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Week 9 Writing Assignment

LaChapelle HEAVEN TO HELL:

David LaChapelle. Controversial. Explosive. Thought-provoking. Considered the world's most famous living photographer, he has been breaking all the rules for over twenty years.
This book is the last chapter in a trilogy that started with the New York Times bestseller LaChapelle Land (1996), and continued with Hotel LaChapelle (1999), one of the most sought after and collected photography books of all time.
Celebrated as the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has photographed personalities as diverse as Tupac Shakur, Andy Warhol, Madonna, Amanda Lepore, Lance Armstrong, Eminem, Pamela Anderson, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Lil'Kim, Hillary Clinton, Philip Johnson, Paris Hilton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ima Thurman, Muhammad Ali, and Britney Spears, to name just a few.
While referencing and acknowledging such diverse sources as Renaissance art history, cinema, The Bible, pornography and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal and epoch-defining visual language that holds a mirror to the face of our times, reflecting back both the sacred and profane.

·         Main Idea: To complete the trilogy in the series of pictures. To capture a vast amount of photos in his collection and string them together into a single collection; combining images of pop culture, art history, cinema, religious references and many other styles.

·         Purpose: To create art. David LaChapelle combines film stars, porn stars, politicians and many others to create a massive album of art.

·         Techniques: Contrast, lighting, composition, background materials and iconic references.

Lighting Contact Sheets

Week 8 - Writing Assignment

"Eyes That Cannot See" by David Lachappele

In this picture, David Bowie is depicted with two false eye cut outs placed over his eye sockets. The lighting in this picture supports the main subject because it gives him definition but it is up-close and shows every definition to him and his faulty characteristics. In this picture, the light is coming from in front of him but to the left of him just enough to hive his right side of his face shadows. Since there is a hard shadow and little diffusion, the light source(s) would be close, probably a few feet away.

Lighting - Week 8

Week 7 - Nature

10/6/11 - Some Photos from Class I really Like

Interview

For this, I interviewed Kathy Spitzhoff - http://spitzhoffdesign.com/ 

1. What motivates you to make your artwork?
• What she does, its her life.
• How she operates.
• The Art Society
  
2. What are you trying to communicate through your artwork?
• Depends on the theme and mood she is in.
• How people experience the world.
  
3. What interests you in the art world?
• Look at all the possibilities.
  
• Transformation/Evolution.
• Potentials
  

Week 5 - Written Assignment

1.       Change of Seasons

2.       Lighting

3.       Hidden images

4.       Nature

5.       Bodies of Water

6.       Mountains

7.       Reflections

8.       People

9.       Colors

10.   Shapes

1.       I love to capture nature. It is all around us, mostly natural formations. Even the mixture of natural and manmade is interesting when captured.

2.       To me, the essential elements  to capturing nature is not to just snap shots of what is typically pleasing to the eye but what also has interesting formations, decay, etc.

3.       To capture nature, aperture is more important than shutter speed, unless things are moving fast due to wind or other natural forces.

Break Pictures

Wednesday - Went on a drive and
ended up in Cherry Valley Cemetery.

Thursday - Was in Boston and saw a
car with this....I had to capture it!

Friday - Was down in Albany for
Cirque du Soleil: Quidam.

Saturday - Was driving on Route 166
and took a picture from inside my car.

Sunday - Went driving and
ended up in the country.

So my break was eventful, on my way to Boston I had forgot my camera and it was to late to turn back because I was on a deadline to make it there, so I took pictures off my cell camera.