Eugene Richards

a photo from the Eugene Richards book I looked at in the Library.

I believe this is a woman right after giving birth.

I really like documentary phoography... something I've been thinking about...

top 'o the mornin

Here are some photographs by an irish photographer Philip Pankov. These particular ones are all from Dublin, which I chose because i visited there last semester whiel I was in Europe and I really loved it.The last one is of Temple bar which we went to a couple times. I like that photo too because it almost looks like a mirror reflecting, but it's really just taken on a corner. I think the first one is so cool too because it kind of reminds me of the trees right by Donahue hall which i look at all the time at sunset with the light shining through them (I live in the building right next to them).

That middle photograph just really struck me as beautiful. So simple but so much to look at.

photo books

I browsed through a bunch of books at the library that had really cool and interesting photos. I looked through one book called “girl culture” that was so shocking and very interesting. But, I ended up spending a lot of time with this photography book called “the fat baby” by Eugene Richards. He takes black and white documentary photographs. One that particularly caught my eye was this photo that took up two pages. It is a rear view mirror of a car with a long straight road in it that seems to g o on forever, no cars on it except for one in the very far distance. What struck me though, after initially looking in the rear view mirror, is if you glance above the mirror there is a graveyard. This picture really struck me because I feel like it is conveying the imminence of death after a long life journey- the road. I don’t necessarily think it is a bad, or morbid thing either, it is just a fact in photographic form. I like the use of the rear view mirror in the photo too, it was a very cool use of framing and made you really think about the photo. In the same chapter in the book, there are tons of photos of the elderly. For some reason they really fascinate me. Maybe fascinate is the wrong word- I guess I’m really interested in the life stories of people, especially the elderly because they’ve been through so much. My grandmother is in a nursing home and I find myself looking around at many of the people in there and trying to imagine them at age 20, 30, 40... what were they like then compared to what their life is like now… stuck in a bed all day. So I guess that’s why I chose the next photo as one that interests me. It’s a photograph of an old man in a bed (I’m guessing a nursing home bed from the looks of the room) and he is turned on his side sleeping. He is sort of blurring in the background, while closer up is another elderly man staring at the man in bed, with his hand on his face. He looks upset, pensive. I like this because it sparks up that same train of thought that I get when I go to visit my grandmother- what were these men’s lives like…. Do they know eachother? I also like the framing of the photograph, how the man in bed is in the background, off to the side… sort of like you would almost not even notice him if you looked quickly enough.
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p.s.

a little bit in love with this photo.

Trent Parke from magnumphotos.com

my brain running wild- things I like

rain

movies

rain & movies at the same time

family- gutta love 'em

babies- soo cute and innocent

make up

eyes- windows to the soul

friends

genuine smiles

scars- memories on the skin

bumble bees

music- all types

dancing

dreams- i always have such vivid ones, including night terrors (not so cool)

old people- what's their story

nuns- such a commitment, very intrigued by them

watches- secret obsession

sneakers- not so secret obsession

perfume bottles

taking risks- just do it... as Nike would say

travel

the ocean- endless possibilities

rice- my dad cooks a mean brown rice

exercise- endorphins yeaaaah

dusty roads & secret paths

old rusty doors

really old houses

malden- my home city

riding the T- self confessed people watcher

frowning- why do we always have to smile in pictures? who made that rule?

bright colors

big earrings

drinking through straws

randomness/awkward moments

restaurants

stop and shop- yes i am a former employee and a pretty phenomenal bagger

sunsets

stars- not always visible in malden, so i really love when i can see them so clearly

baking

my room- pink walls and unicorn border with rainbows and castles (decorated it when I was 7)

Boston

Stonehill

driving in cars- as a passenger, not a driver

The Office

keys

Flowers

horses

Lips

Rain

OH BOY

So I wrote this whole long blog but I lost it when I tried to post it.... on top of that my computer is moving about as fast as molassas
Anyway, basically what I said in the last post was that I am having a hard time trying to figure things out to take pitcures of.
due to frustration at my slow movig computer, I guess that's all iI have for now.

will smith

There is absolutely no reason for the title of this entry other than the fact that will smith's song "wild wild west" is playing on repeat in my mind. Will I regret saying this? Probably not.

I am having trouble thinking of things to photograph for our next roll of film. I thought all the pictures I took before were pretty cool but they all seem so similiar to eachother. I really liked everyone else's photos too so that makes me want to make cooler ones. I have done some portraits and I guess I'll just look around me to see anything inspirational. Maybe I'll bring my camera home and take pictures of where I live. It's 5 minutes outside of Boston and I guess that's pretty interesting... all the double decker houses and whatnot.

For lack of anything better to say I'm going to include a photo.

Its a picture of this chicken dish my mom makes, its swiss cheese and chicken. Usually its pretty good and she makes it with this white wine... but this particular night she made it with red wine because we were out of white I guess. Anyway, my brother and I laughed for about an hour when we saw this because it's soooo nasty.

I thought it would be a good change from my usual scenic pictures

PS

I found this when I was fooling around on the blog settings or something, It was a post that i thought had gotten deleted but was saved somehow. I wrote it a couple months ago I think