Barwick_Port



__(first image)__ ||  [|__Richard Avedon__] __(second image)__ ||  [|__Irving Penn__] __(third image)__ ||
 * Artist Name ||  [|__Julia Margaret Cameron__]
 * How do these artists make their portraits art, not just snapshots? || She tries to tell a well known stories with people she knows, or recreate biblical figures and trying to match a face with them.  || He has the people wearing bizarre things/ he has them all centered around a certain mood.  || Minimalism, he made sure his subjects were the center of his portraits and made sure there was no clutter around them. He didn’t have them on a plain background (Richard Avedon).  ||
 * What lighting and compositional techniques are evident? || Natural lighting, her studio was a converted chicken coop so also she had candle light, but mostly it was natural since she died the year the light bulb was invented (1879). She does not use the rule of thirds, and has very balanced photographs. What's on the left is equal to what's on the right. She also uses fill the frame really well.  || It looks like a lot of artificial lighting is the focus of his. Mostly it looks like bounce-fill lighting and/or studio lighting. There’s one or two that are set in natural lighting, however he seems to prefer the artificial lighting. He fills the frame with his subjects quite well, and their not smack in the middle but relatively close to the center. Some of his photographs (other than the one I chose) are right in the middle.  || It seems he had a similar style as Richard Avedon, however Penn’s is a lot more tones down and doesn't use as much bright lights. He uses a level horizon, and typically doesn't fill the frame with solely his subject. However he doesn't leave negative space. He uses leading lines in the photograph above, as well as some of his other ones.  ||
 * How may their art influence your own? || She used her close friends, and their children to portray them as biblical heroines, ands arthurian maidens. I like that she used people she knew to put faces to characters she read in stories.  || I really like his style overall, and ironically with some of the ideas I already have they would look a lot like his. I like how he differs the value in his photographs in the subjects face, and he has them all posed in a certain way that reflects that.  || He paid attention to the small details, which I want to take into consideration when shooting my own photos. It seems like everything in his photos are there because he wants them to be, nothing is there by accident.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Questions? || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why was she do fascinated with the stories? In her lifetime there were only really stories, I’m going to guess she was literate, but I’m just curious on why she wanted to capture the stories she read.  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wonder if he’s done any self portraits, I hadn’t looked up what he looked like, but I’m curious if he’s featured himself in any of his own.  || N/A ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ffd966; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Connections to own experiences, what does it remind you of? || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ffd966; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">It reminds me of movies. She found a story she wanted to put to life, and then found a ‘face’ character. It’s like hunger games, Jennifer Lawrence became Katniss Everdeen but we would never have associated her with that role unless we had seen a movie or an image suggesting why she would be a good fit.  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ffd966; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">His work reminds me of the movies and the cinema, a very romantic feel around them. It reminds me a lot of the movies like the notebook, dear john, and one more I can’t think of what it was called but it was in that feel. But some of pictures remind me more of just a portrait that hangs above a mantel, kinda like the portraits in American Horror Story: Coven of all the ex. Leaders.  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ffd966; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">His work reminds me of fashion magazines, but that’s because that’s what he did. It also reminds me a lot of the 1950’s. Which is when he lived about so that’s understandable too. I think it also has more of the movie and glamor feel of the 1950’s and doesn't focus a lot on the poverty and other stuff going on like some other photographers did.  ||