Ernst Haas Ernst Haas, an Austrian-American photographer, was an innovator in color photography. He was born in Vienna in 1921 and moved to New York City after thirty years. He saw the world in color and expressed that in his photographs. The series “New York in Color” shows Ernst Haas’ passion for color photography and […]
Reflection: Connect
Initial Thoughts In this unit, I want to explore reflections in windows that make things from both sides of the window overlap in one image. How different views combine in one photo through reflections in windows inspires me to explore reflections in windows. Another concept that I may want to explore is the reflections in […]
Artist’s Statement
Rona Chan (°2008, Beijing, China) is an artist who mainly works with photography. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, Chan often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects […]
Portrait Photography: ‘ESCAPE’
(Since my model didn’t want to show all the images, I blurred out all pictures except for the final one) ALL PHOTOS 1. Yellow Selection I chose photographs that slightly aligned with my vision for the Yellow Selection. There is a variation in the shape of light among these images, and for some of […]
Portrait Photography
1. Introduction to Portraiture Subject, background, and emotion in a photo can make the particular photograph a portrait. When they are combined together and convey a solid feeling to the audience, the photo becomes a portrait. Selfies are considered one of the types of self-portraits. A portrait should include a subject, which should be at […]
Street Photography
Here is my mind map: For this project, I plan to capture Chinese people’s everyday life, the true appearance of their life. My photos will include colors (or high-contrast colors if possible). The style of my pictures will aligned with examples of focus on the background or reflection, which are the styles that I want to […]
LIFE-Final triptych
Here is my final triptych! Since my vision is to capture the color of common objects and I plan to take photos in the style of Saul Leiter, I choose these three pictures for my final triptych. These images all have a warm tone, which aligned with my vision of capturing colors. In the image […]
SET 2: Photo Selections
All Photos All Photos_SET 2 5. The Yellow Selection The Yellow Selection_SET 2 For the Yello Selection, I chose photographs aligned or slightly aligned with Saul Leiter’s style or my vision. The most obvious similarity is that most of them have an object at the front, and the main subject is at the back, […]
SET 2: Analysis of Saul Leiter
1. Select an Artist “Sometimes I’m amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.” “A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.” — Saul Leiter Lines: In these photographs, lines are often used as an outline to separate the photo into two parts, in […]
SET 1: Photo Selections
All Photos All_Contact Sheet 5. The Yellow Selection The Yellow Selection I select 20 out of the 110 photos I took as the Yellow Selection. One similarity of these photographs is that they have achieved at least one main idea of my vision, which are color and composition. Furthermore, the subjects in these pictures […]