Gabrielle Basilico #2

Artist Statement

For this batch of my Gabriele Basilico series, I made many improvements over the first batch. Most of my goals and improvement had to do with narrowing down and making my work of a more specific category and more similar. I made sure that almost all the images that I took had the sky in it and were in black and white. To make better quality photos I did several things. I took more balanced photos where the weight of the sky counterbalanced the weight of the building or used elements from the rule of thirds to purposely create slightly unbalanced photos. Lastly I made sure that every image had depth. The combination of all of these changes allowed this group of photos to have a common theme and be of better quality.

Gabrielle Basilico Style Photographs

Artist Statement

For this project, my goal was to create successful photographs that incorporated elements that were commonly found in Gabrielle Basilico's images. Basilico famously focused on the essence of pieces architecture and urban landscapes that showed slowness and that lack of societal evolution. All of his photographs were either black and white or had only limited colors. In order to do this, I first made sure that architecture was the main subject and that there were no people or signs of movement in the image. The architecture or urban landscapes that I captured never had the newest, most modern buildings, or landmarks. I just tried to photograph what I saw. Next, I looked at each photo very carefully. If I could look and the image think of myself as being where the photo was taken and then think that it would be silent, the photo was successful. Creating photos that embodied silence was very important in creating the full effect of slowness and the lack of evolution. When I put the photos on my computer, I edited them to either be black and white, or have only limited colors.

Avedon Project

Photos of Isaac

Artist Statement

This project was about mimicking the photographic style of the famous portrait photographer, Richard Avedon. We had to take pictures of models that were acting truthfully, realistically, honestly, and as themselves. To take pictures of a model that was acting naturally and realistically, I needed to prompt the model with questions that made them really think deeply and not worry think about the presence of the camera. After saying the prompts, I would wait until the model had dwelled on the prompt in their head and I then took the picture when I felt that they were truly thinking about the prompt. After taking the photos, they were made into squares and put into black and white to further emulate the works of Avedon.

(A)symmetry/Balance

Symmetry

Asymmetry

Balance

Artist Statement

For this assignment, I had to take pictures of symmetrical, asymmetrical, and balanced objects. Symmetry is where the content on both sides of a vertical dividing line are the same. To capture images I looked for objects and made sure that the left half of the object could be folded over the right and match, then a made sure to position the camera so that the middle of the frame was aligned with the symmetry line. The concept of asymmetry is like symmetry in that there should be an object of focus on one side, but in this case it should not match anything on the other side. In order to capture asymmetrical objects, I found symmetrical objects and moved the camera so that the whole object only occupied one half of the frame or I found two similar objects that could not quite be reflected over the other and be equal. The third concept that I had to capture was balance. A balanced image consists of two similar objects, one on either side of a center dividing line, that have the same visual weight in the frame. I made balanced images by finding two objects that looked similar and that were mostly the same size and that had similar colors.