In progress

roughsies

Time Revised

Great great grandfather's violin

Self Design

My favorite art movement is Precisionism and I am really drawn to artists like Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Ralston Crawford, and Paul Strand.  I would really love to do a project that was focussed around this theme of crisp geometrical forms.  I would use the 4x5 for the details.

Niles Spencer Riverhead



Paul Strand Wall Street



Charles Demuth The Number 5 in Gold



Georgia O'Keeffe Radiator Building - Night, New York



Charles Sheeler Church Street El



Paul Srand

Paul Strand

Time rough draft

 I am going to keep working on this face series, taking pictures of my cut until it is gone.  I took some of these down...

I am going to do a series of athletes in the dark.  I will have them carry a really long black sheet and catch them with the wave pattern that their sheet makes.

I am also going to do a car series.

Time Examples

Time

So I think that the most interesting part of the radio show was the stuff about the relativity of time, mostly the physics stuff.  The idea that time is relative was an idea that preceded Einsteinian physics: time goes by fast during a test, slow during a lecture, fast when you're having fun, or fast when you think back over a whole year.  But when Einstein proposed that time is not linear for everybody and everything, that kind of blew everybody's minds.  I'll use one example of a real thing that is studied.  Neutrinos (from the sun) have a very short half life, so short that at the speed which they travel, they would devolve into some other piece of matter by the time they got to Earth.  However, Neutrinos hit the earth every day.  As it turns out, time goes slower for the neutrino because it is moving so fast, so it is able to make it all the way to Earth.  This makes for some pretty weird paradoxes and whatnot.  In any case this is absolutely impossible to photograph, but I think it's cool.  I really liked all the sports stuff in the show.  How the runners said that they were the bullet and that they didn't process anything when the gun was shot.


I think it might be cool to do a project on sports, but in a very contained area, and not during a race or something like that.  Something where I would get to control the background, the foreground and all the lighting.

I was going to do a picture of me sleeping through the night but we went over an image of that in class.

I like the idea of the picture every 5 minutes from photo 1.  However, instead of looking around and finding something aesthetically pleasing, I would only be able to shoot right in front of me, maybe once a minute or something.  Then I could make a giant grid out of the photos and you could go through an entire day.

I'll keep thinking.

Pinholes

Cyanotypes/Pinholes/Hand-Colored/Daguerreotype

Cyanotypes

Pinhole

Hand-Colored

Daguerreotype

True Fiction

Alan Aubry

I guess I chose Alan Aubry not so much because his pictures are so real that they start to become unreal.  The above pictures are so deadpan and so ridiculous that the pictures are fictionalized, but they are real.  And the narrative stems from this idea.



Nan Goldin

A lot of Nan Goldin's make me really uncomfortable and I really dislike the snapshot aesthetic (which is so awesomely popular these days).  The big question with Nan Goldin tends to be about the moment at which the picture was taken and if it was a spur of the moment thing or somewhat posed.  I think Goldin would argue that none of her pictures are posed and that the reason why they're successful is that they capture real-time emotions.  That might be why some of her AIDS work is so chilling.  How could she allow herself to let her shutter release snap at such a time?  At that point, she's as much in the story as her subjects.



Andre Kertesz

The first and third of Kertesz's photos are more "true fiction" than the second, but I like the second so I added it anyway.  These pictures must be set up but Kertesz did prefer 35mm to larger formats, so it could be real as well.  Also many of his pictures have a slight air of immediacy (crooked lines and strange croppings). 



Chris Rainier

 

So I know these are set up, he uses a large format camera, but I really love these.  There is an element of fiction in his shots because he does live with these people and then has them model for his pictures.  However, their dress and their tattoos and marks are real.  There are definitely stories behind these photos.  I actually heard him talk and he was really cool.



Sebastiao Salgado

Salgado is one of my favorite photographers because understanding the content or context of his images is not a prerequisite to know that these are amazing photographs.  In purely formalist terms, they are beautiful prints and you don't really need anything more than that.  But if you do choose to look at the content, he transports you to other worlds that you think cannot be real, but are very real.  Maybe it is his printing technique or the black and white, but I think these pictures would have very different stories depending on who was taking the picture.