Hand Sculpture

Self Portrait Critique

My critique group chose these as their favorite images. They said I had a good variety of images and because of this managed to make most of them interesting through different compositions, focus, lighting, and animation. They said I could have used more variation in backgrounds though, which I agree with.. I had simply wanted the images to be more of a set though and be unified by it.

Inflatiopia

Self Portrait pics

Abstraction

Color

Depth

Dramatic

Lines

Motion

Negative Space

Positive Space

Repetition

Exaggerate Scale

Shape

Symbol

Symmetry

Surface Texture

Whole Object

Susan Sontag writing Assn.

For The Top photo: 
a) This photo was taken for the purpose of capturing a cool moment and cataloging my progress in skating
b) The emotional relationship is pretty neutral, it was just a friend of mine filming
c) I suppose its viewing context of this photo would just be showing off, meant to be viewed by anyone who cares, but i suppose more aimed at people who find skateboarding interesting. It's not a photo that is meant to be taken too seriously or studied for a long amount of time.

For the Middle photo
a) I was taken to capture a moment of beauty.
b) The emotional context is one of love, the woman in the photo is my girlfriend.
c) It is more of a personal photograph and I took it for myself really, but it could be for family and friends as well. It is meant to be viewed for an admiring moment.

For The Bottom photo
a) It looks like it was taken to capture a moment of pain and loss.
b) I would guess non-personal, as I don't think someone close to the person would pause to take such a photo and seek to comfort her instead. Unless that person is an "artist".
c) I think it is meant to be viewed by anyone really; pain in universal. As a very emotional photograph, its intended viewing time could be longer. It takes time to soak up the agony of the photo, as it summons memories of despair in the viewer.

Lecture Notes from 11/24/10

In this lecture Bill went presented a sideshow of pictures showing how photography has progressed.

There was an "explosion" oh photo based art since 1970.

A few phases photography went through since 1970 include:
representation
appropriation
constructed worlds
"stranger than fiction"
personal narrative
people looking around at stuff

Top Images

Whole Object

Lines

Shapes

Color

Surface Texture

Depth/Space

Rhythms or Repetition

Balance (Bilateral Symmetry/Radial)

Dramatic Lights/Darks

Closure

Negative space

Positive space

Exaggerated Scale

Object as Abstraction

Object in Motion