COMD2330Fall2017

The Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and Bed exhibition is taking place in the 3rd floor of The MET Breuer located at 945 Madison Ave. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian artist who grew in popularity due to his artistic skills and how he captures human anxiety through his work.

The exhibit consists of 43 pieces of work also including 16 self portraits that’s never been seen before in the United States and you can only see it exclusively in the MET Breuer. Out of all of the pieces of art I’ve seen throughout the entire exhibition, one that I have to say that caught my full attention was this artwork Munch made that was called “The Night Wanderer”. First thing I noticed was the way how Munch was standing and the way how he’s staring at us.

You don’t see him as an artist in this self portrait, but more of an old man walking around his house late at night. His eyes looked like as if they were pitch black in a way, making them seem hollow. One thing that made me wonder was if his eyes was the night sky behind him embodied within him making it seem as if there was darkness on the inside.

This shot of Gaby looks great! She looks like a cover of a magazine. I really like how I capture her expression (her eyes are smiling) the photo is slanted but I actually think it makes the photograph interesting. We took this photo using a three point lighting, with an ISO of 100,  a shutter speed of 1/250, and an aperture of f/5.6

Exhibition

Modernism of the Ganges by Raghubir Singh

The Raghubir Singh, Modernism of the Ganges, Exhibition is held at the MET Museum on the second floor. When entering the exhibition you are stopped by a large wall in front, where you find the name of the exhibition and the photographer’s name. On your right you have a map of India with the names of all the cities and villages in which Singhs photography took place. Right next to it there is a three paragraph biography of Singh. the room is divided into different sections, each sections tells a different story about the location, Singh’s inspiration, and his journey. The first room on the right has a collection of Singh’s early work in which he explores the villages, cities, and sacred sites along the Ganges river. The work in this room is in color and the photos vary in size.

Singh’s photography takes place at his native country, India. His work was done with a camera in hand. You are able to tell the freedom that this gave him when it came to capturing the streets of India and the decisive moments. His Photography in this room shows a variety of techniques. Some were taken using a top view, a low view, diagonal lines, the rule of third, the blur effect, etc. Singh’s photography tells the story of what it was in the 70’s to live in India, the day to day life. He Explores the deep picture of India’s political, religious, and economic situation during that time period. In his photographs you can appreciate that special moment in which the subject becomes the main character and the environment becomes the story. One photograph is just as important as the next one and so on. Every image it’s its own story.

My favorite photograph was Catching the Breeze, Hathod Village, Jaipur. In this photograph Singh captures two girls swinging on a rope while some of the people in the village observe and others are just going about their day. The beautiful thing about this photograph it’s all the information the viewer is getting from this one shot. We can observe the happiness of the two girls and how it is being shared with some of the villagers, you can see how some are laughing a long while others are amused by it, especially the children. While looking at this photograph I myself shared a laugh, Singh caught the decisive moment in this photograph Some of his techniques include, freeze action photography, diagonal lines, rule of thirds, and wide shot.  

Nipa khan COMD 2330

Digital photography 10/11/17

Homework: William Wegman Dressed and Undressed exhibition.

William Wegman Dressed and Undressed the exhibition focuses on the dogs into many different characteristic and focus on what it means to be human. Willam wegman gave each dog a personality. The photos are 20X 24 Polaroid. The exhibition took place in sperune westwater, 257 Bowery New York 10002. The exhibition took place in two different floors of the gallery. There are different kinds of photos some describe humanistic, classic, abstract and some just create illusion. Each dog is different dog he had in the past and he start taken photos with Polaroid camera in 1979.

There were about 30 images both floor together and it was divided by different categories. The dogs are photographed by 20X24 Polaroid and each photos is taken differently. Some had contrast and some have sallow of depth and some has foreground and background. Each of the dogs were given very different personality. William wegman : Being human this exhibit is about giving the dog human characteristic and dressed up the dog in different outfit and some has human body part and some are just playing human role. Only feet and hand is the human body are replaced in the dog. I think being human is about the dog not about the human because the photo ” What to do ” shows the dog in human situation just to show how it feel to be human or to be in human condition.

I think this exhibit is also about transforming the dog various character to show emotion. Also it shows giving the dogs human condition or human characteristic makes the dog more like humanistic and each of the dogs has particular rule that fit them the best. One photograph that I love the most in the exhibit is “Garden”,2002. I love this photo because it shows shallow of depth. It shows contrast and exposure and this pic is foreground and background images and this image fill up the space and this image is a close up image. The depth of this image gets narrow. This picture also include natural frame and also this image have strong vertical line and this image has deep space. Overall this image just draw my attention right away. It create a strong connection with the audience.

I picked this photo of Yimei because I was able to get her in focus while everything behind her is all blurry giving the portrait a shallow depth of field.

For this picture right here, Tramain was waving his hand while the camera captured him with a short shutter speed. In doing so, while he was waving, his body was moving as well. If you look closely, you can see the background through him, exposing the fire extinguisher where his chest is.

As for this picture, Henry was caught in a frozen shot, showing him waving the scarf as if he was smashing a guitar at a rock concert. You can even see some of his hairs sticking out of his head like a porcupine. The shutter speed for this picture was 1/640.