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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
cultural event 3
Kayla Vahling
Cultural Event #3
Photo Portfolio
3/5/11
023 Gallery Opening
Along with other photography and art students, I attended the opening of the photography show, 3445: Photos at the 023 Gallery on Thursday, March 3. The show was in a small gallery space, but the small number of images fit nicely in the space. The overall feeling was an intimate display of a wide variety of photographic images. The images were those of a photography portfolio class, so it was interesting to see the differences in people’s personal styles through single images from their larger bodies of work.
The opening drew a fairly large crowd for such a small gallery space. It was interesting to hear the feedback on, and questions about the imagery. Because there was not a cohesive theme to the show, (other than that it was the portfolio work of a specific class) it was interesting to hear the theories that viewers arrived at as to how the images went together.
Overall the opening for the 3445: Photos show at the 023 Gallery was a lot of fun. Lots of students attended the opening, and the discussions were very interesting. In addition, the images were all impressive and the space fit the show very well in my opinion.
cultural event 2
Kayla Vahling
Cultural Event 2
Photo Portfolio
2/21/11
J. John Priola Lecture
John Priola’s lecture on the history of his personal artwork was much more interesting than I had originally anticipated. I had heard of John Priola as a photographer before, but did not realize how many other mediums he incorporated into his works, and what a wide variety of subjects he worked with. Many of his early works we photographs that were collaged with paintings, prints, clippings, and drawings, which were then photographed or scanned to create a final one surface work. This part caught my interest because I personally like to create collages of different mediums, but prefer the single surface of a photograph.
I have always enjoyed seeing installation artwork, but when I have been pressed with actually creating installation work I have not enjoyed it. Priola’s lecture really opened up the world of exhibiting work and displaying installation pieces for me. He spoke extensively on the use of light to really direct the viewer. He was not just talking about setting track lights to illuminate the artwork, but light within the artwork as well. He also mentioned that he found it interesting to light areas of the gallery space that did not feature artwork and to observe how people were drawn to the lighted areas. His use of light directed audience participation in much of his installation work.
Priola’s work has been shown in many museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Art in Houston. After hearing his lecture and getting the chance to see the variety of work he has created I have a new appreciate for J. John Priola.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Richard Avedon
Kayla Vahling
Richard Avedon
2-15-11
Richard Avedon was a New York born fashion and portrait photographer. His photographic career included work for the Merchant Marines, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker and Life Magazine, to name a few. As a fashion photographer he incorporated a new style of imagery, which showed the true emotions of the models and put them into action, rather than still, lifeless poses. In addition to his work in the fashion industry Avedon photographed social issues such as the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, Vietnam War protestors, patients at mental hospitals, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He also began extensive portraiture work largely of famous actors, musicians and political figures, some of which became his most widely known and noted images. His portraits have a very distinct simplicity to them, featuring a plain (usually white) background and straightforward views of the subject. Another distinct feature of much of Avedon’s work is the sheer size of his images. Often shot with a large format 8x10 camera, his prints were usually very large, sometimes more than three feet in height.
His photography has become very widely published and the famous faces in his portrait work have been numerous. Avedon’s work has been exhibited all over the world, and has won many awards, including the International Center for Photography Master of Photography Award, the Prix Nadar, and the Royal Photographic Society 150th Anniversary Medal in 2003.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
feb 7
Kayla Vahling
Film Response 2
1/28/11
Debbie Fleming Caffery
I enjoyed the film on Debbie Fleming Caffery. I really liked her work, and I found the images she created to be very interesting and moving. As the film narrated her experiences and explained her journey around the southern part of North America I found each new set of images even more interesting than the last. Some of my favorite images were of the prostitutes in the town in Mexico. They were very intimate and honest, and I was very impressed that she was able to get close enough to the women to photograph them in such situations.
Another part of the film that I found interesting was at the beginning when one of the critics compared Debbie’s work to that of the photographers of the depression era, like Dorothea Lange. At first I thought they were very similar, but then the narrator explained how Lange’s photos became icons of the time period,, while Caffery’s images were of individuals trying to survive in hard times, regardless of the time period. It was interesting to see the similarities between the photos, but to also recognize the timelessness of photos of poverty and disaster stricken areas. Overall I really enjoyed both the documentary and Debbie’s work, I found them to be very thought provoking and moving.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
january 23 - Dorothea Lange Presentation
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was born in New Jersey in 1895. She studied photography and worked in various photo studios in New York during the early stages of her career, before moving to San Francisco in 1918 and opening a portrait studio. As the era of the Great Depression fell on the United States, Lange changed her photographic style. Her studio portraiture shifted into shots of the homelessness and the unemployment that plagued the U.S. Her moving photographs caught the eyes of professional photographers and landed her a job with the Federal Resettlement Administration, which later became the Farm Security Administration.
Lange’s photographs quickly became the icons of the era. Her shots included scenes on the poverty stricken streets and farms of the U.S. They showed the struggles of the migrant workers and sharecroppers struggling to make a living during the depression.
Her images continued to capture attention, and in 1941 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in the photographic arts. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lange shot many images of the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
In 1945, Lange was offered a faculty position by Ansel Adams at the California School of Fine Arts. Lange died at age 70 in 1965, but her photographs remain as reminders of the struggles that millions faced during the Great Depression.
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