Food Photography

Favorite Spring Break Photo

This is a photo of me and my cousin on a train in New York. We were taking pictures but it was kind of hard to do it ourself so a lady that was sitting across from us asked if we wanted her to take the picture. We let her and the photo came out very nice. The photo is great because the exposure is good and I like how the photo looks glossy and as if we were being reflected.

Portrait Diptych






My diptych series shows that even though someone may wear fancy clothes and is famous, it doesn't mean they're happy all the time. Most people who have everything they want aren't satified. I also want to get across that even though that peron may be smiling, they have problems and lead hectic lives which will sooner or later start to surface.



My diptych series shows that even though someone may wear fancy clothes and is famous, it doesn't mean they're happy all the time. Most people who have everything they want aren't satified. I also want to get across that even though that peron may be smiling, they have problems and lead hectic lives which will sooner or later start to surface.

    



Surrealistic Photo Montage

The main idea that I was trying to get across was the possible outcome of texting and driving. The graveyard as the background gives the picture a more scary feeling. And if someone was to see this that text and drives, it would catch their attention and possibly make them change their mind the next time they go to respond to a text while they're driving.

Surrealistic Theme

I want to make a psurrealistic picture that shows the esult of texting while you drive. The reason why I want to do this is because people need to know that it causes death and it could happen to them.

Digital vs. Traditional

Lee Miller:  She was born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, New York USA and first entered the world of photography in New York as a model. In 1929 she went to Paris and worked with the well known Surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray, and succeeded in establishing her own studio. She became known as a portraitist and fashion photographer, but her most of her works are of her Surrealist images. She returned to New York in 1932, and again set up her own studio which ran for 2 years and was highly successful. It closed when she married a wealthy Egyptian businessman Aziz Eloui Bey and went to live with him in Cairo, Egypt. She became fascinated by long range desert travel and photographed desert villages and ruins. During a visit to Paris in 1937 she met Roland Penrose, the Surrealist artist who was to become her second husband, and travelled with him to Greece and Romania. In 1939 she left Egypt for London shortly before World War II broke out. She moved in with Roland Penrose and defying orders from the US Embassy to return to America she took a job as a freelance photographer on Vogue.

Man Ray: Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitsky) became famous as a painter, photographer, print maker, object-maker, essayist, and poet. A member of the Dada art movement and the only American member of the Paris Surrealist movement, Man Ray considered himself an artist and thought of photography as a medium of artistic expression when used for more than reproduction. In describing his work, Man Ray once said, "I paint what cannot be photographed. I photograph what I do not wish to paint."

Artist Name: Lee Miller
Title: Buchenwald Guard

Description: Lee Miller was producing her own brand of Surrealist photography of a quality that rivaled that of Man her ex husband. She uses different techniques to capture her pictures and she did different things when she felt like it.

Analysis: She made sure that you were drawn into her picture. There always was a background but her objects she used stood out and got the point across.

Interpretation: To me, her artwork is creative and different. I like how in almost all her pictures there’s a person in it. If it’s not a full body, then it’s part of a body. Her artwork is very straight and to the point. The reason why she photographed a lot of war photos was because she wanted the world to know what was going on.

Judgement: I feel that Lee Miller was a successful surrealistic photographer. I like how she had the courage to be the only women to go into a war torn area and photograph different things. To me that show that she really had a passion for photography.

Artist Name: Man Ray

Title: Les amoureux

Description: Man Ray's artwork consisted mostly of paintings and drawings in 19th-century styles. He developed unique mechanical and photographic methods of making images.

Analysis: The way he painted his pictures was different from a lot of other painters. He said that he painted what couldn't be photographed. In the painting above, he did just that. You wouldn't see lips in the say but since he wanted to see it in the sky and couldn't, he paited it.

Interpretation: As I said above he painted things that can't be seen by looking at things. He made his pictures flow together. He just didn't paint random things, but he made sure that whaterver his theme was, it was constant throughout the whole painting.

Judgement: I think that his paintings portrayed who he was as a person. I say that because he liked different forms of art so he displayed it in the way he painted. I personally like his style and the way he went about painting surrealistic images.

Where I'd Rather Be

Me next to the Eiffel Tower