COMD2330Fall2017

Ivan Cabrera

William Wegman Sperone Westwater Gallery Review

Located on 257 Bowery, the Sperone Westwater has many wonderful art pieces up on display, showing off what many artists/photographers have to offer. Inside, there’s an exhibit called “William Wegman’s Dressed and Undressed”. Throughout the entire exhibit, there’s over 30 years of 20×24 polaroids Wegman has taken himself. The picture I selected to write about is this one photo called “Bus Stop” I don’t know what’s with Wegman and his thing with dogs combined with a variety of things but everyone else seems to like it. The subject of the picture is a dog wearing some sort of trench coat along with a suitcase. This, in a way, gives off a stylish look to the dogs he uses in each one of his photos, anthropomorphising them giving us the viewers something compelling in front of our eyes, making them interesting and captivating.

Out of all the pictures we’ve taken, this one was my favorite. As you see here, Jovany is sitting criss cross applesauce while the light that was drawn out with one of our phones flashlight, giving a spiral spring look surrounding him. If you think about it, it’s like as if he’s meditating and you would see how his aura or energy would look. From the look he’s giving, his facial expression shows relaxation, blocking out everything around him.

http://www.michaelkenna.net/gallery.php?id=14

The picture I chose was from Michael Kenna’s New York photo collection. This image I selected shows the Empire State Building as the main subject. The thing about this image however is that there’s a reflection of the Empire State Building giving off a use of symmetry. Same can be said for leading lines and repetition as well.

*We weren’t allowed to take photos at the exhibit*

I went to visit the Modernism on the Ganges exhibit at the Met Breuer. In order to reach the exhibit, you need to enter the elevators to the right of the entrance. Take the elevator to the second floor, and the exhibit takes up the entire floor. The room is split into multiple sections, with a  collection of his photographs as well as others strewn about the exhibition.In the exhibitions, two of his photos caught my interest because of their subject matter as well as the compositional elements.

The first photo was the Sunhas Chandra Bose Statue, which was taken in 1971. The photo shows two gentlemen holding a green door that has a hole for a window, but the window was removed. In the window frame was a statue, creating a frame within a frame composition. This drew my attention to the statue first before viewing the rest of the photograph because it was framed by the window frame, which took up most of the photo.

The other photo that caught my attention was Goa, which was taken in 1996. The photo shows the inside of a car looking over a wall at a large white building. While this photo also has a frame within a frame because we are seeing the image through a car windshield, the main focus is the patterning on the wall and the reflection of another car in the rear-view mirror. The bricks that make up the wall in front of the building creates a pattern. The photo also has a reflection in the rear-view mirror of a car, making this photo have many elements.

Batty batty 98

A bigger batty next to a card bored cut out of a younger batty in the same pose. If you glance at it it looks like 2 physical dogs are there but it’s just one original and one cut out. With a rustic white back drop with a denim looking fabric on the floor

Cardigan 90

One of the dogs is in a flees sweater the wrong way and has his head sticking out a sleeve kind of looking like an elephant the other sleeve is placed on his back and he’s in and more spread like position to keep calm or balanced the flees sweater is zipped all the way up and the dogs tail looks like it’s pointing down so he isn’t happy in this picture the coller is showing the most part of the dogs coat

Both color Polaroid

First paragraph
Whole exhibit
Second
What’s it about why
Third
A specific peace

I like this photo because of one side is dark and the other side other face is light up. Soft light is shown in this photograph.

For this picture, our group decided to use the flashlight as well as our phone lights to create shapes simultaneously. We chose to do a triangle, a heart, a circle, and a square but we found it difficult to  fit everyone into frame, so the square was drawn above the circle. However, it was very fun to  fit it all together and have all these shapes in one shot.