MOMA assigment

Oscar Muñoz was born in Popayan, Columba in 1951. Ever since he was a child, he showed an interest in drawing, which became his favorite thing to do. over the past three decades, Oscar Muñoz has been producing works that investigate the nature of representation and the relationship between image and memory. In the twelve-part work of the game of probabilities, which examines self-portraiture, the artist has woven fragments from six of his own indentify photographs into twelve different configurations, then rephotgraphed them. the black and white and color identity photographs, which were made over a number of years for official documents such as passports and drivers licenses. Highlight the physical transformation of the artist, suggesting identity infinite mutations and the limations of photography in representing human likeness. I happened to really enjoy this piece of art. I thought it was really cool how he used himself in his own photography. I liked how he incorporated his artsy side within the picture. I love how he used black and white and color. I also really like how he combined all different parts of the  pictures, which was really interesting to me.

Stephen was born on October 8^th 1947. He is an American photographer. Ever since his was younger, he had an interest In photography because his uncle had given him a 35mm camera which lead to him taking his first picture. He then received the book written by Walker Evan, and from that moment on, he wanted to be a photographer. He first started using a 35 mm camera then moved to a 4 x 5 and then finally to 8 x 10 formatted camera. He produced a book of pictures which was called Uncommon places which was then considered the book to have for every single photographer, who shot in color. The images in the museum show the range of shore’s accomplishments from early conceptual experiments in black and white in the late 1960’s, to his pioneering color works of the 1970’s, to the current project in Ukraine about holocaust survivors. In the early 1970’s shore embarked on a series of road trips across the united states. He made color photographs along the ways, shooing ordinary American scenes, such as disheveled motel bedrooms, road sign billboards and gas stations. The result was two significant bodies of work. Shore uses color to record the imagine and intensity of hues seen in the making photographs that celebrate poetry. I focused on the Merced river photograph. I thought it was really cool how he just went to any river and took this photo. I think that the scenery is amazing with the background of all the trees and the mountains. I love how he captured the people in the river doing things. I love it because it looks like such a peaceful place and I would love to go there.

 

Paul Graham was born in 1956 in Britain. He is known as a fine art photographer. He Is known as bringing a revolution in British documentary photography. He is known for this because of his dynamic and highly credited work called A1 the great north road. Graham’s photographs were basically of every day people, places and events. Graham’s photography has been the focus of numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and aboard. His photographs can be find in public and private collections worldwide. Since the early 1980’s graham has rendered the world around him with allegiance to photography’s documentary traditions and an embrace of its capacity to uncover hidden truths of everyday lives. The great north road is a taut series of forty portrait landscapes and vignettes made along the a1 highway, the metaphorical spine of England. Like the hand processed chromomeric color prints graham made all the time, the pigmented inkjet prints on view encompass a virtuosic range, including the delicacy nuanced grays of the sotired English weather and the seductively vibrant color of roadside service. Graham’s insistent attention to lorry drivers and waitresses. Painted signs and fluorescent lights along the great north road belies the sense that with the construction of the more efficient, faster m1, this road, and the life along it might fall short to the expectations conveyed by its name. I really enjoyed all the pictures in this collection. I enjoyed them because I really love scenery pictures. I think every single picture has hidden details that you can recognize at all different times. I enjoy looking at them because something new always captures my eye. I think also the concept of him roadtriping and taking pictures along it is really cool and exciting.