Typography Slideshow

Typography:  Study of the design of typefaces, and the way which the type is laid out on a page to best the desired visual and effect to best convey the meaning of the reading matter.  (BusinessDictionary.com)

 Using time during my beg media arts class and some time outside of class taking pictures, I was able to create these typography photos. Using poems from Connie Wanek and Louis Jenkins as the typography, I was able to design and create my photos.

Critic: Typography

Poem: Lipstick   Poet: Connie Wanek   Photo Designer: Linda Lee

Helvetica & Typography

    Starting a new unit about typography, we watched a film in class about the typeface Helvetica, and how it came to and what it w as used for.
    Helvetica was firstly developed during the year of 1957 by a swiss typeface designer named Max Miedinger along with Eduard Hoffmann. Helvetica soon become the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, as it was seen as very formal and direct. Helvetica was also seen as well cut and plain, which meant it could be used for many different things and would fit in with everything. Many companies use Helvetica for advertisement, as it will grab your attentions since its so direct. And with its many weights and sizes, it has great clarity. Not only is Helvetica used in advertisements, but also for many other things. For example, all the signs along the streets, such at stop signs, labels for stores and just directions are mostly all in Helvetica. Although it may not be recognized now, Helvetica is seen throughout our whole lives, we just don't take time to recognize it.
    Typography:  Study of the design of typefaces, and the way which the type is laid out on a page to best the desired visual and effect to best convey the meaning of the reading matter. (BusinessDictionary.com)
   Typography, like Helvetica is highly used in all sorts of advertisements, posters, and others through out everyday life.

Vintage/Retro Editing

Edited Work

    The goal of this assignment was to crop in a picture to combine with your own. Since my photographer was Minor White, I found it difficult to find some of his work that would fit nicely with mines, as his photos were mainly of textures and landscapes only. The hardest part throughout this whole assignment was cropping the image in so that it would look real and un-photoshopped. It took some tedious time, as I had to blur the edges to make they look like they belonged, and to erase all extra space that the cropped picture had. In the end, I finished editing a couple of pictures and put in some of my own work into the slide show. 

Homage: Minor White

HOMAGE: a public show of respect or honour towards someone or something.

       I will be paying homage to this photographer, Minor White. Being inspired by Minor Whites photographs dealing with textures and such, I have taken photos dealing with texture myself. I've gone around Highland and taken pictures of texture whenever I see it visible. Using some of Minor White's techniques, I apply some of them into my photography, in hopes of paying homage to Minor White. 

In the last couple of weeks I've been going around Highland Park and at my house and have been attempting to take photos using Minor White's many techniques with texture and such. Down below are some of my photography that I am using to pay homage to White.

  

In the first and second photo, I took pictures of different types of textures. In the first photo, I took a picture of a wall and shelf outside of Highland Park. I found the wall to have good texture, along with it's different tones of colors. The shelf simply adds to the texture. In the second photo, the leaves on the ground give off good texture. The leaves also show different tones in colors as well. 

In my third photography in paying homage to Minor White, I used his technique of mirror imaging. Some of White's photographs were centered on the idea of mirror images. Therefore I decided to take some pictures of images in windows. In my third photo it shows the reflection of some girls at Highland Park Senior High School's courtyard on one side, and on the other, if you look closely enough it shows the inside of the room the window belongs to. You can see the chairs and the floor as well as a table.

 In my Fourth photo, I chose to take a picture of a batch of pumpkins. I thought it showed great textures and also showed the range of sizes and colors as well. You can tell that the pumpkins have different textures and are not all the same. My Fifth and last photo is a picture of a hose. I thought this picture greatly showed the display of the texture that the hose creates when it is arranged like this and goes in different directions.    

Minor White

    Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the year of 1908. Known as an American photographer, educator, poet, and critic, his work was acknowledged for his commitment in photography and vision. Most of White's photography focused on texture (i.e. bushes, trees, cracks, roads, etc). White devoted most of his life to the arts and teachings of photography, until his death in 1976.
   White's career in photography first took off in the year of 1938 when he started working for the Works Progress Administration. White using differently lightings in his pictures to change the feel that his photos give off to others. Through his efforts in his range of expressions with in his works, White became a very influential and highly known photographer oh his century. Minor White also dealt with reflections in his photography as well. Capturing images through their reflections on a window, or any type of glass. Other than just being a photographer, White also taught at MIT about photography for the last 10 years of his life. And within MIT, White taught a class about Zone System, which was about the way to develop a film and pictures so that they would turn out the way the photographers wanted. By using film exposures and such to change the lighting and colors of photos.

"A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it." ~Minor White

This class that White taught became very popular that they soon restricted it to only seniors who could take this course. White was also the co-founder of a magazine called the Aperture during 1952. White edited the magazine from 1952 until 1976, when he died. The Aperture was a magazine devoted to Fine Art Photographies. Down below shows some of Whites many works in photography:

 

 

"Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts." -Minor White 

American Photography

 

Photography has changed a great deal throughout the history of America. Not only are pictures just pictures to people, they"re very important, in the sense that they capture a piece of their loved ones and display memories that were captured by the camera. Pictures and photos soon took on a different role as they started influencing  everyone's lives. Pictures affected the ways people started to view things, such as clothes and pictures of the world. And as someone said, "What you see in an ordinary picture has extroadinary powers"

The first box camera came out on February 1st, 1977. And after the box camera came the brownie cameras. For some, taking pictures was too expensive, and so when the box camera came out and it only cost $1, everyone wanted one. And once the cameras were out in stores, people started taking pictures all the time. A quarter of a million Brownies were sold during that time period. After the Brownies, photos started changing as well as cameras. 

Photos soon turned into postcards. And soon enough, people figured out how to print photos right onto paper, such as the newspaper and magazines. Photos soon became used worldwide in newspapers, showing people the stories of America. And soon after this, colored photos were made. People could now have color on their photos, rather than just having it be white and black. And like someone said, "The wonders of the world were on your doorsteps."