Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Image bank

Book name: The Image Bank
www.gettyimages.com/ Imagebank travel1

In the book I choose the photograph by Kerrick James

The picture that caught my eye's was a geisha in place were there are shrine's standing in the middle of the foot path.

Analysing the photograph

The Fore ground of the photograph is the geisha standing.
Mid ground is shrine's on the mid ground.
Back ground is a continues of shrine's that keep going.
Center of focus is the geisha in the middle of the picture
How my eyes move around the photograph, it started off looking at the geisha, then moved on to the shrine close to the front, then moves on right down to the other shrine's on the back of the geisha.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Tyra Banks

"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be".1
So on America's Next Top Model, Tyra gets behind the camera and take picture's of all the up coming models.
In each cycle is different photo shoot for specific reason.
On cycle 13 are are girls that are 5,7 down, Tyra sets up a beauty photo focusing on there upper body.
She teaches them to show expression on there face and though there eyes, also posing in a way that makes them look tall. Another thing that Tyra teaches is to make an illusion with your body using light and shadow to shape your body.

The photograph that was well noticeable to me was a photo from cycle 12 was of Allison that Tyra took of her in Brazil.
The theme of the picture was a bird in it's nest. The atmosphere that the photo was able to bring was a dark cold surrounding with a bright warmness in the center almost like pudding making the center of focus is of Allison.
What makes her stand out of the picture is that there is more lighting on her which makes it the first thing that you look at.
The way Allison is posing makes her look like a bird, with her head tilted on the side facing the camera, also tension in her arms which expands her upper body and make her look long,
and makeup and hair style sets the mode.

"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful".2
So what Tyra does is she using the camera's role in beautifying the world YES but she is beautifying a Haman's body in the world which explains improving the human body.
And the picture's that she takes, and what she does are a stepping stone for the girl's onto the fashion world.


1. Duane Michels http://thinkexist.com/quotation/photography_deals_exquisitely_with_
appearances/202899.html -25/06
2. susan sontag http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/s/so-successful-has-been-the-227618.html 1977 -25/06


Thursday, May 27, 2010

Palmers Road, Clendon

Terry Koloamatangi Klavens.

BLOOD'S THICHER THAN MUD is the title of terry's exhibition.

The work that is on display at FRESH GALLERY OTRA are series of photographic docoumention about family and friends.

I think his work explains the emotion that you see when your with family the up's and the down's and also with friend's.

In the gallery the photograph that cathes my eye is 30. Palmer Road, Clendon it's a picture of four people just talking to other like a socal scene.

ANALYSING THE PHOTGRAPH
The fore ground of the picture is a lady right in front if the photo.
Mid ground is the man in the middle holding a cigarette.
Background is the two lady's that are in thye back.
The centre of foucs in the photo is the lady on the left shes standing by herself.
How my eyes moved across the photograph it started off with the foreground and moved the man in the mid ground and ended up in the background with two lady's.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Tove Storch

To make the familiar strange might be a strategy to make the everyday noticeable.


Tove Storch had some weird work on display.
His work wasn't one of my best one but the feeling of looking at his work was it almost had a ephemeral effect on it.

Storch's work that was on display it was a black box with a white sculpture inside looking at you. The effect of it was like a nightmarish feeling but the visual effect was translucnent.

How is this everyday? More like every night, we dream good or bad things. But our dreams are a big part of our lives cause each dream has meaning of our everyday life.
What I'm trying to say is that we look at everyday and it's not noticeable beacause we don't think about it, but our dreams are part of our everyday or every night and our dreams makes us think about it.
what does this dream mean? is something going to happen? or was just a fantasy? All along.


untitled 2008-09


Her work has everyday all over it how.
WHY?? Shilpa explains about the everyday but though her view. For example the split-flap display board turns at every second,
when I read the messages it was like talking to a person, but the way it turned and flapped liked kid watching Ben 10 just waiting to see was going to happen next or when he going to use he's onitirx.
The words and the sentence's of each of them made you think what it meant and did it have special reason for it's saying

Friday, April 23, 2010

The intered in the ordinary came out of the belief that art shuold be accessible and could be mad by ordinar people


Loko photograph By edith maituanai
The title explains a lot, anyone can take a picture of a a girl hold two cups but it's not what you see, it's how the picture is taken and also the idea behind whats going on in and behind the picture. Look at her facial feature's, body language, and the objects around and her what she's holding.
But how can every day people make art? anyone can. WHY??? Because in the past putting paint on canvas is known as art and today right now art is everywhere and made by everyone.
e.g drawing is not talent its by practicing drawing.

Czarina Wilson


Czarina Alisi Wilson had the winning design of cult couture of 06, now she has her first solo exhibition, called PLASTIC

She is known for her traditional Tongan garments, Hundreds of tiny red vinyl squares are Swen together to make a ta'ouala (Tongan traditional dancing).

Czarina Alisi Wilson canvas is the body and her message is fromed in a fashion view as it is in the same way that the t-shirt art has become the notice board of Pacific pop-culture