Nan Goldin - In My Life (excerpt, ART/new york no. 47)

Just A quick post!
I'm doing research on Nan Goldin for an academic essay I have to hand up for my research and writing class.
I'm getting really into Goldin's work at the minute.
I think its the drag influence and the sexual fluidity of her subjects.
It fits the projects that I have under taken in the past.

Possessions...

I'm back again guys...
Hi!

So I recently finished a photo project with the title possesions...

The following images are my final pick of them.

It took me a long time to decided ont he subjects and playing around with the

word possesions took forever but i final decided on the idea and just went with it

I had alot of fun with this project and i felt ablle to express myself and get my personal ideas across much more than any other time in my classes.

I'm going to follow up the images with my typed up propsal and evaluation.

Any comments welcome good, bad, indifferent...
Hit me with it!

Oh and some of guys might recognise one of my models

OK Blogger is being a little difficult tonight, very slow and in a horrible mood!, I'll put up more of the images tomoorow hopefully then it will have sorted it's self  out!

The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties

My Absolute favourite Velvet Underground Song!!
ust reading the Nan Goldin Bpook and all the Undergrounds quotes got me yerning for soe Nico and Lou Reed!!!..... Listen to this really loadly and tell em what you think!

Nan Goldin...

"NICO SINGS.."I'll be your mother." The velvet Underground virtually buffets us with this song. It strikes at us, and reaches down to disturb us. Not in vanity but as a desperate cry for sanity. It is sung to ghosts; to a generation that has benn artfully misrepresented, scientically marketed, packaged, sold and sold again since birth. Abused in manys ways, bruised far deeper that surface wounds reveal, and confused by the volume and intensity of the nosiy void of contempoary culture, the generation has a distinctly unreal sense of itself. "I'll be your mirror" speaks to the cancerous alienation which essentially defines the anguished soul of post was youth culture."

This is the first quote from the Nan Goldin book " I'll be your mirror" curated by Elisabeth Sussman and David Armstrong; I think trying o convey Godlins love of Lou Reed poetry and The Velvet Undergrounds music.

I've decided o read this book very slowly and soak up everything in it, already I'm finding it extremely difficult to put it down, as it is very well presented and writen!!!
Two words...... Love It!

Quote taken from: Nan Goldin "I'll Be Your Mirror" Curated by Elisabeth Sussman and David Armstrong..

Sorry Its Been so Long... Masculine and Femine Imagery!

Hi Blogger Land
My sincerest apoligies for not Blogging in so long, but it has been crazy latley, what with work, college, GCN, and trying to find time to see my folks ha!

I'm picking a particular topic for decussion tonight as i know that alot of my class mates have been researching various different imagery.
Images that men like or relate to and images the women like and relate to!

I've written my own sort of assignment for myself and set myself the task of finding or not finding differences between male and female photographers: i.e Which sex takes the better photograph or does it matter,

Underneath I'm going to post the essay bear with it it's full of quotes as I am currently listening to Janis Joplin
10:32p.m with tea in one hand and a Nan Goldin Book in the other, so I am feeling particularly inspired!! : )

I would really like feed back, bad, good, indifferent, just opinions really!
Hope you like it folks!
Here it goes......

Oh p.s I will be most defiinatley Blogging again tomorrow because, as I am sure we are all well aware of the Deadline is looming!

It is a well known fact that throughout the years in photography and many different art forms in society, that man and women have an extremely different presence, different behaviours and even different standings for themselves and each other, which inevitably places them at opposite spectrums of the art world.

“ According to usage conventions which are at last being questioned but have no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man”.

Do men and women take different photo’s?

“Such fascination makes sense. Gender is an endlessly debatable topic. The debate gets fiercer when it turns to boy-versus-girls and the stakes get higher as more women take up cameras”.

“Of course women have always been a force in photography. Yet in recent years, photo programs have seen a steady rise in the number of female students in everything from advertising to art to photojournalism”.\

But do they take different kinds of pictures?”.

Eve Arnold (1912- )

Eve Arnold joined Magnum photo agency in 1951 and became a full member in 1957.

Arnold is extremely renowned and held in very high regard throughout the photography community with both men and women alike.

She holds such awards as:

Lifetime Achievement award:

The sony world photography awards 2010.

Honorary OBE by the British government

Master photographer, International Centre of Photography NYC.

Arnold is one of the most famous portrait photographers to have  ever represented Magnum. She is especially well known for her brilliant shots of Marilyn Monroe, many of which were taken in 1960 on the set of ‘The Misfits‘.

Arnold moved to England in the early 60's and has produced some of the most famous photography of Queen Elizabeth II.

Arnold has held her own in a very male dominated art form, especially in the 1950’s and 1960’s when women photographers where few and far between.

And it is because of this that  I believe that, even though photography is primarily male dominated, The photographer no matter male or female makes the image and if the photographer is a good image maker then the photograph will be good, simple!

“The perception of what you're asking is: Who

makes better pictures?" says Dennis Keeley, chair

of photography and imaging at the Art Center.

“Nobody. Better pictures are made by better

Photographers.” That is not gender-driven, except

we have a society that's gender-divided. In discussing these things, it's not the answers—it's the questions.”

Steve Mc Curry

Mc Curry is best known for his photograph “ Afghan Girl” that originally appeared in National Geographic.

He began his career with coverage of the Soviet War in Afghanistan, with his images being some of the first to publicise the ongoing conflict.

It was these images that won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photography from aboard.

He is a renowned photographer in the field of photojournalism and has the awards and credentials to prove it.  

Each Photographer and photograph I have chosen are very different.

Both Arnold and Mc Curry have different styles, different techniques and their

Own very unique look at the world, which is evident in their images.

“After all, in the end the goal is simply to make a unique, effective—even great—photograph. Says Dennis Keeley,

"Photography has that quality of honesty in it that doesn't quit. And it goes beyond the maker of the picture.”

Photography - Processing and Printing Black and White Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqteXdnfIOY

Love this guy, great live youtube shows!
FroKnows Photos

Scary Clown Make-Up, Guess I'm still feeling in the Halloween mood! Flashing Lights, just to let Blogger land know!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2-X1MhJGl4&feature=fvhl

I am totally going to try this one next year!
Reminds me of this guy

... don't look at this if


if your sensitive to flashing lights, it's a tad heavy!