Antique Photos - Jon Bolli

This link shows a simple way to make your images look as though they have been in Grandpas trunk for years! Click HERE

MSU Student Photographic Society Annual Juried Show by Jimmie

Each year the MSU Photo Society organizes a juried show at the Meyer Library.  The deadline for submitting photos is April 21st.  Cost for entry is $3 per image and you can submit up to five images.  The juror will be Larry Gawel and Dana Fritz.

Send digital copies of your work to the president of the organization, Olivia Cassidy, before the end of the day on April 21st:
olivia652@live.missouristate.edu

Dana Fritz is a Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Larry Gawel heads the photography area at the Elkhorn campus of Metropolitan Community College.  

Examples of their work can be found at these sites:

http://danafritz.unl.edu/index.html

http://www.tugboatgallery.com/artists/lgawel/lgawel.html

Anne W. Brigman - Jon Bolli

Born in Hawaii, Anne Brigman moved to California when she was sixteen years old. Trained as a painter, she turned to photography in 1902. "[S]lim, hearty, unaffected women of early maturity living a hardy out-of-door life in high boots and jeans, toughened to wind and sun" were Brigman's favored subjects, and she photographed them nude in the landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California.

Brigman was one of two original California members of the art photography group the Photo-Secession, founded by Alfred Stieglitz, and she was the only Western photographer to be made a Fellow of the group. Three issues of Camera Work featured her photographs, and the British Linked Ring society of photographers elected her a member. Around 1929 she moved to Long Beach in Southern California, where she continued to photograph, focusing on a series of sand erosions. A year before her death in Eagle Rock, near Los Angeles, in 1950, she published a book of her poems and photographs titled Songs of a Pagan. 

 

 

 

 
 

Call for entry: Cell Phone Photography - Dylan

Here is an exhibition at the Stonecrop Gallery in Cape Neddick, Maine, and it is extremely easy for anyone to enter, as it only requires an online submission to get your pictures into the show. It is not a competition show, as the exhibition is intended to show off cell phone photography, in an attempt to show how cell phone cameras have begun to change the photography medium and deserves a physical space to be admired.

Location:
StoneCrop Gallery
805 Shore Road
Cape Neddick, ME, 03902

Submissions Due:
May 16th, 2014 (11:59 PM EST)

Submission Limit:
5 Images

Submission Fee:
$15 via paypal

All images must be created on a cell phone.

More information is available on the website.

Website: http://www.stonecropgallery.com/

Lee Towndrow-Buyun Wang

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Lee Towndrow is a visual artist based in New York City. He has photographed Lena Dunham, Martin Amis, Dan Brown, Michael Chabon, and Sheila Heti. His work has appeared in Time Magazine, The Paris Review, Das Magazin. He has worked as a visual effects artist on campaigns for General Motors, HONOR NYC, Morgan Stanley, TD Bank.

Towndrow began his career as a designer and photographer at a design firm he founded. The firm was best known for creating the album cover artwork for prominent Canadian bands such as Sloan, The Flashing Lights, The Inbreds and Michelle McAdorey.

From 2004-2005 he lived in Buenos Aires, where he worked with Roberto Jacoby, the m7red center, Raumlabor Berlin Kiwi and Cecilia Sainz and Eugenia Herrera on conceptual art installations, such as Proyecto Venus, Darkroom and ArteBA.

Here is his link:http://leetowndrow.com/fiftythree/?pid=517 Hope you like it.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art-Paris as Muse by Sara Moore

This exhibition Paris as Muse is presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  It started January 28th but will last May 4, 2014.  This exhibition celebrates the first one hundred years of photography in Paris.  Paris has been the muse to many of the most celebrated photographers such as Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, Nadar, Charles Marville, Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and more.

Below is a link to the page for this exhibit if you want a sneak peek. If you have a chance to see this do it do it do it!!!!

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/paris-as-muse

Here are a couple pictures from the exhibit:

Bill Viola by Olyvia Behnke

Bill Viola uses video and digital media to address social and personal issues. He focuses on life related to nature. Also stuff like human experiences such as life, death. and aspects of consciousness. He's known as "radically expressive and technically daring."

The artist creates images that are visually compelling for the viewer. I think that is good, to make art for the sake of art sometimes and the video is pretty cool.

Photographer Dan Marbaix By Sara Moore

My mom actually introduced this photographer to me. His name is Dan Marbaix.  He is known as an "urban explorer."  He travels from city to city, exploring abandoned houses, asylums, churches, state buildings and much, much more.  He has been arrested over 20 times for his trespassing-and even held at gunpoint-but he refuses to give up his search for things that exist out of the mundane.




His work for me is very interesting and I hope you think so too! Below the pictures is a link:

http://www.viralnova.com/urban-explorer/


Here is another link of his work from Mail Online:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401848/photographer-Daniel-Marbaixs-photos-doctors-deserted-mansion-Germany.html

Photo Collage - James Conner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p66gymxJqVI



 

For my final prints I have been thinking about collaging my image later on larger paper. This tutorial should help me later on if I decide on doing collaged photos. Hopefully this will help one of you too, either now or in the future.

Art Wolfe - Buyun Wang

Art Wolfe (born 1951) is an American photographer and conservationist, best known for color images of wildlife, landscapes and native cultures.His photographs document scenes from every continent and hundreds of locations, and have been noted by environmental advocacy groups for their "stunning" visual impact

Wolfe's career has been described as "multi-faceted", involving wildlife advocacy, art, journalism, and education. According to William Conway, former president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Wolfe is a "prolific and sensitive recorder of a rapidly vanishing natural world.In the last 30 years, the public has viewed Wolfe's work in more than sixty published books, including Vanishing Act, The High Himalaya, Water: Worlds between Heaven & Earth, Tribes, Rainforests of the World, and The Art of Photographing Nature.

One reason about Art Wolfe is that his is really popular nature photographer and television presenter whose vividly-coloured images of wildlife, landscapes and indigenous cultures celebrate the beauty and diversity of the natural world.
you can fine more on his website. http://www.artwolfe.com/

Using Camera Shutter Speed Creatively by Olivia Duvall

Here is a tutorial that explains how you can use shutter speeds to capture creative images. This tutorial shows various ways to freeze action, convey motion, and smooth water. The methods are really good to know and understand and can be used to make really great photographs.

Here is the link!

Lee Friedlander - Jon Bolli

I got a Friedlander book in the mail the other day so I thought I would share some Friedlander, and some of my favorite pictures of his.

Lee Friedlander, born in 1934, began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. With an ability to organize a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, Friedlander has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life, dense landscape and countless other subjects. Friedlander is also recognized for a group of self-portraits he began in the 1960s, reproduced in Self Portrait, an exploration that he turned to again in the late 1990s, and published in a monograph by Fraenkel Gallery in 2000. Friedlander’s work was included in the highly influential 1967 New Documents exhibition, curated by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art. Included among the many monographs designed and published by Friedlander himself are Sticks and Stones, Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Letters From the People, Apples and Olives, Cherry Blossom Time in Japan, Family, and At Work. Friedlander was the subject of a major traveling retrospective and catalog organized by the Museum of Modern Art in 2005. In 2010, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York exhibited the entirety of his body of work, America by Car.

To see more click HERE

Window Light Portrait Tutorial - Dylan

Here is a video tutorial on how to use window lighting to make portrait shots of people. It is a very useful tutorial that goes in depth on how to set up your shots and the individual as well.

Man Ray by Olivia Duval

May Ray was an American artist who was a painted and photographer and most known for his contribution to the Dada and Surrealist movements. He was most famous for his photographs in fashion and portrait photography. In the 1920s and 30s, he was a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Vu, and Vogue and experimented with using the medium in different methods. One approach was producing images directly from ordinary objects on photosensitive paper that were usually arranged in an arbitrary way. He called this method the "rayograph." He also used the solarization process to some of his work which is a combination of negative and positive images. He spent a lot of his life in Paris and returned there and focused on painting at the end of his life.

Harry Callahan by James Conner

Harry Callahan was a photographer that dabbled in multiple different types of photography.  Bruce told me about this photographer in reference to my medium format class. I am doing a project on layering my negatives with portraits and nature. Callahan took a lot of photos of his wife, most times nude. He would show the body in ways you might not think. He also did some multiple exposures playing with shadows, or the human body. I have known Callahan's work for a couple years but didn't really know who he was.Hes photo is the photo that's on the front of the photo 1 class book.

 

 

 

http://anthonylukephotography.blogspot.com/2011/09/photographer-profile-harry-callahan.html