Advice for Photography I
When I started taking this class, the foremost piece of advice I took was: "Overshoot." I would pass on this same advice, but I'd like to add: Over-develop, over-work, over-record, over-everything. Do everything more than you think you'll need to or feel you should have to because, in the long run, it will pay off. Where you spend more time or materials learning in one project, you can save time and materials with another.
My only other advice also applies to any studio class or creative endeavor you will ever take on: Do whatever it is that excites you, but don't be afraid to change it. Just because you've spent hours on doing something one way, don't be afraid to switch it up or start over if you've discovered something that you love more. But don't do it just because someone else loves something else more.
My only other advice also applies to any studio class or creative endeavor you will ever take on: Do whatever it is that excites you, but don't be afraid to change it. Just because you've spent hours on doing something one way, don't be afraid to switch it up or start over if you've discovered something that you love more. But don't do it just because someone else loves something else more.
Inspiration for Photography I
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Scott SpeckI loved Scott Speck's pinhole photography from the moment I saw it. I am particularly drawn to his shots of architecture. Though his images are beautiful for various reasons, I believe that their most enchanting quality is that they are not immediately identifiable, and that, even once the viewer has identified it, looking at the image can still be disorienting and exciting. I hope to one day be able to capture that amount of intrigue in my artwork.
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Sally MannThough I was captivated by Sally Mann's photos as soon as I saw them, it took a little while for them to grow on me until I admired them as much as I do now. What I love about her photos is the ambiguity. Through the honest way in which she takes her photos, and through her excellent technique, she leaves the viewer with an almost haunted, nostalgic, pensive feeling.
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Elena KalisElena Kalis, though perhaps not one of the most prominent in the art world (I have yet to come across her work anywhere but online) remains to be both the first photographer to capture my attention and the one who still enchants me the most. Her underwater photos have an amazing duality between motion and tranquility, and the way she uses the water's surface to play with reflection amazes me.
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Inspiration for Photography II
Abelardo Morell
Abelardo's photography is stunning. The detail, the depth of field, the beautiful tones inside it, and his subject matter are all factors of his work that simply take my breath away. He has an outstanding way of taking very simple objects and turning them into unbelievable visual experiences.
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Martha MadiganMartha Madigan's photography, though moving at first glance, still took a little searching to grow on me as much as it did. It is surreal in almost every aspect, full of wonder and magic, and encourages the viewer to continue searching the details of each image.
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Charles Krebs
Charles Krebs is an amazing photographer with a pretty unique strategy -- he uses photomicography, which is taking photographs through a microscope. This provides some really, really gorgeous shots of things that people see (or don't see!) every single day, or maybe even things people detest, such as bugs. The great thing is that it doesn't require distorting the object to make it beautiful, it is just showing what is really there. However, some of them are still beautifully abstract. This kind of revealing and concealing play is something I would love to explore.
James Casebere
When I first saw some James Casebere's photography, all I could think was, "How did he get so many people to just let them flood stuff?!" Then I found out that he was flooding models that he'd built. His ingenuity and attention to detail can be seen in pretty much every photo, and directly influence my decision to build models for Empty House.
Images are from artists' respective websites and Wikipedia pages.
Portrait of Martha Madigan is found on her Art Info artist profile.