The Divine Woman

May 15, 2013 § 2 Comments

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“The Divine Woman”

Series of 16×19″ Van Dyke Brown process prints on Stonehenge Natural paper.

Appropriating a similar aesthetic and symbolism to the turn-of-the-century photographers (Julia Margeret Cameron, Fox Talbot, Clarence Hudson White), my goal was to illustrate/question a few of the prevalent Victorian virtues in regards to women. At the time of early photography, Pre-Raphaelite paintings were reinforcing the mans’ ideal woman, giving art at the time a male gaze. The text is taken directly from Victorian sayings and virtues that originally derived from out of context Biblical passages.

A Virtuous Woman

April 23, 2013 § Leave a Comment

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8.5×11″ Van Dyke Brown test prints on Stonehenge Cream paper

Tiny practice things for something that I’m working on.

The Moon and the Tides

February 7, 2013 § 4 Comments

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Cyanotype process prints

7×9″ each, made from digital transparency negatives

Whitney

January 25, 2013 § 4 Comments

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Carson

January 23, 2013 § Leave a Comment


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Significant Other

January 22, 2013 § Leave a Comment

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These are 7 minute pinhole exposures taken with a homemade tin camera. I wanted to photograph couples for a project since long exposures force two people to be still with each other, turning the attention to breathing and time passing, similar to meditation.

The images were taken on 5×7 RC paper and developed to make a negative, then contact printed on RC paper again.

Filmmaking

January 15, 2013 § Leave a Comment

Sometimes the things that you think you won’t learn anything from end up being the things that teach you the most. Even though I never felt like I was totally able to grasp a filmmaker mindset last semester, and a few of my projects were not very… good, the act of extending beyond the still frame stretched my mind out and taught me to see photography in a different light. I learned to see images as an act of motion and concentrate on them being the culmination of an atmosphere, and learned to confront a medium that is very vulnerable in that there are so many more decisions that can go wrong (and right.) It was helpful to leave my comfort zone for a little while.

“Picture Music”

All of the sounds for this project were recorded/created by me and layered together in Audacity. One night of late poking around lead me to discover that you can import images into the program and each image has it’s own unique electronic sound. The sounds were mostly composed from my recent darkroom scans and projects, so it was neat to “hear” what my pictures sounded like (I used around 10 pictures for the electric noises.) The more high resolution the files, the more interesting and long in duration the sounds were.

Tableau Vivant I

The purpose of this project was to compose a scene how we would compose a photograph, and record it as a video that built up to a greater action. What I like most about tableau’s is that it forces the viewer to look at the “image” for a long period of time, and start to notice subtle things like body language, lighting, and breathing that might not be apparent when looking at a still for a few seconds…

Tableau Vivant II

Another short tableau, focusing on incorporating external lights.

“Sleeping State”

“Helen and Felix”

This was my final short film directly inspired by a photo album I found of a german couple and their little dachshund. Helen had really well written captions underneath their pictures, and I kind of fleshed out a fictional story out of them to fill in the lines.
I had never experimented with a narrative structure, so I wanted to try something a little different than the previous assignments that I made this semester… I was interested in exploring the physical plane of a photograph in a more filmic way, forcing the viewer to focus their attention on certain parts and perceive it as three dimensional. (Since it was my first time working with an oral sound element, there are some really really blatant technical/sound/narration errors that need to be revisited.)

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