Joe Seck

 Joe Seck 5/2/2023 Art 337 Alec Soth is an American photograp her and visual artist, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1969. He studied photography at Sarah Lawrence College and later earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota. He is particularly interested in the overlooked corners of American society, and his photographs often depict people and places that are not typically represented in mainstream media.     In this photo on the left, it shows an older woman in her home while the camera is behind some type of glass while the foliage reflected behind her makes the photo pop. The woman looks very elegant and I think her choice of clothing was picked perfectly. She looks like she has an aura and kind of looks like a god in a way.      The photo on the right shows a portrait of a man holding two model planes. The photo is shot very well with the subject being the man holding the planes. His environment being Minnesota really speaks to how cold it ...

 Joe Seck 5/2/2023 Art 337 Anne Arden McDonald is an American artist known for her unique work in the chemigram technique. Born in New York in 1952, McDonald studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and later earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has some of my favorite works I have seen in chemical painting. She does a lot of the things I tried to do and has done them in a fashion I couldn't imagine.     These works by McDonald have some of the most interesting patterns I have seen. The painting of the left reminds me of planets in a galaxy. The circle on the bottom has what looks like to me as a moon and the holes and small circles remind me of holes in planets. While the biggest circle on the left reminds me of Saturn without the rings. I love the black background as well and I wish I tried to do something similar.     The work on the right was one of the ones where I was pretty confused how she did it. I assum...