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SOCIAL LANDSCAPE
Photograph by Andreas Feinenger
Photograph by Harry Callahan
TOPICS
The city: man made environment
Where and how to live
Industry
Components and typologies
City and beyond
The romance of the city
The good, the bad, the ugly
1. choose 2 topics and give an example of an artist or photograph for each, but don't use examples another student has already used.
2. which artist's work did you respond to the most?
3. what is your specific idea for this assignment? It should be well thought out.
34 comments:
1.
Typologies - Becker's water towers and the houses in Germany.
Romance of the City - Jordano's photos of the bridges in Chicago. They were documentary and romantic.
2. I like Vitkon's surreal images of the city. They are similar to the style I use with a lot of my digital pictures. They feel like they're from a dream or a psychedelic trip. They're interesting to look at because while the images are recognizable, the "reality" is not.
3. My idea is to bring out the jumbled, jam-packed atmosphere of the city, but I also want I want to do something similar to Vitkon's work. Since I have been using the computer for the past two or three assignments, I will use different aspects to make the city seem unordinary. I want to try some double exposures, like Callaran's window shots.
1. Typologies - Wolf's photos of apartment buildings
City & Beyond - Gedney's photos of the Brooklyn Brigde
2. I responded to Bergerson's work the most because he really focused on how people express themselves in the city. I find it interesting the variety of ways people do express themselves.
3. My project will be typologies of how people express themselves in the city specifically signs and front store windows.
1. Industry: Hollman's Photos of Grain elevators.
The Romance of the City: Weng's photos of schoolgirls looking at the skyline of shanghai... the connection between the girls and the city; how they relate to it.
2.I liked Dobson's 'No Fixed Address" photos... it was striking how the doorways were almost identical, but still a tiny bit different.
3. My idea is to shoot typologies of the houses and living conditions in different areas/neighborhoods.
1. Romance of the city- Hafkenschied's dreamy, toy-like photos
Industry- Vitkind in an abstracty sort of way
2. I really loved Wolf's images of Hong Kong... the way the images seemed flat, and the repetition.I also really like Thiel's photographs though...
3. The other day I was driving to Waltham and passed by this really interesting abandoned train track and train which is just sortof leaning against this building almost, and there are a bunch of sort of decrepit houses around there also, so i thought it would be interesting to take photographs of these rundown things. But, I am also going to be traveling during vacation so I might find something better while I'm away...
1. industry- Sieglitz and the railroad
components and typologies- marville street lamps
2. I responded the most to Rose and the pictures of the boundaries because I thought it was such a complex idea and something that often goes unnoticed.
3. My idea is to photograph windows to symbolize the distinction between the outside and the inside of buildings.
1. The city: man made enviroment - Citrone: "Metropolis" Collage of buildings crammed together.
The good, the bad, the ugly: Zhigang: Pictures of highly industrialized areas in China.
2. I really liked the photos by Hafkenshied. The strange focus, depth of field, and composition made the subjects appear to be little toys. It made me kinda start an argument with myself about whether it was real or not, and it's really cool that his photos were able to make me think that much and question my perception etc. Yaaaaay.
3. I am going to Costa Rica during April vacation, so I'll have a great opportunity to take photos of San Jose and maybe some more suburban towns. I will be very interesting to see the difference between city life in Costa Rica as oppose to here.
1. Components: Davis took pictures of building windows with reflection of big industry signs
Industry: Peter's pictures of gas stations at night and they're colorful and bright
2. The artist i like the most was Woolf with his pictures of relationship between things and how they fit together, like the streets curves
3. i want to take pictures of streets and how they relate to each other like intersections or just simple turns. i was thinking of doing that by doing triptychs and digitally.
1. Industry - Sager's steal mills that he shot with a special lens that makes it look really cool.
The Romance of the City - Marville's streetlamps in Paris - showing how something as simple as a lamp is made to be more beautiful.
2. I liked Marville's streetlamps the most because I always thought decorative lights were interesting and an intriguing subject and the way Marville shot them was beautiful.
3. For this assignment I wanted to shoot traffic out of rear view mirrors (like the photographer whose name I didn't write down) to show how crowded and chaotic the city is but in an interesting way.
1. Romance of the City: Monet: although his painting of a train station is in a clearly industrial space, his colors/brush strokes give it a sort of grace.
Components: Callahan: he underexposed most of the photo, focusing on sole aspects, but it is still obvious that a lot of going on around the subject.
2. I responded to Callahan's; I liked all the aspects he worked into his photographs. He also played with the image: it wasn't documentary photography, which I don't particularly like.
3. I'm planning on taking pictures of man-made structures around nature. I don't think I'm going to depict it as an intrusion (that idea seems overworked), but maybe how they work together, or at least their relationship. I don't want to do houses/etc...stone walls. Signs. Super stuff.
1. Man made environment- Gursky
components- Friedlander.
2.I really liked photographs by Hatkenschied, Merril and Vitkind.
I liked the idea of somethig surreal and unordinary.
3. My idea is to make a beatiful/surreal/maybe ideal city scene...
by exaggerating the colors in photoshop.
1.) Components - Calvin's pictures of different aspects of the city, for example his pictures of parking lots.
The City and Beyond - Rose's pictures of fronteirs and boarders.
2.) I really responded to Zingang's pictures of abandon china and old run-down factory buildings.
3.) For my assignment I was thinking of donig a typology of gas stations and maybe specifically focusing on gas price signs.
1. City and Beyond: Adam's who photographed new developments out west in his series titled "Summer Nights"
Romance of the City: Stieglitz's photo of New York City from the window of his studio
2. Shore's photo's of small towns across america that were extremely colorful. My favorite was the one of the empty street intersection. The lines on the road made the photo extremely interesting.
3. I would like to do panorama's for this assignment. I will be traveling to upstate new york so i want to take photos of the small run down downs that i will hopefully pass through
1.components: bernice abbot changing new york store fronts
2.the city and beyond:manford:dinosaurs on the roadside
2. my favorite was Marh's photos of dresden they were creepy because the place was abandoned, but they were full of interesting run down stuff that had this ora around it when viewed, and i really liked that.
3.my idea stems off what marsh did in dresden, he had a panorama of a ton a graffiti. i would like to do that too except i want to graffiti on trains. i know of some spots in south boston where i can go to take pictures of the trains where they are parked
1. Components and typologies - Hallman's grain elevators
City and beyond - Koch's pictures of amusing signs
2. I really liked Zhigang's pictures. He presented a view of the city that I normally don't see, which is that of destruction and decay. It is a very unique perspective.
3. I would like to do something along the lines of what Zhigang did. I would have to find really run down and decaying places to photograph, which may be a dillema, but I thing it could be interesting.
1. components and typologies- Wolf's chairs that don't have the right parts
city and beyond- Wessel's photos of trees in the envrionment
2. I liked Koch's photos of the interesting or funny signs. They seemed to reflect the personalities of the places that they were shot.
3. I would like to photograph different areas of the city, using signs on windows to try to show the different personalities that exist in the different parts. I could also do this just using the general landscape, such as how streets fit together.
1. romance of the city- Weng's pictures of the chinese school girls looking at the city
typologies- wolf and beckers work
2. i responed most to the pictures by thall of chicago allways and other parts. i liked the documentry style of the photo...he was capturing exactly what he saw and also the feeling of the places. the places in pictures seemed deserted and abandoned
3. For my project, i want to go into boston and concentrate on the tall buildings and get them from different angles and make them loook superior and endless.
Industry-Abbot and Stieglitz pictures of trains. Cities and beyond-Sager pictures form the rust belt in ohio amd Peters of the gas station.
2. The pictures i most responded to were those of Hafkensheid. I liked how it was hard to tell if they were real or not. I also liked the colors.
3. My idea for this project is over break I am driving to Ohio. My idea is to take pictures of the different landscapes I pass through on my way there.
1.
a. Components/ Typologies
ex) Wessel- components of landscape, “night walk.”
b. The City and Beyond
ex) Christenberry- indigenous MI landscape, shows their history.
2. I really responded to Thal’s dry, deserted alleyways, and his descriptive take on the streets and architecture.
3. I would like to do my assignment on the charm of a humbly run down, yet charming nighborhood in east boston. I want to take descriptive photos of the living spaces and restaurants etc. without romanitisizing it, sort of like the community and neighborhood feel that Bearoun attempted with “the block.”
1. The romance of the city: Wyman. The intimate view of the iron showed that even something as large as a city had smaller, more delicate details that are easy to miss.
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Webb. His pictures of Pittsburgh showed a city at it's worst.
2. I responded the most to Monet's pictures of train stations. They were beautiful in a way we don't often think of trains.
3. My idea is to photograph trains in Chicago. The stations there are some of the most unpleasant I've been to, but I think they'd be very interesting to photograph. I also find the people on the platforms and in the trains are very interesting, and I'd like to document that. Last time I was in Chicago, shortly after the seventh Harry Potter book had come out, there were always several Harry Potter books in every car. I don't think that'll happen this time, but I'm sure the trains will still be interesting.
1. a) components of the city: Wyman... snow on metal railing, architectural and intimate details of the city
b) romance of the city: Seike... Paris at night, lakes, lighting
2. I enjoyed Wyman's photography a lot, because he focused on the city's tiny details that are often overlooked. These photos almost have a childish, whimsical tone in my opinion. I guess this is because I associate young children with curiosity and attention to detail, however mundane or minute.
3. Over the April vacation, I will be traveling in the New England area, so I think that I would like to explore and shoot the idiosyncracies of cities such as New Haven, New York, etc, in the style of Wyman. This will probably require a lot of observation and alertness to specifics on my part.
1. Components and typologies: Bernice Abbot's photographs of New York City stores and signs.
Romance of the City: Stieglitz' photographs of New York City, which glorified and romanticized the city's skyscrapers.
2. The artist whose work i responded to the most was Tice. His photos were very well printed and clear, and really well composed. I liked how he brought out the beauty in little-noticed locations, such as the fish store in front of the lighthouse in New Jersey (?).
3. For my assignment I want to capture the chaos and confusion of the city by taking long exposures of city scenes. I want to create surreal and abstract images which are still recognizable as a city scene.
one.
the good, the bad, and the ugly: Wyman
the romance of the city: Gedney's pictures of the brooklyn bridge
two.
i responded most to hafkenscied's photos that were shot with very shallow depth of field. they seemed at once surreal and literal, which is what struck me as truly nuanced.
three.
i am interested in the people of the city - doing a "typeology" or anti-typeology of sorts set in NYC.
i plan to photograph the colorful people such a large and busy city seems to create - people that at once fit under some categories and defy them as well.
1. Industry- Hollman's grain elevators
Typology- Wolf exemplified flatness with his typology of the settings in Hong Kong
2. My favorite artist was Wolf for his ability to make such a huge impression with such simple techniques such as flattening the plane by use of a telephoto lense, whcih creates a form of order as well as chaos.
3.My idea is to document the intricices of the grafitti/tag world in boston, a world within a city, a world where dominance is determined by intrecet combination of paint.
1. Sager - I like that his pictures make the viewer feel as if he/she is looking through a kaleidescope. This technique is effective because it gives industrialization a jumbled/confused feel.
2. Vitkind - I liked how he focused on the shapes of some of the images by using silhousettes. He focused on abstraction instead of the function of what he was photographing.
3. I'm thinking of modeling my project after Vitkind's. I want to focus on the patterns I can find in industrialized society to depict the feeling of order/repitition feel that the intervention of man creates.
1. The romance of the city- Mason
man made environment.- dean
2. I responded to the artist that you didn't have a name for. I loved his use of color and perspective of the construction sites.
3. My idea is to shoot stop signs and to have it be completely repetitive except for one of the stop signs to be different and to actually stand out which is rare in a big city. Everyones the same.
1.
Typologies:
Marville's street lamps.
Romance:
Weng's schoolgirl and cityscapes
2. I really liked Kanemura's pictures of the city and how busy it looks, but also how there is an order the the disorder in the way things fit together.
My idea is to capture the sounds in a city through the way things fit together; the objects of the city sometimes speak more and make more noise than the people. I am inspired by Kanemura's work and how even though they don't feature people, they have a certain volume and sound. Cities are sometimes quite, and sometimes loud. Or maybe they are both at the same time.
The city: man made environment
Where and how to live
Industry
Components and typologies
City and beyond
The romance of the city
The good, the bad, the ugly
1. city and beyond: hafkenschied's confusing suburb photos- real or not?
where and how we live: matta-clarks craaaazy manipulated houses
2. i loveloveLOVED manford's shots. i can't explain why they were just really cool and i'm a sucker for nostalgia.
3. so it draws inspiration from a lot of the artists in the slideshow, but a mix of the gritty parts of the city that actually make it unique and awesome, and i like the way the panoramic shots look so even though i used a regular digital camera i would crop the photos in that sort of style. COOL.
1. Industry- I love Leger's jumbled collage of the city and how it incorporated signs and buildings that reminded me of the chaotic industrial aspect of the city.
The good, the bad, and the ugly- Thall's photographs of alleyways in Chicago represented the not-so-pretty part of the city, but in my opinion had their own unique beauty.
2. I most responded to Tice's work of gas stations with lights in New Jersey. I loved how each of the gas stations had their own sort of color scheme. The way the gas stations were lit up in contrast to the dark night really appealed t me.
3. MY idea for this assignment is to photograph in Chicago over vacation. I want to focus on what some may consider the unattractive aspects of the city, such as grafitti or older buildings, and try to photograph them so they still can be considered pleasing to the eye.
1. Tice's typology of gas stations in New Jersey to show the aspects of the state.
Gedhey's pictures of the Brooklyn bridge show the romance of the city of New York. They are more about the emotion and feeling and less about the actual subject.
2. I like Zulli's double exposures of Berlin, they were eerie and showed a darker side to life. I liked the way the two images interacted with each other to show more information about the individual subjects and the city itself. I also really liked that he did double exposed polaroids,I thought that was an interesting way to go about depicting the city.
3. I would like to use the city to give specific information about the people who live there, like Bergerson's shards of America. I liked how quirky and interesting everything he photographed was, and I am planning on using his idea but also incorporating a more personal feel to my photos. Instead of simply photographing random quirky signs I would photograph signs with a message. I would also do a few double exposures of people and signs and buildings specific to them, like a store owner and his store front.
1-The fiart topic would have to be "Where and How we Live", and the artist is the the photographer, Humble. his pictures of the car culture and the little communities show the "where", as well as the "how", we live. The second topic from the list of choices I chose is "Components and Typologies". The artist that I think shows this in a very unique and intersting way is Bergerson. His pictures of signs in windows and on walls show the little things that make up a community, the monir components that connect us to our homes.
2-When I saw Gedneys work, I was not impressed with the pictures or his style nearly as much as I was impressed with his idea of taking pictures of something so simple and seeing something so usual but it still being beautiful in its own way. Taking pictures of something that everyone can relate to, like the Brooklyn Bridge. I enver expected for the Brooklyn Bridge to be that intersting and intrigue me that much. It wasn't the pictues, it was the idea of the pictures.
3-My idea circles around the photographs that were taken of little communities and the little personmal items that make up the landscape, wherever it may be. I want to take pictues of the inhabitants of the city, or the community, or wherever I am. I want to take pictures of the personal things that make up our communities and make us who we are in a sense. I would mostly focus on the people in the community, though, the people who make the community what it is. That is what i would mostly focus on.
1. components and typologies- Wolf's pictures of chairs that have the wrong parts and/or are missing parts
romance of the city: Seike and the pictures of paris at night, specifically focusing on light
2. I really responded to Tice's work with the gas stations. The strong color contrast and the way it just kind of stands out and inspires nostalgia in a weird way.
3. I would love to take pictures of the graffiti of the city, and how it effects and relates to the enviroment. i would like to use the computers, seeing as I will be working with colors.
1. hollmans gain elevators.
dresdan ruins were cool
2.i did not respond to anything but i like the subject if i responded to anything it was the Dresdan photos
3. my idea is to take pictures of the big city vs smaller urban areas to show the difference
-sean
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