Jim Goldberg

Artist: 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

Artist: 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.

PP2 - Isolation

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

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. 

Tech 3 - studio lighting

                                           

Tech 2 - warped perception

warped beauty

progression