PSA Photos and Copy

 

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Photoshop

              This is a photo that I took and then edited in Photoshop. I took this photo one day in class when we went on a nature walk on our campus. To edit it, I first used threshold to convert the photo into two colors: black and white. Then, I created a new layer. For this blank layer, I selected the color brown as my background. Using the magic wand tool, I selected everything that was white in my first layer and I deleted it. Everything that was white was now brown because of the layer behind it. Next, I used a gradient on my picture. A gradient creates a gradual blend between multiple colors. I selected the gradient tool and dragged it diagonally across my picture. I tried using different colors until I found one that looked good with my picture. When I found a gradient that I liked, I adjusted the hue and saturation. This allows you to change the colors in an image, by making them lighter or darker. When I was finished editing my photo, I flattened the image, meaning I combined the two layers into one layer. Then I saved it as a picture.

Animal Shots

Architecture Photos

Little Toy

Copy/Paste Photo

Blended Photo

Black and White Edited Photos

Fish Eye!

Landscape Photos

Heidi Kirkpatrick:

Heidi Kirkpatrick is a wonderful art photographer. Her work often depicts a view of the world experienced by women. She develops her own images, including silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, transparent images on film and 3-D mixed media objects. This is one of her most famous photographs:


 This is called Gray Area and it was taken in November 2009. One element in this photo is value. The light-colored arms really stand out in the black background. This photo also has texture because you can see that the edges of the blocks are worn. Here are two more of her photographs:


 

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an American Photographer, best known for his black-and-white photos taken in Yosemite National Park. He was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California and he died on April 22, 1984. One of his most famous images was Moon and Half Dome, taken in Yosemite National Park, California:





















 One major artistic principle in this photo is value. The value in this photo ranges from the darkness of the shadows to the whiteness of the moon. There is also shape in this photo because the shape of the mountain really stands out. There is also space in this image because you can tell that the moon is really far away and the mountain is much closer. Here are two more of his photos:

Chapter 9 Blog Notes

• 3 types of landscapes: the grand landscape, details, and abstract
• landscape photographers: Carleton E. Watkins, Ansel Adams, Timothy O'Sullivan
• Composition, value, unity, and variety are important to have in landscape photos
•  Camera settings--small f-stops
• good times to take landscape photography: just after sunrise and just before sunset (Golden Hours)--good quality of light--angle of sun is low, so shapes and texture are emphasized by side lighting
• lenses: use wide-angle lenses-they allow you to include really close objects and distant ones in the same shot
• Grand Landscape--the "big view: for pictures of the great outdoors-wide open expanses that showcase the majesty of the natural world

Architecture Notes

• three methods for photographing architecture and urban landscapes: the big view, the detail shot, and the interior view
• pattern-the repitition of any of the elements of art
• contrast-the difference or range of values
• texture-the tactile or "touchable" quality of a surface
• big view-the wide-angle, overall view
• perspective distortion-appears as strong converging lines in a building, where the sides of the building angle in toward each other instead of looking parallel as they are in reality
• detail shot-features the individual architectural elements of a buildings interior or exterior

Architecture Powerpoint Notes

• Early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image-architecture was a perfect subject
• One of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography-Fredrick H. Evans
• Large part of work focused on Cathedrals in London
• Worked primarily in platinum papers
• During WW1, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions.
• Rather than switching developing processes or changing papers, he dropped photography forever.
• Ezra Stoller (1915-2004) influential architectural photographer
• Thinking artistically-You can focus on the full-view of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait.
• Or focus on the details of a building, as an exploration of abstract images.
• Patterns-In architectural photography, patterns dominate almost every part of the image.

Video Notes

• Illustrated Daily News-started in 1919
• it was the first newspaper to sell itself on pictures
• used big, bright pictures to attract attention
• staged a lot of photographs
• photos were also used for advertisements
• photos influenced people to buy products
• photos also used in Hollywood-made people look glamorous
• Rudolph Valentino-photographed a lot-women across the country fell in love with him
• astronomers started to use photos to photograph the sky
• photos started to appear in magazines too