Photo 4 Blog- Week 10

Alice Springs- "Fashion for Depeche Mode, Paris" 1971

http://www.helmut-newton.com/current_exhibitions/alicesprings/gallery.html#2

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This is the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by “intangible as well as tangible things,” which reaches its absolute fulfillment in the spectacle, where the tangible world is replaced by a selection of images which exist above it, and which simultaneously impose themselves as the tangible par excellence.

***This image, while used as an ad-most likely for clothing- makes us believe that we have  relationship with this woman. We stare at her, possibly even speak with her, but then we receive this glare from her, as though she is saying,” What are you staring at?”  On the other hand, she is dressed as though she wants attention from people, making her a walking contradiction. The quote I chose can associate the tangiable with the clothes she is wearing. Knowing that we could go and buy these clothes and possibly look like her, and get the attention she is getting. The intangiable though, is her herself. Or, us, wearing the clothes. We could then walk down the street, getting irritated by people staring at us. On the other hand, while in reality she may be intangiable, there is a photo that we can look at whenever we want, making her tangiable.

Photo 4 Blog- Week 9

Roe Ethridge- "Apple and Cigarettes" 2004-2006

http://www.andrewkreps.com/artists_image.html?i=1357&aid=54&cid=156

**This image is similar to my first project. It reminds me of the photo of the candle holder on the dirty glass table outside. This artist seems to take many photos of things they stumble upon**

Sasha Wheeler- "Cucumber Sandwiches" 2011

**This image’s focus is on the light. It was a table set up at my friend’s Bridal Shower, and I told her mom she chose a very nicely-lit area for it!**

Sasha Wheeler- "Water Bottles" 2011

**These were grifts for Debbie, received at her Bridal Shower, with labels on them. One each for the Bride and Groom, and then a baby’s sippy cup for their daughter, Grace. I thought they were adorable**

Sasha Wheeler- "Lesbian Love" 2011

**This image is hilarious to me. It is of two of my very best friends. The woman on the right, Debbie, is getting married, and Laura is one of her Bridesmaids. They have been best friends since 8th grade. Both of them are straight, Laura being married already, and Debbie will soon be, however, in this picture they look like a cute lesbian couple 🙂 **

Photo 4 Blog- Week 8

Sasha Wheeler- "Fifth Position" 2011

**I chose this image because it is one of the few poses I can do :)**

Sasha Wheeler- "Reflection of Motion" 2011

**This image is one of my favorites because of the movement of the pose, and the reflection in the mirror.**

Sasha Wheeler- "Retire Position" 2011

**This position seems simple, but it’s actually really hard to do!**

***This quote seems to work for all of these images: “Vance demonstrated how photographs of human bodies are caught up in social struggles, and how different views about the meanings and uses of photographs have political implications.” -Chapter 4, pg 172

These photos show the strength of the human, and more specifically the female, body. Many people think of ballerinas as delicate, when they really are pure strength. Depending on where/how these photos could be shown, there could be many different views and meanings to them.

Photo 4 Blog- Week 7

Sasha Wheeler- "Pointe Shoe" 2011

**I chose this image because I love that you can see the fibers of the shoe. **

Sasha Wheeler- "Turn" 2011

**I chose this image because the body looks so graceful in this position. **

Sasha Wheeler- "Chalk Marks" 2011

**I chose this image because it has great light, and I enjoy seeing the chalk marks on the floor from her pointe shoes.**

Photo 4 Blog- Week 6

Robert Mapplethorpe- Derrick Cross, 1982

http://www.mapplethorpe.org/portfolios/male-nudes/?i=5

nez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin- "Guinevere Descending a Staircase" 2000

http://www.matthewmarks.com/artists/inez-van-lamsweerde-and-vinoodh-matadin/selected-works/#/images/9/

When I look at the Mapplethorpe image, I automatically think of the picture as an erotic image, even though it also seems to also be an image based on the form of the body. The image of Guinevere also seems to be an erotic image. She is dressed in voyeuristic clothing purposefully meant to entice the male viewer. The scopophilia one experiences while looking at these images I believe is what the artists were trying to achieve. The Mapplethorpe image does not have the subject’s face showing, making the body form the main focus. The other image has the subject staring directly at the viewer.

Photo 4 Blog- Week 5

Beatrice Caracciolo- "Cercare nella Terra"

from “Cercare nella Terra (Searching the Land)”

February 5 – March 19, 2011

http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/499

**I was drawn to this image for two reasons. First, for the old-time look of the image, the faded black and white colors. Second, I love landscape images, trees in particular. **

Massimo Grimaldi- "Prince Surface"

2011, c-print, magnetic steel, magnets, 78.8 x 39.4, unique

http://www.teamgal.com/exhibitions/188

**I was drawn to this image because I love Prince. He reminds me of my mom, who also loves him, and I love my mom, so that’s cool**

Teri Greeves- "Great Lakes Girls" 2008

 

glass beads, bugle beads, Swarovski crystals, sterling silver stamped conchos, spiny-oyster shell cabochons, canvas high-heeled sneakers, 11 1/2 x 9 x 3 in.

Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains February 18–May 15, 2011

**I was drawn to this image not because I would wear these shoes myself, but because women often talk about shoes as works of art. These shoes literally are!**

Sasha Wheeler- "I Keep on Fallin'" 2011

 

**I like this image because it shows a lot of movement. And it seems that even though she fell, they’re having a blast**

Sasha Wheeler- "Help! I Need Somebody!" 2011

 

**I like this image because you can tell that without the help of this woman (mother?  sister?) she would probably be falling a lot.**

Sasha Wheeler- "Life in the Fast Lane" 2011

 

**This image draws me in because it’s such a ‘boy’ picture. They seem to be racing**

Photo 4 Blog- Week 4

 

Marcel Dzama- Behind Every Curtain

www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/233/

February 17th through March 19th 2011

**This piece is interesting to me because of the gentleness of the ballerina pose mixed with the frightening ski mask.**

 

Victoria Sambunaris- "Untitled" Levee, Presidio, TX

from “The Border” series, 2010

Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches and 55 x 76 inches, [VS-09-70], Ed. of 5

February 24 – April 9, 2011
http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/current/?page=1&work_id=1614

**The colors and peaceful feeling I get from this piece is what drew me to it. It makes me want to take a roadtrip**

 

Gonçalo Mabunda- "The Hope Throne"

 http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?emu_action=searchrequest&moduleid=1&profile=objects&currentrecord=1&style=single&rawsearch=id/,/is/,/5498/,/false/,/true

Deactivated welded weapons, leather

52 3/8 x 50 13/16 x 36 5/8in. (133 x 129.1 x 93cm)

**This chair looks like anything BUT comfortable**

Sasha Wheeler- "Ginger Love" 2011

 

**Two of my very good friends are in love, and I caught this little moment between them (which, really, happens all the time, because they’re in love ❤ )**

Sasha Wheeler "Velocity" 2011

**For my Birthday I went rollerskating, and this little guy was having a hard time. I like this photo because he looks like he’s rocking it**

Sasha Wheeler- "Landing" 2011

**I chose this photo because I think it had great movement**

Photo 4 Blog- Week 3

 

Mark Bradford- "Untitled (B)" 2010

one of 26 works, on paper

Mark Bradford- Alphabet

http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/mark-bradford-alphabet

**I am attracted to this image because the lines throughout the letter resemble bones, like it is made out of a skeleton**

 

Marcia Resnick- "David Byrne, NYC, 1981"

Marcia Resnick-  Bad Boys: Punks, Poets and Provocateurs

Vintage gelatin silver print 

signed, titled & dated in pencil in margin; signed twice,titled & dated in pencil on verso

paper 14-3/8 x 19”; image 8-11/16 x 12-3/4”

  

http://www.deborahbellphotographs.com/exhibitions.htmlhttp://www.deborahbellphotographs.com/downloads/2011_resnick.pdf

**I grew up listening to Talking Heads. David Byrne is amazing!**

  

   

Ships sunk and damaged at Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941 

Unknown photographer

Medium: Early or vintage gelatin silver print.
Print Date: 1941
Size: 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches
Description: Titled on blue paper label on verso, creased with emulsion losses 

 http://www.klotzgallery.com/?page_id=2448

  

**I love anything having to do with WWII, so this image immediately caught my eye**

 

 

Sasha Wheeler- Marena Loves Skittles, 2011

 

**Last night I went to see Spring Awakening with some of my favorite girls. After dinner before the show Marena was craving candy for the show, and got very excited to see a candy machine with Skittles in it!**

Sasha Wheeler- Marena is sneaky! 2011

**Marena thought it would be genious to sneak her huge amount of Skittles into the show by tossing them in her purse. She is silly** 

 

 

Sasha Wheeler- Posing in the Bathroom, 2011

**My favorite girls all dressed up, posing in the bathroom, because that’s how we roll 🙂 **

Photo 4 Blog- Week 2

Unidentified photographer- "River Baptism" ca. 1910

Take Me to the Water: Photographs of River Baptisms

JANUARY 21–MAY 8, 2011

http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/take-me-to-the-water

** This image caught my eye because of the way the man in the water is holding the woman. She looks like she is slumped in his arms, as though she is dead. **

David Stephenson- "San Francisco, Bay Bridge, 2010"

pigment print on cotton rag paper
mounted on white plexi, wood brace
28 x 35” image, 32 x 40” sheet

Light Cities: January 6-February 19, 2011

http://www.saulgallery.com/chronicle/stephenson_light-cities.htm

**I love nighttime shots with city lights, and San Francisco is one of my favorite places**

Damien Hirst- "Pain" 2010

 Forgotten Promises
January 18 – March 19, 2011

Gold-plated stainless steel, glass and lab rubies
22 x 28 inches (56 x 71 cm)

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2011-01-18_damien-hirst/#

**What girl doesn’t like rubies? 🙂 **

Sasha Wheeler- "Jareth" 2011

 **I don’t get much light in my apartment because I am garden level, with most of my windows facing an alley parking lot, so I thought this was a happy surprise of great light. Also, my cat is adorable**

Sasha Wheeler- "Radio Flyer" 2011

 **I love seeing rusty personal objects, and the movie Radio Flyer is one of my favorites, so this wagon in somebody’s yard caught my eye** 

Sasha Wheeler- "Christmas Lights, Minnesota" 2010

**On Christmas my family and I drove around looking at Christmas lights. Houses seem warm and cozy around the holidays when they are decorated with glittering lights**

 

Photo 4 Blog- Feb. 3rd

“Sitting on the Wall: Haikou V” By Weng Fen

2001, Chromogenic print

Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/sitting_on_the_wall_haikou_v_weng_fen/objectview_zoom.aspx?page=1&sort=1&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=70&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=70&OID=190045983&vT=5&hi=0&ov=0&hN=0

**I really like this image because of the way the wall breaks up the composition of the busyness of the city skyline**

 

"16 Jackies" by Andy Warhol

 1964, acrylic/enamel on canvas

Event Horizon

http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5269

**I have always been attracted to images of Jackie Kennedy, and Warhol pieces in general**

Katy Grannan- Boulevard, 2011

http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/

**This image makes me second guess whether the person is a man or a woman**

Zoey Mae- 2010

 **This is my cousin’s new puppy that she got for Christmas. I chose this image because she’s adorable :)**

Seeing Spots- 2010

This is a picture I took at an Ugle Sweater Party I attended over winter break. The girl on the left is pointing to the spots she was seeing after the flash from a photo before 🙂 It makes me smile.

Parking Lot- January 2011

I am a big fan of small depth of field photos, which I think is very prevelant in this photo.