Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
While looking at Eggleston's photos I recognized a pattern. I saw memories. Eggleston's memories. I feel that in his photography he shows his audience what his life was like. He shows important people and places and things that might have reminded him of his childhood. This is why I chose to post a picture of my music box. This music box was given to me as a young girl and I would play the music over and over until I fell asleep at night. This is an important memory to me that I captured to remind me of my past.
Vocabulary From Eggleston's Guide.
1. Vernacular: any medium or mode of expression that reflects popular taste or indigenous styles.
2. Servile: extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
3. Consonant: in agreement; agreeable; in accord; consistent.
4. Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.
5. Puerile: of or pertaining to a child or to childhood.
6. Synthetic Cubist: Fine Arts. The last phrase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and materials into painting.
7. Insular: detached; standing alone.
8. Intrinsic: belonging to a thing by its very nature.
9. Bucolic: of or pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.
10. Romantic: the adoption and adaptation of large public issues, social or philosophical, for private artistic ends. Expressed ion a style heavy with special effects: glints and shadows, dramatic simplicities, familar symbols, and idiosyncratic technique.
2. Servile: extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
3. Consonant: in agreement; agreeable; in accord; consistent.
4. Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.
5. Puerile: of or pertaining to a child or to childhood.
6. Synthetic Cubist: Fine Arts. The last phrase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and materials into painting.
7. Insular: detached; standing alone.
8. Intrinsic: belonging to a thing by its very nature.
9. Bucolic: of or pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.
10. Romantic: the adoption and adaptation of large public issues, social or philosophical, for private artistic ends. Expressed ion a style heavy with special effects: glints and shadows, dramatic simplicities, familar symbols, and idiosyncratic technique.
Photographers mentioned in the Introduction of William Eggleston's Guide
Robert Adams
Alfred Stieglitz
Eugene Atget
David Octavius Hill
Brady
Irving Penn
Marie Cosindas
Eliot Porter
Helen Levitt
Joel Meyerowitz
Stephen Shore
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
John Szarkowski
Alfred Stieglitz
Eugene Atget
David Octavius Hill
Brady
Irving Penn
Marie Cosindas
Eliot Porter
Helen Levitt
Joel Meyerowitz
Stephen Shore
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
John Szarkowski
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
William Eggleston's Guide: 5-7 sentences on photography in general.
Page 5: "We are accustomed to believing that the meaning in a work of art is due altogether to the imagination and lederdemain of the artist."
Page 6: "Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone vision, while standing in the right place at the right time."
Page 6: "By means of photography one can in a minute reject as unsatisfactory ninety-nine configurations of facts and elect as right the hundredth."
Page 7: "...That a photographer wants form, an unarguably right relationship of shapes, a visual stability in which all components are equally important."
Page 8: "For the photographer who demanded formal rigor for his pictures, color was an enormous complication of a problem already cruelly difficult. And not merely a complication, for the new medium meant that the syntax the photographer had learned-the pattern of his educated intuitions-was perhaps worse than useless, for it led him toward the discovery of black-and-white photographs."
Page 6: "Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone vision, while standing in the right place at the right time."
Page 6: "By means of photography one can in a minute reject as unsatisfactory ninety-nine configurations of facts and elect as right the hundredth."
Page 7: "...That a photographer wants form, an unarguably right relationship of shapes, a visual stability in which all components are equally important."
Page 8: "For the photographer who demanded formal rigor for his pictures, color was an enormous complication of a problem already cruelly difficult. And not merely a complication, for the new medium meant that the syntax the photographer had learned-the pattern of his educated intuitions-was perhaps worse than useless, for it led him toward the discovery of black-and-white photographs."
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