Blurb Book Proposal - Being in grad school for Art Education I think it would be a smart idea to make a book that I can use as a teaching tool. My professor / advisor has made it very clear that the most important thing to teach in grade school is the elements and principles of design. I think it would be great to make a book pertaining to those elements and principles. For each element and principle I would have 3-5 photos that go specifically with it. For each individual picture I take I will have the whole photo, then two separate pictures along with it that is that same photo cropped, to specify the elements and principles. I will use photoshop to enhance what I am trying to portray in the cropped images. I would really like to do this idea so I know I could use it as a classroom tool. I also really like this idea because it does not limit me to only shoot portraits, or landscapes or still lives. I could do it all, and still stick my my concept.
3 Favorite Books -
http://www.blurb.com/books/924777 - "Mongolia" By Toni Ernst. I love this book, not just for its content. But I feel that it is very clean. I like how each page is set up where you have a zoomed in photo and a landscape photo that are next to each other. It is a great composition. And when the person did use text, it was on a black background and still had a photo next to it that was cropped to half the page. The titles never took away from the photo, and they were not squished in there to go un noticed. When looking at other peoples books, I notices that the use of text did not work as well compared to this one because it took away from the photo and was not just a side note.
http://www.blurb.com/books/922662 - "Mesocosmos" by Jackie Tileston. This book I like becouse of the simplicity. I was wondering when this assignment was given if it would be a little boring having just our photo and the title and nothing to really go along with it. But I really enjoy how each page is really devoted to the piece of art the artist is showing. A simple title, and nice white border and nothing to distract you from viewing the art work.
http://www.blurb.com/books/921157 - "My Ordinary World" by Bluerose. This book was very well thought out in how the artist designed and placed pictures on the page. Each photo flowed into the next photo in a seemless manner. If there was a lot of black negative space in the photo on the left page, the artist placed a photo on the right page that connected with that negative space to create a seamless unit. She did this with ever turn of the page, whether the connection was the subject of the image, the negative/positive space, or color. But you could tell that that was a main concern of her was how the photos would go together to create a seamless book. I also likes the use of the full page, with no border or text. It makes you focus only on the image and nothing around it.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Angelika Rinnhofer

Artist : Angelika Rinnhofer
Title: Menschenkunde XIII
Like to webpage : http://www.angelikarinnhofer.com/index_a.htm
The Subject of this photograph is a young woman. The photo is in color, it is formal, high contrast (chiaroscuro), it seems that not everything is in full focus, only the information she artist wants us to focus on, and the negative space and positive space seem to be working as equal importance to the photo.
The photographer uses a large format camera and high contrast lighting to emphasize detail in the photograph.
My interpretation of this photo is how Rinnhofer is taking modern people and a more contemporary form of art work and transforming it into a renaissance/medieval type of piece. She is very keen on the detail of what a renaissance painting of royalty looks like and the detail of what is IN the paintings where. I was reading Rinnhofer's artist statement and she talks at first about how much she enjoyed watching the transition of her models once they put on the fancy/royal costumes. She thought it was interesting to see their personality change and how they all of a sudden became actors. Then she went on about how in her own life as a child with a catholic upbringing, religious symbology was always around her. She immediately connected this with the renaissance paintings and how they most likely had some type of religious iconography in them, even if it was as subtle as a bible on the lap, or rosary beads weaved in the fingers. What is interesting is how Angelika took this idea and put some contemporary iconography in these photos, like a diamond ring, a laptop or a cell phone. When I first look at this photo I did not pick up these subtle hints of modernism, I was really intrigued by how she was able to create these beautiful renditions of these renaissance paintings. So it was really interesting for me to read the artist statement so I was able to see a little further into what she was trying ot portray.
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