How not to take photos

Woman falls off cliff while taking photos.

and one more...

Photography's Longest Exposure

http://householdname.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/01/photographys-longest-exposure.html

KEH at Woodward Camera

KEH will be at Woodward Camera this weekend, 4/23 a& 4/24.

The Class of 2010!

Look at Bridget's facial expression... brilliant. 

Jazz Hands

Andrew Moore

Photographer Andrew Moore at OCC

Oakland Community College (theater), Royal Oak

Friday, April 30th, 7:00pm

Detroit Ruins by Andrew Moore

facebook event page

"Andrew Moore is a fine arts photographer and educator. His latest book "Detroit Disassembled" takes a close look at the massive ruins of Detroit and raises important questions concerning all of us who live in the area."

I like his images, but is he just another person that photographs the "ruins" of Detroit? I am interested in what he has to say...

video

My final project:

yet another way to experiment....

I found this a while back. For those of you who like to experiment, you probably haven't tried this yet.

http://www.cheapshooter.com/2008/08/20/geranium-leaves-as-film-bending-nature-to-your-will/

Marydorsey Wanless

http://www.marydorseywanless.com/

Tara Truax

Saw her work recently at the Riverside Gallery

Is Photography Over?

http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/research_projects_photography_over

Self-portrait contest for students

http://www.larkbooks.com/digital/spcontest

Richard Misrach

I just got introduced to his work today and I thought it was pretty great. This website has some of his work.

http://www.edelmangallery.com/misrach.htm

Studio Lighting

I found this few days before our studio lighting demo, and figured some people could use it.

http://www.diyphotography.net/the-diy-strip-light

NPPA: Best of Photojournalism

Heather Rousseau is a great great GREAT friend of mine. I have known her for many moons and I am so proud of her accomplishment!!! She is from Livonia, MI. This should be inspiration to all of us! Keep working hard - this could be you in a couple of years!


photo by Heather Rousseau
(it gets cut off - please click on the link to see the entire image)

still photo winners:
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism

Photoshop - Content Aware Fill

A new PS feature is under development! This is going to be awesome!

Here's a sneak peak!

Content Aware Fill

Not Photography

This guy paints a lot of post-apocalyptic stuff. I thought maybe some people would get a kick out of it.

Jean-Pierre Roy

Kurowsawa + Polaroid = Awesome

I wanted to post these photos in honour of Akira Kurosawa's birthday. He is arguably the greatest film maker of all time. A personal favourite of mine, indeed. His direction of photography is well thought out and just plain perfect.

Francis Ford Coppola is showing him his new Polaroid Camera! Makes me happy.






Don't just take my word for it, check out what Martin Scorsese has to say!

TCM Spotlight: Akira Kurosawa's 100th Birthday!

Light art

This looks awesome.

http://beautyineverything.com/people/l5WgqJmRo5q4uKWf

Murat Sayginer

This guy does some pretty wicked surreal stuff.



Murat Sayginer

100 Words: Colin Blakely On Photographing The Familiar

100 Words: Colin Blakely On Photographing The Familiar

from NPR

やなぎみわ, Yanagi Miwa

from the series FAIRYTALE


from the series ELEVATOR GIRLS
やなぎみわ

Not photography exactly, but still cool

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2100445%3ABlogPost%3A24675

Rare Penguin Photo

This is an apparently "rare" photo of a penguin that forgot to pick up his dry-cleaning.

Penguin

inspiration

Just got introduced to this new photography website. It has some amazing artists. Here are some names I came across and enjoyed.
- Charlie White
- Zhang Peng
- Annie Leibovitz


http://www.sweet-station.com/blog/?cat=9&paged=6

Simultaneous Colour Contrast

Effective Ratios





Move the knob in the diagram below to see how Chevreul illustrated the effect of a surround on the vividness of colored circles here:

Goethe and Chevreul: Simultaneous Contrast

Troy Paiva

I don't know why I like night photography so much. But here is Troy Paiva and his photography of the west.

Lost America

Gunilla Treen

A different look at narrative photography http://www.gunillatreen.co.uk/

Amazing B&W landscapes!

www.mitchdobrowner.com

Jennifer Zwick

One of my favorites... go to http://jenniferzwick.com/index.php?p=explorers&w=explorers to find out more.

Whitney Chadwick

Marcel Duchamp and Transgender Coupling

I found these images in a book edited by Whitney Chadwick: MIRROR women, surrealism and self-representation IMAGES. I thought they were a perfect example of narrative photography.

Lauren Greenfield

Since I won't be in class on Thursday, I wanted to post about the artist I chose. Greenfield does a lot of commercial/editorial work and many of these images she captures are from shoots for major magazines. Some of you might have seen a documentary she made about eating disorders, "Thin." She also recently made a short video called, "Foreclosure: Death of the American Dream.":

"Foreclosure: Death of the American Dream" by Lauren Greenfield from Lauren Greenfield on Vimeo.

I enjoy her photographs and videos because they feel very contemporary and relatable to me. I appreciate the focus on issues facing young girls/teenagers and I think that she captures it from a point of understanding. The stories accompanying the photographs are written by the subjects themselves and are often heartbreaking. These photographs are from her book "Girl Culture":

Joel Peter Witkin

They call him Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs Bosch. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. Witkin's complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or famous classical paintings.
If you can get over the fact that some of the images are a bit haunting and to some disturbing to look at, his technical skills can teach a lot to a learning photographer. Many of his images are careful staged during the shooting process. ....His work has been a major influence on my own. ENJOY







More works:

Joel Peter Witkin

Witkin claims that his vision and sensibility were initiated by an episode he witnessed when he was just a small child, a car accident that occurred in front of his house in which a little girl was decapitated.
“It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mother's hand. At the place where I stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it -- but before I could touch it someone carried me away".

artist

I love this photographer. RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD. Intense, creepy, mysterious images.

Lawrence Ripsher

here's a narrative photographer I came across today. go take a look.......
http://narrativephotography.com/

Dave Hickey on Beauty

A short and interesting interview with Dave Hickey was on Here and Now today.
Hickey speaks about Museums as being in the business of fashion, showing what's hot. He insists that to find what's radical in art you must understand and consume the culture.
If you've read, The Invisible Dragon, this interview will sound familiar in it's tone. If you have not, get your hands on a copy and start reading.

The interesting and short interview can be found here:

http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/02/rundown-217-2/

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman is my favorite photographer of all time so I wanted to use her for my next blog post. Herre are some of her photos:

Photographer at work

John asleep on the light table 2/11/10

The Chung

This is the website of reasonably successful art major that my friend graduated with.

His art is pretty bizarre, and he sold a painting to Edgar Wright (the guy that directed Shaun of the Dead).

It can be done!

The CHUNG!

Alberto Seveso

I was looking up works to inspire me for the next assignment and came across an Illustrator/graphic designer, it not exactly relevent to our assignment but it just shows the different uses of photoshop

Take a look
http://www.burdu976.com/

Joshua Hoffine

I really like the idea of staged photography. He treats his frames like a movie set; combining things like elaborate set designs, costumes, make-up, lighting, etc. The use of Photoshop is supposedly very limited in all of these pictures. He's a personal favourite of mine and a total inspiration to myself and my work. Please have a looksy!!!



Joshua Hoffine: Horror Photography

Andrew Moore

After Kristin posted about Wendy Burton's photos and Erichka mentioned Detroit in the comments, I remembered this photog from the last issue of Aperture:

Andrew Moore- Detroit 2008-2009

More than Aesthetic

Stumbled upon this interesting Photographer Ellen Auerbach
.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/arts/ellen-auerbach-dies-at-98-avant-garde-photographer.html?pagewanted=1

Wendy Buton

I found Wendy Burton's photos after looking at Jen Davis' page and looking at her links she had on her website. I wish I could find places like this to take pictures!

http://www.leemarksfineart.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=108

David Lynch and Danger Mouse

David Lynch and Danger Mouse collaborated on a pretty boss photo/musical project back in 2009 called Dark Night of the Soul.

Check it before you wreck it.

Oh Wow!

Impressive, most impressive....

For pure visual awesomeness, click the link below:



Chris McVeigh

I HEART HOLGAS!!!

I really enjoy taking surreal photos and really enjoy the pictures I get using my holga, even though they're so cheaply made. I recommend that everyone try using one at least once. Here are some examples of pictures taken with holgas

Ah, those crazy photographers...

Some amusing pictures of photographers photographing.

http://eyebg.com/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8-4921.html

Jen Davis

Please do yourself a favor and spend some time viewing the amazing work of artist, Jen Davis.

http://jendavisphoto.com/

The Vagina Show

I just submitted a photograph into this show. If it gets accepted, I will further my thoughts with a thesis statement.

Here are a few details about the theme and how to submit:

The Vagina Show

Breaking Stereotypes
THE VAGINA SHOW
Sun Feburary 14th @ The Trumbullplex in Detroit

Art Show about women, their bodies and the world we live in.

For those of you that don't already know, Valentine's Day (Feb 14th) is not only a day when we remind others that we love them and give Hallmark and various chocolate companies our money, but also a global movement to stop violence against women.

On V-day millions of people world wide will be participating in various types of events that deal with various women's issues ranging from negative body image and gender sterotypes to rape and battery. The Vigina Show will showcase any art including such themes.

There is an OPEN CALL FOR ARTWORK for the show now until Feb 10th. If you, or someone you know is interested in intering any form of art work just e-mail a discription or jpeg at sis_artistry@ yahoo.com or call me at 313-544-8317.

Sicily McRaven
(Wayne State University)

The clone stamp might be useful for....

Nick Cage as Everyone

Shameless Self Promotion

I find nothing wrong with self promotion...and poetry is like a photograph with words.

Poem-A-Day Project

Sometimes the enemy is human

Some not-so-typical pictures of Nazi soldiers.

http://fort-fox.info/2009/12/nazi-soldiers-having-fun/

Roger Ballen Interview

Joerg Colberg posted this video on Conscientious today about Roger Ballen. I like how Ballen speaks about his work.

Roger Ballen: Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers from Jim Casper on Vimeo.

Original link is from lens culture

A website I stumbled upon

I had just received the new issue of photographer's Forum the other day and while reading it there was an add for a new website that has a bunch of tips on careers, techniques and also sells photography materials. I'm still checking this website out but it seems to be a nice interesting site.

http://mac-on-campus.com/

INSPIRATION

If anyone is ever looking for a little inspiration, here is a site I love to visit....

http://myloveforyou.typepad.com

Enjoy,
Bethany

Photographer Chic

I found this in a magazine last week. Who knew that looking like a photographer was so fashionable. They can have the bag; I rather have the Leica :)

Michael Kenna

I stumbled across Michael Kenna while doing the emulation assignment from intro. He's done some interesting night photography, and does a lot of work with long exposures.

Michael Kenna

MyShot

Hello everyone! This is a website from National Geograpic that I stumble upon a little while a go. It's called myshot and it gives you the opportunity to have your own webpage with your photos that everyone across the world can see. There is also an opportunity to enter a photograph once amonth into a contest (called yourshot)that gives you an opportunity to get your picture published. Go look!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/

Photography websites

These 2 sites are just a couple of examples of some of my favorites.

This one is a good tutorial on photographing at night and star trails.
http://www.availablelightimages.com/articles/night-light

This a gallery of fine examples of black and white photography.
http://www.degphotography.com/

Art Clokey Died (sad face)

You might be saying to yourself, "Hey! What does Gumby have to do with Art 326?"
Film production has strong relations to our medium and stop motion has a direct connection to still photography....

Besides, who can honestly say they don't like Gumby?

RIP Art Clokey

The "King"

Someone reminded me that it was Elvis' birthday today and I thought of this.

Ypsilanti Elvis Fest '09

Have a good weekend everyone.