Montage: Activity 1

Activity 1: Blog Entry
Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media).
What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique?

I think these photos were possibly judged because they are strange and what can come off as maybe inappropriate to be in an image. But thats what I'm just assuming. I think they were popular though because they were something different. They were something people had never seen before and was interesting to look at and think of, "is there a story behind this?" "What made the photographer want to do this?" I think its cool that we can take separate images and make one whole by placing them together. So I am excited to do this project and learn how to do it and work with it.

Portraiture and Studio Photography: Activity 3

Activity 3

Collect four portrait images with two to five subjects.In at least one image the subject should have been placed in the foreground.Comment on the arrangement of the subjects in relation to the camera and the effectiveness of the design.

Jason Baker.

This image has four subjects. This is a family portrait. I think it is so cute because they are both looking at each other and happy. It looks like the photographer got up a little, above them to get this image.

Ty French.

There are two subjects in this photograph. Theres the girl and the telephone booth. They are perfectly place besides each other which I think is really cool.

Ty French.

There are about five subjects in this image. There is the four people and the rock symbol behind them. The two are getting married and the pastor is with them and their child. What I like about this picture is how their placed, we get to see the ocean and the sky with them in the bottom corner.

Ty French.

This image has two girls in the foreground. They are framed by the entering into the stairs, so I think thats sort of cool. The two subjects are perfectly placed in the middle of that framing and of the entire picture.