apparently the blog hates me because, as you can see from the dates I put all these on here on May 11, but for some reason they didnt save, there were also pictures with all of them as well...

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011
web work 9: Beth Dow


Beth Dow is from Minneapolis Minnesota and her work focuses on using historical references and old style photo development to draw awareness to current issues of how land is used. Many of her photos have a kind of fantasy feel to them, but they are also all real images (a lot of the things she takes pictures of are landmarks around the Minneapolis area). I really like how she has this foggy, hazy, magical kind of feel to her work it also has this unnatural, is this a mirrage kind of feel to them. They remind me of like... a real world version of alice in wonderland or something. I also love nature photography, and while I would prefer these to be taken in a more wild setting, I think what she is doing here is really cool.

a link to her official website
http://www.bethdow.com/
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web work 8: Look Magazine


Look Magazine
Was published in Des Moines Iowa from 1937 to 1971, and focused, unlike other magazines at the time, on the actual photographic aspect of the magazine instead of the articles. I think that this magazine changed how people look at periodicals because and that’s is how it is now; photos are more important than articles. Originally, Look magazine was a big magazine, 11 by 14 inches, which made it all the better at displaying photos. At one point Look was even more popular than Saturday Evening Post which isn’t exactly surprising because both of those magazines seem to be knock offs of the other, they both have that Norman Rockwell moment kind of feel to them. Stanley Kubrick worked as a staff photographer for a while, and supposedly this helped his career as a director this^ is one of the photos he took... Its easy to see how he went from this to Full Metal Jacket

Here is an article about the many different types of photos Look took, many current events:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/look_coll.html
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web work 7: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol
is known as a pop artist of the 1960s. His work is of many different mediums, but his most famous style is done by screen printing; this is how his famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe, and Jackie Kennedy are done; he used a picture to make the prints. He would also film people, like Niko (the model) using regular film for recording movement, but then he would use that film like photo film so he would get a bunch of pictures that showed slight amounts of movement as a person looked from one to the next [eerie]. He also used to take models into photo booths and just keep doing picture after picture to the point where it was hard for the model to keep thinking up different facial expressions. Anyway, he changed art permanently and he has sold paintings for as much as 100 million dollars, that’s up there with Van Gogh and Picasso.

This is what I was talking about with the photobooth stuff:
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/warhol/photo_booth_portraits.html
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web work 6: Jacob Riis


Jacob Riis
was a Danish American who known for his photojournalistic talents, as they led to social reform. During the late 1800s and early 1900s Riis sought to help out the poor and draw attention to unsuitable living conditions and people stuck living in the slums and impoverished areas of New York. He wanted to illustrate these people so that society would stop ignoring them and realize just how bad conditions were. Riis sympathized with the poor because he himself had once been poor in the New York area, but then got a job working as police reporter, where he also wrote about life in the slums. Riis did a lot of work sneaking into dark corner bars with his flash camera, set off the flash, take the picture and then get out of there.

For his full Bio, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis
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web work 5: Hurter and Driffield

Ferdinand Hurter and Vero Charles Driffield were 19th century scientists who are responsible for first really making film that had certain exposure times and methods of development and how silver changed under different conditions and variables, this is known as sensitometry. They also worked with densitometry, which is the measurement of optical density in light sensitive materials, such as film. They are the people responsible for developing the predictable/easy to use film and exposure times that we use in photography nowadays. It has to be some of the most intense science done for an artistic purpose…

check out the wikipedia article for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurter_and_Driffield
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web work 4:Pinhole photography





Pinhole Photography
Typically, a pinhole camera is something that someone has constructed out of makeshift items (seashell, pop can, shoe box) in order to get a “camera” that has no lens; it is a boxlike shape with a hole on one end, and on the other appears film or photopaper. Its like a little camera obscura! Pinhole photos have a different appearance than photos taken with a camera and a lens (obviously if you construct a camera out of an empty Pabst can and photo paper its going to look slightly dirtier than a film+lense+camera print). This is what makes it interesting.

very long article to check out if your intrigued by this:
http://photo.net/pinhole/pinhole
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web work 3: Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism
was a movement that happened in the 1800 , it was caused by a group of people who would become known as transcendentalists when they decided that people need to be in touch with nature (they thought nature was a necessity for human beings {and they were right}), it goes hand in hand with romanticism (which was a movement in literature at a similar time where people started to incorporate nature into their work more [Mary Shelly: Frankenstein]) To get an idea of what a transcendentalist is like, think of a Victorian era hippie; Henry David Thoreau is the exemplification.


Alfred Steiglitz, untitled,1923 transcendental influence^^^^^

Click on this giant link to see an online book that discusses transcendentalism and its connection to photography:

http://books.google.com/books?id=HNBSmv5ZcPkC&pg=PA453&lpg=PA453&dq=alfred+stieglitz+transcendentalism&source=bl&ots=9vpMq0eiFG&sig=wI8PheSa1XIf2UWDLjkUo6hEH0E&hl=en&ei=5APLTaSOB8a-0AGkuIDtBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=alfred%20stieglitz%20transcendentalism&f=false
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