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Tanya Ho 301081195 CMNS 325_Image-Making Ecology
A. Richard Avedon
was born in New York on May 12, 1923 of
Russian –Jewish immigrant parents. He started his career
in 1944 as an advertising photographer for Merchant
Marines. After being discovered by Alexey Brodovitch,
the art director of Harper’s Bazaar, Avedon began taking photographs for the
magazine in 1947. What makes his fashion photography different from other
photographers is that he showed the models with emotions, laughing and sometimes
in action.
Although he first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer, his greatest
achievement was his reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture; his ability
to capture and express the essence of his subject. The portraits are often well lit and in
front of white backdrops, with no props to show the essential specificity of face, gaze,
dress and gesture. When printed, the images always contain the dark contour of the
film in which the images were framed. Apart from framing the great and the
celebrities, Avedon reminds the world with the photographs of miners, unemployed
people, drifters, farmers, cowboys, and convicts in In the American West (1985).
Avedon shows the harshness of their everyday lives, their struggle for survival
through his camera (“Richard Avedon”, n.d.).
When looking into his work, I think he indeed shows the characteristics of the
subjects in his mind but not what the subject trying to reveal in front of the camera. It
is hard to demonstrate Avedon ‘s photography through Photoshop. Nevertheless, I
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choose to use my friend’s portrait without any props because I believe the picture
capture his real character with his well-known gaze amongst friends and as well as his
self-confident. I used photoshop to stand out the light contrast.
Photoshop tools used:
• Hue Saturation • Shadow/ Highlight
Robert Doisneau
was a French photographer born on the 14 April,
1912. He was one of France’s most popular and prolific
reportage photographers. He was known for his modest,
playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions,
mingling social classes depicting the life in Paris. He takes photos of common people
in common situation. His most famous photograph Kiss by the Hotel de Ville (1950)
gives a good example of how he likes to practice photography with intuition. Many of
his photos taken from the end of World War II through the 1950’s have been turned
into calendars and postcards and have become icons of French life. Doisneau has been
the subject of major retrospective at the Bibliotecque Nationale in Paris, the Art
Institute of Chicago, George Eastman Hose and the Witkin Gallery, New York City
(“Robert Doisneau”, n.d.).
Since Doisneau loves to capture the unique moment he ever encounters in life.
I believe there is always a story behind the photos he took. Therefore I picked the
photos I took when I was in Whistler wandering. The little boy just learned how to
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walk can not resist the temptation of photochips. Again I do not think Doisneau’s
work can be mimic through Photoshop because his work is all about feeling and
intuition. Personally I do not think photoshop can do a great job in creating such
sensational photos without a good original film. The only thing they could do is to
embellish the subject and add effects to make the photos look nicer and strength the
form of pictures.
Photoshop tools used:
• Trim • Selection Tools (Elliptical Marquee) • Feather 100px • Inverse • Surface blur layer (background)
B. Impressionism (late 1860s – late 1890s)
was an movement in French painting began as
a reaction against the restriction and convention of
the dominant Academic art that depict historical subjects, religious themes, portraits
with conservative and somber color. The movement’s name was derived from
Monet’s early work, Impression: Sunrise (1872). Impressionist artists shared a set of
related approaches and techniques. The characteristic of Impressionism was to
accurately and objectively record visual experience in term of transient light and
color, to focus the movement on appearance of objects, and to create the unique visual
angles. Small, thin, but visible brush strokes are employed in these paintings. The
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principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir and
Alfred Sisley…(“Impressionism”, n.d.)
I photoshoped my photo to make the color of the tree and the sky more
standout and with the focus on light, the sharpness of tree stand out more. In addition,
in order to mimic the characteristic of small, thin, yet visible brush strokes. I filtered it
with the Brush Stoke tool.
Photoshop tools used:
• Filter • Stoke length • Sharpness • Color balance
Pop Art
Was an art movement that first emerged in the
mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the
United States. Pop Art challenges traditional artwork by asserting that the usage of
mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture (advertising, comic books,
mass media…) is similar to the perspective of fine art. Pop art neglects the material
from its context they used in the work, and combine it with other objects. Usually
sharp and dramatic color is used like in comic books. The concept of pop art refer on
the attitude in doing it rather than the art itself. One of the famous artwork is Andy
Warhol’s Campbell’s Tomato Juice Box (1964). Nowadays, it style is widely used for
advertising, iphone’s camera apps, Photoshop technique.
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I chose the photo of culture commodity Lomo camera to demonstrate the style
of pop art. The camera itself is a mass-produced product, and the dramatic use of
color also represent the unique style of pop art. The idea of using Photoshop allows
this finalized photos easily to be massively produced, yet a distinct artwork. I
duplicated 4 copy of my photos and tuned the saturation and color tone of each
pictures.
Photoshop tools used:
• Duplicate layer • Hue/Saturation • Brightness/ Contrast
C. Landscape photography
is a genre intended to show different
spaces around the globe, sometimes vast and unending, while sometimes microscopic.
Both professional and amateurs practice this style, the subject matter is always the
presence of nature and is free of man-made obstruction. There is no human activity
involoved in order to attain the pure, unsullied landscapes. These photographs always
show the photographers’ appreciation towards the scenery (“Landscape
Photography”, n.d.).
Since landscape photography does not require a lot of post-editing. It captures
the man-made free landscape. Therefore I chose the photos I took in Banff National
Park showing the nature. Just slightly tuned the Hue/Saturation and the
Brightness/Contrast to stand out the scenery I am amused by at that moment. But I
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think photoshop this genre of photograph would distort the original intention of taking
the picture because the light would no longer be the ambient light, and the color is not
actual color of the scene even though the photos looks decent afterwards. On the other
hand, some people might think photoshop does a great job to collage people onto a
picture they have never been.
Photoshop tools used:
• Hue/Saturation • Contrast/ Brightness
Illustration
is a displayed visualization from presented as a
drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is
created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by
providing a visual representation graphically. The earliest form of illustration was
cave painting. During the early to mid 19th century. Illustration is contributed to
satirical and straight-fiction magazine, the demand was for character-drawing that
encapsulated or caricatured types and classes (“Illustration”, n.d.).
Today there is an increasing number of illustration books with mainly
illustration and little words especially in Asia, and also a growing interest in
collecting and admiring original artwork that was once used in books, magazines,
posters, etc. From time to time, there are museum exhibitions, art galleries have
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devoted space to the illustrators of the past. Nevertheless, the emergence of photoshop
obsolesce the spirit of hand-draw illustration, the meaning of illustration becomes
different when it is produce digitally. At the same time, once an artwork can be
reproduced, the value of the initial artwork might decrease. I used photoshop to create
a mushroom house illustration that is lightly to appear in children books with bright
colors.
Photoshop tools used:
• Pen tool • Type tool • Rounded rectangle tool • Ellipse tool
Reference
Illustration. (n.d.). Retrieved Feb 7, 2011, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustration
Impressionism. (n.d.). Retrieved Feb 7, 2011, from
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/impressionism.html
Landscape Photography. (n.d.). Retrieved Feb 7, 2011 from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_photography
Richard Avedon. (n.d.). Retrieved Feb 7, 2011, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon
Robert Doisneau. (n.d.). Retrieved Feb 7, 2011, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau