WEEK TWO

For this week's blog I chose Gordon Parks photos series 'Segregation Story' that took place in the 1950s segregated Alabama. His photos provide an insight into the daily lives and struggles of African Americans living in a Jim Crow south. This photo series inspired with what I'm trying to capture with the project I'm trying to do. The raw gritty nature of the photos provides an experience exposing the realities of segregation. The way the colors are so vibrant helps further that separation of each individual color. overall each individual photo provides a different glimpse of the lives of each individual subjects. I think this may be one of my favorites photo projects I've seen and I hope to look over more of his other works.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2015/04/gordon-parks-segregation-story.html

Shin Noguchi's Something Here showcases a set of bizarre everyday events. Each photo is unique and older than the next one, with this series specifically focusing on the everyday tasks people participate in every day, that somehow gone unnoticed. It's what we don't pay attention to and miss goes unnoticed. However, this photo series focuses on that theme of uniqueness into the day to day tasks, and the lives of blue collar workers. It gives us a glimpse into the everyday working class because each shot displays a different type of job a person can work in Japan. I Feel the use of color and framing in different shots, and composition it further strengthens those themes.

http://lenscratch.com/2018/04/shin-noguchi-something-here/

Nigel Thornberry Post Week 2

Shot by Rose Marie Cromwell
Written by Lauren Du Graf
        These photos were interested to me because I'm currently looking for inspiration for photos involving portraiture and music. These are women of Jazz. Looking at the first you may not get that they're women of jazz, but with the writing by Lauren Du Graf helps paint a better picture. I begin to see and feel the vibe of jazz when I notice the colors and the smoothness in the culture of cuban Jazz. The photos are showing these Cuban women with vibrant colors in very smooth appealing settings. The first photo makes me think that Cuban Jazz is smooth like water and popping like the color of her lips along with her blouse. The second photo is showing a beautiful Cuban woman paired with a bright, Smooth, vibrant background item. Cromwell pairs some of the women with other photos involving nature.

Photos by Lyle Ashton Harris

Written Andrea K. Scott

           Lyle Harris has an interested way of shooting portraits. For these shots he uses African masks with a red glass or mirror. Some of his photography are portraying models in the nude while wearing the mask, which is kind of the opposite of what society in the U.S. thinks the order should be with the body covered and face uncovered. The red glass is interesting for me because the red catches my eye then my brain starts to wonder why. The portraits are definitely interesting with the mask and nudity but the red glass just add a different level and brief change and splash of color. The light that the glass gives off really works for him in this shoot. I get a feeling that there is a danger in the wilderness looking at these shots.

Nigel Thornberry Blog Post #1

Chloe Jafe
       Emma Lewis writes about Chloe Jafe's I Give You my Life. She begins by discussing how Jafe captures women of the Yakuza and other powerful images of the subculture. The tattoos made the women feel powerful and independent. Their husbands had them and some wives didn't have any. The women wanted to feel something, and the ink supplied that feeling for them. Jafe had to gain trust and earn her way to the wife of the family boss. Jafe's photos that I have chosen are really powerful in the sense of the women getting the tattoos and where the influence they get it from. I like the photos because they do show emotion with unity, and at the same time shows the woman as an independant looking fierce wearing just tattoos of the culture.

Meera Sulaiman,

        Her interaction with animals are amazing. A brave human being she is for going up to what some would consider dangerous beings, even though some are behind cages or glass. The underwater picture of the bear is just astonishing capture of the moment. The editing and composition of the person in the dark separates this picture from being an ordinary picture taken at the zoo. This picture make you feel like you're there and start to question could I be in danger, but notice that its a beautiful moment in all. The picture with the smaller creatures is an adorable shot and thought using a smaller human, with a smaller animal. Sulaiman shows the viewer the attention that all beings featured are giving. The kid shows the animal a toy and the photo portrays that the animals are intrigued and allows the viewer to place dialogue if we wanted. Sulaiman uses the animals and human interaction to point us somewhere in these two photos using eyes or fingers or even paws.

Mia-Myline Medina_Ole Marius Joergensen/Nadia Lee Cohen_Week #2

Ole Marius Joergensen, a Norwegian photographer, in his photo-series "Vignettes of a Salseman," follows the journey of a fictional salesman through staged somewhat photographs. Joergensen, with the help of his uncle who is depicted as the salesman, traveled for hours with his uncle to find the perfect locations at the perfect times in order to create these scenes. Much of Joergensen's work utilizes vintage style which I find perfectly compliment the Norwegian landscapes. What drew me to this series and photographer in particular is the simplicity of the imagery and the clear story telling of the series. Though story telling is not something I'm particularly interested in, it is done well and the tone of loneliness coupled with the mystery of the man- not to mention the vintage style- is alluring to me.

https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/01/photos-of-a-lonesome-and-imaginary-salesman/

Nadia Lee Cohen, graduate of the London College of Fashion, combines heavily saturated colors with over-the-top hair, makeup, and clothing to produce eye catching images. Many of the photos utilize an array of different prints and patterns to create which may almost come off as tacky and off putting to some, but are pleasantly interesting to me. I'm inspired by the scene set-ups, but most importantly, I am inspired by the different perspectives used in each photo.
Warning: (link) NSFW

https://www.featureshoot.com/2012/12/outlandish-fashion-shoots-perfectly-combine-modern-and-vintage-style/

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #2

This week I chose to write about John Szarkowski’s thoughts on Robert Frank’s Book ‘The Americans.’ This photographic book was influential in postwar American photography. Frank was known to use unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from the ideal photographic techniques. The reason I chose this because in the article it talks about how many of the viewers hated this series because it wasn’t your traditional idea of what good photography was. I think this was an excellent read, though short, because it shows that it is okay to step out of that box. I think that with the project I am working on this semester, this was an article that I needed to read seeing as though my project will probably not fall into the category of everyones ideal photography styles. 

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/05/john-szarkowski-on-robert-franks-book-the-americans-1986.html

Mia-Myline Medina_Jen Davis' Self-Portraits_Week #1: Part 2

New York based photographer, Jen Davis, has been working on self-portraiture for over a decade as she highlights the topic of body image and beauty. Her portraits in the series Eleven Years, follow her perception of her body as it changes over time. The images are not documentary style, but staged in a way that reflects reality. Throughout the years, men have been added to the series- adding a sensual aspect to the project- though the topic and style have remained consistent. I hope to reflect some aspect of reality in my journey through self-portraiture as well. Looking at the these photos has reminded me that it is important to reveal emotion and welcome intimacy as an inevitable aspect of self-photography.

 Untitled No. 39

 Untitled No. 66

http://flakphoto.com/content/self-portraits-jen-davis-hannah-frieser#photo-1

Elena Simon Post #2

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rafael-soldi-reflecting-on-childhood-aggression-and-intimacy-at-the-playground

For this entry, I was attracted to the work of Rafael Soldi. His photography shows many levels of intimacy as he looks back on his roots and identity. This collection is so personal to him and the interview he gave was very insightful into his past and the way he processes his vision. This series looks at intimacy through the lens of being both queer and latinx. I thought it was interesting the way he brought it together because the trope of hyper masculinity in Latin cultures is extremely prevalent. All his pieces in this series have an absence of color and come in various sizes and print qualities. The grittiness of his pieces is what attracted me to this because you can feel the emotion he is trying to evoke.














https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/09/the-realities-of-the-black-diamond-mining-communities-in-eastern-india/

This is a series of documentary photography done by Swedish photographer Sebatian Sardi. He was looking for more information regarding coal mining injuries in China, and that eventually lead him to cover India. He realized that the impact of this industry went far deeper and had affected generations of families who worked in these mines and around fires that have been burning for over 100 years. Sardi trains his eye on to the people of these hills and their living conditions. These photos are devoid of color, creating a depressed and lonely scene. The usage of such neutral colors makes the viewer  pay closer attention to the content being demonstrated along with their stories.

WEEK ONE

http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/rory-doyle-delta-hill-riders/

For the first blog, I decided on Rory Doyle His photo series Delta Hill Riders focuses on African-American cowboy culture on the Mississippi Delta. His series serves as not only a glimpse in the lives of these modern-day cowboys, but it serves as an obstructor to negative stereotypes that are often associated with young Black men. Not only does his photo series challenges prejudice and stereotypes it aims to educate its viewers on a forgotten and hidden part of American History. When we typically think of what a cowboy is "traditionally" supposed to look like we immediately think a white guy on the back of a white horse, saving some white woman. When in fact majority of cowboys where in fact black, yet for some reason America never really gave us our credit ( Gee, I wonder why?) , What I personally interpret this series as a fuck you to anyone decided to box us into certain categories, and choose to overlook and dismiss Black people when we decide to things outside of the box and discourage us from pushing boundaries. The Delta Hill Riders series shouts that not only where we the main ones living this cowboy lifestyle, but we still keep it alive and refuse to let it die.

KelseyCrawford_WEEK1

Ambient Pressure

Rebecca Najdowski

Ambient Pressure 4.

Ambient Pressure 3.

                 For this week's blog I am featuring an ongoing series created by Rebecca Nadjowski called, Ambient Pressure. She claims that this series is focused on both the relationship of photography to nature and also the nature of photography. These images originally started as negatives in the darkroom, but when she realized her dense amount of landscape and nature photos she thought what makes a landscape picture and why do we want to look at them? From there she went to manipulating the negatives; burning, scratching, tearing, stapling, folding, etc. Transforming these images gives them a textural look and also reflects the desire of commanding in human nature. I found this series to stand out to me because of their manipulation. If the artist had not added the effects that she had I do not feel they would have been as successful. This series is really interesting to think about in concept. My favorite part about the images is that they were manipulated by hand and that the artist is taking a risk to destroy what could be a perfectly good negative. 

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rebecca-najdowski-ambient-pressure 

Xavier's Week 1 Post

McNair Evans, Confessions of a Son

   McNair Evans, Confessions of a Son

North Carolina photographer McNair Evans uses nostalgia to tie his series together. Each picture seems to drive a sense of remembrance to them. The photographs range from intimate family gatherings to haunting shattered doors and windows.  McNair describes the photo series as deconstructing what he knew of fatherhood, general expectations, and an idealized way of living. The series shine light on his experiences growing up with his father. I chose these photographs because they juxtapose each other. one photograph shows a family praying together, while the other photo shows an empty room. These photos play on ephemeral moments that connect to a bigger story.


http://lenscratch.com/2014/10/mcnair-evans/

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #1

The first artist I chose to post about is Janet Delaney and her photo series “Public Life Matters.” This series is appealing to many people because of the film aesthetic, color and detail. The fashion and hair take us back to the 1980’s. These images have resurfaced after about three decades when Janet was archiving slides and negatives from her 1980s South of the Market project. Many images in this book reflect a sense of great pride and solidarity. For this project she worked with a 4x5 view camera. She never worked or thought of herself as a documentarian photographer she always made photographs for the pleasure of photographing. “Not only did I care about the causes, I also loved swimming with the crowd, camera in hand, being swept up in the sound of heat of the moment.”I chose to write about Janet Delaney because I think the style of photography will be similar to the way that I am looking to make photographs for my project. It is helpful to read about different photographers and their ways of working with photographing the public.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2018/12/janet-delaney-public-life-matters.html

Mia-Myline Medina_Susan Bein's Night Park_Week #1

Night Park 10

Night Park 3

Freelance graphic designer and photographer, Susan Bein, in her photo-series "Night Park," describes her work as photographed in the "verb" rather than in the "noun". That is to say that Bein captures action in its most raw form- allowing the long exposure shots to reveal every movement the scene has to offer. When faced with the question of concepts behind her work, Bein's response is as follows: "I'm not in style. I'm not working off an intellectual construct or a big concept." Something Bein stated that stood out to me was her intentions of photographing overlooked subject matter. She reveals that she "photographs things others hurry by....things they step over or drive by." One may find this choice of subject matter to be a perfectly justified concept, regardless of intent. Appreciating the overlooked or the mundane, taking a second look and revealing other aspects or perspectives of it is something I am also interested in pursuing. What I find most interesting about her work in this series is the mysterious and somewhat unsettling ambiance of the setting. Muddy colors coupled with the grainy and blurred effects of low light/ long exposure shots provide the photographs with a painterly appearance that make one question if the image is in fact a photograph. 

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/susan-bein-night-park#slideshow

Elena Simon Post #1

http://lenscratch.com/2018/11/ann-johansson-privileged/

I chose to do my first blog post on Ann Inger Johansson. Born in Sweden, she is a documentary photographer who has worked many different postings in social, political, and environmental issues. This series of hers, titled "Privileged II" speaks to the hypocrisy and privilege she has been afforded as a white woman in documenting the lives of others. I think that this speaks heavily to the ethicality and morality that plays a part in documentary photographer. It's difficult to know what narratives you can cover without controlling the narrative yourself. This same lesson can be extended to other photographers, making them rethink their intent and messaging on the subject matter they are covering. She juxtaposes her own "frail" skin to the harsher experiences she has captured. 

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