artist statement 2nd draft

Lookbook

        In this body of work, I have explored and investigated the excessive artificiality of glamour photographs. Professional fashion model photo shoots require a process of intense cosmetics, set design, modeling, photography, and editing. The amount of artificial work that has been put into these glamorous images, both physically and digitally, create illusions that translate into real life. The public begins desiring to portray themselves similarly to these 'artificial' images, which can potentially require more artificial effort. This can result in a cycle of more consumption of cosmetic products, clothing items, and even plastic surgery. From my experience, this phenomena seems to occur more frequently in contemporary East Asia.

         I have decided to create a lookbook portfolio of myself. This experimentation process replicates the processes that may be used in a typical fashion photo shoot using artificial lighting in a controlled environment. I then went through heavy editing and transformation processes in order to push the limits of artificiality.

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1.     The author says that photography and books are, “burdened with sentimental value.” Do you think that this sentimental value is inherit with the medium or is it something created by the artist?

2.     Do you personally believe that books will ever disappear completely with innovative technology?

3.    Since after the democratization of photography books, what do you think is the future of the photo books? What would be our next step, or is there going to be one?

4.     The development of book production has allowed for many artists to bypass the process of editors, designers, and booksellers allowing for a lot more people to display their work to the public and allows for a diversity of voices. Do you believe that the mainstreaming of photography books takes away from the artistic value of a work? What influence does this have on the life of an image?  In other words, “How does an image stay memorable amongst such a vast sea of images?”

5.     Why do photographers feel the need to produce their work in a book? How did you fall in love with photography?  Did photo books have anything to do with it?

6.    Why do photographers care so much about books? Is it the same case for artists of other disciplines?

7.    What do you think is more effective way to illustrate and show a work of art/photography, in a book form or in an exhibition, or in any other forms? What's the best way to show photography work?

8.     Roth defines a great work as: “books whose images were destined to be seen printed in ink and bound between covers.” Do you think that an artist whose intent to produce a body of work specifically to be displayed on an online blog does not have the intent of creating a great work?

9.     Do you think a photo book is an art form?

10.     After reading this article, do you think you are more aware of how you will present your work in the future?

Project Proposal

For my project, I will be continuing on my exploration and illustration of contemporary 'nomadic' lifestyle, suggesting dynamics of comfort/discomfort and sense of mobility/stability. This project initially started out as a simple question: What objects do I actually need in my life to function well and be happy? Expanding from the previously made half scale prototypes, I will be constructing two or more pieces of nomadic 'box' furniture that can be transformed into different functions. My photo project will consist of a model or myself interacting with the furniture or focus on the formal quality of the constructed furniture pieces in different environments. This project along with the furniture itself will give the audience an additional perspective on the notion of nomadic lifestyle. The furniture project was highly influenced by Andrea Zittel.


-Influential contemporary artists:

Andrea Zittel: A-Z Ottoman Furniture



Putput

William Lamson

Panoramic Experience

Brooks bonding with two other Brooks(s)

strong man doing strong stuff

while chillin with the North Korean troops

brooks got into a car accident

'wildlives' going to places

Rules:

1. Photograph 'Wild'lives.

2. The subject has to be going to places.

3. I must mount 70-200mm lens on my camera.

4. iso 100

5. All of the above should be done while I am riding on my bicycle.

film scan

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1. art history brush: paints over an image using the source data from a specified history state or snapshot.
2. Save Image Pyramid: saves pyramid structure of scaled-down versions of the full resolution image.
3. Performance preferences!!!!!
4. smart psd files: you can share photoshop format files with indesign and dreamweaver
5. bird's eye view: Using H key to have the image view zoom out to fit to the screen.

more scans

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Is Photography Over?

I feel like it is quite aggressive to say if photography is over or not. Photography has become widely used as a 'recording device' in the world at this point. However, like what the article states, photography might be over, and it might be just the beginning, depending on how you would define photography and/or art. Personally, I think photography is definitely not over. There are so much you can do with wide variety of cameras and collaboration with the multimedia/new technology.Who knows if there will be a ground breaking technology or new medium we will be able to interact with that would change the entire art world just like it did when the first cameras came out during avant garde and impressionism period (or after digital cameras/color printers).

New Ideas 1

Lori Nix is a photographer who specializes in constructing dioramas and photographing the results. Her works are unique in a way where she constructs her own subject matter rather than going out to find it. I just love the fact that these photographs are results of interdisciplinary work of art. It is incredible how detailed the scenes are and that you are not limited to photograph the subject matter only when you find them. This is one idea. I would love to try out new and experimentational methods of photography.

Old work 1

This body of work illustrates exploration of ego and self loving. Every once in a while, people imagine and wish to have a twin, or a clone of themselves as their best friend, or even a lover because theoretically myself would understand me the best. 

We constantly struggle and hope for others to understand us.  I think maybe the first step is to love and understand myself. How are we going to be loved by others when you do not know how to love yourself?

I finished this work during my introduction to photography class three semesters ago on a project called 'fabricated reality'. I created my own method to blend two separate photos together as one. The entire process was done manually in a darkroom environment.

I later found out that similar method has been done by Jerry Uelsmann.