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Warhol Facts

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Photoshop




Using Threshold

 

Blending Photos

In this picture I started off with the white flowers in the corner of the picture by cutting them from another photo and setting it to the side. Then I cut out the butterfly from another photo, copied it, and dragged it onto the picture of the white flowers. Next, I took the copied and pasted image and desaturated the photo making it black and white. From there I found another picture a flower and decided I wanted to make that the center of the picture and blended the combined picture of the butterfly and the white flowers onto the background picture of the flower. From then I started playing around with the color and layer blends to create the final  photo above.



Copy and Paste Photoshop Photography

Blended Photoshop Photography

Little Toy

Fish Eye!!!!!

Nature Walk 1/21/11

Landscape Unit

Detail

Big Shot

Abstract

Architecture Unit

Big Picture

Detail

Big Picture

Detail

Interior

Landscape Photography Biographies

Ansel Adams– (February 20, 1902--April 22, 1984)

            Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 to upper class parents Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams in San Francisco, California. He grew up different from other children taking no interest in sports but nature, collecting bugs and exploring San Francisco. His first photography experience was with a 3-inch telescope his father had brought him when he was young. As a child, Ansel was constantly in and out of different schools and later transferred to homeschooling. His father always raised him to follow ideas of  Ralph Waldo Emerson "to live a modest, moral life guided by a social  responsibility to man and to nature." His first interest was in playing the piano and he learned how to read notes. For a while that was his intended profession but then he gave up on piano for photography. In 1916, Ansel took his first trip to Yosemite and took picture using the brownie camera. A new era had begun for him and from then on he continued his road of photography. He married Virginia Best in 1928. From her he inherited a studio from his artist father-in-law in 1935, and continued to operate the studio until 1971. His best know works were in Yosemite national Park. Some of his works were,

• Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927. (Taken with his Korona view camera using glass plates and a dark red filter, climbed up Le Conte gully under the north cliff of Grizzly peak, the picture is framed in rule of thirds and expresses value.)
• Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California, 1932.
• El Capitan, Winter, Sunrise, 1968 

Heidi Kirkpatrick

               Heidi was born in 1959 in Springfield, Ohio.  She used old cameras to bring out value. Her camera she used was called the Holga Camera. Most of her pictures were taken in Iceland. Kirkpatrick’s work is more for a woman’s view.







Examples of Heidi's Work.....

• Her work  has a sense of darkness and creativity
• Her photos represent symmetry and value
• She develops her own images



Architecture Project

Interior Shot

Big Picture

Big Picture

Detail Shot

Big Picture

Detail Shot

Ch. 9 Landscape Notes (pg. 203-217)

Landmarks in Landscape Photography

• Carleton Watkins(1829-1916)
•  began by taking pictures of Yosemite Valley
• Ansel Adams(1902-1984)
• inspired by Yosemite

Photographing the Landscape

• composition is one of the most important aspects
• viewpoint is the most important part of composition
• value is most important in black and white landscape photography
• one goal of good composition is to achieve a  balance between unity and variety
• balance unity and variety

Camera settings

• f/16, f/22, or f/32
• results in longer shutter speed
•  tripod is necessary. 

Light

• just after sunrise and just before sunset 
•  two times of day when professional landscape photographers do most of their work
• sun is low 
•  make warm and soft beautiful colors
• direct light
•  creates shadows and highlights, not the best for landscape photography

Film

• use high ISO film 
• ISO 100 to capture all details
• black and white film is the most popular 
• in showcases 
• value, line, shape, texture, and pattern

Lenses

•  general rule, 
• Landscape photographers prefer to use wide-angle lenses that capture more of the scene 
• it also creates greater depth
•  to capture things in a great distance 
• use a telephoto lense
• use macro lenses for close up shots and detailed shots

Filters

• yellow filters are useful 
• bring more color
• use other red and blue filters 
•  achieve dark skies and other things

The Grand Landscape

• the "big view" for pictures of the great outdoors
•  wide-open expanses that showcase the Majesty of the nature world
• use wide angle lenses 
• to capture a whole entire scene

• use composition and Rule of thirds 
• place the horizon one-third from the top or bottom of the image

Landscape Details and Close-Ups

• ignoring everything but small details 
• can result in beautifully simple images
• direct sunlight 
• can have negative effect on detailed or landscape photos

Abstracted Elements in the Landscape

• Abstracted Elements
•  images composed of lines, shapes, values, and textures
•  get really close to your subjects and photograph only a small part of it

Ch.8 Architecture and Urban Landscapes (pgs. 179-197)

• Architecture photos are indirect portraits
• Charles Négre 
• artist and painter 
• used photography to create studies for his paintings 
• liked photography so much that he turned away from art to focus on photography 
• Use line to lead the viewer's eye through an architectural image
• A structure's setting is an important consideration, look to tell a story
• Look for patterns, they can help enrich and strengthen your photographs by adding visual complexity
• CAMERA SETTINGS
• want to see the smallest details
• select a smaller f-stop to bring more of the scene in focus
• the bigger the camera format, the smaller the f-stop has to be for the most depth of field
• the bigger negative, the more detail it will capture
• use slower ISO such as 100 ISO or less forming sharper prints
• Value= most important element
• determines the shapes of objects
• used to emphasize certain parts of an image
•  Contrast= the difference or range of values
•  Texture enhances the 3-dimensional quality of a photo
• Architecture photos can be divided into 2 types
• commercial
• magazines, brochures; color
• artistic
• usually in black and white
• Wide angle lenses are useful 
• Shadows make an interesting subject rather than a building try to capture the shadows it casts
• THE BIG VIEW
• wide angle used to capture the whole seen rather than zooming in
• shooting from the side creates 3-dimensional views of the building
• THE DETAIL SHOT
• features individual elements of a buildings interior or exterior 
• INTERIOR VIEWS
• can record shots of a whole room or focus on smaller details
• Bernice Abbot (1898-1991)
• age of 20 moved to Paris to become a sculptor 
• was a photographer assistant
• pursued portrait photography with her own studio
• later was introduced to agricultural photography through Eugène Atget
• devoted the rest of her time to agricultural photography 

Architecture Powerpoint (1/10/11)

Elements Involved in Architecture:

• Radial balance
• Line
• Shape 
• From
• Value
• Color (bring out emphasis) 
• Texture   
• Proportion
• Symmetrical Balance
• Repetition

Different perspectives in Architecture Photography:

• The Big Picture
• picture as a whole
• The Small Details 
• statues
• windows
• The Interior Shots

Architecture Notes:

• Architectural photographs are indirect portraits
• The materials, style and scale provide clues about who the people were and what their lives were like
• Early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image
• Architecture was a perfect subject for photography because it didn't move and there are so many different perspectives and angles to take the photo (it was interesting and simply beautiful)
• Focus on the details of a building as an exploration of abstract images 
• Patterns dominate almost every part of the image 

Fredrick H. Evans:

• One of the greatest architecture photographers in history
• Large part of his work focused on cathedrals in London
• Depicted emotion with the use of light
• Advice to photographers: "Try for a record of emotion rather than a piece of photography."
• Worked primarily in platinum papers (expensive)
• During WWI, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions
• Rather than switching development and his photography process, he GAVE UP photography for good

Ezra Stoller (1915-2004)

• Influential architectural photographer 
• Liked architecture photography rather than being an architect

Video Notes January 6, 2011

The Daily News :

• First illustrated newspaper published in 1919
• The Daily News had 6-7 editions a day
• The 1920's was the year that competition began in the newspaper world  
• "The New York Graphic" had the most interesting newspaper of all inventing the ''Composer Graph''
•  People realized that photographs were looked at as true, anyone could draw a picture but not everyone would believe it.
• Photography added a new way of seeing celebrities
• Famous people became superstars with one amazing picture in a newspaper
• Babe Ruth was the first sports player to be photographs and became a celebrity through photography
• In the 20th century, astronomy became possible through photography
• The longer a photograph was exposed, The better it developed
• Photographs once rare was now everywhere with the introduction of the "Brownie"