Homework: Aperture Reviews

I really like mark Lyons pictures because they bring reality into nature . Nature is what makes up our world and our realities are what define it. Putting a duitcase in the middle of a forest or a price tag in front of a mountain are ways to show the ways that we have chosen to use the beautiful world that we were given. It is the choice of the viewer to decide to view the pictures in a positive way or a negative one. Te pictures are of really focused quality and full of vibrant colors. Close attention is paid to the details of nature while the aspects of our world don’t seem as defined. This, I think, is meant to remind us what came first and what is more real.  For this same reason, the aspects of our real world are not at the very center of most photographs, and don’t make very bold statements. You have to think for a second about why they are there, and if they fit with the photograph.

 

Mark is a photo journalist and has been for over 25 years in the US and 18 other countries. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for work he did in Mississippi. He also won the honors from National Mental Health Association in 1984 in Mississippi for photographing the ways that its health system was falling apart.

http://www.aperture.org/apertureprize/2009-6.php

 

 

Keily Anderson-Staley is really interesting to have looked at after Mark Lyons. She photographs with a simuler concept I think, but her work has more of a definite message. She photographs with the idea of what we have made of our world in mind, but in her work is implied that we regret it. She takes photos of things like a log cabin, and a pile of logs next to it. The cabin is made of the logs, or a tent in the forest with a running pipe coming out of the top; the un-natural made of and imposing on the natural. She then takes pictures of people who look unhappy. We aren’t satisfied, and never will be.

 

Keily has worked as a portrait photographer, a teacher, an assistant, and coordinater. She received a BA from Hampshire and has been shooting for close to four years. She likes to shoot et plate collodion pictures and is working on a color photo project called “Off the Grid” where she photographs twenty families living in Maine with “Alternative Energy”. She teaches workshops regularly.

http://www.aperture.org/apertureprize/2009-2.php