Connecting Essay Five

This is a photo taken by Jeffrey Koons. Koons is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects. I like the way that the photo is creative and fun, whilst showing something that si very common; dogs and balloons. I thik that his work really influenced me to try out some cultural things, but a more serious culture. However I still wanted to be creative.

Here is a photo i took:

I knew that I had a pink light up Buddha. Knowing this is decided to photograph it in the dark to be able to bring culture in and also have to bright creativeness of the pink glow.

I would have liked to get the photo from a little higher up, however, I really like this one.

Connecting Essay Four

This is a photo of Marilyn Monroe taken by a very famous photographer; Richard Avedon. Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century" 

I really like the way his photos are so effortlessly beautiful. The women looks fresh and fun.

Here is a photo of mine in that style:

I wanted to have a photo that is similar to Avedons, yet, I wanted to differentiate it. Here, I had my model stand up so I could get more of her body in. We are good friends, meaning that I was able to make her laugh and whilst doing so I subtly took the photo. I edited it with a white to grey gradient so that the photo looked more pure and innocent with her smiling.

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Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century"vedon became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker in 1992, where his post-apocalyptic, wild fashion fable “In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort,” featuring model Nadja Auermann and a skeleton, was published in 1995. Other pictures for the magazine, ranging from the first publication, in 1994, of previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe to a resonant rendering of Christopher Reeve in his wheelchair and nude photographs of Charlize Theron in 2004, were topics of wide discussion.