Experimental Artist Profiles (Sun prints, lumen, chemigram, photogram, cyanotype)

Please check out these artists who applied the concept of painting with light.  You may come up with a similar idea or differentiate the process.

Try to remember the artist names and their process, they will be in a midterm quiz.

Han Nguyen LINK

Maria Estevez LINK

John Fobes LINK

Adam Fuss LINK

Pierre Cordier LINK

Garry Fabian Miller LINK

Christine Nguyen LINK

Cassie Doumas LINK

Floris Neususs LINK

Markus Amm LINK

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy LINK

Week 2: Artist Profile

Marina Abramovíc  LINK

Doug Aitken  LINK

Chris Burden  LINK 

Aline Smithson LINK

Week 2: Finding your vision

 Creating a Strong Fine Art Portfolio

What makes it fine art?

•Photography that is done as a fine art -- that is, done to express the artist's perceptions and emotions and to share them with others

•A picture that is produced for sale or display rather than one that is produced in response to a commercial commission

•The production of images to fulfill the creative vision of a photographer.

•Historically, has sometimes been applied to any photography whose intention is aesthetic, as distinguished from scientific, commercial, or journalistic

The Simple Answer:

Images that have been reinterpreted by the photographer.

Some ways to do that?

Different cameras—toy, large format, medium format, switching to film

Photo Shop techniques

Printing Techniques

Vintage Techniques

Artistic References

Process

How do I find my Voice?

•Your best work comes from something you are moved by, familiar with, want to bring voice to, and most often, what’s right in front of you.

•YOU and your world, your life, the way you think and live, are the most UNIQUE qualities that you bring to your work.  Shoot what you know and you will always stand apart.

What are Museums looking for?

•Projects that say something.

•Projects that reflect our time, our world, our lives and are RE INTERPRETED through presentation, through exploration, or through thoughtful analysis.

•Visually powerful images, well executed and

   unique.

What are Galleries looking for?

•Images that will sell to a broad spectrum of collectors

•Images that will hopefully end up in museum collections

•Images that are universal

•Images that are evocative

What are Book Publishers looking for?

•Projects that are cohesive

•Projects that are unique

•Projects that the reader will want to revisit again and again

•Projects that talk about our time in history

•Projects that reflect a creative vision

What are Magazines looking for?

•Timely stories

•Personal stories

•Photographic Essays

•Humorous stories

Some Genres of Contemporary Photography

•Typologies

•Typographies

•Domestic Scenes (home, family)

•Reinterpreting nature

•Human observations

•Documentary

•Dreams and Memory

•Surrealism and Other worlds

•Still Life

•Self Portraits

•Vernacular

•Surveys of our world

•Environment

•Staged Scenes

Important numbers when considering a portfolio

•1 signature image that defines the project

•3 images for submissions to competitions, etc

•10 images for a magazine or ezine article

•20 images for a portfolio review

•50-60 images for a book

Aline Smithson

www.alinesmithson.com

Aline Smithson's lecture at LBCC

Agenda for Friday Sept 9

This Friday:

- Please bring your previous work to the class (hardcopy portfolio, online portfolio, images stored in your google drive folder, images on flash-drive, etc.). I would like to see all of your previous work if it's possible.

- Purchase a notebook and start your idea for the artwork you are going to create in this class.  Combine any of your other artistic skills beside photography.

- Revisit Week #1 lecture to understand what is "experimental photography".

- Work on your artist interview asap, don't wait.  Talk to me if you get stuck.

- Form a collaboration with your classmates

- If you have images of the Ice House Long Beach, please share them with me and your classmates who couldn't make it.  You should know where is your work going to display for the final.

Artist Interview - Due 9/30th

Please take this interview with your most in depth responses

1. Please introduce yourself?

2. How did you start making art/photography?

3. Professionally, what’s your goal of being an artist/photographer?

4. What inspires you?

5. What's the last art show that you saw?

6. What is your most important artist tool?

7. Is there an element of art you enjoy working with most? Why?

8. What are your best skills and abilities?

9. What do you see as the strengths of your artwork, visually, technically, or conceptually?

10. If you could have a group exhibition or collaboration with 3 other artists, who would they be and why? 

For your references, please watch/read throughly these interviews with Sarah Sze and Pierre Huyghe

Sarah Sze -- You Mark Time Through Objects LINK

Pierre Huyghe -- A brush with Pierre Huyghe LINK

Meeting at LAC K-135

Meet in person at K-135, 9:30am — 3:30pm

Week 1

9/2

Introduction to experimental & new media photography

Discussion of materials & project proposal & timeline 

 

Week 2

9/9

Bring previous and ongoing artwork to class

Complete the artist questionnaire on Canvas