Artist Lecture

The artist talk that I attended was on Wednesday December 5 at 12:00. The artists who talked were Bradley Castellanos, Julee Holcombe, Don Williams, Leah Woods, and Liese ZahabiI. I really enjoyed the talks and I wish I attended more earlier in the year. The two artists who I most enjoyed and made me think of an idea for my own pictures the most were  Bradley Castellanos and my teacher, Julee Holcombe. Bradley Castellanos work flow included cutting and pasting multiple pictures together to make a new picture of his own imagination. My favorite piece of work that Bradley presented was a combination of a wall from the streets of New York with a photo of the forest in the nature. Through a doorway in the wall you could see the picture of the trees. I also admired the large size of this piece of work. I also really enjoyed my teacher Julee Holcombe's talk. The work that Julee presented was of women in china. Julee talked about her travels to China over the years and how she used the style of Chinese paintings in her photographs. The photographs were mostly street photography pictures with out any composing multiple photos together, except for on a few where there was a little composite done. Julee talked about how she is known here for her composite photos which are photos made up of many pictures. Something that I found very interesting was how she explained the difference between when she is shooting for her composite pictures and when she is shooting straight street photography pictures. When she is shooting for her composite photos she does not have to be as mindful of each photo. When she is shooting for just street photography she has to put more attention to each picture and everything that is in frame. After listening to both of these two artists talk about their work and how they both do some form of composite pictures, it made me want to try to make a composite picture of my photos from the NYC subway tunnels, and having the tunnel continue further into the picture. Each of the artists did a great job and I had a great time listening to them talk. I will definitely be attending more of these talks next semester.