A Photographic Mentor: Stephen Shore

About Stephen Shore

The photographic artist that I decided to base my project upon and emulate is Stephen Shore. In my opinion, he has many interesting and unique photos that I enjoy and appreciate and are some of the most intriguing photos around today . Stephen Shore was born on October 8, 1947 and is an American photographer who is known for his "deadpan" images of banal scenes and other objects in the United States. He is also known for his early use of color and focus in art photography. Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an early age. Self-taught, he received a darkroom kit at age 6 from his uncle. At age ten he received a copy of Walker Evans's book, "American Photographs", which had influenced him greatly. His career began also began at the early age of 14", when he made the move of presenting his photographs to Edward Steichen. Edward Steichen was then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art . Recognizing Shore's talent, Steichen bought three of his works. At age 17, Shore met Andy Warhol and began to frequent Warhol's studio "the Factory", photographing Warhol and the creative people that surrounded him. In 1971, at the age of 24, Shore became the second living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  this photo below is a photo hat stephen shore took and the main things that i think that stand out in this photo is the position in which he took the photo which is the same in almost all of his photos off to the side i also like how he incorporates the shadows in the photo and almost uses the tree to guide the viewer towards the buildings which i find are one of the main things that he takes photos of.

this photo i took trying to emulate stephen shores style of photography is a photo i took of the school in the forest i couldnt use shadows to direct the viewers attention but i did use the trees to direct the viewers attention like stephen shore did in the photo above. 

this photo below is another photo taken by stephen shore its a photo of a cluster of buildings most likely in new york. The main reason i chose this photo is because i think it represents stephen shores style of the position in which the photo was taken and the shadows that he uses in every photo to almost direct the viewers attention to the most interesting part of the photo.

           

this photo i took is of a church behind our school i got the idea for this photo from the photo that stephen shore took above i couldnt use shadows to direct the viewers i tried to use the trees in the photo to direct the viewers attention instead.

this last photo by stephen shore is my personal favourite and i think one of his photos that best represents his style he takes this photo and like every other takes it on an angle he also uses shadows like in every other photo to direct the viewers attention to the other building and to the very sceneic background. so overall these photos i think are the most impressive in his work and are some of the most unique interesting and intriguing photos around today.

Bibliography:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Shore 

http://www.303gallery.com/artists/stephen_shore/

Breaking the rules photos.

These are the photos i took for the breaking the rules assignment and the photos that i used for my other 3 assignments.

Acrylic Lift Assignment #1

This is a photo of the acrylic lift i did with a photo i took.
i put 9 layers of acrylic gel medium onto it.
The photo i used originally was a photo of breaking the rules of a forest that is not entirely in focus and is sideways.
The photo change when i applied the gel medium to it in several ways. The photo darkened when i applied the gel and the end result was the photo.
The photo produced little clear spaces in certain spots due to the gel medium. the acrylic lift is very thin for some reason and is very stretchy. there are a few rips that i tried to prevent but couldnt.
i enjoyed doing this assignment and am very pleased with the end result

Mixed Lighting

For this photo i used the school nikon camera given to us the aperture/shutter speed i used was 1/60 and the lens i used was f 5.6 My main inspiration for doing this photo was the sun we went outside to take photos and it was so bright and beautiful outside so we got the gold light reflecter made eddys face gold and took the photo and it came out amazing

Proper Studio Lighting Three Images

What i tried to accomplish with this photo was to make my model look suspiscious and i also tried to make my model looknlike he was looking off at something and also thinking. with the lighting of this photot i tried to make the lighting dim and more light on one side to give the effect of darkness or suspiscion

What i tried to accompish with taking this photo was to make my model look sophisticated and confident. I had him take the pose he was taking to make him look big and to almost give an aroara of power arouund him. with the lighting in this photo i made it more dim towards thee right but i put most of the light directly on him and i use the gold side of the light reflecting disk and i aimed it above his head to give an aluminescent glow to him to give him more power.

what i tried to accomplish with this photo was to give my model a dumbfounded look and i also put the light to the left and left the right side of him dark to give it a unique look.

the canera i used for this assignment was the nikon school camera that is given to us the shutter speed i used was 1/60 on manual. 15-200mm focus

Painting With Light

for this image i used the nikon school camera that we are given, the aperture speed i used was a 30second exposure time and the lens i used was an 18-55mm camera lens. what i was trying to do with this photo was give it a dark look so i took red tissue paper and covered the light i used to make it red and i incoporated shadows, devils horns and everything else to portray my idea. My inspiration for this was whenever i look at old photos, dark themed photos it interests me so i tried to make my photo look like that.

Someone Who Inspires Me

This photo inspires me because the photographer fully diplays nature through this photo. It was taken be Ilkka Halso. The way he took this photo and the way he lined it up so that the loop shows right in the background stands out to me making this photo a favourite of mine. I like Ilkka Halsos work because all of his work is extremely unique with with the most impossible angles and amazing nature scenes. His work inspires me to be better at photography and to find the perfect shot depicting the way i feel about nature and photography.