The trip to MoMa I would say it was okay. I don’t like going to museums that much, because every time I go and see the “Art” that hangs in there…Oh man, I get a bit mad. But back to the topic. I did find something that got my attention. The portrait (grisaille) of a mannequin by a French artist, Valerie Belin. I thought it was really cool to see that from far away it looked like a model, but once you got closer to the frame… you would see the details in the eyes; the eyes were painted well done. So that really got me because it looked alive, realizing it was a mannequin and not a photo-shopped model. It was my favorite piece at the museum. When women are photographed they put makeup to look like beautiful mannequins, so why not take portraits of the mannequins instead (that’s what i think) since they are perfect and don’t complain… or charge. The other pieces in the gallery were also very interesting and odd or just straight weird. For example (Richard Avedon’s American, 1923-2004 Gelatin Silver Prints 1975 (The Photography Council Fund)) was odd/weird to me. I didn’t get why a bunch of staff members were naked. I try getting an idea at least from it and I thought that “maybe, they want to show how they really are and be free and not be judge”, because in the image there’s a “girl” that has a male organ. After looking at several Images in the gallery, I thought that photography is very flexible, is not just about the colors but also about the texture, details and feeling(s) of that object or person that you capture at a certain moment in time on a frame. And it open my mind to other aspects of photography that i thought ( wow that’s possible with a camera).
also I liked the red bird that was there. By Shirana Shahbazi (German, born Iran 1974)
(Bird-08-2009) Chromogenic color print. When i saw the bird, the vivid colors got my attention and everybody in the gallery. The red color background and the odd position of the bird also got my attention. the bird was flying down but looking at you, Also liked the space that the bird had in the frame. The dark colors blended quite well in my opinion, they were dark but not to the point for you not to see details, but on this piece you did see details. And yes i do agree on certain parts of the the “New York Times” article ‘A World of its Own,’ Examining Photography, at MoMA by Roberta Smith. I do agree that Belin’s portrait of a beautiful mannequin was really good and Shahbazi’s taxidermic bird was also really good. They both got my attention and made me stare at them for a good time in the gallery.
