Copying Avedon's Westbook

 Attendee's to the Commerce 2012 Bois D'Ark Bash

photographer find

Cory White is a photographer i discovered through the whole larder love blog. He is the photographer for whole larder love cook book. his images amazed me so i checked out his website and found some pretty neat stuff.  you can find his projects at http://mrblanc.com/ or his website is http://www.corywhite.com/home/

richard avedon

These images are taken from Richard Avedons' series 'In The American West': 

Avedon traveled with a portable studio with him in order to shoot his subjects against a clean white background and in there own environment (as you can see from the bottom image). This weekend, as in tomorrow, i will be shooting the Bois D'Arc Bash in downtown commerce. My intentions in shooting is to take shots of people attending the Bash. I think the people within the community are a very important part of the history of the town so i plan to add the portraits to my project.

food photography

I personally think that food photography is at its best when there is selective focus and warm colors and just an overall home-style feel to the image. depth of field is an important part when shooting food, but the most important part is presentation. food photography is not successful without an excellent presentation. you want the viewer to feel like they can taste and smell the food within the image. A wooden table or cutting board is an excellent add in to give it that natural home-style feeling.

Diptychs

After researching and going through images all day i think both of these images would work great as diptychs of the square.

final project- document commerce, tx

photo blogs

there are great photo websites out there you just have to search for them. http://www.americansuburbx.com/

an artist that i found and thoroughly enjoyed is Roger Minick and his album "Sightseer". This one is called flag man at the wall, Washington, 1999. Most of the collection was taken at some point in the 90's so it's entertaining to see all of the fashion at the time. To see more of the collection you can go to http://sightseerseries.com/

another great website is inmotion.magnumphotos.com.

Magnum in Motion is full of documentary videos. Documentary photography is my passion so i fell in love with several of the videos i saw. This particular image was taken by Bruce Gilden and is part of his Las Vegas home foreclosures series. I found this image to be powerful through what she's wearing and the message she is trying to get across. I also love his choice in black and white photography. I personally think documentary is best when black and white.