Cynthia Greig has a series that deals with miniature items that interact with life size figures. She tries to create alternate worlds where we humans are the gods and the miniature things exist in reality. Our sense of natural order is in question and and our point of view is obscured. I believe her images work well and i do like the miniature items i find them humorous but i do believe this type of work has been a bit overdone.
Roland Buehlmann known as Ormaxx is a photographer from Switzerland. He uses a Nikon FM2 body, without lenses and uses over 30 different pinhole apertures on color slide film. His photographs are about color and light and they are meditative. I enjoy his work because the way he uses the light in each photograph is completely different he is not stuck on one way of doing things. The colors are beautiful and the streaks of light do give it a meditative state.
Sally Mann did a series called the "the deep south" which focuses on photographs that she took in Mississippi and Louisiana. The photographs came out interesting to me because she used the broken lens and camera to her advantage. She used the light leaks and it gives her photographs a unique quality it has a hazy dreamlike feel. She dedicated each photograph to a time in history mostly the Civil rights era and even one where she dedicated to a young boy kidnapped and murdered. I like when photographers use history in their images it gives the photographs a mystery and you want to know more about them and what happened there.
Run From View is a black and white silver gelatin print. Chuck Kelton works from personal experiences this particular work is about the chaos of life. I do appreciate that Chuck is bringing abstract work into photography it almost seems like an abstract painting to me. I do not really see how his concept is related to this work. I do not get the chaos of life from this work at all this photograph gives me a lonely isolated feeling not chaotic. The white area in the middle is just empty space if anything it makes me think that he was going for a distraction of daily life or an interruption.
I am personally not a huge fan of still lifes they tend to be overdone and usually are the same subject matter but i find andrea modica's work more intriguing than a boring still life. She takes her still life and puts personality into them they are almost portraits to me even though there are no human figures in them she gives the image so much personality by giving the items a worn feeling.
this is a photogram with dye and bleach by Adam Fuss
Close's effort to replicat photographic realism by hand also led him to abstraction. Close is known for his enormous portrait paintings, each based on a small photograph of the subject's head, captured straight on and with a deliberately blank expression. Close transfers the photographic image to canvas using a rather mechanical mural method, drawing a grid on both the photograph and the cavas, he fills in each individual box on the canvas in correspondence with the source image.
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the mind of someone living, is the name given to a sixteen-foot tiger shark suspended a vast tank of greenish formaldehyde.
- Orozco endows objects with personal and social meanings that express his own sense of displacement in a nomadic art world. In some of his works, he appears to view the world itself as a readymade, for instance in photographs highlighting strange juxtapositions found by chance in the environment, such as an arrangement of twigs on a sidewalk or a bicycle resting on a fallen tree in the desert.
- until you find another yellow schwalbe, Orozoco drove around Rome on a yellow motor scooter and snapped a photograph of every other yellow scooter he saw, as if to establish his own place in this foreign land.
