect is just so well executed that the piece draws your attention. Plus the two orange lines help you up and down the image.

Albert C Karges          Ah Albert I chose him immediately I'm a sucker for cloud and sky images they're my favorite. And Albert's  pics remind me of my own cloud series they're just out there. 

Blog Prompt #24

A. Pick two images from any of the “constructed reality” photographers presented in class or linked on the assignment sheet. Describe how you could recreate these two images on a “smaller scale”.

 I think this scene I'd use barbie dolls and dress them in night gowns then use my barbie living room set and use the chairs and couch and find a little. For lighting I'd use my orange light which would help give it a lighting more similar to the original.

 I really like this one its simple yet mysterious and messmerizing I wouldn't know how to remake it I just thought it was awesome

  For this one I was thinking of still using the video/book store but replace the people with action figures Maybe croped/ photoshoped in.

B. Describe your plans for your self-proposed final project (if the plan is the same as before, paste it here again and give a bit more detail). During the final critique for Assignment #5, you will discuss/present these ideas to the class.

My first Idea back fired I wanted to take pictures of Cosplayers at an anime convention but they didn't turn out so well.

Now what I want to do is kind of something we've done before but I'm throwing in my own twist. Do you remember when we did the camera exerxise where we took pictures of each other holding a sign with a saying of thought we had. Well my idea is similar only I'm going to take pictures of my friends and classmates that are willing and ask them to write their major or field of study on a handheld whiteboard. The idae is majors are different. Showing all the different majors around campus. They will be different from one another in how they will be photographed in diferent areas around campus.

Blog Prompt #23

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

Trying to be someone I'm not in the way I dress and see myself. I sometimes put on an act so that people will like me. I dream everynight that I'm this outgoing not shy strong girl who doesn't take crap from nobody. 

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

People telling us how we should act and who we should be. Saying we need to keep races separate and not interact it doesn't seem to be such a proplem now but it was back in the day.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

The way is which we set up our dorm rooms and houses. The way we build our cities with certain building in certain areas and people in certain places.

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

A sunset I consider to be real an a smile that happens while you laugh you just can't fake that. What I consider to be fabricated is love and governments also realtiy in general it all just seems so fake that none of it makes sense nor does it seem real.

5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” ( Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler , 34).

Two swordsmen dueling one in traditional Samuri grab and the other is in a black leather jacket and blue jeans more of a modern feel they're are both tired looking breathing heavily. The Samuri has torn clothing with some blood and the leather jacket swordsman has cuts on his face, his pants and his left side bleeding alot but not flinching. They're in a stand off reading each other waiting to see who will make the first move.

6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” (Kohler, 34).

Dogzilla attacks have a miniature city of legos with cars, people and the works then have my puppy Snickers walk through it. It will look like a monster is attacking a city like Godzilla did with Tokyo and New York.

recreation 5

Original

Hippolyte Bayard   Drowned man

Recreate

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.