ED2 Photo Assignment 1 Evaluation

Evaluation

 

I don’t think my self-portraits went that well, to begin with I wasn’t sure how to use the large format camera, then when it came to developing I managed to get a completely blank negative which wasted a lot of time. I then decided to take some pictures using photographic paper instead and the paper got stuck inside the camera, I tried it again and went straight into the darkroom to develop it and it seemed to come out ok but because of the amount of time spent doing all of this I had no time to develop it into a black and white picture. I then tried doing a photogram but didn’t really like it in the end.

I do however like the negative of my self-portrait where I’m still wearing my apron as it shows how I like to be practical and ready for things.

Next time I will either use a medium format or a 35mm camera instead of a large format camera or I will gain better knowledge of how to use it. I will also gain better knowledge of how to develop photos.

ED2 Photo Assignment 1-2

Brendon Burton

For one year, 18-year-old photographer Brendon Burton from Myrtle Creek, Oregon is challenging himself to create one self-portrait every day as part of his ambitious "365 Project." The teen's hauntingly beautiful and strikingly original photographs, which he posts on his Flickr page, are already attracting the attention of the art world.

Many of Burton's portraits depict him in an eerie natural landscape -- levitating off the ground with balloons covering his face, or sitting on a forest floor surrounded by floating pieces of paper -- while some of his recent work has become increasingly conceptual.

"I am inspired by so many incredible photographers," Burton wrote in an email to the Huffington Post. "Alex Stoddard, one of the first photographers I found doing the 365, really influenced me to try the project. I get my ideas from music, books -- just everyday life. I like to tell stories and project emotion with my work, most of which are deeply personal subjects for me."
For now, Burton has set his sights on finishing his 365 project, but in the long term, he hopes to turn his passion for art into a career.

"I hope to work for a publication, like Vogue or National Geographic," he said. "I've put a lot of time and effort into my work, and I certainly hope that I can keep doing this for a living. I love photography."

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ED2 Photo Assignment 1-1

Vivian Maier

 

Vivian Maier was an American street photographer born in New York City. Although born in the U.S., it was in France that Maier spent most of her youth. Maier returned to the U.S. in 1951 where she took up work as a nanny and care-giver for the rest of her life. In her leisure however, Maier had begun to venture into the art of photography. Consistently taking photos over the course of five decades, she would ultimately leave over 100,000 negatives, most of them shot in Chicago and New York City. Vivian would further indulge in her passionate devotion to documenting the world around her through homemade films, recordings and collections, assembling one of the most fascinating windows into American life in the second half of the twentieth century.

 

Early Years

Maier was born to a French mother and Austrian father in the Bronx borough of New York City. The census records although useful, give us an incomplete picture. We find Vivian at the age of four living in NYC with only her mother along with Jeanne Bertrand, an award winning portrait photographer, her father was already out of the picture. Later records show Vivian returning to the U.S. from France in 1939 with her mother, Marie Maier. Again in 1951 we have records of her subsequent return home from France, this time however, without her mother.