Sunday, March 27, 2011

Photo IV: Week Nine Due: April 7, Thursday before 3:30 pm



Photo IV: Week Nine: April 7, Thursday before 3:30 pm




Look at all of the following artists' work.
I posted at least one artist specifically for YOU, based on your first two projects!
Sele
ct any one artist from this list:


Heidi Specker

Darren Sylvester

Clare Strand

Roe Etheridge

Trish Morrissey

Paul Shambroom

AES+F Group
http://www.aes-group.org/


Megan Burns
http://theendofbeing.com/2011/03/13/body-terror-and-abject-failure-%E2%80%94-an-interview-with-megan-burns/


Daikichi Amano
http://www.daikichiamano.com/


Lise Sarfati
http://www.lisesarfati.com/index.shtml


Valérie Belin
http://www.valeriebelin.com/


Alexander Apóstol
http://www.alexanderapostol.com/


Santiago Sierra
http://www.santiago-sierra.com/


Hannah Starkey
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/hannah-starkey-twentynine-pictures-2187389.html?action=Gallery


Catherine Opie
http://www.gladstonegallery.com/opie.asp?id=1970


Yeondoo Jung
http://www.yeondoojung.com/

Sharon Core
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/in-focus-sharon-core/
http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/artists/sharon-core/index.html?page=2

Phil Collins
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2006/philcollins.htm
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-56343.html

Anna Gaskell
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-list/artist/g/?search=Anna%20Gaskell
http://www.utata.org/salon/19597.php




Ryan McGinley
http://ryanmcginley.com/


Rut Blees Luxemburg
http://www.rutbleesluxemburg.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2009/mar/09/rut-blees-luxemburg-photography


Post at least one image with citation and link back to the site where you found the image. Then explain why you selected that artist. Can you find any similarity at all between your work and the artist's? 


Then post three recent images of your own work and explain why you selected each of the three images.

Chapter 5 Spectacles and Illusions


Chapter 5
Spectacles and Illusions
Photography and commodity culture
Anandi Ramamurthy



6  THE THREE ORDERS of becoming are:

Roland Barthes: Rhetoric of the Image: Panzini Ad






Victor Burgin
(John Heartfield)



Josephine Meckseper's sculptures and installations probe the interface between high fashion, commodity fetishism and political activism, and the symbolic realm occupied by objects of desire or ideological aspiration.

Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography.


marilyn minter





Barbara Kruger
Richard Prince
Jeff Koons
laurie simmons

guy bourdin
helmet newton





Saturday, March 26, 2011

Photo IV: Week Eight Due: March 31, Thursday before 3:30 pm

Photo IV: Week Eight Due: March 31, Thursday before 3:30 pm


Post any three of your own recent images and explain why you selected each of the three. 


Then relate any quote from any chapter that you read, from chapters 2 through 5 in your textbook, to one of the posted images. Explain as best you can how you relate this quote to this one image.



Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Photo IV: Week Seven Due: March 17, Thursday before 3:30 pm


Photo IV: Week Seven Due: March 17, Thursday before 3:30 pm



Post any three (or more) of your own RECENT images and explain why you selected each of the images.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Photo IV: Week Six Due: March 10, Thursday before 3:30 pm


Week Six, Due March 10, Thursday

1. To further investigate Chapter 4, select any two of the following artists (use the links that follow instruction 5.). Some were mentioned in the chapter and others were not.

2. Think about the theories explained in the chapter and how those theories might relate to the artists' work.

3. Then post one image from each of the two artists with full citation and a link back to the site where you found the image.

4. Using the theories from Chapter 4 that apply to the artists' work, explain how the two artists' work is similar and how the work is different. Please be as specific as possible.

5. Then post three of your own images and explain why you chose each of the three images.

links:


Chapter 4: Michelle Henning 
The subject as object

Rineke Dijkstra:


PDF: What Does A Portrait, Human and Unsentimental, Look Like Now?


Gerhard Lang

Andre Serrano


Mapplethorpe

Tanyth Berkeley


Jack Pierson Self-Portraits

Orlan

Vanessa Beecroft
(try special projects or performances)

Inez van Lamsweerde (& Vinoodh Matadin)

del lagrace volcano

Pierre et Gilles




Allan Sekula





Additional resources to help explain Chapter 4:

Susan Sontag on Abu Ghraib
torture mimics photographic conventions



Alphonse Bertrillon



Francis Galton
Norman Bryson essay:

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Photo IV: Week Five Due: March 3, Thursday, before 3:30 pm. (or later if you need more time)


Photo IV: Week Five Due: March 3, Thursday, before 3:30 pm. (or later if you need more time)

Your assignment: 
find any three images from three different current exhibitions in any large city, anywhere except Denver, AND explain why you chose each of the three images. 
(use my links posted here):













Or any of the links posted last week.


The exhibitions MUST be in a physical space, and NOT just an on-line exhibition.

Also, link from the image or description of the image to the website where you found the image!

THEN upload any three brand new, recent images of your own AND explain why you chose each of the three images.