This is an art blog. Focusing on the photography works of the artist, and following the artist Tiffany. An upcoming innovative artist, growing up modestly in the United States. Still in college and starting her journey into professional photography. Yet to reach the heights she certainly plans to with her unique interest in other cultures. May she stun you with her down to earth negatives showing her interests from urban nightlife to vast cultures. All noted by a humble appreciator of her work.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Here Tiffany was completing a school assignment where she was asked to take pictures of an object. It is essentially a school assignment which may make it out to seem like this photo is forced or lacking in passion. Common from an artist's point of view, and usually, cannot be helped. Which is a way to look at it, however I think this is simple task with a lot of freedom which she manages to take advantage of. Tiffany does manage to have fun with it because of the overall passion for the field of photography. She explained to me that she had a bunch of bottle caps so she chose to put them to use. Recycling them as a focus in her photos to make up her own technique, or rather, aesthetic. Finding appreciation in the things that she can reuse and create. Tiffany also claimed that most of her pictures are "conveniently taken", where she is able to search and find something of use and manipulate it in her photos . There is no aspect of heat of the moment where she has to rush to catch a person in that perfect moment when they are walking along the sidewalk. Or a bird among it's flock just about to take flight. Instead she prefers to be in control to create her own perfect moment. That is what she finds to be convenient. However she does express a certain freedom over this control. She described her set up as simply throwing them down the stairs instead of placing them. Letting them fall freely and essentially exerting this laid back feeling and freedom to the piece. I found it interesting that a lot of the bottle caps landed in this upright facing position with the exception of one. The placement of the caps even looks purposeful and somehow it is not. To some the photo gives an abstract feeling. To me however I found that the picture captures simplicity very well. It exerts an at home type of feeling, making it seem like I am the one sitting on those steps and organizing those very same bottle caps. The details in the stairs are captured perfectly, even seeming to move from rough to smooth with the decline. The contrast in the black and white it amazing some of the darks so close to the light. Like the way that the shadow of the rail falls over the bottle caps. I find so many things that truly are amazing within the seeming simplicity of the photo. This does not look like an effortless photo to say the least.
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