The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Phillip-Lorca diCorcia
Artist: Phillip-Lorca diCorcia
Date: 1980's
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I love diCorcia's work. The odd, eery lighting puts such an off mood to usual situations. Why is a kid being lit from the below the kitchen counter, the fridge open in the back and the house lights on even though there's light coming through the window? Such an odd combination of lighting. And the guy with a pepsi.. carton? With blue neon lighting from below? Just so many interesting choices.. a lot to take in
Diane Arbus
Date: 1966
Title: A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, NYC
I love Diane Arbus' approach to photographs. She went and she photographed what you wouldn't see everyday and put it out there. Some say her camera was cold but it brought everything to the table, flaws and all. I thought it was really interesting to find out she killed herself by taking poison and cutting her wrists. Makes me wonder about her more.. super mysterious and I think it shows in her art.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Jim Goldberg
Date:
Title:
I'm not really quite sure how I feel about these photos. On one hand, I like the writing. I think it adds a personal touch to these photos that lack otherwise, we would have no idea who this woman is. But on the other hand, I think it slightly takes away from the aesthetic and compositional qualities of the image. I'm not sure. Interesting definitely to say the least.
Jeff Wall
Date: 2004
Title: A View From An Apartment
I love Jeff Walls work. I love how his images just seem to be snapshots of daily mundane life and yet if you pay a little attention you start to notice how off this image really is. How outside the window is perfectly exposed, how the girl who is reading is lit up yet the lamp is not on, etc. His mashing of lord knows how many images to create this one, simple, image creates a kind of irony almost and a definite commentary on the technological abilities of this day and age.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
William Eggleston
Artist: William Eggleston
Date: 1980
Title: Troubled Waters series
I really appreciate Eggleston's ability to find extraordinary color schemes and composition from the mundane. For instance in the top picture the colors are somehow very close schematically and seem better than your average frozen goods. Then in the bottom picture there is this odd pink glow on a seemingly everyday gas station. I love the candid, yet mastered aspect to his photos. I could scroll through them for hours... haha
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Patrick Craig Manning
Artist: Patrick Craig Manning
Date:
Title: Delta series
I really like these images. The washed out qualities that many people criticize, I appreciate. Washing out the details of these pictures causese you to look for more in them. What does this blank white sky mirroring the white water represent? Possibly something different to everyone. That's where I find the glory in these photos. Although, I will say his land in water series looses it a bit for me. Shading of colors that you wouldn't even know were underwater unless told is a little too ambiguous for me and therefore looses some of the charm. I think the blown out landscapes in the delta represent just enough ambiguity.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Nan Goldin
Date: 1999
Title: Joanna Lauging, Hotel Paris
I really find Goldin's raw quality to her photographs appealing. She doesn't shy away from anything. She doesn't glamorize anything. Her photographs are all raw representations of her experiences and the people she's met along the way. At least, that's how I look at them. I tend to like artists like this who try and eliminate society's filter. Showing these individuals with what has potentially isolated them from society almost elevates them as stronger beings, portraying them as the "elite."
Friday, February 1, 2013
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