Abstract References
Abstract Lectures:
PHOTOGRAMS: CREATE SHAPE, TEXTURE & LINE – PRODUCE A MINIMUM OF 6 WITH VARIETY!
Abstract References:
Bacteria Photography: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/seung-hwan-oh_n_5877124.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
David Maisel
David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both.
Maisel’s aerial images of environmentally impacted sites explore the aesthetics and politics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, and zones of water reclamation, framing the issues of contemporary landscape with equal measures of documentation and metaphor. As Leah Ollman states in the Los Angeles Times, “Maisel’s work over the past two decades has argued for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.”
Library of Dust depicts copper canisters containing the cremated remains of patients from a psychiatric institution. Vibrant minerals bloom on the urns’ surfaces, as the copper reacts with the ashes held within. The New York Times calls Maisel’s Library of Dust monograph “a fevered meditation on memory, loss, and the uncanny monuments we sometimes recover about what has gone before.”
Links to galleries of his work:
William Miller
Last year photographer William Miller wowed us with his Ruined Polaroids project, a stunning study of colour and texture produced using a broken Polaroid SX-70. The same unerring eye for finding visual gold in unlikely places is present in his newest body of work, Gowanus Canal. William is able to capture some real beauty in the scummy surface of this Brooklyn waterway, strange patterns and colours that take on the ethereal quality of abstract art under his expert lens. Flotsam and jetsam has never looked so good.
http://www.williammillerphoto.com
Ruined Polariods: http://www.williammillerphoto.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=0&a=0&at=0
Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is one of the “most extensively contaminated” waterways in America, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, the channel’s toxicity is being highlighted in a more artistic light. Photographer William Miller has released some stunning images of the the Gowanus Canal, a runoff point for billions of gallons of wastewater and sewage from metropolitan New York City (and, for a time, a dead dolphin). Miller, a native New Yorker, shot the photos in 2011.
Gowanus Canal: http://www.williammillerphoto.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=1&a=0&at=0
Reviews:
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/william-miller-gowanus-canal
http://thisispaper.com/William-Miller-Gowanus-Canal
Medium Study: http://www.williammillerphoto.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=2&a=0&at=0
Photography Diploma West Thames College 