For Feb 22nd: Doug Rickard's A New American Picture

 

From "A New American Picture Book" by Doug Rickard

You just spent a week making and thinking about the cell phone as a camera.  But there are image capturing devices everywhere in our society, we don't even notice anymore.  Are we becoming the subject of a mass camera eye?  Read about this new book carefully and look at the images.  Write a paragraph.  Does this give you any new ideas about photography or our society?  Is this art?  Would you consider Doug Rickard a photographer?

Look at these two links for sure and others that you may find upon googling:

http://www.americansuburb.com/

http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-american-picture-by-doug-rickard.html

For Feb 22nd: John O'Reilly versus John Heartfield

This is the posting from last week, which was meant to dovetail with your own scanscapes.  Now that you've tried the process yourself, you can more aptly comment on other photo collages.

The two John's below began using photo collage in the 1930's.  Read up, research, and look at images from both artists.  How did their intentions differ?  What was the desired effect of each? Which John is more interesting to you?  Write a paragraph for each artist.

 Adolf by John Heartfield

Self-portrait by John O'Rielly

For Tuesday, Feb 1st

Below are examples of work by Adam Fuss and Daniel Gordon. The working process of both photographers relates to our scanning exercises in our first and second class. Look further at each project and think about these correlations.  Make a comment under each (by clicking on "comment") that talks about what you notice. You can click on each image to view an enlarged version.

Daniel Gordon

Adam Fuss