Artist Analysis:

The artist that I am inspired to take photographs are the work of Eian Kantor. Eian Kantor is an artist who have the same vision with me. He does not view discarded items as a threat for the environment but an interesting facet to take photographs. Below is some photographs of Eian Kantor.

 

As you can see from the work of Eian Kantor, he only take photos on particular discarded items. There are no blurred background, and I cannot describe rather his works are taken in short or long exposure. I could also see that there are specific subject in photos so the audience might not get distracted from other things. When compared with other street photography topics, I think discarded items could be simple because shutter speed and exposure might not matter here since I will be taking photos based on sedentary discarded items. I think these photos can create abstract beauty for the audience, and I really liked the concept because it felt like breaking the prejudice of discarded items that it should be always dirty. Additionally, the concept of taking photos on discarded items are not common technique used by people, and for me I also did not know people can make discarded items beautiful. As I mentioned from the starting point, I am planning to take photos just like Eian Kantor does but on its presenting stage I am going to list my photographs into a line to show its abstract beauty. Eian Kantor’s photographs are like my favorite photos because he does not limit himself on one topic and continues to take pictures. In the last unit, it was a little difficult for me to take photos because the reflection project was little specific. I wanted to take photos based on a broader context, and Eian Kantor’s images will help me to work on my creating stage. Based on those reason, I will relate my vision with the global context of how lot of discarded items are spread out in many places but it can be photographed in a beautiful way.

How does the Photograph from Eian Kantor inspires me and the visual, technical, and conceptual techniques

 

Eian Kantor’s photographs inspired me to work on my set 1, which was basically running around the whole school and having a scavanger hunt for discarded items. But I did not want to search for trash bins but wanted to take photos that was a little different from “trash”. Eian Kantor’s photographs solidified my vision.

When I take a look at his photographs, I could see that there are not much technical things added to the camera and the shutter speeds looks a little fast. However, it focuses the subject without blurring the background, so I hope to learn this while I am taking photos for set 2.

 

 

Critique of Red Images

These are my photos for my Choices choices choices unit:

 

These are my yellow selection Contact Sheet

These are my green selection Contact Sheet

 

These are my red selection Contact Sheet

 

While taking photos around the school, I tried to focus to take images that clearly stated the beautiful aspects of discarded items. I will going to handle the dangerous environmental affects that discarded items can cause in set 2. As I mentioned from the previous connecting part and the starting unit, I am also planning to present my work as a wide, long display of photographs.

All photographs to Yellow Selection

For deciding the photos for the yellow selection, it was comparatively simple for me to filter out the images that did not fit with my vision. I tried to make my projects as the work of Eian Kantor, so I removed the photos that gave me an impression that the discarded item looked exactly like trash and it did not give away any beauty. One example that demonstrates my vision for this process can be explained by choosing photo number 34 rather than photo number 22. If you take a look at photo number 22, you can tell that it is one of the common exmpales of garbage of a food container. However, photo 34 is completely different from photo 22 because it contains both reflection and creates pattern while it is just still plastic bottle caps.

 

Photo number 34(Please click this link to see photo number 34)

Photo number 22(Please click this link to see photo number 22)

 

Yellow Selection to the Green selection

Time to choose photos between yellow and green, and it became a difficult decision this time when compared to selecting the yellow selection. This time, all of the yellow selection had somewhat abstract beauty when I looked at them, so I decided to pick out more rare photos by having photos that contain one specific photograph so it did not distract the audience.  For example I did not choose to take photo number 6 to the green selection because the subject of the discarded items distracted even me so much. I thought that two subjects of paper and the shoe was two different elements that should have been taken form different angle.

Photo number 6( Please click the link to see Photo number 6)

 

Green Selection to the Red Selection

 

After I have chosen nine photogrphas that have made through the green selection, I had to face myself from the last step to take the red selection. Actually, what I wannt to say is that while I am presenting I am planning to combine photos from some yellow, green, and red selection to create a whole line. Whatsoever, the top three photographs were whether the subject was depending on the size of the photograph. When I took photos toward large subjects, it could easily create patterns, line and shape such as the one for photo number one, as the large metal discarded item was actually creating abstract beauty.

 

Photo Number one (Please click the link to see what photo one looks like)