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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Photoshop Portfolio

Orange Seagull

            I started with a picture I took for the elements and principles assignment of foam in the ocean in the shape of a heart. There is grass framing the bottom of the picture and it had been made black and white from the previous assignment. I used the palette knife filter to give the picture texture. I then started to work with a picture of a seagull standing on the beach with the tide receding. I use threshold and then a color layering technique to make the seagull orange. Using the threshold I made the duck almost completely white then on different layers put more black into each layer until the last layer was completely black. I then deleted the white from the duck and placed varying shades of orange in place of the black in the picture. I then also used the palette knife filter on this picture, but only on the background not the seagull.

            I went back to the picture with the heart and blended it with the picture of the seagull. I applied the image onto the picture of the foam heart twice and used hard light. By applying the image twice it brought out the image of the seagull more, emphasizing it in a way. I then took another picture I used in the same assignment of a rocky cliff on the beach. I also used the palette knife filter on the image and blended it with the image I was working with previously. I applied my image of the blended seagull and foam heart onto the picture of the cliff. I then used a gradient that was light blue on top and white on the bottom to emphasize the blue of the water at the top of the image. I adjusted the opacity and fill on the gradient lower to integrate the blue of the gradient into the blue of the water to appear natural.

            After doing this I increased the brightness and contrast in the image. I increased both to keep a balance in the image so that it would not become too dark in certain areas. I also increased the saturation in the image to bring out the blue in the water and the orange and yellow in the sand. The last thing I did was adjust the color balance in the image. I put the setting on highlights and increased to amount of red and blue in the picture. Doing this lightened the sand and brought out the blue in the water, creating a balance between the blue and yellow/ orange in the image.

Little Toy

Blended Image

In this image I blended three images together from our photo essay assignment to make a collage of this U10 boys game.

Copy/Paste

For this picture I copied the builiding from my big picture Architecture assignment and also used a filter on the image.

Fisheye

Landscape Assignment

Abstract

Big Shot

Big Shot Photoshop

Detail

Architecture

Location 1 Big

Location 2 Details

Location 3 Big

Location 3 Details

Location 3 Interior

Timothy O'Sullivan

Timothy O'Sullivan was born in 1840 in New York City and died in Staten Island of tuberculosis at age 42 on January 14, 1882. As a teenager O'Sullivan was employed by Matthew Brady, but was commissioned into the Union army when the Civil War began. Joining with Alexander Gardner's studion he had his fourty-four civial photographs published in, Gardners photographic sketchbook of the war, which was the first civil war photograph collection. His most famous photograph is "Harvest of Death" and it depicts fallen soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg. From 1867 to 1869 he was an official photographer for United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. He was to photograph the west to help attract settlers. O'Sullivan's landscape photographers were a new concept that involved taking pictures of untamedand un-industrialized land without the use of landscaping painting conventions. In 1870 he joined a team that surveyed the Panama canal. O'Sullivan spent the last years of his life living in Washington D.C working for the U.S Geological Survey and the Treasury Department.

Elements:

• Line- made by the horizon
• Value
• Space- depth of the shot
• Rule of Thirds- land houses in foreground sky and mountains in background

Chapter 9 Notes

Landscape Photography
Carleton E. Watkins

• wanted to capture grandeur of the American west.

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Ansel Adams

• capture the essence of the wilderness

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Timothy O'Sullivan

• Photographed civil war
• focused on documentary style landscapes

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When photographing landscape:

•  Composition and viewpoint are two important factors to consider
• good composition achieved with use of value and unity within a shot
• smaller f-stops for a slower shutter speed
• maximum depth of field
• sunrise and sunset best times to shoot
• lighting makes it an ideal time to shoot
• Wide angle lens will allow one to get more in their shot.
• Macro-lenses are good for getting abstract shots

The Grand Landscape

• "big view" for landscape photography
• use rule of thirds when placing line of horizon in the shot
• sky can be overpowering in some cases and can be excluded from some shots.

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Landscape Details

• smaller forms of landscape are less intimidating, but hard to get shots when in direct sunlight.
• shooting in overcast weather is ideal to eliminate some light
• this in turn helps to get rid of shadows
• lighter values - longer exposure
• darker values - shorter exposure

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Abstract Elements in Landscape

• images that are composed of lines, shapes, values and textures.
• use of patterns
• use macro-lens to get close to subject
• photograph only a small part of the subject to make it unfamiliar



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Chapter 8 Notes

Architecture Photography

• Architectural photographyare like indirect portrait of the people who live in the buildings being photographed.
• Architectural photography can be a visual recording of a buildings appearance or a casual "sketch" of a place and the emotions connected to that place.
• Pattern, is usually a part of every image in architectural photography.
• it enriches and strengthens photos by adding visual complexity.
• Small f-stops give photos a greater depth of field, slower film gives more detail and the bigger the negative space in a photo the more detail captured.
• Contrast is the difference or range of values.
• Differences in tonal values accentuate texture.
• Film (color) emphasizes the color and setting and is more commonly used in commercial photography in architectural photography, while (black & white) emphasizes value, shapes and texture and is commonly used in artistic architectural photography.

Big View

• Wide angle lens is go to use
• most commercial architectural photographs rely on it, shows the whole building

Perspective distortion - appears as strong converging lines in a building, where the sides of the building angle in towards each other instead of looking parallel as they are in reality.

Detail Shot

• Features the individual architectural elements of a buildings interior or exterior.
• Becomes an indirect portrait of the craftspeople who made them.

Interior Views

• Can be seen as concentrating in the presence of the people who live in and use these rooms.



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Pattern

Photo by Stefan Jannides
Interior



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Small Detail



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Big View

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Architecture In Class Notes

• Architecture photos are indirect portraits.
• Materials, style and scale provide clues to what people's lives were like

Architecture is good for photography because;

• Building's history
• Different angles and perspectives
• Doesn't change
• Only raw photographic materials needed to make it
• Designs in architecture coinside with those of photographic elements and principles.

Frederic H. Evans

• One of the greatest architectural photographers
• Focused on catherdrals in London
• Depicted emotions with the use of lighting
• Primarily used platinum paper and when the paper became scarce because of WWII he gave up photographer forever, rather than change is artistic process.

Architecture uses a lot of pattern and repetition.
3 types of architecture shots

• Big picture
• Small detail
• Interior

Ezra Stoller

• Focused on using line, shape and form
• Started out as an architect, but switched to photography

Patterns dominate almost all architectural photos.
Important to communicate the personality of the space and its relationship to its surroundings in architectural photography.

American Photography Video Notes

• Illustrated Daily News first publication to sell itself based on photographs.
• Want a photograph on the first page that is big, loud, draws immediate appeal on the front page
• Wants a picture that draws emotion to attract attention and get people to buy the newspaper.
• Composograph- pose the photographs using staff and later pasting in the faces of the real stars. Used in the Evening Graphic.
• In photography truth always loses out to fantasy.
• Photograhps helps advertisers give appeal to their products, people think photgraphers are more believable than drawings.
• Camera's give ordinary objects and make them seem extraordinary, helpful in advertising.
• Advertisements are no longer read, they are seen, they revolve around a photographic means.
• Photography added a new dimension to fame, created the new media celebrity (these people look good in pictures)
• Twentieth century astronomy would be unthinkable without photography, would neutralize anything from the picture that one's imagination would create.
• Photography has enabled our five senses to be broadened.