Extra Credit: Artist Interview

 This is an extra credit for 10 points.

Work with your classmate partner (or self interview), pick out 5 questions and interview each other.  Use smart phone or camera to record the interview.  Due November 11 in your google drive folder.

Link to interview example 

Please introduce yourself?

What’s your background?

How did you start making art/photography?

Why do you make art/photography?

Why is making art important?

What role does the artist have in society?

Professionally, what’s your goal of being an artist/photographer?

What is your purpose in making art? (hobbies, passion, job, money, fame, power, inspiration, etc.)

Name three artists you’d like to be compared to?

How have you developed your career?

How do you seek out opportunities?

 

What activity do you most enjoy doing?

What research do you do?

What book do you read?

What's the last great book you read?

What inspires you?

Who are your biggest influences?

What's the last show that you saw?

What's the last show that surprised you? Why?

What's your favorite place to see art/photography?

What’s your favorite artwork?

Do you collect anything?

What work of art do you wish you owned?

Do you have a gallery/museum-going routine?

 

What project are you working on now?

What is your most important artist tool?

Is there an element of art you enjoy working with most? Why?

What does your work aim to say?

How does your work comment on current social or political issues?

What are the values and beliefs of the culture in which your artwork was made?

Is there an artwork you are most proud of? Why?

What do you see as the strengths of your artwork, visually, technically, or conceptually?

 

What is missing from your artwork?

Who do you think was your artwork created for?

How do you personally relate to/connect with your arts?

What do you want people to remember about your artwork?

What memorable responses have you had to your artwork?

What do you like about your artwork?

What do you dislike about your artwork?

If you could change your previous artwork, how would you change it? Why?

How do you title your artwork and why?

How long will it take you to finish an artwork?

How do you know when a work is finished?

If you could have a group exhibition or collaboration with 3 other artists, who would they be and why? 

Photoshop Basics

 Basic photoshop skills:

- Tools:  size, rotate, crop, touch-ups
- Layers: Brightness & Contrast, Levels, Color Balance
- Formats: jpeg, tiff, psd
- Extra Tools: Color correction, adding vignette, removing unwanted objects

Assignment: 
Use one of your Personal Vision images for this assignment.  Apply a few basic tools, layers, save it as Tiff on your google drive folder "Photoshop"

Examples:

Jaylene Contreras (original version)

Jaylene Contreras (edited version)

Photoshop Layers

Guest Lectures on Friday, Sep 30th

 

Movie Review

— Complete project "Personal Vision" (updated new images if needed)

— Read Chapter 1 "About Art Criticism" LINK

— Pick one of the following movies to watch over the weekend (you may have to rent them from Amazon or YouTube).  Take notes of what you have learn from the professionals, share your notes in class on Oct 4th.

Manufactured Landscape, Watermark, or Anthropocene – Edward Burtynsky Link

Albassross - Chris Jordan Link 

Salt of the Earth -  Sebastião Salgado Link

A Document Film - Ansel Adams Link

Waste Land - Vik Muniz Link

Leaning into the Wind - Andy Goldsworthy Link

 

“The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope.” 

– Robert Adams

Photography Quotes

 “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”

— Robert Capa

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”

— Annie Leibovitz

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

— Ansel Adams

“To me, photography must suggest, not insist or explain.“

— Brassaï

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”

— Diane Arbus

“The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.”

— Sebastião Salgado

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.“

— Richard Avedon

“I am at war with the obvious.”

— William Eggleston

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. 

— Andreas Gursky

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”

— Sally Mann

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. 

— George Eastman

“Your picture shows the relationship between you and your subject.”

— Brian Doan 

http://www.photoquotations.com

Field trip to Bergamon Station tomorrow Friday

 PHOTO 42 will take a field trip to the Bergamot Station tomorrow, meet there at 10:30am (by the coffeeshop).  Field trip takes about 2 hours.  Carpool people will meet at LAC K135 between 9:30am to 9:45am, leaving at 9:46am sharp.

Adress: 2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404

https://bergamotstation.com

Field Trip on Tuesday, September 13, 10am to noon

 Reminder:

Our shooting field trip (optional) tomorrow Tuesday September 13
(10am to noon)

• Map of meeting location (Saltwater Deck: 2630 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90803
• Bring your camera (you can use your smartphone if you have one)
• Photo Shoot Checklist LINK
• I will go over the camera basics, and three important shooting techniques: close-up, depth of field, and rule of thirds
• It's still warm, so dress properly, wear hat and sunglasses  

• This field trip is very important but not mandatory, if you can't go--stay home and go over my lecture on Depth of Field on Canvas section Tutorials.