Gottfried Helnwein Image Response 2

This picture appears to be a young girl who has been through some sort of trauma and is stricken since the event. There is what appears to be a crew of people either installing or performing maintenance on this work of art, one member is rappelling down the face of the image. The image appears to be situated on the banks of a river in an abandoned industrial zone of a large metropolitan city, this river is most likely a major transport artery for the city meaning that potentially thousands of commuters (potential audience) could see this image every day. The sheer size of this image is quite immense, measuring I would estimate it ranges at several square kilometers, an unprecedented scale for anything other than a large advertisement or billboard. The logistics of mounting this image to the building face had to be quite intriguing, I would guess that the image was broken up into numerous of smaller rectangles, each one being mounted independently of the others in the correct positioning to form the larger image.

 

 

Gottfried Helnwein Image Response 1

This image appears to be an image composite of a man scaling down a surface (such as a cliff wall) and an image of an individual's face. It is possible that the image is not a composite and that this is just a billboard or painted upon a building face. It also appears that the face is quite pale, perhaps to symbolize tragedy of some sort.

Something From Nothing

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Reflection

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Forced Perspective

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Before Editing

After Editing: (All I did was remove the supporting clamp from the penny)

My Phobia: Chronophobia

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The History of Photography Q&A

Q1. Who is Louis Daguerre and why is he so special?  How did he become independently wealthy?

A1. Louis Daguerre is known as the father of photography, he created the first camera and negotiated a contract to sell the rights to his invention to the country of France vast sums of money.

Q2. What types of photos did people take when photography was first invented?  What were some of the difficulties they had to endure?

A2.  Many early photographs were portraits and the subject(s) had to sit in a seat(s) with neck braces that prevented them from moving so the picture would not develop a blur.

Q3. Name three different types of early photographs. What did they look like?  Why were they called what they were called?

A3. I. Daguerreotype, this method of photography got its name for its French create Louis Daguerre.

 II. Ambrotype, this particular photograph does not have a unique name, however its creator James Cutting changed his middle name to Ambrose to more closely associate himself with it.

 

III. Tintype, this method of photography received its name from the fact test in the development process this type of photograph is placed on a metal surface rather than a glass or paper surface.

 

Q4. What is a Kodak Brownie.  How did it work?  What made it so popular?  Can you buy one today?

A4. The Kodak Brownie was a small inexpensive camera developed by Eastman Kodak in the late nineteenth century, this camera had two fixed lenses on either side of a film roll that would burn the image upon the film. The camera was popular due to its low price point and is still available today.

Q5. Who were the Dadaists?  What was their photographic work like? Why are they considered "important" in the history of photography?

A5.The Dadaists were followers of the Dada movement which was basically a protest against the events that lead up to World War One, the artists that made up this movement became non-artists and produced non-art due to their belief that art and everything else in the world have no meaning anyway. Their photographic work often times displayed shock art or mild obscenities and humorous images. This is considered to have been the first photographic protest and would later receive some credit for  the creation of the satirical branch of photography.