Monthly Archives: April 2013

Looking at Nina Katchadourian’s iPhone photos my first impression was that they were strange, but looking at other Flemish style images I saw how the images style was similar to Nina. Using the objects on the plane to create these … Continue reading →

I found Katchadourian’s seat assignment way more interesting and amusing than her self portraits. It is a little weird to me the fact that this women takes photos of herself in the bathroom of the airplane, I can definitely tell she … Continue reading →

Nina Katchadourian’s self portraits are kinda weird. I wonder if any other passengers on the flights noticed what she was doing at all. That would have been funny. I think that she has this really serious mood in all her … Continue reading →

I believe that Bill Rancic said it best, “art is in the eye of the beholder.”  I think people who believe that sleeping is a form of art have gone a little overboard.  It almost seems like a joke.  Perhaps … Continue reading →

While looking at Katchadourian’s pictures I kind of got the feeling that she was mocking the Flemish portraits.  I didn’t think she was being very creative when reenacting these Flemish portraits because they already existed and so she just immatated … Continue reading →

Nina Katchadourian took a series of self-Portraits during her long plane ride with some limited materials such as toilet paper, thin black scarf , food, and a camera phone. Katchadourian’s self-portraits looks like a paint. One of her photos she … Continue reading →

I believe that one of the main reasons any “kind” of art is created is to create some sort of reaction, to give the viewer the freedom to interpret it as they wish to. Even though I get the point … Continue reading →

In the beginning of the film, women is sat on one side and men on the other. The women are all sat not facing the camera and hands are placed on the table. This is like many early photographs of … Continue reading →

I think because the photographer takes his pictures without people in it, it allows viewers more room for imagination. They can put themselves in the scene and try to get a sense of how those people felt. They do not … Continue reading →

 In the self-portraiture of Nina Katchadourian, one can feel her soul without any words. The emptiness and desperation has seeped into viewer’s eyes and feel the emotion that she experiencing in the picture. The posture of her seems likes that she is hoping or praying for her fortune, the way of how she holds her hands and opened up her eyes gives the self-portrait the soul and becomes alive.