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Long Exposure

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Well it’s been a long time that I have posted some work, so no better way to talk about Long Exposure. As we all know is base on letting the camera be still for a long long time. This technic is mostly use for landscape photography, Night Photography and Light light painting. This technic is the base of photography as we know at the begging of photography the exposures had to be very long so the image could come out.

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Flower Power

I went to Santa Monica Pier last week and try this techic with some of my style so here it is :

#long exposure #flowerpower #santamonica

Modernism & Postmodernism

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Is there a parallel that exists between Modernist photography and Modernist cinema?

Before I could answer this question I’ll talk about what is modernism and postmodernism and their difference between this two movements. Modernism is a hug art period that has small sub-period or art movements, including symbolism, futurism, surrealism, expressionism, dad and others. It’s a period that goes from 1860 to the 1960 changing to the postmodernism, which is a rebellion against modernism. On the arts, it all started because the appearance of the camera in 1839. Artistes need to experiment new ways to show the world; through the way they interpreter or felt world. Photography was showing the world how it was in a faster and “better” way now. For photography it all would start after pictorialsim. The main idea of Modernism was to see the world in different way more connected to our feelings rather than how it real is. In the world of photography it was about the form and the shape of objects and the idea of showing progress of the world. In a way it was glorifying capitalism and because of this glorification, a rebellious movement came along: postmodernism.

Postmodernism is a period of art just as modernism with its own sub-art movement in it, like starting with pop art and then moving to conceptual art, neo-expressionism, feminist art and the Young British Artist. Postmodernism art was a little more pessimist than modernism. They where skeptic and suspicion of reason, they also challenge the universal certainties or truths, at the same time they where more complex than modernism.

Now to answer the question knowing what Modernism is, will see that they did had a parallel between cinema and photography they both where focus on form ass aesthetic and fragmentation of thing. In addition it also had a parallel with the postmodernism be not having a story line or no meaning and that anything could be art.

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FlowerPlower

Blow-Up(Movie)

Edward Weston

FlowerPower: Kaleidoscope Serie

While I was at kids store I encounter one of my favorite old toys; an Kaleidoscope. I always have love to see through this artifact and se how the world was seen through this optical perspective. So I decided to go and try it with my camera. At the same time Im always been into abstract photography and more than showing a “real” images of the world I like to show it in a different point of view. At the same time I’ve always believe that we life in more than one plane, so by fragmenting and image i show there is different planes in a object.

#Modernism #Postmodernism #Blow-Up #flowerpower #Edward Weston

"Molotov_Man"

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Well I’ll start with this quote ‘Good Artists copy. Great Artists Steal’ said by the famous Pablo Picasso. Although it sounds horrible to agree with this quote, I personally think is true. But more than stealing is getting inspired by the things we see or put them on different contest to give the subject another meaning. Through out time all artists have stealing or using different media to re-contextualize art or images to appropriate them as their own. We can start by saying that Pop art is the most obvious for this re-contextualizing objects/ art. I’ll stat with the famous Roy Lichtenstein where he got his ideas or stole the illustration from comics form the 60’s. If we go farther back will see Picasso getting the ideas or stealing from African Mask. Even if we go to the main ideas of what is Collage; where we get different images to create a new one.

I believe that what is important and make the art different will be the idea behind the piece of art they are using and as long you change something of the art piece I think there is now problem at all. At the same time I think that everything have been done so copying has become much easier to do now than before. Even now with all the media bombarding us all the time and the Globalization that we have now a days.

Talking about the case of the Molotov Man I think is a very complicated this cause the images first was as photograph by Susan Meisales and then the artist Joy Garnett use the image as an painting, which I think is good she completely change the image be changing the whole medium and the cropping of the image. At the same time the image has been use through out so many other people they idea behind has change. And this has been thanks to the Internet that people can grab the image and give the image a new meaning. I believe the copy writes today is so complicated, because as I mention before the Internet and the whole new mediums make it hard to decide if someone has copy or just been inspired be it.

Joy Garnett

Susan Meisales

Then again if some one just grabs an image of the internet or from some where and make them it as if they did it with out doing anything or even just giving a completely different meaning to the actual meaning of the peace of art I think is wrong. But it has happen with the Nazi logo been a Buddhist symbol before. But here is the perfect idea of appropriation or even the quote I’ve mention at the begging of Pablo Picasso.

#molotovman #pablo picasso #roy lichtenstein #Susan Meisales #Joy Garnett

Deconstruction

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Deconstruction is a philosophical movement that started 1966 with the French philosopher Jacque Derrida. The main idea of this movement was to challenge the meaning of everything, not to destroy but to defy meaning. Also to see the gray area of life, like is not always black ore white side. At the same time when it comes to choosing different mediums we use to think one is better than the other for some reason. But we should try to see the both sides and acknowledge them with their good and bad side and see that they need each other to complete each other.

“To deconstruct is to take a text apart along the structural “fault lines” created by the ambiguities inherent in one or more of its key concepts or themes in order to reveal the equivocations or contradictions that make the text possible.” (http://www.iep.utm.edu/deconst/)

We could also say that to deconstruct means to over think a meaning to the point to destroying it and see that in the end the meaning doesn’t matters or that will never get to the truth, but through this process allow us to understand how something might take different meaning or shape.

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FlowerPower

Flower Power : collages serie

#Deconstruction #jacque derrida #flowerpower

ARTE POVERA

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During the late 1960s to 1970s there was a radical Italian art movement, whose artists used a range of unconventional processes and non-traditional “everyday” materials to create art. This term was first use by Italian art critic Germano Celant. The materials they use are to evoke a pre-industrial age, such earth, rock, clothing, paper and rope. They believed that modernity threatened to erase our sense of memory along with all signs of the past; as we began to become a more consumer culture. Arte Povera groups hunted down to contrast the new and the old to complicate our sense of the effect of passing of time. By giving new meaning to absolute objects and bringing them back to life. Arte Povera usually mix organic and industrial materials in ways that reveal the conflict between the natural and the man-made. Mostly done through sculpture, assemblage, and Performance, artists become engaged in subject’s investigations of the relationship between life and art between seeing and thinking.

“ But many of the artists associated with arte povera used photography to think about sculptural concerns. They posed questions about the relation of the body to the world around it: how bodies move through space, how bodies are subject to gravity, how the body touches its surroundings. Photography could be utilised as a means to document specific actions or processes. However, for the artists in this room, the camera’s ability to fix and preserve a fleeting moment in time also became an integral element of the artwork.” (Tate)

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FlowerPower

Giuseppe Penone

Mario Merz

Michelangelo Pistoletto

#ARTE POVERA #giuseppe penone #Mario Merz #Michelangelo Pistoletto

Street Photography

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So here I’ll be adding more to the last post I made about the street photography. Last week I went Down Town Los Angeles with my class around the old theaters area and the Financial District. Getting more knowledge about street photography during this trip, i started to understand more the idea of the "static" and "lyrical" images. Although my general idea of street photography was not so way of when it came to this two “theories” of street photography; I realize I like to take more “static” images rather than “lyrical”. I’m not a very interesting on take images of people, while I like look around and find random objects or art work that will show the randomness of humanity or the culture.

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Flower Power

#streetphotography #los angeles #flowerpower

Ethics of street photography

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Well the ethics of street photography, is a very topic to talk about don’t you think. Your taking pictures for the idea of documenting what’s going around the world we life in; which can be sometime so warm and beautiful or so cold and ugly. It’s been going since the beginning of photography. Photographers have been taking photos of the people and thing that surround them all the time. But is been just now we have seen it more with idea of blogs. Before photographer had to a body of work and create book out their works or they where shown on magazines (like Time Magazine) or even hired by the government to create images. Street photography is a branch of documentary/photojournalism photography with the different that we can choose what we want to show manipulate the image and we can cross the line the documentary/photojournalism can not, which is invasive, but at the same time it has a touch of artistic approach to it. When a street photography is too cruel or crude you may take it as a documentary/photojournalism photography. Street photographer approach to their subjects is distance but not cold, they actually care a lot of the subject. They don’t have to be so detached of what they shoot; they sometime ask there subject to posse for them.

In addition the street photography is not always trying to take images of people but also building and cloth of the time is happening. Street photographer just want to take images of what banal or weird around them.

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FlowerPower

Paris (Montmartre), France

Milano, Italy

New York, USA

Tibet

Bogota, Colombia

#streetphotography #flowerpower #tibet #bogotá #paris #new york

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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During the 1935 Walter Benjamin came with a theory, that are was being mass produce by the advances of technology. And by that the piece of art has lost they “aura”/ “essence”. The machines now made Art not by the human hands, and more over the idea behind art was totally changed; no for beauty but now it became a political approach.

As we see the real “aura” was seen on paintings because they could be mass produce so easy and all the time and one person was making the whole process so the “aura” of one person is more present. Now with the mechanical era or mass production the “aura” is lost because, now a lot of people working in one piece so the final product is a mix of everything making it lose the “aura”. Furthermore sometime is not even humans dong the work at all but the machine.

Although I agree on most of the idea that the “aura” has been lost, but more than lost it change, because I’m a strong believer that energy never disappears of finish but it changes to new thinks. And that what happen with the idea of the coming of machines on the art work Yea its true that oil painting are very unique and you cant reproduce it as easy ass a photograph. And well both have a little in between the human and the object they are painting or taking a picture. For the painting we have the paintbrush that separate us from the artwork; yea you have more control over it, but time is on our disadvantage. While on photography we have the camera (machine), that is a huge gap between the artwork and us; but we have time on our side. Making this two kinds of “auras” one will take the “aura’ of the artist in that place during a long period of time while on the photograph you are taking the “aura” of that moment/second.

Vincent Van Gogh

Joan Miró

Sebatan Salgado

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#Walter Benjamin #FlowerPower #vincent van gogh #Joan Miró #sebatan salgado

Walt Disney Concert Hall

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Well I love walking at night and seeing the light of the buildings. Few days ago I was Down Town L.A walking around the Walt Disney Concert Hall and it was a foggy night and i was taking images in a double exposer to show how my mind word sometime when is over stimulated by todays life stile. Which I realize we are never focus in one thing that we are always seeing more than one thing at a time and from that we create an image. The i change the images color cause i wanted to give a surreal mood and make it as if you where in my mind or not on the real world.

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FlowerPower

#L.A #Walt Disney Concert Hall #FlowerPower

Pictorialism vs Purism

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I personally think the fight/discussion that goes on between the different art movements is a bit dull. Because I think all the art movement are connected and represent the era they are going through. I will be talking a bout the fight of Pictorialism and Purism. As we know the era of the Pictorialism is the beginning of the photography trying to get in the world of are so the had to “copy” paintings through photographs. Then came the Purism with the idea of the camera language, which during that time people knew more about this medium so they could work more with it. I personally think is should be a balance of both depends what you want to show the world and the truth behind. If you want to document the events of the world you should totally have a Purism approach for moral/ethic. If you want to show your personal or and art word you should make a Pictorialism approach, making it more romantic and artistic.

But talking about the conflict between the Pictorialism and the Purism on photography. On of the main point they fight for is the idea of the images being plane or just taken by accident. Having plan the images to great a feeling will make the whole idea of the language of the camera be lost, by not letting the camera make its job and not letting get what the human eye can not see. At the same time the Purism say that photography is a different medium /art so it should be trying to copy the painting style.

Will have the Ansel Adams one of the most Purism photographer argue with William Mortensen a Pictorialism photographer. They both will take and approach photography is so different ways but nun being wrong at all. One is in to showing how the camera can get the beauty of life and details of object while the other is more on the beauty of the image he can create.

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FlowerPower

William Mortensen

Ansel Adams

#pictorialism #Purism #Ansel Adams

READING A PHOTO

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Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer form the 70s’/ 80s’ that expose the gay and punk of the time, in a very seductive and provocative way. But at the same time very romantic and artistic way. He was obsessed with the human body shapes; as sculpture, just like the renaissance artist Michelangelo. At the same time he was into the proportions of the body; like Leonardo Da Vinci.

We’ll see all this on this Image down here. We’ll see how he uses the circle to show us the proportion of the human body as perfection. As we know the circle is consider the perfect shape and proportion. Then will the how detailed the body is, by seeing all the muscles are in use for this pose. Just like a sculpture. As we read more into the image we can say that this person represent humans, but more the black community and how the pressure of life and how we are trying to fight it every day At the same time is can show how we are breaking through some pressure of life even more like coming out of a dark place to the world. And as we know he was involve with the gay world and the expression “coming out of the closet”, which is coming from a dark place to lighter place we can say this person is coming out from it. In addition to that the pose is like he is breaking through or holding so the hole doesn’t close. Giving a feeling of movement. Making movement involve in the image.

In compare here is an Image of mine is based of the movement. I wanted to show how we could paint with the movement of the camera and create a moving image. Then the colors I use are very surreal making the image out of norm so make it make you feel your some where at a night club or place with artificial light. Then the hole idea the movement is also to take you your dancing with him making you part of the of the image. The pose is of him is moving with the sound of the music but not any music but electronic music. Also I want to represent the culture of the era that has been stimulated by drugs and more over hallucinate drugs.

#robert mapplethorpe #FlowerPower

Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media

Is an Exhibition happening on the Getty Center from December 20, 2016 to April 30, 2017, based on how media has influence us through out the past 50 years. The exhibition shows how the artists looked and feel about news/ media from the Vietnam War in the 1960 to the so-called “War on Terror” in the 200s. The whole exhibition is based how media has the power of manipulate us and how some people choose what we want to see and know. The exhibition includes more then 200 photo and videos, from 17 different artists. Some of the artists are:

Adam Broomberg (South Africa) and Oliver Chanarin (UK)

Martha Rosler (American)

Masao Mockizuk (Japanes)

Alfredo Jaar (Chile)

Catherine Opie (American)

Robert Heinecken(American)

Donalr Blumberg (American)

Through this exhibition will see how all this artist will show how we all life a double life depend on the media we see. We might see the something on the medium that is happy but actually the real news is hidden from us or “sweet talk” to us, it might just tell just the surface about it or just not put a lot of attention to it. We will see this on the collages Martha Rosler creates by mixing the images of different medium. The will be should a very nice thin of life and then she will collage an image of war, creating a juxtaposition of situation that are happening on the world and show how ingrate we can be or how much we don’t care what is happening, because what the media show us.

Then we will go to the artist Alfredo Jaar that will show us how the media hide the real news with very shallow news. And will show us how the news is manipulated to us. They will show the world what is happening in the right moment. With his work will see cover of magazines and under the cover will talk of the biggest problem of the time the Rwanda. Will see like 4 covers until the cover of the magazine will talk about it. Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media is an exhibition is a shocking was to show us how media has a lot of impact on our life and how we think we know the truth by reading and seeing the news but in the end we actually don’t know.

#Martha Rosle #Adam Broomberg #Oliver Chanarin #Masao Mockizuk #Catherine Opie #Alfredo Jaar #Donalr Blumberg

New Photographer I found: Gilles Coulon

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Flower Power

#Gilles Coulon

Refugee

Martin Schoeller

Graciela Iturbide

Victor Diop

Tome Stoddart

#refugee #annenbergphotoforspace #martin schoeller #graciela iturbide #omar victor diop #tom stoddart

Hi there,

Well I’m a Colombian Photographer and a Fashion Stylist. At the same time I’ve have travel around the world gathering images, experience and inspirations. My favorites art movements will be Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract. At the same time I like the very Trashy/Punk/Grunge style and Psychogenic colors. My inspirational photographers will be Robert Mapplethorpe, Boo George, Nick Nnight, and Man Ray.

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FlowerPower

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