Thursday Blog

My mom and uncle in 1961 Atlanta, GA.

• Did anyone critique your work this week? If so, what were their impressions?

Yes, Alix Pearlstein did. She liked my compositions and idea. However she thought it presumptuous to not include the pets in the photos. She said there's a difference between being obvious and explicit.

• What was the most motivational or creative moment of the past week?

ordering photoshop cs4

• What do you want to achieve in next week's studio practice?

learn my way around cs4

• What did you achieve in your studio this past week?

searching for new places to photograph.

• What was the most profound thought in relation to your practice this week?

how do i make art out of my life and my causes? how do i make this world a better place through my art... with a consideration and without preaching or condemning.

For John, the Christmas junkie

A Christmas fetish, perhaps?

Monday Blog

Highlight an artist of interest that relates to your work. Provide the following information:

- Artist Biography and brief explanation of work (can use quotes from critics or galleries)

BORN

1944 Eberswalde, Germany
EDUCATION

1973-76 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
1976-82 Photography with Bernd & Hilla Becher

In her photography Höfer turns towards architectural situations, which presumably influence, and are influenced by the public. The artist's preferred subject is interiors, but she avoids purely private rooms. The viewer becomes aware of the public character and the functionality of waiting rooms, libraries and museums, even though, or perhaps because there are no people (with few exceptions).

- a link to an interview with the artist or a review
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_/ai_n26804458

- link to gallery representing artist
http://www.renabranstengallery.com/hofer.html

- link to artist website
http://www.renabranstengallery.com/hofer.html

Thursday blog

• Did anyone critique your work this week? If so, what were their impressions?

No

• What was the most motivational or creative moment of the past week?

the idea of making a book.

• What do you want to achieve in next week's studio practice?

get a print from my new camera.

• What did you achieve in your studio this past week?

a productive, exciting conversation with Heide about living my art and how to make a difference in the world with my art.

• What was the most profound thought in relation to your practice this week?

maybe this semester will be better than last semester.... who am i kidding, its going to be brutal suckage.



- Post 1 picture, video, etc. of your choice

Spring 2009 Monday entry

Neal White

- Artist Biography and brief explanation of work (can use quotes from critics or galleries)
Neal White began his career in photographic art as an offshoot of film-making. He earned both the BA (Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and MFA in cinematography, film aesthetics and film direction at the celebrated UCLA film department. Beginning as a mere adjunct to his training as a cinematographer, he studied still photography while a graduate student in film (and supporting himself as a correspondent for the New Republic Magazine and a syndicated, award-winning editorial cartoonist (e.g., Columbia Press Association Prize for Editorial Cartoons, 1965). Although his cryptic (and always controversial) films received critical acclaim and numerous international film festival awards (e.g., from the Cannes Film Festival, Monterey Film Festival, & al.), he focused increasingly on still photography after his 1970 appointment (at the age of 22) to the full time tenured faculty of the Photography Area of the Department of Art in San Francisco State University. There he joined fellow Professors Jack Welpott and Don Worth, in a prestigious, pioneering pure photographic art studio program during what is widely considered a golden age of fine arts photography and its now unquestioned place in university education. Prof. White taught at San Francisco State University until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1995. Neal White's photographs are represented in the permanent collections of many fine arts museums in America and Europe (including the Museum of Modern Art, International Museum of Photography, Smithsonian Institution, Whitney Museum, St. Louis Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Norton Simon Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Musée Francais de la Photographie, Bibliotheque National de Paris, Musée Réattu d'Arles, Royal Photographic Society, & al.) and have been exhibited extensively since the 1970s (including several large touring exhibitions in the Centres Culturelles in Europe, sponsored by the US Department of State, as well as in art museums. Neal White was honored with the Medal of the Arles Festival (France) (other recipients being Brassai, J.H. Lartigue, Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Jack Welpott, Judy Dater, & al.) Although a dedicated teacher, he retired due to delicate health after 25 years at San Francisco State University, which had curtailed the production of prints of his prolific output as a photographic artist. However, when Prof. White retired (as the youngest Emeritus Professor in the history of his university) and relocated to Vermont, he began the long overdue retrospective printing from over two hundred thousand of his negatives, images of which are now available for viewing for the first time on this website, the Neal White Portfolio.


- a link to an interview with the artist or a review
http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/neal-w/neal-w.html

- link to gallery representing artist
http://photography-now.net/neal_white/

- link to artist website
http://www.nealwhiteportfolio.com/