The final final

I wanted to create something that was real and not just on this series of tubes that the man calls the "internets".  The above is what happened.

Contact sheeeeeeeetz....

Project 4... Critically Massive

My basic idea, if you can even call it that, was to photograph things that caught my eye.  I walked around campus and photographed varies things and scenes.  I later went around downtown Eugene at night to photograph, mostly allys, and lights.  Then I ventured outside the city limits and found a some wonderful trash, my personal favorite thing to photograph.  I combined this with found internet images of housewives from the 1950's.  Here's a few images from my final book.

1,2,3, count them, project 4 contact sheets

Will The Real Project 3 Please Stand Up...

Same basic image, but I took advantage of the extra time by doing a little color adjusting.  Very much still the same original idea.

Project 3...

This is a map of how to get from Portland, Oregon to El Paso, Texas.

This project has stumped me more than an undecided voter on election day.  I was fortunate enough to be able to travel during this project so I really could play with the idea of a map.  I actually went all the way to a little town about an hour outside of El Paso, Texas; this image however only shows images taken on my way from Portland to El Paso.  The reason behind this was because I truly hate airports.  I don't mind flying nor do I completely dislike traveling, I just absolutely hate airports.  So this image is full of images only taken after I exited security in Portland and before I got to baggage claim in El Paso.  

Contact Sheets project 3

Single, Final Image

This panorama is a 360 degree view of my room.... it looks a lot bigger here.

Contact Sheets for project deux

bitch

1. an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch"
2. cunt: a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
3. female dog
4. gripe; complain
5. backbite; say mean things
6. Bitch was an American heavy metal band, formed in L.A. in 1981
7. Bitch is a nonprofit, independent, quarterly magazine published in Portland, OR
8. "Bitch" is a short story written by Roald Dahl
9. "Bitch" is a song by the Rolling Stones, released in 1971 off the Sticky Fingers album
10. "Bitch" is a song by Meredith Brooks, released in 1997 off the Blurring the Edges album

contact sheet 1

contact sheet 2

Spending some time with one lovely bitch.

A photo of my late great-grandmother and myself when I was very young. She used to say that she was just an old bitch.

I have been called bitch.

influence...s

Choosing just one person that influences me is not an easy task. Artists like Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, Salvador Dali, Barbara Kruger, The Starn Twins, and Roy Lichtenstein all influence me on a regular basis. However, for the sake of this assignment, I would have to say that Sally Mann is a very big influence on my Artistic life.

Lately I feel that my work is moving slightly toward a feminist idea and I feel that Sally Mann has this slight bend of feminism that I am moving toward. I find the fact that she is a mother, photographing the everyday going-ons of her family and children, in a very artistic way, very interesting. I love the way her photographs seem to show the beauty in the everyday. I also enjoy the fact that, although at first glace her photos may seem like snapshots into her life, the more you study and look at her images, they seem staged, like her children are acting for the camera. This is something that I have tried to incorporate into my work as well, putting on a show or acting for the camera that is, with less success I personally believe.

Also, as a photographer who has really only done analog, I have the utmost respect for her print quality. I know that she is a professional so her print quality should be amazing, but it still amazes me how colorful she can make black and white photography. Her work shows me that there's really no need for color in photography.

Ok, I guess that that's enough of my blabbing, here are some of Sally Mann's photos that I really have been drawn to...

Oh, and I seem to not completely understand this blogging nonsense, I can't figure out how to put text under the images, so I will just let you know that...

The first image is titled The New Mothers and is from 1989,

The second image is titled Gorjus and is from 1989,

And The third image is titled Candy Cigarette and is from 1989.

They are all part of Immediate Family.