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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.

The story to Flow Through the Park

Photography

10-20-2015     

Alex Rhodes

            My photography assignment was of a park in Galion called East Park. I had chosen this park because this park is the park that my boyfriend, his family, and I take his three year old brother to go play. When we take his brother to the park we see friends and sometimes family. I love going to this park because there is so much you can do there. There is something for everyone like Skateboard Park, Water Park, baseball field, bike track, workout things, and more. I love going to this park because it brings back memories of going to this park and going to my cousin’s birthday parties. I love looking at the trees in the fall because the leaves are so bright and colorful and the trees are starting to become bare. Everything about this park is beautiful. I love the rust on some of the buildings and playground area. It shows character to the park and that it is an old park that still gets new things added in or around it.

            A lot of my photographs are of the playground part of the park. Most of them are close up photos that show all the detail and flow throughout the structures. I think that it is visually more appealing and makes it more interesting. I also want to show the good parts and how interesting a park can be to the eyes. Like something you’ve never seen. Looking at it from a different point of view and closer up.

            I wanted to make my photos into art. I wanted them to be visually arousing and something exiting just like Terry Barrett says. I wanted to make something boring like a park. Editing made my photos look better I believe. I think that it makes the photos more vibrate and more cheerful which is what I love because it makes you want to go to this park. Some of the edited photos make it look like I am trying to advertise for the park. I did not have a particular artist that I referenced for my photos.

             

Flow Though the Park.

Interpreting Photographs...

I believe that this photo represents that nothings perfect but people can have fun no matter what and without judgement. It frames this womens tip of the nose to almost the bottom of her chin. It shows this womens whole smile at an angle. The lighting is making the women look more orange then her natural skin tone. The colors are orange, whites, greys, reds, skin tones, blacks, and browns. You see this big huge smile of this women with plaque at the gumline at the top of her teeth and the lipstick spots that she had not looked and fixed. Her nose is blurred as if its trying to be blend in with her other skin as if it's not there.


This photo makes me think of no ones perfect they put on this stuff to dress them up and make these mask. But this women shows the imperfection. She has a mask on but doesn't want to anymore. That she wants to break out of her mask and be herself show everyone she isn't the person she's showing. This women wants to be herself but is afraid to because she doesn't want to be judged for being herself. She smiles behind the mask she's wearing but in the inside she is sad, lonley, has no confidance, and is upset about the way she is.


She thinks that if she's herself that she will be judged and no one will like her and want to stay in her life. When she starts showing some of her imperfections though she finds out that her friends and family don't care. That they still love her and want her to be herself. She still has doubts though and still hides some for now until later on when she finally let's out all of herself and finds love in all her friends and family. She is getting closer and closer to being her true self.


If you look at this photo as I had said before the imperfections of her plaque and lipstick dots on her teeth helped me figure this story. Also the perfection of her lipstick not smudged anywhere around her lips the perfect color of them. Those things helped me with this story for this paper.

Frame, Vantage Point, Detail, Time, and the thing itself.

This is my photo to my vantage point. I really like this photo because it's just a different angle. You just look at it different then you would if you were holding it. Also I'm in love with Vans shoes. 

This next one is my photo of detail. I find this photo interesting. I like how you have to figure out whats going on. That you really don't know what the image is. It shows different shapes and lines it's just beautiful. 

This next one is my photo for frame. I love this photo because my sisters boyfriend and my boyfriend have a bromance going on. My photo was to make it look like they were a married couple. My boyfriend being the woman acting all happy and exited and my sisters boyfriend acting as if he is not so happy about the situation. 

This next one is my photo for the thing itself.  When I look at this photo I think of what has happened to society. As if they always think kids in this generation are always on the computer. In this picture it  shows an imaginary person their in the chair. As if we are always on it know matter what. 

The last one is my photo for time. I love this one. This is a photo with a medium exposer light. It was about 28 seconds. My sister was in the house me outside and our window was up. She turning on and off the light which created this beautiful interesting light. 

Patriotic View

               This photo is a little trinket that my mom has outside of her house. I love how that their is rust developing on the star. It's very patriotic and makes it look like it is a soldier that just got out and is on the streets losing everything that he or she ever had. It reminds me of the song Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch that tells the story of soldiers that come home losing everything living on the streets. Some become something more then some become homeless on the streets no one caring about them but other soldiers. Some end up getting ptsd a stress disorder. This photo shows that to me at least hopefully it shows the same story to you if not another story maybe. For all the soldiers on the streets and the fallen soldiers thank you.

Flow Chart

Flow Chart



               Joe Page is the artist behind this fantastic art work known as the flow chart. His inspirations for this work is video games, clouds, bubbles, some pictures he took of the earth, and some artist paintings of clouds. Examples: Olafur Eliason (the weather project), Walter McConnell (unfired stoneware), and Takuma Tomo (sand and stone garden). He wanted his work to be bright colored and make you feel like you were being transported to another world just like video games. He loved how clouds have illusion of space and make you feel like your dreaming. He loves how clouds can tell a story by the different shapes they came in and could be. He said "Care Bears come down from the clouds to assist you in time of need," he felt when looking at one of the greeting cards made by American Greetings. Materials he used were pink foam, polystyrene which was like cotton candy but was very toxic, and vynal. He wanted to use 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional views. He wanted people to walk around and wheel around on clouds to look at his work to make it more interesting. He said his work was like a network or a board game. He wanted to make people touch the work instead of people only being able to look at his work. His work means everything to him when he sees the interaction and enjoyment on peoples faces. He gets help from students and faculty from the universities he goes to.

               I love Joe Page's work. It bring out the kid in everyone. I believe it's inspiring to every person that loves anything art related. He makes things so active and bright it's so fun. It shows a different side of life as if you are in a video game or in a dream. His work is so beautiful to me. He will and has inspired so many students and professors. It has been an honor being able to look and learn about his art. He inspires me to do different and new things.   

Vintage

Jazz Jennings

Photography
Alex Rhodes
9-4-2015
                     The photo that stands out to me and that I love so much is of a girl named Jazz Jennings. Jazz is a transgender female. In the photo I love of her she is in a mermaid suit that she had made. The photo is so beautiful she is under the water. Her hair is floating, her tail is so beautiful, and the way she's posed is just perfect timing on the photographers part. Her photo makes her stand out with the light blue water surrounding her as she swims care free. Her bright tail just shows the brightness of her personality. Jazz's photo to me is amazing it shows everyone kind of who she is. That inspires me. She's a teenage transgender that has had a hard life but has gotten through it. Jazz's photo is just like any little girls dream and that's to be a mermaid and be themselves. This photo means a lot to me in supporting Jazz and anyone else that is transgender. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=jazz+jennings+as+a+mermaid&view=detailv2&&id=68C13D20DC6AD9BD0A2D42FDCB85005E7F737FF2&selectedIndex=6&ccid=ipBZxFpz&simid=608013884861910581&thid=OIP.M8a9059c45a73e2bf36c2fc64ac54b691o0&ajaxhist=0