Robert Adams

I know that Robert Adams was featured in the video we watched last week, but he has been so inspirational to me that I had to post a little about him. Robert Adams is a nature photographer who is most known for his documentation of the urbanization of the west. His photographs are all black and white, and are typically square. His work was a part of the New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape exhibition.

What I really love about his work is how minimalist it is. Many of the photos are simply of rows of houses against cliffs or quaint streets. They're mostly landscapes of homes and streets against natural wonders. He also has beautiful nightscapes, which I love.  

I highly suggest looking at his book The New West.

 

-Abby

Lisa Kristine

Lisa Kristine is a photographer known for photographing indigenous people worldwide. However, I know her for her most recent work document modern day slavery. She teamed up with an organization called Free the Slaves to document the faces of modern day slavery. She photographed slaves in India, Nepal and Ghana working in mines, on fishing boats, in brick kilns, or as stone carriers and fabric makers. Those with hands in red and blue and purple have had their hands dyed from dying silk. She also did some individual portraits of either slaves or recently freed slaves holding candles to “shine a light on slavery”. I really like her work, the images are beautiful and I think that her subject matter is really important and something that needs to be photographed.

-Julia Boneberg

 

Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison is a sculptor who appeals to me through her use of color and space. Her three-dimensional works use different layers of reference to make them purposely difficult to read, causing the viewer to spend more time with them. By overstimulating the viewer with so many ideas and images, her sculptures also question our ability to digest all the images with are bombarded with in our daily life. Her works are often humorous and bizarre, utilizing color to create feelings of peculiarity.

-Katie Rossiter

Laurel Nakadate

Laurel Nakadate                                                   (Christine Barron)
-Over the weeked for my Histories of Photography class we visited the MoMA PS1 gallery in NY. Laurel Nakadate was one of the photographers there showing her exhibit titled "Only the Lonely." According to the website, the "exhibition brings together bodies of work that touch on voyeurism, loneliness, the manipulative power of the camera, and the urge to connect with others, through, within, and apart from technology and the media."
-For her series titled "Lucky Tiger" she took photos of herself in provacative sexual positions, often in panties and bikinis. She then printed them as 4x5 images. She then went on Craigslist and posted an ad needing men for a project. The men, she gathers in a group and then passes around the images of her. The men have fingerprinting ink on their fingers and she asks the men to pass the photos around and describe them out loud as she records them.
-The images are somewhat appealing but I did not like the series or any of her work at first because she exploits these men, often meeting them at truck stops. The men are "balding, overweight, badly dressed, and pathetic" (NyTimes) They often have missing teeth and look like perverts or drug addicts. After reading the ideas behind her work, that is when she grew on me. 
-She defends her work by saying that "I am drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I’m interested in discomfort. For me, it was about these strange and awkward moments human beings have. It was about men wanting to give me something they emotionally don’t have to give.” (TheRumpus) 

NYTimes- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/design/25nakadate.html

TheRumpus- http://therumpus.net/2009/04/bravery-panties-and-devils-tower-the-rumpus-interview-with-laurel-nakadate/

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was an up and coming photographer in the late 1970s. She was best known for her black and white self-portraits. At the age of 22 she committed suicide but jumping out of a window. Much of her work can be looked at as a foreshadowing of her tragic death. many of her pictures depict a fleeting woman in and out of the composition. However grim her work may appear, there is an elegance to her work that I love. The simplicity of her subjects really make the viewer focus on what is going on. While Woodman's work can be quite ascetically beautiful, the message behind her work is still mystery. I admire her self-determination at the craft she had chosen and it is sad that she decided to leave the world so soon. I definitely would have been interested in seeing what her later work would have looked like. Only 120 of her images have ever been published or exhibited.

-Courtney Parkin

Welcome

Every week you will need to contribute to the blog. 

Please post at least 5 images from one photographer or artist that your are either influenced by or interested in. 

Write a paragraph about the artist's project to give context about the work you are presenting. 

Sign your name to the blog post.

We will be doing this until the final week of class.  Do not post an artist that has been previously written about on this blog.

Resources;

Artnet.com
http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/
http://www.aphotostudent.com/
http://amysteinphoto.blogspot.com/
yossimilo.com
clampart.com
yanceyrichardson.com
amadorgallery.com
http://www.americansuburbx.com/
http://exposurecompensation.com/
http://horsesthink.com/
http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/
http://ilikethisart.net/
http://nymphoto.blogspot.com/

also, check the blog rolls of these listed blogs to find other sites as well.

good luck.