Friday, April 15, 2011

Friendship

A friendship can develop in a place in which you least expect it to developed and for me that was the girls basketball team because these girls all knew each other and I was new to the team.

Even a family member can be one of your best friends and in this case my cousin and I have a strange friendship in which people don't think were cousins...people think we've been friends for a long time.

A friendship can can be as diverse as they want to be, I never discriminate and never would I. 

A silly but serious when needs to be friendship is one of the best friendships a person can have. 
A friendship that quickly developed over the summer and everyone does their own thing but at the end of the day we all know we are all friends at the end of the day. 

A friendship with a coach that has coached you for years and yes we have our side conversations but when it comes to the field the friendship turns into a Coach-Athlete friendship. (I am number 10).

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Questions for 2/16

1. What do the photos mean to Eggleston?
 The photos hold a significant meaning to Eggleston. It represents the Southern culture. They all tell a story of different people, different lifestyles, different locations, and different scenarios. I think he holds these photos as a captured memory of how life is in the south.2. What do they mean to you?
  They mean new knowledge and a new view on another part of this country. Especially the time period. I have never been to the south so I wouldn't know what it looks like over there or what goes on and these pictures show me people from the south in different locations that keep wondering more about the south.
3. What does it mean to be a viewer of Eggleston's photos? (What does it mean to view something that you know has a personal meaning to someone else, but not know what exactly that meaning is?)
   It means to me that I might be interpreting these photos wrong and completely going against what the person is actually trying to get across (in this scenario, Eggleston). It keeps me trying to assume the meaning but not knowing if my assumption has been correct or not correct.
4. What makes these photos ART and not just snapshots? (why should we care?)
   They are not typical snapshots. When given one of our first assignments and telling us that we had to portray a photo by Eggleston on our own, it came to my senses that it wasn't easy. I couldn't just pick my camera up and be like okay this is like Eggleston. It seems the angle, the posture, and the scenario was hard to focus. I think it is Art. He's capturing things through his point of view and that's what makes it special. We should care because we are all looking at these photographs for a reason and that reason is yet to be determined individually. 

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Thesis Statement

They say a photo can capture a thousand words, and William Eggleston knows exactly what a thousand words he was trying to capture in his photographs, especially the ones in William Egglestons Guide. The South is portrayed in different aspects which leave the viewer/reader imagining beyond what the 8 x 5 photograph has to offer and what effect it might leave.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Joel Meyerowitz

Meyerowitz was born in 1938. He is originally from Bronx, New York. He began using color in his photography in 1962 as a street photographer. He is compared to William Eggleston and Stephen Shore for being the first to start using color exclusively. He graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in painting and medical illustration in 1959. He is the author of 16 books and a man that is well known for his photography of people and places and color.


Friday, February 4, 2011

Photo Essay







Picture 1 - Soccer Season 09-10, "We must win this game."
Picture 2 - Westfield Home Sweet Home, Scanlon Hall...10-11
Picture3 - Close Up?
Picture 4 - This is why I love Spring time <3
Picture 5 - All - Star Softball Game 10', "Eh, I think I'm ready?"
Picture 6 - Celtics Fan appreciation, Boston : my home for 18 years
Picture 7 - Personal v.s Educational

Monday, January 31, 2011

Meyerowitz v.s Eggleston

They are both very known for their color photography. They both as photographers capture images of unexpected daily moments, involving people or significant locations. That being said, they both have this relation and similarity of both making the reader of the picture wonder: "what is going on?"

Here's one of Meyerowitz photos:


Heres one of Egglestons photos:



Can't you see the resemblance? Two different objects, set up in two different locations, but leave the same effect on the person observing the picture.

Friday, January 28, 2011

My impression of Eggleston

 It feels as something is missing. Clothes all pushed to the side and hangers in between left empty. its the mid top of a closet and it feels abandoned. It gives me a "I just came home and found her to be gone" type of feeling. To the right of the picture the reflection light gives the picture a toned glow. Makes it feel more natural. All the cords thrown gives it once again the abandoned feeling. It's like a jumbled chaos (the cords look chaotic). This image certainly belongs in William Egglestons' guide. 
Don't you think?

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

What Comparison Does He Make Between Writing and Photography?

"Such a reading might damage the picture only for the very impressionable and my prompt some others to look at the picture longer than they would've without the encouragement of words" - Page # 13

"A picture is after all only a picture, a concrete kind of fiction...." - Page # 14

"The meanings of words and those of pictures are at a best parallel, describing two lines of thought..." - Page # 13