ANDY WARHOL BIOGRAPHY YAY

I chose Andy Warhol as my biographical photographer cause he's one of my favorite people on the face of this planet and luckily he happened to take a few photographs. He's quite the inspiration.

Andy Warhol's Photography Career

Andy Warhol, though primarily known for his amazing art career, did a small bit of photography on the side. The majority of these pictures were portrait polaroids he took for the purpose of painting them later on, which I find to be a super rad idea. This picture is a self portrait of himself as a drag queen. Why? Who knows, he's Andy Warhol he can do whatever he wants. This picture, just as most his, have no real technique to it, but they're all fantastic, legendary photographs. He does have some more professional black and white pictures, but this drag queen one just makes my heart happy. You know, the other night I was at Spoon and Britt, the lead singer, for some odd reason, just reminded me so much of Warhol. Also, their whole back set up was white and whenever the lights flashed it looked like Andy Warhol in his studio and it was honest to God the best thing I've ever seen. Oops got a little off subject, but anyways, I personally believe Andy Warhol to be one of the best artists to walk this Earth and he is a huge inspiration of mine. Maybe I'll even do a series like these considering I have a polaroid and all, ooh I could totally pull that off. Just a bunch of polaroids of people, and maybe I'll even try to paint them (which I'll inevitably fail at). Whatever, now I'm excited. Yay for Warhol!

"Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1. I think this poem is about the progression of life. I think the narrator is trying to tell the story of his life then convince the audience to take full advantage of their lives. I believe this because that's what the words mean to me.

2. "Death closes all: but something ere the end, 

Some work of noble note, may yet be done, " is the excerpt I chose. This stands out to me because it's saying that we all die eventually and that there's always going to still be things to do that will have to be left undone. And it's really sad, yet very accurate.

Hand Scan

I scanned both my hand and my face multiple times, but this one turned out to easily be my favorite. All I did was constantly wave my hand back and forth as it scanned to create the static look. Then I went super far up on vibrance and contrast so there was both a really bright white and a really dark black with simple colors in between. I personally really enjoy it.

Pinholes' Experimental Capabilities

Pinholes are extremely basic photos and yet are a skill that is incredibly hard to master. One of the coolest ways to take a pinhole picture is to shake the box or capture a moving subject to make it experimental.On the top image, the man likely just moved the box back and forth so multiple copies of him would appear. The bike picture was simply riding a bike through the picture which made it blurry considering the long exposure. The last one is sort of distorted so it was possibly an attempt at a panorama. Any experimental pinhole will likely look pretty sweet no matter what.

Charles Sheeler

 Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was both an American painter and photographer widely known for helping found American modernism. He began making his works of art in the twenties and continued to do so all the was through the fifties, and still remains rather popular today. He was incredibly into showcasing architecture and very common scenes in a home. As you can see above, he loved taking pictures of big cities such as New York. His photos are all tied together through their two very different yet consistent styles. One of them is the many pictures of various buildings that show the similarities and differences in architecture. The other displays various shots in different rooms and houses. Sheeler helped create a new and exciting style of art that revolutionized art all throughout the rest of century and even into today.