Tollenaar+-+Final+Free+Choice+Masters+Assignment




 * First Picture: Camilla (Ylla) Koffler**
 * Camilla Koffler, known by her artist name Ylla, was born in Vienna in 1911 to a Serb mother and a Romanian father, both Hungarian nationals. During the First World War, she was obliged to travel with her mother by foot between Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. This inspired her to take pictures of animals, and everything around her that made her happy.
 * I could not find the title for this image, but her works inspired me because she took these pictures because they made her happy.

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 * Middle Picture: Sam Hood**
 * Born Samuel Hood in the mid-1870's. Sam Hood began his photographic apprenticeship in the mid-1880's when he was barely into his teens. He was a traditional, old-school film photographer, who often took pictures of people doing what they loved. He was still working as a photographer on the day he died, at the age of eighty-one. This added up to a long career, and it made for a lot of photographs, or approximately 11,400 images.
 * This Picture is named "A Soldier's Goodbye, with Bobby the Cat". This photo inspired me because I really liked how unplanned this image is along with all of his others.


 * Last Picture: Imogen Cunningham**
 * Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon in 1883. Cunningham started her journey in photography at the age of 18 in 1901 and was self-taught. She went to school for chemistry and pursued photography as a hobby and side-job, until 1910, where she started her own studio in 1910. At that time, her subjects expanded from portraits and still life to industrial structures and modern architecture. She was a traditional, old-school film photographer.
 * This image inspired me because, in her work, Cunningham emphasizes the light, form, and pattern in her compositions.

For this final project in photography, I wanted to be inspired by old-school film photographers and their work. I looked through a variety of artists, but the ones that I was really drawn to were Imogen Cunningham, Camilla Koffler, and Sam Hood. I really liked each artist's use of close-up photography, especially those with natural subjects, like plants and animals. To meet the criteria for this assignment, my concept is to show that black dogs or dogs with disabilities are just as good as any other dog, as black dogs and dogs with disabilities often get overlooked at shelters. I wanted to take pictures of what made me happy without trying, and so I decided to take pictures of my Lab puppy, Max, my Papillon, Louis, and the flowers in my garden. I decided to mainly take pictures of Max because he always makes me happy without trying, because of his goofy antics. I wanted to take pictures of his eye as well because he only has one eye, but he has a genetic mutation called Heterochromia, which means in his case, his eye is 4 different colors in rings of color. Also, while I am editing these photos, my plan is to possibly change them to black and white pictures to really emulate the styles that these artists had, but to also leave the image of Max's eye the way it is because I wanted to keep the image in color to portray his interesting perspective on life, and to show how his eye matches his personality.

**Create** a series of images (3 printed and 5 edits) that have been inspired by a specific Master of Photography (old-school film or contemporary digital). Research at least 3-4 masters from the list here and develop a wiki page that discusses your proposal for this assignment.
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