Out of Muniz's work, this creation is one of my favorites. This depicts a man, deeply disappointed or sad. Even though the content of the picture displayed is saddening, what it is made out of is somewhat uplifting. The image seems to be made out of various toys which create a rainbow of color variety. This brings both humor and confusion to the work. The humor comes from the irony of the content and medium. The confusion as well comes from the irony, what was Muniz trying to say about what is depicted in the picture?

I also like this work of Muniz. The picture it depicts it quite terrifying. It seems to be a picture of Medusa which is a mythological monster created by the Greeks. This too displays the same humorous irony of the rest of Muniz's work. What is being displayed is monster like and scary, but the medium it is made out could have been what you ate only hours ago. Muniz's work uses a type of humor based upon something almost all humans can relate too. This greatly adds to the response and respect Muniz gets from his viewers

Vin Muniz

Vik Muniz, as an artist, started in a medium which may have greatly shaped the popularity of his works today. This work of Muniz's depicts a fantastical scene with crazy bridges and castle like towers. Although this is an extremely detailed "drawing" it is created entirely with black thread. A viewer of this work, will immediately be astonished by the creator's detail and attention to value. On top of that, the viewer will then somehow realize it is made entirely of black thread only to add to the viewer's impression of Muniz's work. This thread drawing collection of Muniz also allows the viewer to understand drawing in a different way, making each line a thread. When the thread, or pencil lines are put together and near, they create a value.

In Muniz's chocolate series, he depicts a posterized image using a variety of thickness of chocolate to create a surprisingly detailed image. This collection shows a re-occurring theme of Muniz's work. Muniz takes images and converts them to a media that is unique to the viewer. Although these medias are unique, at the same time they are familiar to almost every living human. Chocolate, thread, sugar, jelly, and peanut butter are all on the list of being used to create art by Muniz. I think this aspect of Muniz's work plays a large roll in the popularity and response of his work.

Chris Jordan

You can see Jacob's continuing this use of the photo to show statistics in this photo. This is a photo of 426,000 cell phones. That is the number of cellphones retired in the U.S every day. If we think about the number 426,000 it seems large but not as big as it seems when you see it in a picture. In Jacobs picture, these cellphones appear almost microscopic. This shows how small the individual has to be in order to fit into rationally sized space. It also allows you to try and predict the amount of space all these unused cellphones would take up if they were normal sized. We all have seen or heard the statistics that Jacob's represents in his photography. But after seeing his visual representation of them, you can easily find the importance of these statistics.

Chris Jordan #1

As Chris Jordan says in the video, us humans simply do not have
the metal capability to grasp numbers and statistics in the quantity they exist in today's society. Chris Jordan's photography allows these statistics to appear in a way that we can easily understand and truly see how large these numbers are. In the top image on the right, it looks like six orange panels. Up close you see folded jail uniforms, 2.3 million of them. This pictures represents the number of people incarcerated in the United States in 2005. From far away this looks like some kind of modern art, up close you can finally see how large the number 2.3 million looks. This picture also allows you to try to and imagine 2.3 million inmates filling these uniforms. Jordan continues to give you this expression of astonishment with how large these statistics truly are through out his photography.

BERND and HILLA BECHER

-Typology allows the viewer to notice both the similarities and differences of a series of objects. Through out a series the viewer can easily notice the similar outline of the subject. In Bernd and Hilla Becher's typology of water towers, you see the similarity of the shape of water towers. The outlining shape stays in the same spot through out the whole series. However, everything else in the photos are changing besides this outlining shape. This is a quality of typology that expresses the conceptual properties of the series.

-Bernd and Hilla Bechers' typology featuring photos of glass furnaces visually display another quality of typologies. Through out the series, the Bechers take photos of various tall furnaces. Again you can see the similar outline of the subjects. All of the furnaces are built and constructed differently from one another but, still contain some similarity in the shape. The viewer of a typology can see easily spot the similarities and differences of the subjects. The combination of the two in a series shows us, that even know the subjects may look and work severely different from one another, it is still working and completing it's purpose.

-One quality I like of Bernd and Hillas' work is that most of the photos are taken of very big structures. Their photos are also taken of all parts of the object and its surroundings. The viewer has the ability to clearly spot the differences of the subjects. This quality of the photographs leads to a lot of the conceptual ideas about the subjects differences I talked about before.

For the typology project I plan on taking pictures of various writing implements. The picture is going to include both the writing utensil and the hand of the subject. The subjects are going to be writing on whatever is relevant to the utensil. The photo is going to be taken from the position of the eyes of the subject. One thing i hope the viewer is going to be able to easily see is the relation between the writing utensil choice and the handwriting. To better illustrate this I am going to try and find subjects that over emphise this idea. For example, a girl who has very eloquent hand writing could be using a nice fountain pen or something along those lines. The notebook and the notes that are on the page are going to be very neat and clean. One detail that I do not know what I am going to do about is how much of the arm is going to be showing. The arm is not the problem, rather, the clothing that the subject is wearing. Because i plan on taking most of the photos in school, almost all of the subjects are going to be wearing blue or green. However, I have not yet decided on a framing for the picture entirley so I do not know how big of a problem this is.

Joie de Vivre (photos)

Joie de Vivre

For this project I had some difficulty. I first set out to take some photographs of Caleb and Arlen catching Frisbees. Getting a good angle and motion capturing the subjects was pretty difficult and I did not take any pictures I liked. Luckily Paul and Logan were there when i was attempting to take pictures. This re-occurring pose in the photographs was kind of just random. Through out the rest of the photos i wasn't sure how much or how not much to relate all four the the photographs. I wish i had taken some different photographs. For this project I found it kind of hard to create ideas or find subjects at school. I also found Lartigue's work very interesting for many ideas. I enjoyed his childish style of photography. The variety of Lartigue's photography provided inspiration for this project.
I do not think this set of photos is entirely successful in its unity. Three of the photographs are fairly alike in both formal and conceptual properties, the outlier is the one of Ben skateboarding. This photo still displays the circular shape of the body, however, the viewer of the photograph would most likely not gain joy or happiness when observing it. A formal quality that all of the photographs contain is some kind of line or shape that passes through of circumscribes the subjects. This was an aesthetic choice by the photographer to create a emphasis on the subjects. The photograph of Logan, by himself, only contains Logan and a brick wall. Because of the lack of subject, I took this photo without leaving the viewer able to see the ground. This leaves the viewer without knowing where Logan is in relation to the ground. In other the photos you are able to tell exactly what the subjects are doing. In this photo, however, we do not really know what Logan could have been doing.

LARTIGUE Video response

-To me what is most apperent in Lartigue's work is the consistant child like style he has. In the video one of the speakers claims Lartigue has no style consistant through out his work. However, from what I have seen this is not true, Lartigue has a various styles. It seems as though he has collections of works or different series of works. One of Lartigues qualities to his photographs is they often make you smile. Now a days photography is more concentrated on "art photographs." The majority of the photographs I have seen that have been taken recently are more focused on the formal properties. If the photographer concentrates on these formal properties when taking a picture, often they are going to turn out with a good photograph. In Lartigue's work it seems as though he was usually not focusing on the formal properties creating this childlike effect. However Lartigue may of not just taken a picture. In the video someone discribed how Lartigue would capture what made the subject significant and unique. In this photograph Lartigue makes the womans eyes the emphisis of the photograph. Besides her hair, her eyes are the only black thing in the photograph. It also seems as though everything besides her faces is a little out of focus, once again creating this ephisis on her face.

-This photograph below does an excellent job capturing the subject. The woman in the photograph is decked out in various animal furs while walking two dogs by the road. Although to the woman in the photograph this may have seemed fashionabale she simply looks rediculous. I don't know whether Lartigue thought this as well when taking the photograph, however, the way the photograph was taking would lead me to conclude this. There is no real ephisis on the woman besides the darkness of the pelts. The woman also does not look as if she is in a city or anywhere where she needs to be dressed the way she is. Another property adding to this photograph is the fact she is in mid stride, looking at the camera. She looks as if she is stuggeling to hull around the small animals on her body. All of these formal properties that Lartigue has used in his work to some may seen as to be almost accidental because of the style of this photograph and the rest of his work.

LARTIGUE

-When the viewer first sees this photograph they are addmediatly confused by a few questions. Why aren't the wheels round? Why do the people in the backround seem to almost be printed on a backdrop? However, I cannot answer either of these questions correctly. But, I can provide other points on concept. In the photograph there is a racecar which takes up just about half of the photo. To the viewer this creates a look as if the racecar is speeding out of the picture. This quality in the photograph and what is happening in reality.

-The angeling of the tires adds to the effect of the car being in motion. It seems as though the car is leaning forward. To me this creates a cartoon like quality in the photograph which seems to be somewhat consistent throughout the rest of Lartigue's work.