What ever works

Paul Nicklen was  born in Canada and is a marine biologist .Paul Nicklen is well known for his work on National Geographic and his photography is based on nature. His greatest achievement are winning over 30 awards including world press photograph award , BBC wild life photographer of the year, international photography hall of fame. I think most people are familiar with the polar bear and his reflection in the ice while it swims. His recent exhibition is titled Hope& Reverence . Found in the C. Parker gallery . Going back to the polar bear photo and some of the whales he takes pictures of they always seem so calming and illusive. His earliest works create a sense of harmony and appreciation of the natural world around us, the underwater pictures are always the most powerful the monochrome environment with a large creature being the emphasis.

Graciela Iturbide was born 1942 in the city of Mexico. She was the oldest out of 13 siblings. During her young marriage she went back to school where she was introduced to Manuel Alvarez Bravo during her time as an apprentice. Her photographs are taken The art piece from The Lobby of the Hotel congress Graciela Iturbide Mexican, b. 1942 Los pollos, Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1979 . This photograph is very interesting because although you see the woman in the foreground there is a dripping background.The sharp  background contrasts the fuzzy movement of the woman.

Cindy Sherman now for being a feminist activist during the 1970s . Cindy used herself as the subject.Her photography would depict the female roles and invited the male gaze by creating Hollywood stylised pictures depicting women stereotypes of the time. She did this to criticize the female role by bringing awareness to the female role and in establishing that women are more than just objects for the male pleasure they can do more and should be respected as much. Her most notable work was untitled #92 Disaster and Fairy Tales series. Compared to the other photos, this photo does make captured the hollywood style she was going for and at the same moment detail what she was going against that women are not fragile but the male gaze constitutes this idea since the media is primarily male dominated.

Edward Burtynsky was born in 1955 in St.Catherines Canada. His main work stems from looking at global industrialization from an aerial view. These shots create an abstract work using the natural world as the base then human manipulation distorting  the landscape. The pictures he takes of the natural world  being tamed as well as being polluted by human tampering and human desire is illustrated by the places he chooses to take pictures from mines to salt farms & oil rigs. His most recent work is “Worsley Alumina Tailings #1, Worsley Alumina Refinery, WA, Australia, 2025” .( Flowers gallery) From all his pieces this piece really makes me think that human are very abstract because the oil spill and gradient from set spill fill up the tracts left from machinery . While it looks cohesive at a closer look from a wider view it seems all over the place.

Jochen Lempert is a biologist whose first introduction to photography was during a film group (Schmelzdahin ) , an experimental group following celluloid fluid between 1979 and 1989 according to C / O Berlin. Jochen was born in 1958 in Moers Germany, his work reflectsHuman and nature interactions (dialogue) . These interactions are those that hinder nature or create irreversible impacts to ecosystems. His techniques with the gelatin silver prints give character but the silhouette or negatives. I genuinely like the nature capture from the cells to fauna because bringing attention to the simple things like plants or leaves then obscure details like cells that are imperative for all life forms are forgotten . They might be small even left behind in our thoughts but it’s nice to know that people are aware of our impact.

Pinhole camera pictures and edited

"Weekend adventure sort of"

Nice to meet everyone, names Alex and I hope that I can learn a lot from you as well something from me as this semester progresses. I'm looking forward to seeing what every one's topic is. A little about myself. I'm an animation major like the forest as well as the beach my goal for this year is to make more short animations. In addition to this goal, I want to learn more skills besides animation and art in case it doesn't work out. I have been wanting to learn about auto body repairing as well as modifications to the exterior of a car it seems interesting.