A good article

This is a good article. 

John, you should read this.  Wait, everyone should read this.

Portraits

From Wikipedia (yeah, a terrible source, but I liked the definition...)

Portrait:

"A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer."



Three rules to this assignment...no, wait...SEVEN rules to this assignment.

Rule #1: NO MYSPACE PHOTOS - I think you all know what this means. You've seen 'em, you've taken 'em, I don't want 'em. If you need a reminder about what I'm talkin' 'bout, watch this video.



Rule #2: You need to shoot at least three different people.

Rule #3: No pets.

Rule #4: One of the people you photograph must be someone you do NOT know.

Rule #5: One of those three people MUST be yourself...but, you can't BE yourself...

Rule #6 No groups.

Rule #7 Present them in color (black and white portraits will be next)

Here is Cindy Sherman doing her version of Lucille Ball.



Here is a link to the National Portrait Gallery. You will get a lot of good ideas here from paintings, sculpture and photography.

National Portrait Gallery

Here is one of my favorite portrait photographers...Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon Portrait Gallery

Hiroshi Watanabe's gallery has a few sections of portraits that are interesting.

August Sander was a German photographer who made portraits of farmers and working class people near Cologne prior to World War II. After the Nazi's gained power, Sander continued to shoot the people in his city, many of them shown in Nazi military uniforms. Sander's portraits provide possibly the widest cross-section of Germans during that time.

Here is a self-portrait of me as Abraham Lincoln.



Here is our friend Steve McCurry talking about what you should do BEFORE YOU START PHOTOGRAPHING SOMEONE'S PORTRAIT.

Student Show - Call For Entries

Dear Visual Arts students and faculty,

The following is information about the Annual Student show that is coming up.

 

CALL FOR ENTRIES for the BYU Annual Student Show.
Drop off work March 19th-21st, 9:00-4:00 at Frame Shop, B315 HFAC
Pick up declined work March 29th-30th

The work will be on display April 5th-20th
Pick up work on display April 20th 3-5 PM and April 21st 10-3 PM

Limit 3 Entries per Student. NO COST.
Over $2,000 in awards will be offered!

 

 

Thank you,

 

Jessica Roylance

Secretary

BYU Department of Visual Arts

3122 JKB

Provo, UT 84602

 

Improve your printing...here's a good article.

Magnum's master printer talks in this interview on how he prints in the darkroom.  This might give you some ideas on how to start thinking about your printing.  It can get way more involved than just a simple dodge and burn.


READ THIS.

Edible Developers - for film

So here's an interesting...albeit somewhat long...discussion about developers that you can use for your film that you could also EAT!

Yummmmy!

Read this, then go grocery shopping.

Might be an interesting idea for a final project...hint, hint...

Photography Projects - some sites

Landscape Stories

Visura Magazine

Photo Lucida

Fraction Magazine

Unless You Will

These should keep you busy for a while.

I didn't know Paul McCartney had a darkroom...