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Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression.personally these images are so bold and have so much emotion related to them with the absence of color and the detail in each so fine and life like. I love that my emotions are provoked from looking at these photographs. I read that these photos are old and from years ago because he captured real people and their homes, and I get a rustic feel from the slight brown in the photo.

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                                                                  Terri Weifenbach
I find these images beautiful and my eye keeps moving through the photograph and the subject trying to find different details. I would live to figure out the technical requirements used for these images. This image gives me an eery kind of feeling, like I was kidnapped and taken to the woods and this is the sight i was woken up to. with the branches going in all directions and the blurriness gives the photo a sense of action. 

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If I ever became more than a pen to this paper then I would have lost all control.

If I allowed my mind to create, there would be no limits to regulate the temptations.

If I had control...

Artist 7

Tree Tops, from the series Somewhere in Israel 

I was interested in this series because I am drawn to all the shapes in the photograph, they keep my eyes moving around the photo. I could not find how this photo was made but if I had to guess a photograph was taken, then manipulation with some chemical. I am not drawn to the variety of color, it is a little nauseating to me, but I am still interested in the concept. 

Artist 6

"Structure of Thought" by Mike and Doug Starnes

This series is about Absorption and transmission, metaphorical exploration of light as a requisite for photography and vision, and as a symbol of enlightenment. Representing our brain and its thoughts in which they are all structured differently but all come from the same place and and obtain some of the same attributes. I love the metaphorical approach, for me it gives the photograph life and feeling i feel I can some how relate with the photographs. I like that i can see texture in the photograph whether there is or not, i get the sense there is, making the photograph more dense.

Artist 5

"Early-twentieth century Modernism greatly transformed our lives, liberating the human

spirit from untold decoration. No longer needing to draw attention from God, all

aristocratic attempts at ostentation have fallen away. At last we avail ourselves of

mechanical aids far beyond our human powers, attaining the freedom to shape things at will." -Hiroshi Sugimoto

 I Like the idea behind these images, blurring them to create dimension through the human eye. I personally do not find these images aesthetically pleasing because my eye doesn't focus on any point in the photo it moves all around. Knowing there is a deeper meaning I try to become pleased with these photographs but can not. However I appreciate the concept and work that was put into these blurred images. 

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Artist 4

"A Road Divided"  2006 chromogenic print

Todd Hido is an American contemporary artist.and photographer much of Hido’s work involves urban and suburban housing across the U.S., of which the artist produces large, highly detailed and luminous color photographs. Hido is creating a sense of place and a sense of displacement co-existing in a paradoxical realm. Eerily lit and abandoned landscapes increase the effect of loneliness and loss.

Artist 3

 

"Hands spread on knees"

John Coplans British, 1920-2003

1985 Gelatin silver print photographs.

These photographs are so bold to me, that's why I am drawn to Coplans work. I don't have a bold personality and I tend to play it safe in my work. I would like to maybe do something similar. Coplans is known for his series of black and white self-portraits which are a frank study of the naked, aging body. He photographed his body from the base of his foot to the wrinkles on his hand. As he never photographed his face, his images are not focused on a specific man or identity.

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Peter Beard. Elephants Memory. 1972/2008. Gelatin silver print ink.

"An extension if his diaries" I found the sound of this compelling because in my personal work I exemplify the same concept. The collage of mixed media represents the changes that have exhausted and denatured Africa's wildlife. Also, goes back to the idea of the diary by expressing thoughts through the use of vocabulary and visuals. Beard interrupted the simplicity and the fundamental aesthetics of the photograph just as society has done with Africa's wildlife. I personally find this concept inspiring and still aesthetically compelling, especially because of the symbolism the photograph entails.

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                                       "untitled" 2007 Gerhard Richter. Oil on photograph. 

I find Gerhard's work curiously compelling. I want to know the story behind the paint, but I'm drawn to the abstraction. I asses the photographs as mysterious, like Gerhard was capturing a moment of his world and as soon as he captured this moment things immediately changed. Distorting them, creating an unpredictable abstraction of life. Portraying the person as obsolete, enhanced, burdened..etc. with the qualities of the paint.

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