Joe Seck

 Joe Seck 2/6/2023 Art 337                                    Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan he thinks of his work as a time capsule as he wishes to freeze a moment in time. His works are mostly shot by 8x10 using very large exposure. He has some very gorgeous shots and you can tell he is clearly a master of his craft.  One of the photos we looked at in class is Sugimoto's photo of a this theater called Marion Palace in Ohio . This photo was taken with a very long exposure, this is shown in the blank screen as images were moving throughout the film. The light from the screen is what lit the theater and it looks amazing. It reminds me of something you would seen in a old time movie with very sharp shadows. The lighting was done perfectly and I couldn't image sitting there for that long of an exposure.      While looking through Sugi...

 Joe Seck 2/1/2023 Art 337 Christian Vogt      Christian Vogt is a photographer that mostly shot studio portraits. Looking at his work I was surprised to see a lot of images of naked people, honestly for a while I felt a little uncomfortable at first but I got over it because at the end of the day it doesn't really matter the way someone looks. His images were mostly black and white so finding out how to capture shadows was extremely important for his work.     In Vogt's image above he takes a provocative portrait of a woman while shooting her from the back to have her back exposed as well as her legs. He has the light coming from the left side of the image because of the projected shadow. I liked this image the longer I looked at it because of the choices made in the image like having the box in the image and how he wanted the image to be provocative because of the choice of clothing and whatever she has in her hands.   

 Joe Seck Art:337 1/30/23                                                                     Arnold Newman      Arnold Newman was an American photographer, he was born in March 3rd 1918 and passed out June 6th 2006. He most well known for his environmental portraits. One thing I have discovered while doing research and looking at his photos is he does a great job creating the environments for his subjects. He can make such intriguing backdrops that some might not pay too much attention to.  The environments he creates always seem to go back to the subject and what their interests or talents are.     In the image below Newman is photographing Igor Stravinsky, who was a Russian-born composer so it of course Newman uses this to his advantage w...

 Joe Seck 12/7/2022 Art 240                                      Ernst Haas      The inspiration for my upcoming forty images is Ernst Hass, Hass was a fantastic photographer. In almost every aspect, from his work in color photography to what inspired me, his work using a macro lens. After doing my best and shooting over six hundred photos for this assignment and half of them are blurry messes. I've gained a tremendous amount of respect for those who shoot using a macro lens because it is anything but easy you will see what you think is a fantastic image with perfect lighting, so you go to take it, and you look back, and it is just a little bit blurry. The photos being just a little bit blurry can ruin a macro picture, especially when shooting nature, where clarity and texture make the image.      The images above these are some of my favorite ...

 Joe Seck 11/1/2022 Art 240                                                   Suzanne Opton Suzanne Opton inspired me for this assignment because of her focus on the men and women and the results on their mental state after experiencing the horrors of war and how those can affect your psyche. What she did was take photos of soldiers that have spent time in war and each photo has the name of the amount of time they had spent deployed. She spoke about what she was trying to accomplish with these photos by stating “I hoped to photograph the invisible. I thought that by looking in the face of a young person who had witnessed something unforgettable we might imagine what he had seen or done, or not done.” She wanted to see how war would affect people and if you could see the result by just looking into their eyes. In each one of the phot...

 Joe Seck 10/31/2022 Art 240 Lee Friedlander           I have already covered Friedlander but, I wanted to take another look at his images as I found his style to be very interesting. Looking at the image above this self-portrait was taken with a lightbulb in front of his face and I feel the facial expression he is using is perfect almost as if he is lost in the lightbulb. I then started to think about what is the symbolism of a lightbulb. I thought of the lightbulb being used as an allegory for an idea like a lightbulb pops up in your head when you get an idea, so maybe Friedlander is using the lightbulb to be lost in a thought or lost in an idea, which is super interesting.              Something I have noticed while going through Friedlander's work, especially his self-portraits he uses reflections and shadows very well and makes his images super interesting. In this image, he is using his reflection to take t...

 Joe Seck 10/27/21 Art 240                                                                                         Annie Leibovitz          Annie Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer who has taken portraits of some of the most important people in the world even a portrait of the late Queen of England as seen in the photos below. The lighting she used for this photo is absolutely stunning. I feel like the way she is posed shows a position of power. The image on the top shows the Queen in an empty room with the light just barely hitting her. The way I see the image of the darkness surrounding her speaks to how long she has been around and how she is in the twilight of her life. The two ima...