Poster

I'm not confident in my ability to take pictures of nature. I guess it's because I can't control it. So I went out side and took pictures of things that we, as students at RHS, pass by on a daily basses. showing that beauty can be found in any thing. Even our poor old school that is falling down.

My thought process for these pictures was editorial. I think I did a fairly good job with it. My most successful picture was of Amy in the Dove ad. It is clean and I only had to lighten it up a little in Photoshop. Me magazines where a little harder. The layout of the words was a little confusing. If I do it again I will make sure to change the space between the letters in Photoshop.

The concept behind my piece is bringing disney's animated charaters to life but in a modern way as high schoolers. In every picture I have you can find their name. I took both their original attire and personality in to the picture when I picked out the layout and out fit for them. I wanted them to look a little like senior pictures.

The Graduating Class of Disney

Laurie Simmons

1.      Biography, birth date, country and state of residence

She was born in 1949 in Long Island, New York. She grow up in a Jewish community. Her mother was a house wife and her father a dentist. She currently lives in both New York and Connect. She has two daughters and is married to a painter.
 

2     2.      Significance: Describe what makes their work significant and unique.  Why is the work well known or recognized?

     

     She tends to use dolls and a lot of retro grphic design editing in her photos.

       3.    Composition: Describe the use of framing, perspective, contrast, balance, emphasis, lighting, etc 

 

        most of her stronger pieces are up close and personal with the doll with very bright lighting. in most she almost seems real

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        4.    Concept/Aboutness/Idea: Describe what the images are about.  What is the photographer trying to say through his/her images? How does the composition support the concept?  What are the intentions in creating the images?

s    she wanted to show something that was in fact not human but looks like a human doing everyday things. it makes it very powerful that it is a woman showing that in some cases woman are in fact seen as something other than human just a "Love Doll".

 
5.      Your Opinion: What do you like or dislike about the work
 I like her work. It's weird but powerful. Most weird things are though. 

Blog prompt questions

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

I don't really do anything to myself. I try my best to just be me!

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

In each social environment is constructed depending on who I'm talking to.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

In my room I have organized piles of things...

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

I would conveyer the choices I make to be real. But some people I'm around I would say they are fabricated.

5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist”

I am doing disney characters as modern day teens in their senior portraits.

6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects”

A crime scene in Barbies dream house it would be fairly easy to do considering you would just use barbies a few of the accessories and kitchen appliances along with the dream house.

My concept for each photo differs. The girl with the duck is her masking her age not with makeup but  with the things she has. The duck being something for kids along with the over sized bow. The second photo is of someone who I love very much and in the photo it captures both her youth and how adult she is. The next girl with the flapper style hair and accessories is a blast to the past. One that is a both beautiful and ugly. The last picture of the girl is both modern and old showing that she is not from one time or the other but both. Making her a true essence of beauty.

Memory Recreat

I was attacked to my portable CD player when I first got it at the age of nine.