Friday, November 30, 2012

PORTRAITS















This is my host mum. I took this pictures in my house at night. I choose my host mum to know are better.



Wednesday, November 28, 2012

SELF PORTRAITS

I took this picture trying to have fun and to express who I really am.




















Monday, November 12, 2012

BEAUTY (abs.)

Beauty in photography is a picture that look pleasant to our eyes. Photography beauty is subjective, it's something that depend on us. What I consider beauty, may appears to someone else really ugly. There isn't a way to define what is beauty. Something ugly can be photographed and be beauty. It doesn't depend on what is the subject of the photo, but it depend on how the picture looks. For example a spider. I think spiders are ugly but there are some spider's pictures that are really beautiful.

An ugly spider (to my eyes), but a beautiful picture.













Wednesday, October 24, 2012

ALPHABET





''Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once''.


Tuesday, October 16, 2012

classwork's photos


I didn't know something like this was possible. it's been an amazing experience. I took a picture from a can,, just making an hole on it and standing in front of it. This work makes open my eyes. Photography isn't just having a camera, photography is more than a camera.


When we first made the pinhole experiment we stand in front of the can for 30 seconds, and for me it was something so cool. But when we went outside, we just had to made the light come in for 1 second. It really was like taking a picture with a camera. This project really impressed me.


The sense of this project was creating light effects on the picture: to be able to show on the photo different kind of gray, not just white.

WEB ASSIGNMENT #4

1. Who was Alfred Stieglitz and why is he noteworthy in the history of photography?

Alfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in German. Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. He was a photographer and modern art promoter in making photography an accepted art form. Stieglitz is known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century. "Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings…  here's one of his quotes that I think really shows what I wanted to do and what kind of man he was :"You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today."

2. Choose a photograph he made, upload it to your blog, and explain why you chose it as your favorite by him.


 Wet Day on the Boulevard, 1894,

I really like this photo because I like the prospective and the position form where the picture has been taken. I like how the background is light and foggy. I like how the light reflect on the water that is on the street, creating almost a mirror that reflect the building on the left corner. I like the charriots in the middle-ground. I like the empty space at the bottom of the photo. I think this picture have a little bit on history inside, and observing it, it seems like to be back in time.

3. With what famous painter was he in a relationship? Who was she?  Upload a painting by her that you like.

 Alfred was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe. She was born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. O'Keeffe made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Her’s representations of the beauty of the American landscape were a brave counterpoint to the chaotic images embraced by the art world. Her cityscapes and still lifes filled the canvas with wild energy that gained her a following among the critics as well as the public. Though she has had many imitators, no one since has been able to paint with such intimacy and stark precision.

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Extra: How did they influence each other in their art making?
 Steiglitz had convinced O’Keeffe to move to New York and devote all of her time to painting. His regular presentations of her work had begun to cause a buzz, and create for a her a small following. Six years later the two were married, beginning one of the most fruitful and well-known collaborations of the modernist era. For the next twenty years the two would live and work together, Steiglitz creating an incredible body of portraits of O’Keeffe, while O’Keeffe showed new drawings and paintings nearly every year at the gallery. Living in Lake George, New York, and in New York City, O’Keeffe painted some of her most famous work.