Ad Council Photos: Abuse

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol
• Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)
o Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)
o Father worked in a coal mine
• In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”
• Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
• Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator
• Designed advertisements for women’s shoes
• Used Polaroid camera
• Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac
• Favorite print making technique was silk screening
• Friends & family described him as a workaholic
• His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”
• First solo expedition in 1952
• Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”
• 1960s: iconic American products (pop art)
• Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968
• Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career
• Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)
• 1965 said he was retiring from painting
o 1972 returned to painting
• Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)
• Produced Velvet Underground’s first album
• Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue
• Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)
o Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document
o "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."
• Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)
• Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver
• Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person
• Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication
• $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)
• Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Photoshop Write up

“Party like a rock, party like a rock star”

(Photoshop)

In class we have been learning how to use photoshop to edit pictures and make them the way you want them to be. For me to get the image I created I chose two photos I took previously and blended them together. Then I went to file open to put the photo in photoshop. Once you pick a photo you have to duplicate one of the background layers just in case something goes wrong. You have to make the images the same size because if you do not it will not work. You go to image then image size and fix the size so it will be the same as your background photo size. Go to image then apply image, find the photo you want to blend in the source drop box. In this box you can change how the photo looks like by its color in the channel drop box which has the option of using RGB, red, green, and blue. For you to change how you want your photo to look like use the blending drop box where there are multiple options for you to use. To get the sides darker I went to the gradient tool bar on the left and create new layers and put the black on the corners. You need to make sure when you are done with putting the black on the corner you go to each layer except the background and put it as multiply or else it will not show on your final photo. When you are done with the photo you go to file save as and save it as a jpeg so you can view the photo when you please.

Extra Credit

For this photo I used the Threshold technique. I picked out two photos and combined them together. Using photoshop I had to duplicate one of the photos to make sure if I make a mistake I will still have the original photo that I picked out. Then I had to make both images the same size so they can be put together, I went to Image then image size. After I went to image then apply image and chose the photo to apply to the background. You can change how the image you applied to be a different color so your image can have a better effect to it.
For this image I chose the picture I wanted and I used the threshold technique. I had to select all of the white in the photo so when I add a color that is were it will go. After i chose the color I wanted and clicked shift on the white so the color will apply. After I went to save then save as to save the image.
For this photo I chose two photos and I had to use the lasso tool to copy the image of the girl and then I used the eraser tool to clean the edges. After I copied the image and pasted it onto the landscape photo. For the photo to not be blurry as I size it to the way I want it to be sized you have to click the shift button as you make it the size you want.
For this photo I used the Threshold technique but added a third picture. I picked out two photos and combined them together. Using photoshop I had to duplicate one of the photos to make sure if I make a mistake I will still have the original photo that I picked out. Then I had to make both images the same size so they can be put together, I went to Image then image size. After I went to image then apply image and chose the photo to apply to the background. To apply the third image I first saved the two images i applied first then repeated the steps.

For this photo I used the Threshold technique. I picked out two photos and combined them together. Using photoshop I had to duplicate one of the photos to make sure if I make a mistake I will still have the original photo that I picked out. Then I had to make both images the same size so they can be put together, I went to Image then image size. After I went to image then apply image and chose the photo to apply to the background.

Little Toy

I used the paint effect on this photo.

I used the variations effect on this photo.

I used a paint effect on this photo as well.

I used a paint effect on this photo.

Copy/Paste and Blended

Blended

Copy/Paste

Black and White Edits

True Black and White

Black White Color Filter

Black White Color Emphasis

Black and White Presentation

• When looking at an object you are seeing the color the object will not take
• Red, Blue, and Green are the main colors we see
  
• Images work best with black and white are value, candied, something sad or emotional, lines and shapes
• Tips-practice, focus on contrast, take time creating your image in Photoshop, focus on texture, photograph in color, and use color filters to accentuate work
  
• 2 automatic methods- desaturate and lab color

Landscape

Abstract

Big Photo edit

Big Photo

Detail

Fish eye

Archetecture Assignment

Location 3: Interior

Location 3: Detail

Location 3: Big Picture

Location 2: Detail

Location 1: Big Picture

Landscapes (pg. 202-217)

Landmarks in Landscape Photography

· Carletion E. Watkins (1829-1916)

o Wanted to capture the grandeur of the American West

o Learned photography in 1854

o Open his own gallery in 1858 in San Francisco

· Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

o Best known for his Black and Whites

o Primarily shot Yosemite National Park

o Born in San Francisco

o First camera was a Kodak Brownie

· Timothy O’Sullivan (1840-1882)

o Most well known for documenting the Civil War

o Provided the first photographs of the Grand Canyon, Death Valley and Colorado River

o Responsible for the “New Topographics” movement

§ A documentary approach to landscapes

§ Shunned the romanticism of Adams

§ Popular in the 60s and 70s

Photographing the Landscape

Thinking Artistically

· Composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography

· Viewpoint is most important of composition

· Pay attention to where you position the camera

· Explore all the variations when you set up a shot

· Go as high as you can then as low as you can

· Move the camera to the right and left

· Move closer and farther back

· Achieve a balance between unity and verity

Camera Settings

· Stop down a lens-f/16, f/22, f/32

· f/64 is usually the smallest f-stop

Light

· professional photographers do most of their work just after sunrise or just before sunset

o light is wonderful at these times

o angle of sun is low so shapes and textures are emphasized by side lighting

Film

· recorded as much information as possible

· use 100 ISO flim with 35mm

Lenses

· Wide-angle lenses

· Really close and distant objects in same shot

Filters

· Yellow brings out the clouds

· Red filter adds contrast

Camera Support

· Tripod

The Grand Landscape

· Big view for pictures of the outdoors

o National, stare, or city parks are great locations to explore landscape photography

Landscape Details and Close-ups

· Sunny days can be bad for the landscape photography

· Light meters are designed to create an exposure that makes medium or middle gray out of the scene being metered

Abstracted Elements in the Landscape

· Abstracted element

o Images composted of lines, shapes, values, and textures