JohnsonMorganFreeChoice2014



 After researching and looking at multiple artist, I was most influenced and interested in works by Arnold Newman, Ruth Bernhard, and Edward Weston. Their work was mostly in black and white, which I really like when it comes to photography. I also was attracted to their work because of the unique points of view and how they chose to arrange their subjects. I really love Edward Weston and Ruth Bernhard's subjects and how they focus on the shape and the movement that their subject has. I like how all three artists lit their subjects as well, and I hope to play around with lighting for this project and movement throughout the subject. For this project I want to make a mini concentration about identity and body image. I want to develop a series of several images to portray my ideas about how we identify with ourselves and our bodies. I plan to use a lot of movement in each piece, as well as maybe a pattern throughout the series. I also want them to be united, so I be working on three different principles of design. I plan to create a complex composition with my subject and how they fill the space and the position and point of view in which I photograph from. I also will be using Photoshop to develop my series and some techniques I will be using are lighting effects and definitely playing around with the levels and curves of my pieces. I think my series will be unique because of it's concept and hopefully because of my compositions.

Sources for Information and Pictures: http://www.photographywest.com/pages/bernhard_bio.html http://www.edward-weston.com/edward_weston_biography.htm http://www.arnoldnewmanarchive.com/content/about-arnold-newman