The Irving Penn Gallery Was mostly black and white With images that portrayed real life people and objects. The exhibit had a lot of white space that caused a contrast between the wall and the photos. The emotional impact that Penn caused was simple with deep feeling that made you think about the situation in the photo. weather it be the expression on the face of the people that were the focus of the image or the way the objects of the image were set up. Most of the images were shot at eye level
Nick Brandt’s gallery was filled with animals that belonged to the safari. The lions, tigers and elephants were all committed to an action or stance that defined certain characteristics. This gallery gave me a feeling of rawness because of the little details of the photo and the close up settings. These photos had a shallow depth of field and shot on a close up eye level angle.
The photos in Mary Boone’s were very ambiguous. They consisted of walls, lines and sharp angles. The combination of these three elements creates changes that make the photos give off a certain kind of feeling. The color in the photo also grabbed my attention and even made optical illusions in some photos. They all seemed to be shot in the same place, Which was a colonial area. also when looking at the photos you feel like you can actually step into all of them with the way that their shot. These photos had an extensive depth of field, depth of space and was shot in a vertical postilion.
Susan Derges photos had a feeling of UN-realness to it. This feeling may be influenced by knowing her photos were make fake. She would set things up to make real out of the unrealistic. The photos were mostly geometric and silhouette outlines.
Olivo Barbieri photos were also fake had been mechanically altered by products like Photoshop. These photos were also sometimes overwhelming to look at. It was alot going on at once but still kept a continuation of it theme. The photos were mainly consisted of mountain figures, the sky and colors like Blue and white. i had a feeling of being higher when looking at these photos and that was most likely caused by perspective of the shot and image subject. Lastly these photos were extensive depth of field and had deep space within it.
Philip Lorca Dicorsia photos were different from the rest of the photographer’s images.He wanted to show male prostitutes in a more gentle light. They were shot with different angles, lights and positions. The physical impact I received was a little bit of loneliness and and little bit of hope. The photos were shot in low contrast locations but it always had a little bit of high contrast standing out some where. lastly he shot with a extensive depth of field on his photos.
Your Irving Penn paragraph includes a very important observation about the gallery itself. There is a particular style to the conventions used in galleries like white walls and space around the works.
When we say extensive depth of field that means everything is sharp from near to far in the photo. this is certainly true of robert Polidori’s work, the photographer at Mary Boone but not true of Lorca-Dicorsia.