Assignment 4!!!!!

PGY2442C Figure/Ground
Austin Reeves
areeves@ufl.edu
Handed Out: 3/16/11
Blog Post Due: 3/24/11
Critique: 4/5/11

Assignment 4

Producing the Real

In previous readings we’ve touched upon the notion of the photograph as evidential proof of existence. Whether it is a documentary photograph or a tableau photograph, the image created is proof that such an event took place. With the introduction of the digital image and photoshop, it is much easier to take advantage of this reliance on the photograph as a document of truth. Your assignment is to create an entirely new landscape, cityscape, or both through digital manipulation. You must combine at least five objects (land, trees, buildings, people, cars, planes, etc…) to create your own “reality”. All objects used must be photographed by you and not ripped from the net. Inkjet paper can be purchased at Harmon’s, their largest size is 13x17”. If you want a larger paper size, Lexjet (www.lexjet.com) is based out of Jacksonville and can standard deliver your paper in one business day. You have the digital power to create a new world catered to your desires. What would your utopic world look like? What wouldn’t exist? Would it be orderly or chaotic? Natural or synthetic? How will this world reflect who you really are?

Due on 4/6/10: 1 artist statement
1 print on inkjet paper
Because this assignment will be done with a digital camera you will be required to take a minimum of 150 images. And print a thumbnail contact sheet of all your images.

Appropriation

Completely forgot about these due to Portfolio/Spring Break madness! :C I sorry







I wanted to appropriate Nan Goldin's self-portraits/Suzanne crying by incorporating her snapshot-esque, intimate style. I'm interested in the use of lamp light and creating these raw documentary portraits.

I forgot to post these until now (was in studio all night).

I am "appropriating my own images" by taking the original image, and manipulating it, printing it, and then re-photographing it and printing in the darkroom. I'm drawing on inspiration of Andy Warhol's silkscreens of famous icons, and in turn creating my own icon. (Pink Girl becomes an icon when she becomes a deviant)

sarah project 3

These are just two photos/ideas where I'm taking magazine ads and sexualizing them.  I'm working on a few others ideas as well.
 

Project 3.

For this project, I appropriated some of the works of Cindy Sherman and Duane Michals to poke fun at them. These are some of my favorite shots. :3

These are single and multiple exposures of a captioned television screen playing The Great Ziegfeld, a triple Academy Award winning biopic from 1936. The film portrays Florenz Ziegfeld, who dedicated his life to making his mark in show business by signing up-and-coming starlets and directing extravagant shows.