Victoria's Photo Stuff

2009-12-27T13:45:00.000-08:00

Karin Muller's timeshots. She photographed places that she had photographed a year or more before. They create an interesting view of both development and stagnacy in cities.

2009-12-27T13:17:00.000-08:00

Kristin Giordano's color work "American Landscapes." I'm not sure how she took these photos; they look like pinhole camera pictures, but I could not find out the process she used. Also, the photos are not color correct. But they are beautiful images.

2009-12-27T12:12:00.000-08:00

Victor Carnuccio has worked on portraits since the 1970s. The first seven of these are portraits of transvestites, and the other thirteen are various nudes taken from his long going series of male nude portraits.

2009-12-26T16:21:00.000-08:00

Selections of Herman Leonard's work. He became famous for photographing jazz musicians, and his images of jazz greats are some of the most famous images of them. His photographs, with severe dark tones and contrast, emit an air of nostalgia and a once thriving jazz club scene.

2009-12-26T15:46:00.000-08:00

These are Bob Herbst's platinum/palladium prints of Ohio Turnpike Bridges in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Shout out to Ohio!

2009-12-26T15:30:00.000-08:00

These are some of Pieter Hugo's photograph from his 2004 project looking back on the genocide in Rwanda. The first four are pictures of mass grave sites, some of which are latrines bodies were stuffed into. The three after are pictures of bodies which were taken from the mass graves and preserved with lime. The last five are pictures from the genocide site Ntarama Catholic Church, where human bones are mixed with objects left behind in the chaos.

2009-12-26T13:29:00.000-08:00

A selection of photographs from Jan Staller. I really love her ugly-industrial-eyesore-turned-beautiful-scenery aesthetic (something I definitely relate to). The photographs of wire fences are particularly great.

2009-12-26T12:43:00.000-08:00

Michael Frye's night photography work, extremely well executed and technically awesome. Frye used many multiple exposures with electronic and powerful flashes (which were gelled or had filters) to create dramatic lighting and color effects.

2009-12-24T17:05:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back In Photos: From December, 2009

2009-12-24T17:02:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back In Photos: From November, 2009

2009-12-24T16:30:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back In Photos: From October, 2009

2009-12-24T16:15:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back In Photos: From September, 2009

Artificial Lighting

2009-12-24T15:07:00.000-08:00

These are photos from Lori Nix's project The City. Lori Nix's work has fascinated me; her use of miniature sets that she designs exemplify how one can use photography to trick the eye, and also show her dedication to getting exactly the shot that she wants.

2009-12-24T14:25:00.000-08:00

The work of photographer Rania Mater. Her work focuses primarily on the Middle East, the affects of war, and the veil.

2009-12-24T13:49:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back in Photos: From August, 2009

2009-12-24T13:46:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back in Photos: From July, 2009

2009-12-24T13:28:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back In Photos: From June, 2009

2009-12-24T13:17:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back in Photos: From May, 2009

2009-12-24T12:49:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back in Photos: From April, 2009

2009-12-24T12:28:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back in Photos: From March 2009

2009-12-24T12:20:00.000-08:00

NY Times Look Back in Photos: From February, 2009

Staged Narrative

2009-12-23T13:56:00.001-08:00

This is performative work by Chinese artist Liu Bolin. He paints himself and blends in with the background, and becomes an invisible man. I consider this work staged narrative, especially when one reads of his troubles with the Chinese government.

2009-12-23T13:22:00.000-08:00

These pictures are from the New York Times look back on 2009. I am really into photojournalism, and I love the pictures from the New York Times. They have some excellent photographers on their staff. I am posting pictures from the NYT look back; this is the month of January.

Utopia Project- Garden of Eden

2009-12-21T09:42:00.000-08:00

Staged Narrative Project- Greek Mythology

2009-12-21T09:37:00.000-08:00

Sense of Place Project

2009-12-21T09:35:00.000-08:00

The Fair Project- The Canfield Fair

2009-12-21T09:32:00.000-08:00

2009-10-27T13:05:00.000-07:00

Some of Les Forrester's photography. More at Face On Images

2009-10-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

1)Bruegel- The Peasant Dance
2)Titian- Venus of Urbino
3)Caravaggio- St. Jerome
4)Mategna- Dead Christ
5)Botticelli- Birth of Venus

The Pinhole Gallery- A gallery of pinhole photographs by various photographers
Photo.net- A really large website with a lot of really cool photos in the gallery
ephotozine- A UK online photo magazine
National Geographic Photography- I really love National Geographic photographs. Period. This site makes me happy.
A History of Photography- A one man photography Wikipedia-esque site. Not a well laid out site, but will definitely inform you about the history of photography

2008-12-26T18:01:00.000-08:00

Final Project- Portraits

For the final project, I chose to photograph what I truly wished to photograph- my friends. In a previous project, the criticism that I received that concerned me the most was that it was hard to see the subjects’ personalities in the images. It upset me because I think of my friends as wonderful and humorous individuals, with a very interesting dynamic. Thus, in each of these portraits, I wanted to make sure that the relationship between the individuals in the pictures was emphasized, while also accentuating their individual personalities and the correspondence in their senses of humor. I made the portraits as simple as possible to focus attention solely on the people, and directed them very little. They came up with the specifics on their own, each person posing with the other based on jokes or nuances they had in their particular relationship. This created a genuine comical effect, and captured the essence of who I feel my friends are.

2008-12-26T17:55:00.000-08:00

Persona Project- Teenage Recklessness

For my persona project, I wanted to capture teenage recklessness. However, even at the age of eighteen, social pressures can hinder one’s willingness to show their “true” selves. Thus, I wanted to show them stripped of those inhibitions, and did so by documenting my friends’ experience taking acid.
Their insecurities melted away and the parts of their personalities they might have been afraid to expose came out. They were sillier, laughed more, messed around with each other, and had a good time. They talked, play-fought in the woods, skipped stones, and just sat around. Some of this was due to the distortive quality of the drug, but much of it was an aspect of their personality that I could have guessed they possessed but had never really shown.
This provokes the question: when it comes to teens, is it about the drugs, or is it about the feeling of being freer? And when it comes to feeling freer, are they actually more open, or just open with themselves and more closed off to the rest of society?

2008-12-26T17:24:00.000-08:00

Emulation Project- Merry Alpern

For this project, I chose to emulate Merry Alpern, and her series “Dirty Windows,” shots looking into a strip club bathroom window by Wall Street. To capture the grittiness of the images themselves, I used 3200 ASA film and a telephoto lens. In these shots, I tried to emphasize the juxtaposition between the clothing of the men, who in the series worked Downtown and on Wall Street, and the women. Their manner of dress is contrasting, and the men’s actions do not match the suits that they wear, yet they still seem to fit right into the picture. In addition, I tried place focus on the women’s lack of interest towards the situations they find themselves in with the men. Although everything seems to consensual on the surface level, there is still a strong underlying feeling of the women being forced into this, not necessarily with physical force, but with the arguably stronger force of needing money. In all, I tried to make these shots emulate as much of the sordidness of Alpern’s “Dirty Windows” as possible.

2008-12-26T17:18:00.000-08:00

Mapping Project- The Body As A Work Of Art

For the mapping project, I chose to map the body. In terms of the physical, our bodies are the most intimate and closest physical part of us. They are with us all the time, they are familiar, but they are also something that we must learn to be comfortable with. Like any other part of nature that is captured as art, the body is a work of art due to its organic qualities. The perfection of imperfections, and the personal nature and closeness of the body make it a familiar but powerful image.
The reason I chose to photograph this particular friend was because of the tattoos and piercings that she has. She, like many other people, has taken a whole other meaning to the idea of the body as a work of art. She has chosen to place works of art on her body and decorate it, and that act in and of itself makes her body an integral piece of the art itself. Her body is now an interesting and unique piece of art all on its own.

2008-12-26T16:59:00.000-08:00

William Eggleston's photography; he achieves glamorization of the run-down, drab and ordinary with brilliant color

2008-12-24T20:51:00.000-08:00

These are photographs by Brett Weston, the son of Edward Weston, which I thought were absolutely stunning. Some of these pictures are of the dunes in California, which was a photographic subject for his father as well.

2008-12-23T14:15:00.000-08:00

Larry Clark's Photographs, mostly from Tulsa and Teenage Lust

2008-12-21T12:18:00.000-08:00

10 Images Defining My Time

1. Twin Towers Burning
2. “Mission Accomplished”
3. Bush Dodging Shoe
4. iPhone
5. Google
6. Barack Obama
7. Economy Fails- Unemployed Executive
8. Youtube
9. Soldiers in Iraq
10. Disappearing Snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro due to Global Warming

2008-12-21T09:38:00.000-08:00

10 Classical Paintings

1. Caillebotte- Les Raboteurs de Parquet (The Floor Scrapers)
2. Carvaggio- The Calling of Saint Matthew
3. Titian- The Rape of Europa
4. Raphael- Alba Madonna
5. Da Vinci- Ginevra de’ Benci
6. Michelanglo- Doni Tondo
7. Rubens- Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici
8. Botticelli- Primavera
9. Van Gogh- Starry Night
10. Degas- L’Absinthe

2008-12-19T18:32:00.000-08:00

3 performance photographers and examples of their work:

1. Cindy Sherman- Self-portrait as a corpse
2. Nikki Lee- The Hispanic Project
3. Nan Goldin- Misty and Jimmy Paulette

2008-12-19T17:44:00.001-08:00

I really enjoy journalist photography. I think that it is really admirable to capture the current state of things in a few photographs to give the public a visual to truly relate a news story to reality. These are photos taken by Moises Saman for the New York Times of Machu Picchu; they capture the pulchritude of the ruins, and the harmony with the vast landscape. I think these photos are simply beautiful.

2008-12-19T17:05:00.000-08:00

These images are some of street artist Kurt Wenner's work. Kurt Wenner is a sidewalk artist who does amazing 3-D work with a real sense of perspective and visuals to make them "fit into the surroundings." Wenner focuses particularly on the fantasical in his work, especially the idea of demons in hell and the underworld, like those in Dante's Inferno.

2008-11-11T12:29:00.000-08:00

1. Porto Covo- Paulo Nunes Dos Santos
2. Taking A Bath- Stephan Kaps
3. Nora And Ned- Aya Rosen
4. Domestic Bills and Bourbon- David Brooks
5. The House In Indiana- Rudy Harris
6. Home of a homeless…- Biren Brahmbhatt
7. Residential Alleyway- Alberto Sed
8. Trailer Park Beauty- Jennifer Erickson
9. Near Nanchang- Marc Wellman
10. Boats- Marc Wellman
11. Bulb- Cody Spencer
12. Lighthouse Lenses- Juergen Thode
13. Home on the Farm- Lyndsay Smith
14. Square Home- Michi Sakai
15. Dream House- Sylvie Wibaut
16. Our Small Apartment- Glenn Marvin Jaucian
17. Cite- Alexandre Kurek

2008-11-11T11:35:00.000-08:00

These are the three blogs that I thought were really well done and I liked the most:

Eli's- http://obeiliphoto.blogspot.com/
Hannah's- http://www.hrmphoto.blogspot.com/
Ezra's- http://nano.spontaneous-combustion.com/

2008-11-11T10:12:00.000-08:00

I saw these pictures on a website called "Nature's Conception- The Gates of Hell," and I thought they were really beautiful. So, here they are!

2008-10-17T12:21:00.000-07:00

TV Stills of The Office taken at a shutter speed of 1/15th of a second

2008-10-15T23:14:00.000-07:00

Run Boy Run- Pedro Dy-Liacco
Messy Clouds- Sarah Cunningham
Untitled- Kathryn Elizabeth Karnold-Lynch
Mexico Winds- Breanna Vince
When It Rains The Sky Falls- Lance Van Tine
.- Spiridon Papaspirou
Fabulous- Jennifer Hathorn
The Self, Expressed- Hirsch
Fashion Wholesale- Aurelien Caoudal
Personal Style- Josie Ramondetta
The Swim Hole- Megan Stout
Fluid?- Jose Luis R. Novoa
Alley Puddle- Kasim Patton
The Experiment- Gianina Ferreyra
Rubber Ducky Your The One- Kylie Fleming

2008-10-15T21:15:00.000-07:00

These photos were taken in an ultra-spy fashion at meal-time (with the exception of the 3 people I know): first 3 photos, people I don't know; middle 3 photos, people I would like to know (the girl in the other photo class, John, who is really nice and gave free cookies from 4th meal once, and that Con student that looks like my friend from home); last 3 photos, people I know (Erica, Franklin, Katie).

2008-09-30T20:31:00.000-07:00

Is There A Hope?- Petra Reza Shahibi
Eye To The Soul- Faizel Ismail
Granny & Mopsi- Toots Laura
Can I Play With Maddness?- Hector Carbuccia
Untitled- Casey Cranor
Life After People- Robert Armstrong
Ghost Town- Steve Stokan
Toilet- Liz Augustine
Death.- Kurtis Keim
A Time For Yourself- Yik Fei
Train- Patti Nelson
Volkswagen!- Spencer Willis
Casa de Eerie- Sarah Littlefield
Rural Decay- Julie Stiefel
Untitled- Allie Cross

2008-09-30T18:46:00.000-07:00

Some of Walker Evans' photographs of the depression, in rural and urban settings

2008-09-30T17:44:00.000-07:00

Untitled- Jason Hill
The Big Apple- Adi Levy
The Great Outdoors- Chris Buczek
Bus Stop- Kaitlyn Masters
Untitled- Ben Foster
Comic- Zsolt Anger
Motorcycle Repair- Gary Soucy
Windmill Sky- Sarah Littlefield
Vinalhaven Night- Andrew Morrell
Untitled- Adrian Budnick
Untitled- Michael Rothman
Weymouth Night- Skell K
Breathing Tower- David Niddrie
Little Buddha- Krish
A Striped Patter Of Sunlight- Loko Nomura

2008-09-30T14:33:00.000-07:00

Merry Alpern's Series "Dirty Windows," taken outside the window of a strip club bathroom. This is what I want to recreate for my emulation project

2008-09-25T11:34:00.000-07:00

10 offensive photographs

2008-09-24T18:29:00.000-07:00

2008-09-24T17:03:00.000-07:00

2008-09-18T11:02:00.001-07:00

These are photos I took while in Bangladesh

2008-09-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

First three images: People that I don't know. Middle three images: People that I do know; in order, my paternal grandparents, my friend Celina, and my friend Shaini. Last three images: People I would like to know; in order, Anthony Kiedis, Harry Russin, and Sam Young.

2008-09-15T16:12:00.000-07:00

In order from top to bottom, examples of: asymmetrical balance, pattern, symmetrical balance, organic, vertical balance, geometric, approximate balance, horizontal balance, variety, repetition

most important photograph in my life

2008-09-08T18:38:00.000-07:00

The most important photograph in my life is my mother's high school senior portrait. This is a photo that I've really grown up seeing; it was in family albums that I would go through and in the apartments of my mom's mother and sister. It wasn't prominently displayed, just one of many photographs of the family, but for some reason it always stood out to me. My mom looks absolutely stunning in the picture, though much to my disappointment she still contends that it's not a good picture. The wonderful thing about that picture is that she doesn't look different than she does in real life; she looks exactly the same. I have never seen a photo that has moved me as much as that one in reminding me of my mother and who she is. In short, I love the photo because in my mind, it truly capture's my mother's beauty.

ten photographers

2008-09-08T09:33:00.000-07:00

In order: Bert Stern, Annie Leibovitz, Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Basson, Steve McCurry, Galen Rowell, Frans Lanting

2008-09-04T19:07:00.000-07:00

A picture I took in a barn at Katonah Farm