Photo Collages

For this project, i tried to create interesting multi-frame photo collages, both diptych and triptych. I tried to create one photo, but comprised of multiple photos. As for subjects i tried to imitate real world realities as well as abstract, and of both inanimate objects and living ones. I used picnik to structure the my multi-frame photos and in some cases (like in the first photo) slightly alter the structure of the collage and its proportions to make them flow better visually. I attempted to create imitations of reality and use images of regular things in ways that changed how they were perceived.

NAME POEM

For this project I made pictures that represented adjectives from a name poem i created. I tried to express each word in photographic form. I made use of editing to slightly alter each photo to best suite what i wanted to convey. I used objects and other people to add more depth of character to my pictures, some of which were completely random, like the bottle of hand sanitizer. This element of randomness is a part of the feeling i wanted to convey with my name poem.




Red
Eccentric
Independent
Dastardly

RED:

ECCENTRIC:

INDEPENDENT:

DASTARDLY:

SF MOMA Review

Cartier-Bresson

The Cartier-Bresson show was interesting to me because of the way that there were topics for groups of photos, for example there is the section of Soviet Moscow. 

The way that there were compartmentalized topics for his work helped you better see the essence of that place and time and step back and see the pictures as a whole. 

The photos for each photo essay of his had similar characteristics and themes, an example of this is, again, the shots of Soviet Russia, which had a dark, sad quality.

Exposed

The exposed photos were interesting in a different sort of way. These photos seemed very spy like and somewhat intrusive towards the people being photographed. 

Many of the photos in this show had a quality of espionage and stark un-posed reality to them. If i were to sum up the theme for this show it would be "abuse of privacy for the sake of art".

I did, however, like this show in that it was kind of quirky and there were shots from unusual angles. I liked how there were a lot of different photographers and in many different time periods.

W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith in 1977, in New York, a year before his death.

W. Eugene Smith was a well known photojournalist who lived from 1918 to 1978 and worked as a photographer for such well know magazines as Life and Newsweek.


Eugene Smith was taking pictures from a very young age and had been published in dozens of magazines by the age of 21.


Eugene Smith was known for his ability to capture the essence and emotion behind a scene in photography. Like this picture from life magazine of the aftermath of a battle in WW2 in the pacific.

The apparent destruction and the use of foreground objects and depth in the photo add to its supreme feeling of reality and the essence of war. This is a prime example of his style and the feeling of a lot of war photographs.


Eugene Smith was assigned to cover the war in the pacific skillfully captured the horror of war in the Pacific, and some of his most famous pictures were taken there. 

In this picture, Eugene Smith used a wide view and the size of the soldiers to emphasize the enormity of the explosion. 


Also, his timing in taking the picture was perfect to capture such a spectacular image.


After the war, Eugene Smith focused on the plight of factory workers.

These pictures cast a somewhat sinister light on industry and the treatment of workers, while at the same time pointing out workers determination and good spirit. Eugene again uses depth to make his photography more effective, although to a lesser extent in the first picture.


W. Eugene Smith contributed greatly to the world of photography, especially photojournalism. He took some of the most moving pictures of war and the most revealing pictures of industry ever taken.


http://www.life.com/image/50624363
http://www.pbase.com/omoses/image/61501608
http://www.nysun.com/arts/w-eugene-smiths-risky-business/81188/
http://www.ralphmag.org/DY/smith-photographer.html
http://masters-of-photography.com/S/smith/smith_miners_full.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/w-eugene-smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith