Rubin Museum of Art: Steve McCurry

"Agra Fort Train Station at Dusk, 1983"

       

         At the Rubin Museum I visited the Steve McCurry exhibit which showed some of the many photos McCurry took when he was in India. There is a plethora of different lifestyles and religions in India that makes McCurry's work interesting and amusing. McCurry's photo depicts the lives of many people, animals, and landscapes that help explain to viewer more about India than their own interpretation. There are stories and narrative in his photos along with great render images that make the audience feel like they are there and experiencing the event.

                                                   

                                                               "Sculptor in His Workshop"

          One of my favorite photos from the exhibition was "Sculptor in His Workshop " which kind of spoke to me on how some artists immerse themselves in their work or craft and starts to become one with it. Another reason why I think he fusing with the sculptures, is how the artist is one of the last things you notice in the photo since he is being overpowered by the large sculptors and the light that is focusing on the center one.When I first looked at this photo, it seemed kind of depressing and lonely because the artist appeared isolated, but later I saw it as a way of appreciation his work. There are also life in the sculptor based on how the two large sculptures appears as if they are fighting with one another. Also, the center sculpture that the artist is working on gives the impression that he is putting life into the figure on how the light is shinning above like a heavenly light. 

Diptychs

In this assignment I had to think about comparing and contrasting different subject and combine two individual photos to one image to demonstrate similarities and differences. Lately, when I been hanging out with my friends I started to notice a word they used often that change it meaning, that word is "cards." When some people hear "cards" they usually refer to playing cards but lately there have been more card games being made that have no association with the traditional playing card and one of those new card games is "Cards Against Humanity." In these photos I wanted to demonstrate how these cards are being use and the the difference in how they are played. The traditional cards are colorful and use numbers and symbols to indicate a value, whereas Cards against Humanity only convey through words and only use two colors. 

Article #2 response

      In the article it discusses the many issues still found today about copyright law, intellectual property, and the shift in photography into the digital era. Before the Internet and photo software, photographers would have to capture images and hoped that by chance they capture what they wanted. They could set up their scene physically or time a specific moment to shot what they wanted, but now where photo manipulation software there is no need to put as much effort into creating or waiting to capture a photo. There is the question as to if photographer are needed since with the Internet people can grab photos and change them to get the photo that are asked for. In one part of the article, they talked about how one person used a photo software to get a photo of two Olympic skaters to be seen with each other that never existed instead of actually taking a photo of the possible real scene. This is where the conflict photographer have with the emerge of the digital era where they are losing their practiced to more available and somewhat less expensive skill.

      Since the rise of digital art, there is also the problem as to what is real and fake in the photo made with photo manipulation software, and like the Olympic skater photo the creator did use separate real photo of the skater but once they added together in one scene that person made a photo that never existed. In addition to these fabricated photos, the creator add a different perspective or opinion of the photo compare to the original photo. For example, the cover picture of O.J Simpson on Times Magazine used a mug shot photo of him, but when someone else change it they gave an impression of O.J of being darker and seen as evil in the photo. Even though digital art allows more people to exercise their skills in a affordable and easier access way they are still issues faced by people in this field.