My Finished Book

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here is my finished book….ENJOY

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A Few Pages from My Book

Book Project

I’ve decided to make my book about my home town of Wildomar.  I have lived there my entire life and have seen it go through a lot of changes.  I am going to try to capture the beauty of living in a small town from the small places that you pass by everyday, the family owned businesses, the schools and other aspects of this small town.  I will also show how bigger businesses are trying to come in and how that really takes away from the beauty of a place like this.

Jim Brandenburg

Jim Brandenburg was an internationally know photographer for National Geographic.  When he was offered the job at National Geographic it was almost unheard of for a person with so little professional experience to be offered a full time job at National Geographic.  The editor of the magazine said that he had a way of bringing his pictures to life and that he could invoke a reaction from every person that experienced his photography.

Working for National Geographic was not easy.  He said he felt as if there was always someone on his heels about something, whether it be his editors or a young up and coming photographer.  After twenty years of working for National Geographic he realized his life was passing by.  All his children had grown up and he felt a sort of emptiness inside.  Brandenburg then decided that he would embark on a journey to enrich his spirit and creativity.  He would force himself to take only one picture per day for the ninety day span of the fall season to capture the beauty of the transition from fall to winter in the woods of Northern Minnesota.

The photographs that Jim Brandenburg took on this journey are among the most breathtaking pictures I have ever seen.  The patience that he had to find that one perfect picture really payed off.  The fact that he was so driven to practically “find” these perfect pictures was amazing.  I know I would just want to find a good picture and then call it a day but he kept going to find some of the most amazing shots that I or anyone has ever seen.

Class Photo Shoot

Caitlin Skog

Caitlin Skog…2!

Paula Cartes-Rusinski

Nathan Choi

Hannah Cloke

Julian Giron

Natalie Gurney

The Sky

Cal State San Marcos Sun Set

Natalie Gurney Silhouette

Jenna Carpenter and Jonathan Cheek

Pictures in 302

Cindy Sherman

One thing that is unique about Cindy Sherman’s style of photography is that she is the subject in almost all of her work.  She uses the magic of make up to create new characters and then takes a picture of these subjects.  She did a whole series on clowns where all of the characters were unique in their own way.  When addressing her printed photos while setting up in her gallery she would refer to the pictures as “her” and not “me” which tells you she really sees them as another person.

Her inspiration for this series was what it would be like if there was some other planet made entirely of clowns and was driven by real life clowns and why someone would decide to be a clown.  They would have to be fun loving people or the others people could usually tell that something wasn’t “right” about them.

All of her pictures are untitled because she doesn’t want the viewer to get any preconceived notion about who the character is and how they are feeling or what they are doing.  For example, in this picture which she refers to as the “Black Sheets” picture is a character that she felt was just getting home after a night out and was about to go to sleep and the sun was coming up and she already had a hangover, whereas other people saw her as a rape victim.  This kind of ambiguity is what she wants to achieve by not titling her photos and it keeps all of her fans guessing at what emotions she was trying to capture.

Collier Schorr

Collier Schorr has a very interesting way of taking pictures.  Many are uncomforted by her pictures because many of them are of teenage boys.  Some may think that this is wrong to do but she does it for the sake of art.

This is one of her photographs.  She would have this boy pose in “feminine” positions in order to invoke a feeling of not knowing and trying to understand ones self identity.  She said she was always interested in what her life would be like if she was a boy, which was her inspiration to begin photographing boys.  She also went back to her old high school and photographed the wrestling team.  There the boys would engage in a sport that wasn’t the most popular but they could still be “manly” and not be uncomfortable while wrestling with the other guy.  She definitely has an interesting way of looking at things.

Sally Mann

Sally Mann says she works like a magpie.  She will just go around and pick up whats laying around and take a picture of it.  For example, she has done a lot of photographs of her children as they have grown up throughout the years.  She just photographed her children because they were there not because she had an overwhelming interest in children.

Her children said that she would be so immersed in her work it was almost like she didn’t have time for them and that instead of a mother they had a mentor and friend.  They said that it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing because she was around for them but she always had a camera.  Sally also photographs landscapes and her children say that is what she will be most remembered for in the long run.  She uses the unique and outdated style of using an old Collodion Camera which gives her photos the abstract and rustic looks that she is driven towards.  Always striving for a sense of ambiguity Sally has created some of the most compelling photos of the twenty first century.