Lorie Novak

Lorie Novak started by accdidentally running a roll of film through her camera twice . The combined images were her breakthrough that began her exploration of combining time and places. She began taking her own family images and examined how photos shape out memories. Novak created color photographic prints from montaged slides projected onto the bare walls of empty rooms. She chose images for their emotional evocation of familial relationships and childhood. Eventually, she added images from media, creating a chronological and cultural context dor her collected family memories. By putting together scenes and family photos Novak has been able to create interesting and intriging photos.

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewson was born on September 26, 1962. As an American photographer he is best know for his very unique, elaborate and surreal scenes of many homes and neighborhoods. His work is less like photographs and more like captured scenes from movies. In the mid 1980s Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase, near Port Chester, NY. He went to Yale and got his Master of Fine Arts. He is currently a part of the faculty at Yale University since 1993. Much of Crewdson's photos have been displayed in many museums and collections are around the world. This photo is called. "Beneath the Roses." In one image a lone and pregnant woman stands on a wet street corner just before dawn: she is a small but a portentous still point in a world of trajectories. On a stormy night in another nondescript town, a man in a business suit stands beside his car, holding out a hand to the cleansing water in apparent mystification. In a plush bedroom, a man and a woman –prototypes of middle-class American dislocation–are visited by a songbird, who gazes at the woman from its perch on the vanity. Crewdson’s scenes are tangibly atmospheric: visually alluring and often deeply disquieting. Never anchored precisely in time or place, these and the other narratives of "Beneath the Roses" are rather located in the dystopic landscape of the anxious American imagination.

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Repulisuve Photo 2

Ok, so we have a lot of pets at my house and every once and a while I find a hairball just floating around on our hardwood floor. I think this is pretty repulsive because of all the hair that builds up in one area and how dusty it can get!

Repulsive Photo 1

This is a container of left over thanksgiving dinner. I'm not quite sure what it was, but right when I saw it I thought ewwww gross! It's gewy looking and messy and filled with a mixture of textures.

Attractive Photo 2

I think this photo is attractive because of the different glows of colors. It makes the picture unique in a sense that the Christmas lights are bringing shades of color to brighten areas of the picture.

Attractive Photo 1

I chose this as an attractive photo because of the different colors in my cat's eyes. There are: greens, browns, golds, olives, and shades of black. I think that this is one of those things that we don't realize right away when we look at something because sometimes the smallest details can be the most interesting and beautiful.

Love is Close and Can Be Far

This montage represents how love can be held in the palm of your hands, but it can often be in the distance and hard to find. I took three pictures for this montage. The first in the background is down a narrow road with woods on either side. The second is another background that I blended into the background to make the sun more visible. The last picture is of my hand holding a heart locket. Combining all these photos together I developed the idea of love being in the palm of one's hands and also being in the distance in a person's life.