The Sun Rise

Uta Barth Homage

Uta Barth is an artist whose photographs explore the nature of vision. She tries to show the difference between how a human sees reality and how a camera records it. She also examines visual perception and how the incidental and atmospheric can become subject matter in and of themselves. In many of her photographs, Barth tries to focus the viewer's attention on the process of perception through the depiction of incidental objects that are in nondescript surroundings. Throughout some of Barth's series, she investigates both literal and metaphorical aspects of perception by trying to capture the image one keeps after turning away from an object.

Uta Barth is known to not care at what her camera is pointed at but more interested in what is seen through the lens. Barth is most known for her series Ground and Field, which is a series of photographic blurs which were caused by focusing the camera on an unoccupied foreground. These photographs test the connection between the descriptive clarity of photography and the haze of one's memories. One of Barth's newest series is focused around the moment when light begins to transition and fade. This series, Sundial, are a collection of photographs that operate between negative and positive, shadow and light, and visibility and invisibility.

Liquids

This series of photographs was probably one of the most enjoyable project that we have done. All we had to do was bring a liquid and shoot it at high shutter speeds. The end product was amazing because I could see every ripple and drop that no human eye could catch. We mixed so many different types of liquids together and these shots are only a few that I shot. After we were done, I had about 500 shots which I edited down to about 150 shots. This series was created by trying out high shutter speeds and just having fun.

Mass Production Portraits

For this mass production portrait assignment, I had to come up with a style and idea for a portrait that I would want to recreate with 100 people. I chose to combine two things that don't normally go together which was red solo cups and formal portraits. I would set people in front of a black background with very formal lighting and give them the red solo cup and from there it was up to the subject to create their actions. My portraits spanded from akward smiles to outrageous poses. The only thing that I really struggled with in this assignment was capturing 100 portraits. I only managed to shoot 44 portraits. All in all this assignment was fun and pushed me to think outside the box by making me create my own style to shoot the portraits in.