Week 13: Reading Quiz - McGinley and Graf

-Reading Quiz-

1. What is Ryan McGinley inspired by? Why is he drawn to his subject matter?  Besides David Bowie, "Pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters."  McGinley was basically raised by his teenaged brothers and sister; they are people that he has come to idolize.  As a result, McGinley is drawn by emotions; "

They’re about the way that people hold themselves and the way that people feel, and I think that there’s a certain poetry to them. "

2. How would you describe the look of Bryan Graf’s images? How does he draw inspiration from the landscape? Graf is drawn to "marginalized patches of swamp and woods"  He likes to take black and white images while experimenting with different materials and processes while ignoring the "conventional rules" of photography representation.  Graf likes to revisit landscape areas on a number of different occasions as a way to capture different textures that he finds in that particular place and to "perfect a non–judgmental, non–representational style that is typically associated with this variety of landscape photography." 

Week 13: Ansel Adams Presentation

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography with Mary Street Alinder.  Little, Brown and Company. 1985

Expanding Memory: An Interview With Pedro Meyer: Reading Quiz

-Reading Quiz-

1. How does memory figure in Pedro Meyer’s process?

Pedro Meyer discuses during his interview that he has a poor memory, which explains his interest in photography.  "Instead of remembering everything in detail, I have always made images , and in the process registered the present for future reference." His pictures, even if they have imperfections, help him remember.  He uses his photographs as a way to "remember."
    

2. How does he view his work in relation to straight photography?
"All the images are about documenting experiences - not fabricating them."  He believes that the camera can see more than "we do".  During his interview, Meyer talks about a time when he took Desert Shower.  He wasn't able to capture the plane, because it was flying by, however now with the advances in digital technology, he was able to restore the picture to what his memory serves him.

Watermark Quiz

Inspiration Board - The Boardwalk, Vernon, New Jersey