Orange joke (reading response assignment)

Flash knock knock joke

final project

http://student.mica.edu/jwilliams01/hunt/index

first flash assignment

Machine

memorial site

Memorial site

http://student.mica.edu/jwilliams01/jwillmemorial/index

Robin Hood

wire frame for Robin Hoods website

http://student.mica.edu/jwilliams01/robinhood/index

Choose your own ending story

http://student.mica.edu/jwilliams01/story/index.html

Things I wish I made

Jerry Spagnoli: Documentary Daguerreotypes



This body of work from Jerry Spagnoli has always interested me. His used of this older photographic process in a more modern digital age is amazing. This process sees events completely different they we are used to seeing documentary photography, especially not with digital photography.



Amy Stein: Domesticated

Amy Stein’s series of photographs titled “Domesticated”. These images completely changed the way I looked at my own images. To me her images say so much without force-feeding the viewer. The images are approachable from many different points of view without making one seem more right then the one before it. One could look at the images and think about how the growth of cities and urban areas has had an impact on wildlife and there natural environment. But the same images can make you reconsider the way we look at skin and fur as decoration. I know as soon as I discovered that the animals in the images where taxidermy it completely changed how I viewed the images. Before know this I tried to come up with how the images had been made, thinking it had been photoshop or trained animals but it didn’t cross my mind for them to be stuffed. Which for me was very interesting considering I’m an avid hunter.

Robert Frank: The American

I had a chance to view his series at the National Gallery last February and the exhibition blew me away. Robert Frank's "The American" is beautiful sequenced with four sections, all starting with an image of the American flag. This series truly captures American people and the place at the time. Above are a few of my favorite images from the series. I don't think that individually these images say what Frank says with the complete body of work, but they are my favorites as individual images.

In the middle of the exhibition, they showed a few of his contact sheets. It was great to see how he edited down to 83 from around 28,000. Seeing his editing and sequencing definitely made me reevaluate my own sequencing. It was also helpful to see how he cropped some of his images and how much of an impact that made on the image and the series. This made me think about how I shoot and my reaction to the initial image on the contact sheet or on the back of the digital camera. Sometime I feel like what I see is what I get, but really its what I have to edit even further.

Robert Frank really put his grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to amazing use.