william eggleston

Erwin Olaf

Workin' With Shadows In Kaunas, Lithuani

Gehard Demetz
http://www.yatzer.com/feed_1931_the_dark_celebration_of_gehard_demetz

Ross Sawyers

Chris Coy

David Hockney

Using a series of overlapping photos to create a bigger picture.

camera.

i forgot to mention this today.
if you do have a camera already, i'd like to bring it in so i can look at it and make sure it will work for this class.

thanks.

Julian Beever: Sidewalk Art

I find his work amazing! In order to see the 'actual' or 'correct' image there is only one view point that works, otherwise the picture will look 'wrong', like the last one. Beever's grasp on depth and perception is really impressive, to me anyway!

Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China

Surrealism Photography

Surrealism in photography exists which is surprise, unexpected juxtapositions.

Haiti

I believe all of these images speak for themselves.

Hotel Igloo Village

Hotel Igloo Village Kakslauttanen, Finland
Igloos are built for viewing the northern lights.

First Assigned Reading.

'Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' is one of the seminal writings in the theory of photography.
This essay will inform many of the readings that we will be doing throughout the semester.

Please read this essay by monday Feb. 1st.

Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanic Reproduction.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm