GRADUATE SCHOOLS

For  graduate school to apply to I choose two first one being School of Visuals Arts and the Brooks Institute in California.

Why Interested?
I choose to apply to svu because it is a school I have been highly interested in since I was in high school.  I am really impressed with there student work and it is in the city I have always been interested in living in eventually.  I think it will help me grow further as a artist and improve my work visually and conceptually.    

Why here instead of elsewhere?
I choose svu because it is one of the top two places recommended to live in the us to promote yourself as a artist and a photographer.  I have always want to live in that city and I am highly impressed with their faculty and student work when compared to other schools.

What makes it unique?
Its being in a big city gives more opportunities and unique experiences and also it being a strictly art school I think helps its students become more successful.

Professor: Charles Traul (the chair of photography)
I choose Charles because he is the head of the mfa photography program.  He is the highest influencing person in the program so I decided to research him because he is the one who run the department helps create programs for the students

This is taken from his biography from his site.

http://www.charlestraub.com/#


He got is BA at University of Illinois, Masters and Institute of Design, Illinoise Institue of Technology ad University of Louisiville. He has been in several books and publications including aperature.  He has has several awards such as Mendricks Foundation Award and is represented by Gitterman Gallery and Daniel Cooney Fina art.

For grad student I choose Nick Sheppard.  http://www.nickshepard.com/

I choose to highlight him because I found is work exciting and interesting technically and visually.  i could not find a bio but I found a link to interview with him http://svaunderexposed.com/nick-shepard.

Response to Alexandre Singh (11/16/11)

Qoute:
He was talking about all art when he said this qoute..
"Everything is understandable even if it takes 1000 words to describe a picture everything is understandable, mystifying art is bullshit"

3 Words: (about his work)
Original
Complex
Narrative

One person in audience said his work to be about dreams and uncognitive association.  I agree along with complex story telling that is what I would say most all his work is about.  I would say he is a very educated intelligent artist who researches his work heavily and makes complex pieces either about uncognitive associations or complex story telling.

Intresting thing learned from lecture:
I found Alex a very interesting artist.  At first in the beginning I did not realize he was doing a performance piece and that his work was about associations but once I figured that out his work made sense became very interesting to me.  I would have to say what he does is very original which is hard to say about many artists currently time that along I found fascinating.  I think really interesting he makes his work complex either with storys or his work with uncognitive associations an dreams.  At first you or lost when or if you do not realize what his work is about or that it is performnce piece but once all of that is realized his work easy to understand and keep along with as he talks.

Answers to Questions:
What interested you in making work about dreams?
From what I gathered what interests him with making work about dreams was about how your dreams have uncognitive associations or explanations for what you dream about which is really interesting. 

Where did you get your inspiration/idea for unclehead from?  
I do not believe he showed this work.  But his inspirations and Ideas for all his work are either about stories or uncognitive associations with dreams and making his work show that in way people understand how that works.

Most Compelling Piece:
His very large complex space he built that started from walking into room imitating a meth lab and leading you all the way to room imitating very nice imitation of art gallery and last walking into a bunker containing all the ingredients for the show.  I believe it was called Hello Meth Lab in the Sun.

New Questions:
Does it take  you long time build diagrams for your complex pieces such as making layouts with all the associations that you want it to contain?
How long did it take you to create Hello Meth Lab in the Sun from start to finish? 

 
 

Shawn Berber

I choose Shawn Berber because he himself is a tattoo artist but also makes artwork on this side along with tattooing people.  It is intresting to see the the work of someone who tattoo's people along with making art.  I like that in his portriates you can almost get impression of the subjects personalities and the kind of people they are and I want try display and show that with photos I take of my subjects.  Get a sense of the subject along with viewing them beautifully and gaining interest in what there tattoos about.  I love how colorful his paintings are warm feeling you recieve viewing them.  I hope I can make my subjects look just as interesting when people look at my photo as his do in his paintings.  His work is about documenting the tattoo culture with portraits and that is exactly what I am doing partially with my work.

Biography:
Like I said above his work is about documenting through painting the tattoo culture with portraits of individuals in the culture.  He received is B.F.A. at the Ringling college of art in 1999.  His work has been shown in private collections and exhibitions all across the world including Australia and Europe.  He had book published in 2006 titled "Tattooed Portrait's." For past 10 years he has taught drawing, painting and business of art.  He was artist before he became a tattoo artist after years of painting the culture he decided it was logical to become one.  Currently he works at Memoir Tattoo in L.A.

http://www.bigtattooplanet.com/features/artist-profile/shawn-barber-tattooed-portraits


2 Qoutes
"The people that I am painting are very specific artists, whose works that I respect and admire. Artists that are unique individuals with sincere devotion to their craft and a complete sense of integrity"

http://www.bigtattooplanet.com/features/artist-profile/shawn-barber-tattooed-portraits

"The series of paintings came about through my interest in the human figure, tattoos and exploring the possibilities of applying pigment to surface. Portraiture specifically intrigues me. It's a challenge to paint [contemporary artists] in a way that isn't cliché, but respectful and considerate of each person's art and their unique personalities."

http://www.prickmag.net/tattooedportraitsfeature.html

Images:

Interview
http://www.bigtattooplanet.com/features/artist-profile/shawn-barber-tattooed-portraits
http://www.sketchtheatre.com/?p=4567


Gallery:
http://joshualinergallery.com/artists/shawn_barber/

Website:
http://www.sdbarber.com/


 

Bruce Adams

I chose Bruce Adams for having same intrest in making work about the same people I do.  I has even more specific focus then I do in painting tattooed women most nudes, but I feel we have same interest and drive in our work.  I find his paintings beautiful I hope specifically with my portraits that I can make my subjects look just as beautiful and captivating as he does.  I want to make people that may even be considered ugly or average in todays society with tattoos look beautiful in my photographs.  He does with his subject every person no matter how they look are beautiful in way he set them up in his paintings and with his use of light and color.  That is what I want to do in my portraits of my subjects.  His work is currently displayed in ghost print gallery 22 west broad.  It is called Drawing blood 3: Tattooed women.  

Biography:

Bruce recieved his education at Statue University College of Buffalo recieving his Bachelors and Masters there M.A. in 83 and B.A. in 76.

"Adams has straddled the fine art and art education communities as a painter, installation and performance artist, public school art teacher, adjunct college art instructor, arts advocate, and more recently critical and creative writer. He has exhibited extensively, and his work is included in numerous private and museum collections"blic school art teacher, adjunct college art instructor, arts advocate, and more recently critical and creative writer. He has exhibited extensively, and his work is included in numerous private and museum collections. " - http://www.adams-studio.com/biographical.htm

His work has has historical references and makes his work about the act of painting an meaning of that and viewing it.  He says he received his real education from the western contemporary art scene beginning in the 1980's.  Bruce has been in several are exhibitions and recieve 3 awards and grants for his work.  He is a concept driven artist all his paintings having meaning and big believer in having bodies of work rather then having several individual and completely different paintings.

This is his artist statement for the specific body of work of his that I am interested in.

http://www.adams-studio.com/tattoo%20series%20ststement.htm

Two Qoutes

" The dual acts of self-alteration and selective disclosure are forms of empowerment - affirmations of personal control."

 "As an art form, tattooing has its own history and aesthetics and the tattooed individual is a product - a record - of a particular place and time in that historical line. My paintings add another layer, subjectively encompassing my perceptions of several layers of artistic and cultural intentions."
Both are taken from http://www.adams-studio.com/tattoo%20series%20ststement.htm.

Interview:

http://www.adams-studio.com/bruce%20adams.jpg

Gallery:

http://ghostprintgallery.com/current-show/

Website:

http://www.adams-studio.com/

I heavily recommend going to ghost print and viewing his work.  He is probably my favorite artist I have researched so far in relation to my work.  The gallery owner is really nice and awesome will tell you anything you want or need to know about Bruce. 

Questions for Alexandre Singh

What interested you in making work about dreams?

Where did you get your inspiration/idea for unclehead from?

Response to Simon Tarr (meant to be posted 11/11/11)

(Caught the stomach flu didnt get chance to post this)
Interesting qoute:
The most interesting qoute this is not word for word but he mention "In my art I make it a practice to play/create work constantly and not wait for the inspiration to come."

Three Words:
Creative
Confident
Engaging

Intresting things learned:
I thought it was interesting how he could perform ideos and be able to control them in front of people.  I thought was cool how he could control videos like a dj control music that is somthing I have never learned before.  He could alter and changed them along with music which is really fasinating to me.  I could tell that he really loves what he does and you can't always see that with artist it is really nice to see someone with a true passion for what they do.

Answer to Questions:  

1)  What inspires your films how do you think of/come across a idea for what to make?

He said he is always creating making work.  he saidhe does not wait around for inspiration to come to him.  He uses influenes from stock footage he collects is always filming and takes what he has or what is around him to think of the work he makes.
2) What got you into film what inspired you to work with film?

 I did not get answer for what got him into film but I could tell he was really passionate about what he does and I know that is why he continues to make the work that he does.

 Intresting Piece:
The most compelling piece I thought of his was his live video performance piece with the Eskimos.  I can not find the name of it I thought i wrote it down but I found that piece really fascinating because of what he could do with it live and the content of the footage.    

New Questions?:
What is your favorite work you have ever made? In the beginning of making your work how did you make the money to be able continue what you did.  Did you have to pick up odd jobs that were not related to art or involved with film?


 

Questions For Simon Tarr

1)  What inspires your films how do you think of/come across a idea for what to make?
2) What got you into film what inspired you to work with film?

Tattoo's

A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.

DON ED HARDY, Douglas Kent Hall's Prison Tattoos

Tattoos fulfill a need to inscribe the self as an individual.

MARGO DEMELLO, Bodies of Inscription

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

DOUGLAS KENT HALL, Prison Tattoos

Tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.

MICHELLE DELIO, Tattoo: The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration

http://www.notable-quotes.com/t/tattoos_quotes.html
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  http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Do-People-Get-Tattoos?&id=5220931

The article above explains in the most simpilist ways.  People get tattoos as a form of freedom, self expression, rebellion, affiliations, connection, express love, religion, belief, spiritual, remembrance, and to show what has happened in their lives.  They go through the pain to show what they feel strongly about. The pain they go through with the tattoo makes what they have marked on them a part of themselves.  Not just image places upon their bodies.

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This topic is what my project is all about.  People and their tattoos.  It is about how people are using their bodies as history books writing what most important to them on themselves.  It is about learning about these people through the imagery they decided to have placed on themselves.  Every tattoo has a meaning I have found through my project even if it just a story behind them getting it.  There is no tattoo that exists that has nothing to be said or has no explanation to it.   This term is what all of my project is about in a way.

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Angela Bouwright

I choose this artist because her achievements are very inspiring to me.  In mix of her works her photographs with tattoos are amazing.  I want achieve just as great lighting skills with my works just as much as she does with hers.  I believe her and I have same passion as her in wanting to photograph these different subcultures of people in America.
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Angela was born in Columbus, Ohio.  She moved to NY when she was 18 and that is when she started photographing people in subcultures.  She photographed her friends skateboarding and bands at shows in the beginning.  Her first published photograph appeared in Thrasher magazine and now photographs for countless other magazines currently.  One of her first big shows was "200 Troubled Teenagers" it showed in LA, NYC, and Colette, Paris.  She is represented by PMI.  Currently she photographs trash metal bands, live,  and fan portraits.    Today she still photographs lives in NYC but often travels everywhere.

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"I always think photographers shoot what they want to understand. So when I'm shooting heavy metal kids, I'm just trying to understand that part of my youth. I guess I see a part of myself in these kids sometimes,"- Angela
http://angelaboatwright.com/index.php/portfolio/monster_children

"I think everybody is influenced by what they are around. I think the best stuff that you are going to get comes from your own life." - Angela
http://angelaboatwright.com/index.php/portfolio/monster_children
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http://angelaboatwright.com/index.php/portfolio/monster_children
http://www.pmionline.net/main.html
http://angelaboatwright.com/index.php/portfolio/category/C10/

Zoe Beloff Lecture ?'s and Responses

Interesting Qoute-

"I find ways to manifest subconscious processes of the mind."

3 Words Describe Zoe Work
-Psychological
-Fabrication
-Subconscious

The most interesting thing I learned about the artist is when she admitted all the people and things for the most part she was talking about was made up.  I found her lecture not as interesting before she told the truth and when she did I become very fascinated in the work she created.  I think it is brilliant that she can talk about her work as if it were all real and manage to convince people nothing she made or said was fabricated.  I would say shes first artist I have seen been able to toy and mess with peoples perceptions of her work.  Her work is all about the psychological and way the mind processes which all together is new, exciting and something fascinating all together.

QUESTIONS I HAD FOR ZOE
What or who first inspired you to be and artist ? 

What is your work about?  The overall theme?


ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Zoe's inspirations are her parents, brother, and husband.  All her family works with either art and or psychology.  Her work is all about manifesting the subconscious process's of the mind.  It is either about psychological people and or dreams.  When she creates her work the line between documentary and fabrication get blurred in which helps convince the views from the beginning is real and not fabricated.

http://www.zoebeloff.com/pages/claire.html

New Question
-A new question I would have for her would be how does it feel to you when your able to convince your viewers that these fabrications in your art are real?

William DeMichele (Late)

Out of all works I have seen Williams work fascinates me the most.  He has over the years gone around to tattoo conventions photographing women who are tattooed.  The way he photographs his subjects reminds me alot of how I photograph mine almost.  Using a black background and having subjects shot in color.  I choose him for my work due to the fact of how our works are similar visually.
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William DeMichele is a photographer that over the past 12 years has been going around to tattoo conventions and photographing Woman (sometimes men) that are tattooed in his studio.  In 1992 he published book called "The Illustrated Woman."  I would love to go around to conventions everywhere to photograph more subjects in the tattoo culture.  According to this site http://www.linkedin.com/in/demichele it says "Have attended over 250 tattoo conventions throughout the US, Canada,Mexico, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Borneo and Russia and presently have the largest photographic collection of tattooed people with over 4,000 sittings." He has been in several magazines, exhibitions and museums with his work.  He got his bachelors in 1980 from The College of Saint Rose. He still today photographs subjects at tattoo conventions with his location equipment.
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"Clients would say, the ability to travel to any location, set-up a professional studio space and the ability to relax an "amateur" subject to get professional results."-
http://www.linkedin.com/in/demichele

"The Illustrated Woman may open your eyes to the whole other view of body art and the women who display it.  Some of he women photographed here have one or two simple tattoos while others are doctors or executives.  However, all have chosen to adorn their bodies with images meaningful to themselves as expressions of who they are. " - G.P. From page 181 of http://books.google.com/books?id=cqcHR7byikAC&pg=PA181&dq=William+DeMichele+%2B+biography&hl=en&ei=FZPQTNmWGsL_lge5zNyRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
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http://www.demichelephoto.com/
http://www.myspace.com/demichele
http://www.linkedin.com/in/demichele
http://www.proteuspress.com/
Could not find a interview.

Tatsumi Takuya (Late)

I choose this photographer to blog about because he is documenting the same culture as me.  He photographs his subjects in different ways but in that inspires gives me different ideas on how photograph my subjects.  He chooses mostly those with back pieces and each subject has beautiful back pieces in which I hope find subjects with just as beautiful pieces. 
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Because alot of his website is in different language or text is messed up all I could find about him was that he was born in Shiga and went to school at Osaka Visual College and that he was in publications and exhibitions.
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"Absolutely amazing Horihito tattoo art photographed beautifully in black and white by Tatsumi Takuya" 
-http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/photo_links.htm

I could not find anything really to qoute from him
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http://unimaxsupply.com/books/japanese/1horihito1.htm
http://mag.rankmytattoos.com/top-twenty-tattoo-photographers-shooting-the-sticked-generation.html
http://tema.co.jp/tatsumi/index.html

Brian Ulrich (For Nov 1st)

I am interested in Brian Ulrich in relationship to my work based on concept and having a centeralized theme between all of his photos.  Each piece of work is focusing on a certain culture or is about a certain culture in which I am doing with my series of photos also.  Brian likes to focus on consumer culture while I focus on a subculture inside of the body modification culture.  I am focusing only on the culture of those with tattoos. The way he photographs his work is also beautiful I hope imporve my lighting skills in order be able make my photos look as detailed as his.

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Brian was born in 1971 in Northport, NY.  He got his bachelors in photography at University of Akron and his Masters at Columbia College in Chicago.  His photos are all mainly about consumer culture and his works are currently residing in several museums including Museum of contemporary photography.  He began working in gallery and a museum and there he learned his extensive knowledge in the history of his practice which shows in his work.  First monograph was published in 2006 by aperture and in 2007 in Photo District News magazine was named one of 30 emerging photographers of the year.  He has been in several magazines and his work has been noted by academics, environmentalists and activists.   
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"Mr. Ulrich has trained his camera on the mall, that suburban manifestation of consumer culture. His photographs, taken inside supermarkets and big-box stores, capture moments of social confusion and ambiguity."- Gennochio
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30suburbct.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

"Ulrich’s pictures document people in a cathartic state of consumption, usually oblivious to the photographer." - Jerry
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/ulrich_brian.php
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http://chicagoist.com/2009/04/17/post_12.php
http://www.saulgallery.com/ulrich/statement.html
http://notifbutwhen.com/

Questions For Zoe Beloff

What or who first inspired you to be and artist? 

What is your work about?  The overall theme?

Personal

Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it.... Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.  ~Michelle Delio

"You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You have fun with it, and nobody else can control (supposedly) what you do with it. That's why tattooing is such a big thing in prison: it's an expression of freedom one of the only expressions of freedom there. They can lock you down, control everything, but 'I've got my mind, and I can tattoo my body alter it my way as an act of personal will.' " DON ED HARDY

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."
Brian Tracy

"Everyone has their own reasons for wanting a tattoo; after all we're all unique. Some of us are inspired by others, some like the idea of enhancing their body, while others simply wanted to have a visual representation of something that is important to them." -unknown

http://www.tattooartanddesign.com/personal-reasons.html

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http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:-rd10eD4HwoJ:scholar.google.com/+personal+reason+getting+tattoo&hl=en&as_sdt=80000000000000

The bolded site mainly explain's different personal reasons why people get tattooed.  It mentions tattoo artists personal reasons why they believe people get tattooed and even includes from collected interviews with people why people get tattoos.  Overall expresses different personal reasons such as to remember something (event, person, animal or etc), show something they believe in, religious or spiritual reasons, mark a milestone in their life and other reasons to.  This article covered explained all the different personal reasons that people get tattooed today.  It explained more extensively and covered more reasons then any other sites I have read.  From stand point of a tattoo artist to someone getting a tattoo.  I have taken from my own work peoples personal reasons for getting tattoos is to remember, remind, express a love or belief in something or someone, and last no reason at all but there are even reasons why people get "meaningless tattoos" and even then I am interested in why people get those. This quote from the text explains the whole article 

"In conclusion, the reasons for getting a tattoo and the meaning behind what is

visibly seen are as varied as the people involved. Whether a person gets a tattoo

“just because he likes how it looks” or because it symbolizes something for them, the

tattoo is a form of self-expression. The purpose of wearing this art on one’s body

rather than hanging it on a wall signifies a total commitment to what it stands for. It

is the most permanent form of self-expression, with no escape from it. It is

everywhere they go, they carry it with them, and it is a part of them. It is connected

to one’s mind and one’s body for their time spent here on earth, and connected to

their spirit, their inner essence forever."

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There is different reason why the term personal fits my work.  I am finding out through taking photographs why people personally get the tattoos they do and what each of their tattoos personally mean to them.  Through this process I am finding I am getting to know each subject personally through their tattoos.  Learning about peoples individual reasons for getting their tattoos has always been personal interest of mine.  There is a quote that says (rephrased) tattooing is way of personalizing the body and pleasing the spirit that dwells within.  I believe in some way shape or form has applied to all my subjects.  Through my art I want my viewers learn and see my subjects personal reasons for tattooing themselves.  I think this is a area not a lot of people (at least those that are not in the culture or do not have any tattoos) think about.  I want them see why I find it interesting through the portrait's I hope they want to read the writings from the subjects after they see the subjects image.  I want them also hopefully see why I think people use their bodies as their own personal history book of themselves.  This term is probably one of most import ones to my work.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao7ORCfibio&feature=related

video

 

Ari Marcopoulos

I choose Ari to research because he has a similar interest as me in documenting non mainstream subcultures of America.  He focuses on the subcultures of American youth while I focus/ are more interested specifically in the subcultures of people interested in different forms of body modifications (currently specifically those with tattoos and scarification).  I like how he has documented his subjects with different forms of photography over time.  I am trying to show each of my subjects photos with different forms of photography (focusing more on color then type of photography).  I believe he has just the same passion and interest in photographing and learning about his subject's as I do for mine.  That is why I choose to research him.

Ari Marcopoulos was born in 1957 and is still alive today.  He was from the Netherlands.  He came to American in 1979 and started his photography career then.  He first started in New York City assisting Andy Warhol.  After that he assisted Irving Penn.  He is empathetic to his subjects mainly snowboarders, skateboarders, artists, musicians, American youth and others.  Currently he works both in LA and NYC and he is represented by AFG Management.  He takes pictures in the studio and the streets and is most known for his snap shot portraits of his subjects.  Beastie boys have used his pictures for his albums.  He lives in Sonoma, California now with his family.   (I apologise for scattered biography each site with biography on him had different information).  Along with being a photographer he is also a filmographer.  He has come out with little more then a  handful of books with his photography. 


"His straightforward portraits and lush snapshots capture everyday moments of beauty and anxiety, becoming, as he says, “something that just stands for life lived.” -http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/AriMarcopoulos

"Ari: I am interested in people and they can feel it, so they just let me do my thing…
Elisa: How does getting into the intimate lives of people help you get the right shot?
Ari: It is good when people are comfortable with you so the camera does not become an obstacle."
http://dossierjournal.com/style/fashion/dossier-in-conversation-with-ari-marcopolous/

 

Interviews-

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/ari-marcopoulos/2/

http://dossierjournal.com/style/fashion/dossier-in-conversation-with-ari-marcopolous/

http://slamxhype.com/art-design/ari-marcopoulos-interview/

Gallery represtents him-

(May not represent him anymore) http://www.afgmanagement.com/company

Ari has no personal website.

History

"Humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. These permanent designs—sometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal—have served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment."- Joann Fletcher
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/tattoo.html

"Tattoos have not only marked rebels but have also communicated clan membership, religious or tribal affiliation, social status, and marital position...and have served as markers of inclusion or exclusion. The oldest physical body in existence, the so-called Ice Man (ca. 3300-3200 B.C.) is remarkable not only because his 57 tattoos perhaps were used for medicinal purposes, but because this oldest human skin ever found is itself tattooed. Considering the large number of tattooed mummies found around the globe, tattooing was apparently widely practiced in the ancient world . Ancient, mysterious, and powerful, tattoos still hold a critical place in the modern world."- Margo Demello

http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/07/26_tattoo.html

“the mainstreaming of the tattoo has produced a number of outstanding artists who have developed their own styles and are documenting their own history” -Diana Lien

http://www.dianalien.com/blog/thesis-more-than-skin-deep-tattoo-aesthetics-in-design-culture/

"Photography can put a human face on a situation that would otherwise remain abstract or merely statistical.
Photography can become part of our collective consciousness and our collective conscience. It is a way to
remember history and to try not to relive the mistakes of the past".
James Nachtwey. 

 http://www.karlgrobl.com/Quotes.htm

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I am giving bibliography of several things I read talking about history with tattoo's and photography.  Both photography and tattoo's have been used as a means of documenting history either for self (the beholder of the tattoo or photography) or for what is going on around you.  Both photography and tattoo's have extensive detailed history for the art form itself.  The art of tattooing has been around way longer then photography has been but noth have extensive history's.  People use both means to document to remind themselves not to repeat the past.  Often used as reminders to not forget or repeat the past.  The earliest found proof of someone having a tattoo is 5200 years ago while photography has been around a little over 150 years.  Summery of it all is both art forms have a history from first found mummy with a tattoo to the invention of photography.  They are both used to record history whether it is recording the individual history or the world around them.  Each means are huge part of history without both art forms culture and life now today would be drastically different.

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This is one important subject/term for my project it correlates heavily with the the terms documentation and communication I wrote about before.  Through documentary photography (which is way of recording history) I have been taking pictures of subjects so people can see the history my subjects have tattooed on themselves.  I want them to see what is important to these subjects and why they choose to record that specific part of there history (life) on themselves.  I am using photography as my means of recording history (and the history of others) to show, even through other photographs not focused on their tattoos, what is important to this group of culture.  I am even showing completely different (from each other) people who have chosen to tattoo/document completely different things from each other on themselves. What first got my interested in this project was my fascination of people choosing to tattoo the history of their lives on themselves.  From that I used means of documenting history to show what history the subjects have chosen to document on themselves.

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My computer is not letting my upload photos at all onto blogger I dont know if it is my computer, blogger or internet I am using but I will figure it all out soon

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All the sites I have linked above I used for everything along with the sites down below.

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm

http://clearlyexplained.com/culture/arts/photography.html

http://tattoos.com/jane/steve/toc.htm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/tattoo.html?c=y&page=1

Permanent

"Body tattoos have been a part of our culture since long and these are often associated to public statement of who and what we are. It talks about your identity and the way you want to be perceived by others. It’s not something to be done without thinking about it carefully, but it’s not something to be afraid of either. Getting a permanent ink injected in the skin is perhaps the most important decisions you can make. "

http://www.glamcheck.com/fashion/2010/01/11/permanent-body-tattoos/

“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”- Paul Strand

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/photography/3.html

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

-Aaron Siskind

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/photography/

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I only have sites I found are he qoutes on what moderatly discuss in what and why I am interested in this term.  Photos and tattoo are both permanent.  As long as the owner of the tattoo or the photograph takes care of these items in the correct and proper manner they can almost last forever there both permanent images just on two different surfaces.  The body may die the photograph may get trashed but they are both permanent on its owner/body/paper for its full life.  The owner decides It wants a permanent image to have whether in their hands or on themselves.  I am researching to understand thoughts of why people want something permanent why they choose have this image or text forever.  I am guessing to record something important or to have something with them that is highly meaningful.  The photo or tattoo can both speak out about something the holder feels strongly about.  I feel the choice in having permanent record or something whether a photo or a tattoo is to demonstrate or show something of importance or meaning.  

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I am using photography for my project to show my subjects permanent form of expression with another means of permanent expression.  I show what they feel is important to them by letting you see their tattoos then showing documents of a place, a action, and a object to let you see what is most important to them.  It is all about showing what is important to these subject maybe let you see through other photos why they decided to permanently speak out about something.

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Sally Mann

I choose Sally Man because I am really interested in how she makes her The Flesh and the Spirit and her work Proud Flesh photos look.  I have been thinking about making one or two of the photos for each subject look aged like how hers do.  I want to do this to show in a discrete way that this culture has been around for thousands of years.  I am interested in making my environment and possibly my object photo look aged (possibly in different way ) like her The Flesh and the Spirit and Proud Flesh photos.  I also like how she takes photos in the process she likes the most.  She sticks to taking pictures of things she loves (whether it is easy or difficult to take the picture) in the processes she likes no matter what controversy they bring or doubt from the public.

Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, VA.  Her photography career started in the early 1970's.  She is most known for her photos of her immediate family and resonant landscape work. Her photos tend to cause controversy sometimes.  Her series she became first known for were At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988) and Immediate Family (1992).  She had her first solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C.  Most her work stays in black and white an she usually sticks to antique photos technology for her photos.  She was named "America's best photographer" by Time Magazine in 2001. She has been in several exhibitions and won many grants and awards.  Currently she lives in Lexington Va.    

"Most of the pictures I take are of the things I love, the things that fascinate and compel me, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to look at or take. Like Flaubert, two things are sacred to me in my process: impiety and perfection—the former often hereditary, the latter always hard-won. Beyond the felicitous “unifying accidents” that occasionally grace the work, making art requires tenacity, a temperament born of an ungodly cross between a hummingbird and a bulldozer, and, most of all, practice. Practice looking."
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/08/sally_mann_proud_flesh/

"She has long used an 8x10 bellows camera, and has explored platinum and bromoil printing processes. In the mid 1990s she began using the wet plate collodion process to produce pictures which almost seem like hybrids of photography, painting, and sculpture."
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/

 
 http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/clip3.html

http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/Exhibitions/Sally-Mann-The-Flesh-and-The-Spirit/

She does not have her own website.

Communication

''Photojournalism is all about telling a story about a particular event or incident through a single photograph."
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-photography.html


"The recent 20th century, if we consider it outside of our own experiences, is more "visible" and meaningful to many of us through the presence of powerful photographs than many texts, films, plays, other art, or other records that may have touched us."
 http://photo.net/philosophy-of-photography-forum/00Sb7t?start=0

The word 'Art" is an expression of feelings, emotions which are often expressed by symbols. A symbol is defined as a picture or image that tells a situation without words. Symbols, such as cave paintings and carvings were mankind's earliest form of communication. In due course, Tattoos became the symbols that are known to have expressed man's deep passions, beliefs and identity.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Tattoo---Its-Meaning&id=201324


These tattoos also reflect one of the earliest known forms of communication. There is no record of speech among primitive humans, but ample evidence supports the fact that they exchanged and recorded information through art. Archeologists attribute pictures as earliest methods of communication and recordkeeping, and tattoos stand together with cave paintings, pictographs and hieroglyphics as good examples.
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_updates/first_amendment_cases/tatoo_free_speech.htm

(another discussion board and sites that got me thinking about imagery in general being form of communitcation)

http://photo.net/philosophy-of-photography-forum/00Qn48
http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/2007/09/24/everyone-is-a-photographer/
http://www.acp.org.au/workshop/specialist



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I apologize for so many quotes but I found a lot of information online discussing both photography and tattoos as a means of communication wanted to show all sites I picked up my research on.

All the sites I have listed above all have mentioned similar things.  With some they express saying how documentary photography is most powerful forms of communication and photojournalism photography is most reliable and immediate forms of photography. The sites also say how those two kinds of photography (which are two forms I am most concentrated on with this project) are best used to tell a story or explain event with image. 
The sites about tattoos explain that tattoos are mans earliest forms of communitcation.  Man have used this form of art create identity, make a statement or express a belief or passion. 
My overall own opinion is that photography and tattoos are both means of communication and can communicate about the same things.  They are just two different art forms.

Communication (along with documenation before) is very important term with my concept.  Along with documentation tying photography and tattoo's together so does communication.
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I am using a means of communication (photography) to communicate concept about a means of communication (tattoos).  Im using my means of communication show another persons form of communication.  I think this is something I am going dive into further and think about more as I get deeper into my project.  It is interesting me how I am finding so many relationship between photography and tattooing.  Im using both communicate about person.  (With photos and in showing and explaining there form of communication.  About learning about a person through art and visual imagery. 
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This might be random image of tattoo but didn't have exact photo explaining term in relation to my work.

Julika Rudelius answers

I missed the lecture.  I wrote in my agenda the old time the lecture was meeting at (530).  So I showed up for the end of the lecture.  Because I didn't check my email before I didn't catch that it was meeting at 3.  I did look at her website.  I found her site very dull I feel like her website could have made her work more exciting.  Having white background small black text for anyone as a website will make whatever it is about dull and unexciting.  I feel like she could have had a better web designer to make people more interested and excited about her work.  I wish I got to the lecture to see what her work was really like compared to her site but ill have to wait till video or audio of lecture is put up.  From what I saw on her site I found her work strange and like her site dull but maybe the website design kept me from getting truly excited about her work influenced my reaction of what I saw.  I am going to go to a extra lecture for missing this one even if I do not get credit for it.

Julika Rudelius Questions

How do you come about your ideas for you videos? What is your process of you discover what you want your video to be about?

Was it difficult to keep people calm and stay in character in your work adrift?

Gered Mankowits (late)

I choose Gered Mankowits because I like the way he photographs and documents his musicians portrait and environment wise.  I want to photograph my subjects in similar style he photographs his musicians.  His work that inspires me the most is two sections his Musicians Work and his Room of My Own work.  He has studio shoots, people in rooms, and musicians playing their instruments.  I like how he gives insight to different areas of his subjects lives and that is similar to what I want to do with my subjects.  He usually always inspiration to my work also because he is my favorite photographer I just am fascinated by the way he captures his subjects in different ways.

Gered Mankowits was born in London, England in 1946.  He quit school at 15 and decided to pick up photography afterward being inspired by actor Peter Sellers.  In 1962 he moved barbados and started taking photographs as professional.  He eventually went back to london shot American Play that was musical called Fiorello.  His pictures were put up in the display of the theatre and became youngest photographer to have his photos to be used in that way.  In 1963 he started photographing in the music industry and opened up his own studio.  In 1965 his career started to get big and went on tour with the Rolling Stones as their main photographer shooting them on and off stage.  After that photographed several other big musicians.  After that over time started working the advertising industry also.  Froom 1992 to 1994 he had body of work The Entertainers show in at three big galleries.  From 2000 on he had several exhibitions including one with legendary Beatles photographer Robert Freeman.  He still to this day works in music industry and has published a number of books with his work. In 2007 he went to Cornwall in England and now teaches at University College Falmouth and works on his own projects on the side.  He has had several exhibitions from 1982 to 2010.

There is nothing specifically qoute from him.  I just want to give insight of who i photograph by photographing different aspects of them in such a way that Gered did with his musicians.

http://www.mankowitz.com/- His main site
http://www.suziquatro.com/news.htm - Includes small review of Gered at the bottom of the site
http://www.nme.com/video/bcid/490946892001/search/NME + interview with Gered
Has no one specifically represtenting him currently