MOMA has an outstanding collection of photography that comes to life in many portrait sizes. The sharp quality and detail varies between each photographer, giving off different moods or abstracts. Studio photography is pretty much under the beholder’s control. It’s both easy and hard at the same time, because creativity is heavily involved. Originality plays its purpose and MOMA’s new gallery perfected it.

MOMA changed my view on studio photography by learning how to create your own world indoors. My experience as a studio photographer has rationally developed while viewing the eye of another photographer. Our job is to allow the viewer to see, how we see things. Light and shadow is the most controllable feature. Adding more or less element, changes the image dramatically as much as color.

Valerie Belin’s, Mannequin Series of 2003 stood out highly towards my interest. The whole image was a detailed head shot of a very beautiful mannequin. It was very wise of her to produce a black and white image which revealed areas of hard and soft light. The direction of light helped the model look more life-like to the viewer’s eye. A large portrait for further admiration tied in well, along with shallow depth of field. Harold Edgerton’s, Indian Club Demonstration of 1939, was also a well produced image on the opposite life of photography. He created a more inverted studio field, where light isn’t involved. He formed movement in a trailed quality with a precise gesture of everyday life. I refer this as a still-motion graphic with a unique use of strobe light. The exposure is different and he found an interesting way to capture motion within a few seconds.

Along with the NYT’s review, I do agree that the exhibit explored the “means of mediums”. It produced many works from different artists, and original experiments. Although many of the pieces do not demand attention, majority stood out on its own. There were a few dull pieces that weren’t fully modern, but overall it complemented basic photography. Here and there were a few repetitive practices that showed the photographers impression. Each exploration was unique; although colored portraits were hardly produced. Color and space is a big emphasis in the modern world. Also, each room carried a mixture of old and recent art. I believed it could have been more organized amongst its group.