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The two on the top are photos I had merged together with the HDR merge selection in Photoshop CC14.

This other three below these words are photos I had taken. The photos were taken in different pictures so the photos you see here do not look like this on the computer or my camera. They were put together with a merge tool in Photoshop called photomerge. The first and third photos were taken with a tripod but the second one was taken without a tripod. 

Is It Who You Think It Is

Catherine Opie

Alex Rhodes

Photography

November 15, 2015

            Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. She was so interested in photographer Lewis Hines she had asked for a camera for her ninth birthday. She had gotten a Kodak Instamatic on her birthday. Right away she had started taking photographs of her family and neighborhood. In 1985 she had gotten a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She had also received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1988.

            She had then gotten into doing portraits of lesbians and gay community in Los Angeles. She had also taken photographs of the Los Angeles roads and landscapes. She then went back to the lesbian community for her subjects. Catherine had wanted to take more photographs of different landscapes. She decided to take photographs of the New York financial district also she had taken photographs of Minnesota in Icehouses and Skyways.

            Catherine Opie has had solo shows in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 1997. Also she had one in Saint Louis Art Museum in 2000, The Photographers’ Gallery in London in 2000, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2002, and many more. Catherine had taught at the Yale University also at the University of California. As of today Catherine lives and works at Los Angeles.

            She is still creating her work and is most famous for the photographs she has been taking of the lesbian women she makes look like men. She wants to make everyone think about what they see from what they really are. Everyone knows Catherine for her series Chicken.

Works Cited

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/1623/Catherine%20Opie

Is It Who You Think It Is?

Alex Rhodes

Photography Art 2555

Assignment 4

Is It Who You Know Who You Think It Is?

                My photographer I was assigned to names is Catherine Opie. Catherine Opie makes her art by stepping out the human boundaries and have women dress up like men and take photos of them looking like someone else. She was my inspiration along with Mark DeNicola. I wanted to take photos of people that could look like they could be either gender. I took photos of body parts where you can’t really tell if they are male or female. Then I also wanted to include how people know a days are so into electronics that they care more about them then doing other things.

                I had taken photographs of my sisters, nephew, brothers, friends, boyfriend, and myself. All of the photographs that I had taken are from different angles. I had taken some sitting down, laying down, standing up, and I had set a timer and had taken photos of myself. With some help of my lovely boyfriend taking just two photos of myself. The more days that passed for the photos were due the more and more that I was thinking about how I wanted them to look. Though I did not get to do all the photographs I had planned on doing I thought about doing photos other than faces and do photos of people’s body parts. Even though they are not all the photographs I had wanted to do I am very happy with them.

                I had many questions running in my head to myself. They are just about all the same questions I ask myself whenever I have to take photos for an assignment. Do I have enough time to manage taking these photos and working? Which I somehow always end up doing and most the time they are wonderful. Am I going to be able to find anyone to help me or be part of my photos? Most the time I have someone that will either help me or be in my photos. This time I have people but they did not feel comfortable doing what I had asked them to do. Which I understand I got some good ones anyway. And I always had a lot of questions as to, are they going to look good? Or are my photos going to be as good as everyone else’s?

                Catherine Opie makes photos of women that look like men. She messes with how people see. She makes people think weather or not if the person in the photos are men or women. When you first look at the photos you think that the photos of a man. Then when you look at the photos closer you can see the fake hair and female facial features. The photo that had most inspired me would have to be her Hide/Seek series. The photo below is the one I liked the most.    

                This photo had inspired me because if you just glance at it you see a man. If you look closer you can tell the facial hair is fake. I think that you can’t tell so that’s how I wanted my photos to show. Catherine Opie makes these beautiful photographs with colorful backgrounds. However I wanted to make some photos that either didn’t have a background or that have a scene behind them. 

Intervention Response

I think the exhibition was different and creative. I loved how it was dealing with electronics.
The piece I picked was like a 3D printed mountain with triangle hut on the side of it. It is very colorful. It has gold tinted shades, neon yellow transparent triangle windows, blues, reds, pinks, and more. I think this is a really cool project that was out into this exhibit. It was very detailed in many ways like the little ledges are close together but also make them very textured. I love how the transparent triangle panels make it look like a little hut or hide out spot. This piece makes me think about someone finding this mountain wanted to climb it and make history. On the way though they find this one spot that makes a beautiful view of the land across the sunrise. They think about it and decide to build a house in the mountain and live inside it. They build this transparent windows so they can see all the beautiful land even when they are laying down to go to sleep. Every morning waking up to a beautiful sight. This piece is making me feel so happy and transports me to think that I am that person that is climbing the mountain and living there. I love the feeling I get when looking at this art work. It makes me happy and makes me think that I can achieve my dreams just like the person that had built this little house inside the mountain.