Michael Gregory: Digital Photo Blog
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Photography Reborn Reading 3
Jennifer Ringley while not a photographer was an early user
of the digital camera to capture her day-to-day life in still imagery. Being
one of the first web cam users as well for online early blogging type purposes.
She began the images while in college (1996) and it ran until she shut it down
in 2003 when pay-pal changed some of its policies that would in turn restrict
what she did.
Natacha Merritt’s work is similar in style but rather than
using images to document her day to day life, in blog type format she chose to focus
on a certain aspect of her life to take images from. Image of her after sexual
encounters. It is an interesting contrast by only capturing moments from a
particular part of her life she is one of the earliest individuals to have an
online persona while her as an individual was a separate entity.
Henry Fox Talbot was the British inventor who was one of the
first to develop an analog photographic process, the Calotype. He is well known
for this as well as a famous dispute over whether it was the Calotype or the
Daguerreotype that was the first analog process. History mainly remembers that
Daguerre was the first and most famous of the early analog inventors, as Talbot
lost much of his support as the daguerreotype became more popular and investors
wanted a sure bet rather than to back a competitor that could lose them money.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
Reading 4
Jeff Weiss is a photographer who has been primarily working
on images that examine landscapes and structures along with the relationship
between the two for several decades. The work he shows in the book interested
me because it demonstrated the idea of nature removing structures form the
landscape made by humans over time. One of his other projects is somewhat the
inverse Collaboration was a series that used nature to create structures from
natural materials. Between the two works I find it interesting that with so
many of his projects looking at the conflict between man and nature the
possibility of a kind of harmony was explored.
Martina Lopez is another artist who was an early adopter of
digital technology to create an image. Focusing less on what the technology
could do she used it initially to recreate the types of aesthetics found in old
scrapbooks, and collage work. Her other work mainly works to the same ends
taking old photographs and manipulating them to fit in her constructed scene
but making it apparent that it is edited so that the viewer understands that
there was an original meaning.
Simen Johan is a Scandinavian artist whom in the book has
images that represent a dreamlike state of people. His more recent work
maintains that dreamlike aesthetic, but has a focus on nature. In the series
“until Kingdom Come” the animals portrayed are manipulated to seem realistic
but always have something that gives away the fake aspects, such as a false color
of fur, or an odd grouping of animals.
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