My artist of influence is Paul Strand, and the photo above is by him named Twin Lakes. This image is aesthetically important to my work because their structure is similar and both have lines and shapes, and most of my photos are very similar to the Twin Lakes one. My triptych is abstraction. I want the audience to know how texturesand shapes will affect them. For inspiration I will choose PaulStrand and I will use straight photography style. 

Sources: DX, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction,_Porch_Shadows)

Reflection

The message of my triptych will be reflection. I want my audience to feel peaceful and serene when looking at my presentation. For inspiration I will use straight photography like Paul Strand. In my opinion, reflection photos can make us feel better and more peaceful.

Which ”element(s)” is/are best represented in each of the pictures? The elements best represented in the pictures are shape, textures, and lines. The circle-lights on the ceiling picture’s element best represented is shape (the shape circle), the light-reflection on the floor picture’s best represented element is lines, the parallel lines photo’s best represented element is lines, the sofa picture’s best represented element is texture (rhombuses).

Compare your images with the drawings. Which ones worked and why? The ones that worked is the parallel lines, the floor with light reflections, the circle-shaped light on the ceiling. They worked because they are the ones that looked liked the drawings.

Which ones didn’t work so well, and why? The ones that didn’t work so well is my sofa picture. I tried to make it look like drawing 1 (the one black half and white half), but when I took the photo, I made the black part too much and the white part very little compared with drawing 1.

I chose Albert Renge-Patzsch. The things that the photographer might have been interested in capturing in this picture is the lines and its patterns. If I was a photographer, I would give the photo the title “lines and its patterns” because the photograph lines has a certain pattern. The use of line has created a pattern and has a focus of the middle circle thing with the moon crescent.

Source: DX

Pictorialism was an international movement with beliefs that photography should emulate the aesthetics and subjects of painting and etching to be considered “fine art.” Straight photography movement argued that photography’s artistic value lay in its unique capabilities. Edward Weston have been influenced by Straight Photography movement through taking photos the thing itself, Aaron Siskind have been influenced by Straight photography movement through abstract through selection. Andreas Gursky achieves abstraction through scale, pattern, and digital synthesis. Uta Barth’s abstraction is about perception and visual experience itself. Gursky uses a “straight” aesthetic to present a constructed reality, creating abstracted icons of contemporary life. Barth uses a “pictorialist” aesthetic (soft focus) for a conceptual end, creating abstract meditations on sight itself.

The rules I have broken to take the photos are focus, center, and light. Some of the photos are not focused, and the object within the photos are always not placed in the center. Some of the people photos I took is hard to see their facial expression. One photo I took broke 2 rules, they are light and focus; the light is not balanced and it is not in the center of focus. The reason why I took the photos is simple; they are easy to take and easy to break some rules of photography.

Referencing the picture above entitled “Wrong!” Can a ‘bad’ picture ever be ‘great’? – How important is context in photography? (context= why a picture was taken, when or where it was taken and what message you were trying to make)

A ‘bad’ picture can ever be ‘great’ because our work should not be judged and that why should we conform to conventional aspects of art or photograph. The picture Wrong by John Baldessari, for example, is an example because its message is that why should we conform to conventional aspects of art or photograph. Context in photography is extremely important; it can let other people who saw the photo know about the its information; why it was taken, where and when it was taken and the message the creator was trying to make. One example is the photo by John Baldessari titled “Wrong”; the message John was trying to make is why should we conform to conventional aspects of art or photograph, why does our work has to be judged? In summary, a ‘bad’ picture can ever be ‘great’ because our work should not be judged and that why should we conform to conventional aspects of art or photograph and context in photography is extremely important because it can let other people who saw the photo know about the its information; why it was taken, where and when it was taken and the message the creator was trying to make.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldessari

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-baldessari/wrong-1967

https://collections.lacma.org/node/237769