SF MOMA REVIEW

Exposed
Exposed was a very interesting, expressive way of photography of different kinds of images. The artist brought out modern images and historical images of places all around and also of people. The exposed images brought out different styles of photography for example; this one piece was about violence, and another was just plain and simple. It came up in different categories of art. One of my favorite series was New York by Garry Winngrand. It showed a lot of day to day things on busy streets, of New York. They also played a Video that I wasn’t able to remember the name. It was really cool and interesting.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
This section of photography was very different than exposed. It was more settle and traditional. He is a photo journalist, and is a very unique artist in photography. Most of his photos made a symbol stand out of an image; it really brought life to the images, even though most of them were in black and white. I wasn’t that interested in his work, with the portraits, I felt that he could have done more with the people, but that’s my own opinion.

Name Poem Photos

In this project we took photos of pictures that represent each letter of our name. We took pictures of images that represented who we are as a person/ our personality. It was a fun thing to do and an experience to learn who we are as a person and what we think we represent ourselves as.

F= friendship

A= Athletic

T= Tall

I = Intelligent 

M= Merry

 A= Artistic

Walker Evans: Famous Photographer

Biography:

·         November 3, 1903- He was born

·         Graduated from Phillips Academy

·         Studied French literature for a Year and spend a year in Paris

·         Returned to New York City

·         Started to enjoy photography in 1928

·         1933 he photographed in Cuba for a publisher

·         1935 took pictures of the aftermath of the Great Depression (Farm Security Administration)

·         1936 he teamed up with this guy named James  Agee whose a writer (Agee got Evans interested in becoming a writer)

·         1938 he stopped taking pics for FSA and he had an exhibition opened up for all his Pictures in New York in the Museum of Modern Art. It was their first time eer holding up just a single photographer.

·         In 1938 he started taking pictured in New York.  And mentored Helen Levitt

·         1945 became a writer at Time magazine

·         1965 became a professor of Photography at Yale  school of art

·         1975 he died in his house.

Walker Evans Style:

·         Rigorously plain

·         Art that’s not art

·         He showed regular pictures and proved them to be art

·         Sense of European Modernism

·         Modern Urban Landscape

 Walker Evans Influences

·         He didn’t want to be what his father was like a publisher, advertising executive

·         He let out all of his frustration by taking photo’s it was a way to get his mind off things

Look At Me Final

This is it... after weeks of reviewing and modeling different pictures, i have come to a final set of five models that showed exactly what i wanted through Richard Avedon portraits  of his model. I wanted to copy his style of art that he used to show the  images of normal students that are not in magazines. I want to tell a story though my images, and how different emotions can be in an instant of just being yourself. 

Look at Me Draft two

After doing this assignment three times, i've come to the conclusion that these portraits are used to show the self expression of people. These pictures show different emotions that show the very detail of who this person is. Self expression is the key in my project, and this is what i want to show my viewers 

Look At Me

This is my Second Posting of my draft. I wanted to mix up the emotions coming from different gender back grounds to see the comparison of each facial expression.

Fatima's Series

My project expresses different types of emotions and the idea of beauty of the human face.  This is my first set of pictures of  teenaged women. I took pictures of my classmates and their facial expression, i noticed that all of them are different, depending on how they feel. I used black an white backgrounds to extract from the loud colors. I wanted to express the teen life style and student facial contact. For example: the circles under their eyes, their blemishes, their hair, if it was messy or not. I wanted to express realism in regular life of teen women.