December 2011
1 post
Iain Baxter
I was blown away by the variety of Iain Baxter’s mediums. From beautiful polaroids “Paris Beauty Marks” to taxidermy animals on the tops of pipes- all of Lain’s work had a meaningful message behind it. “Paris Beauty Spots” were polaroids taken in Paris of a small round mirror revealing the attraction or important building behind it. At first i thought that the...
November 2011
3 posts
Lenny Gilmore RuLez ScHoOl
Lenny is a recent Columbia College graduate who is a photographer for the Redeye. He showed us his art and a more commercial project which brought up the discussion of how to balance work and your own art. I think Lenny’s advice about how to separate art and work helped me more than any other photographers. He goes to work and has a hectic day on the train and photographing plates of food...
Photography in an online space
after clicking through the photo blogs emailed to us i realized that i literally had been just clicking through. i would stop and read the captions of the photos that i found the most interesting and occasionally clicked a link to a different website. you could say that a photo blog is a virtual art museum but the ritual was absent. i only had to stop and look at whatever caught my eye as i...
Crime Unseen
Angela Strassheim is a photographer who combined photography and forensics in her series “Evidence.” Angela returns to the scene of crimes and uses blue agent to reveal remnants of blood from the violent act. Evidence No. 10 is a muted black and white photograph with pops of glowing white. The crime scene is in a bedroom that we can assume the parents’ or master bedroom because of the size and the...
October 2011
5 posts
Charles Shotwell
Shotwell is a commercial photographer who has been in his Chicago studio for 37 years. Working in his studio with his wife and family by his side he has become a respected photographer. Many well known companies have bought his work for advertisements and is very successful. As frilly over photoshopped photography (like a cereal bowl with strawberries shooting out) becomes more and more popular,...
Intimacies
After hearing our class was going to see a gallery called “Intimacies” and getting forewarned about a lot of graphic sexual images I had an idea of what I was about to see. I thought the show would show artsy sexual poses of nude models and some that were a little more shocking all to show the intimacy between people. After the first step into the gallery I’m sure all of our eyes...
Antonio Perez
Tony Perez is a true inspiration to me. In 1995 he graduated from Columbia College Chicago. Tony advised us to do our best work for our teachers because that is how he got his first job. He started at the bottom at the Chicago Tribune scraping ink off plates and today he has made it to be a photojournalist for the newspaper. His camera is his “golden passport” that gets him in to many normally...
Jessica Craig Martin
In class David mentioned a photographer that took photos at high society events. This reminded me of Jessica Craig Martin. She has worked at Vogue and Vanity Fair which gave her ready access to glamorous society. She takes photos at glitzy high profile parties that are cropped and shot with obliquely angles. She rarely shows the face of the subject while showing awkward exchanges and concentrates...
Gross
I come visit tumblr 5 days after our class visit to commercial photographer Steve E Gross and see no one has written their blog entry yet. As a students at Columbia college it could be because we are put off by anything commercial…or anyone. But I’ll just speak for myself.
I respect Steve E Gross because he really worked his way up to be where he is now. Gross was in the military...
September 2011
4 posts
Twinning
Kelli Connelll’s “Double Life” collection were photographs reflecting on one’s self. Connell has used the same model since 2002 who appears twice in each photograph. The model is shot in the scene twice and Connelll Photoshops the model into the chosen photo so that there is two of the same person in the picture. The model wears different a different outfit than her copy in the photo to show the...
Meatyard is a Gross Last Name
After the visit to the Art Museum my brain was in a blur. Maybe it was because after the walk in the rain to the museum my mascara found its way into my eye. The assignment was to ask questions about the artist or piece and the various exhibits made me think so hard my brain hurt.
When I entered the Meatyard exhibit the lights were low and no one dare talk over a whisper. It was one of those...
Introducing....
My name is Christy Senay. I am a senior graphic design student. I was born in St. Louis home of the Arch and Cardinals but thats about it.
As a visual artist my writing skills are not the strongest. I hope through this class I can learn to analyze art well and in return become a better artist.
I took Digital Photography for non majors over the summer and really enjoyed it. Being in a class...
Our Origins
“Our Origins” gallery compiled photographs that all emulated the human desire to find out where our species and earth came from. From Bonobo Apes’ hairstyles to cosmic radiation that still exits from the big bang all the questions you have ever had about our roots are pondered. This exhibit will not answer our question of where we have came from but make us realize that we may never know.
The...
