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Photo Assignment #3- Madison McSherry

For my first image I wanted to photograph the church right around the corner from where I live. I felt that this was an important aspect to how my community was handling the pandemic. This is because the sign is right off of our town’s main road, meaning plenty of people pass it every day. From the very beginning of the pandemic, this church always had uplifting quotes to raise the hopes of the community.

This image is of a parking lot that is notorious for being packed. Its a development home to the local gym, laundry mat, nail salon, wine & spirit store, and plenty of restaurants. I wanted to capture the emptiness caused by the pandemic and make it stand out from just another empty parking lot. That is why I photographed in the middle of the day, when most businesses are usually busy. Also I believe that the few scattered cars hints that its not an “off day” for the stores, but that something else is keeping the customers from rolling in.

This picture was taken outside the local Giant. I was sitting in my car getting ready to leave when I noticed this glove laying on the ground. I feel that it is very symbolic to the measures people are taking in order to stay safe from contracting the virus. Plastic gloves are a very common sight in my town during this time, so I felt that this picture was very representative of that. I chose to leave so much negative space because I wanted to capture the feeling of emptiness in a time of hysteria.

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I chose to take inspiration from the photographer David Hockney. I did my own spin on his images to create photographs that relate to my life and things around my home that have meaning to me. The images I took inspiration from are:

David Hockney, Sun on The Pool, Los Angeles, April 13th 1982

Jane Liechty Assignment 3

For this assignment, I chose to find inspiration in the photography of David Hockney. Hockney was born in 1937 in Bradford, England (one hour from where I grew up, in Sheffield). His career includes painting, printmaking, photocollage, and theater. He is one of the more influential British artists of the last century.

Hockney was interested in space and perspective. He said, “We do not look at the world from a distance; we are in it, and that’s how we feel.” He explored how multiple perspectives, rather than a single perspective, more closely match the human eye. In this way, the viewer becomes part of his art, not simply an “onlooker.”(https://www.artsy.net/show/stpi-david-hockney-a-matter-of-perspective)

Here are several examples of his work:

These examples shows Hockney’s fascination with movement. He said, “It’s our movement that tells we’re alive.” He called his square Polaroid collages like these ‘joiners.’ In his own words: “If you put six pictures together, you look at them six times. This is more what it’s like to look at someone.” There is a Cubist influence of distorted perspective. (https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/david-hockney-photographs/)

Place Furstenberg, Paris by David Hockney, 1985

In addition, I drew some inspiration from this image by Bruce Nauman, which also captures movement:

*Contrapposto Studies, i through vii*, by Bruce Nauman, 2015/2016

Here are my five images inspired by Hockney and Nauman.

Boys is made from a collage of the faces of four of my sons and my husband. All five faces are equally represented. It’s been interesting to see them debate who the collage most looks like overall. The faces are mismatched, but there’s a sameness that brings them together.

Winters on the Farm is a collage of eight HDR images of a scene in State College, PA. All these views are shot within close distance of each other. I combined them into a single scene. Winter is the necessary condition for spring to occur.

Homework is a collage of eight different perspectives of the same activity. This image represents the process of gathering information into a person’s mind to create knowledge.

Coming and Going represents movement back and forth: the constant cycle of progress.

Jamie Rhoden Assignment 3

For this assignment I had taken a few pictures of outside that were direct markers of the pandemic we are currently facing, but most of my time associated with the virus is marked by hours stuck in a small apartment by myself. As my parents are seniors and my brother has a compromised immune system, I felt it best to be cautious and stay by myself. So because of that, I felt that my experience with this moment our lives is (luckily) defined by the monotony of the time spent inside the apartment. This being the case I took pictures of my apartment.

Photo assignment # 3

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The photographer I choose is Eliot Porter. He was an American photographer known for his images of the nature. He began to photographing his family’s island property as a youth in Maine. He graduated from the Harvard university with the chemical engineering major In the mid 1940s, after he committed to pursue a career in photograph, he began to transfer from traditional black and white to the new Kodachrome color film.

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The last one is probably my favorite one since I think the objects are similar and also the color of the photo are similar.

Chloe Trieff -Assignment 3

With my photographs I wanted have a sort of depressing and loneliness feel to them. Since I have been home I haven’t really been able to go out and do the things that I would like to do on a daily basis. I’ve just been stuck in my house for the past 3 weeks. I shot in black and white in order to make the photos look more eerie and dark. My initial goal was to photograph a ton of people walking around but when I went out to shoot I couldn’t find a whole lot of people walking around. I think that the inter-relationship that all my photos have with each other is that they all give off the feeling of loneliness.

Throughout my time at home and with everything going on, I have been doing my best to practice social distancing. My father has an autoimmune disease and is he contracts the virus it could be fatal for him. I have been doing my best to stay inside and away from most people so that I don’t have a strong chance of becoming a carrier. All of the stuff that is going on right now has got me feeling really scared for the future. I’m very sad that I can’t go back to school and see my friends. In total I have just been feeling very depressed and lonely by this whole situation and I feel that my photographs perfectly displays how I’m currently feeling.

Yelena – Photo assignment 3

Because I wasn’t able to go anywhere I just decided to take pictures of what I had available to me at home.

This was the only picture I was able to capture outside of my house, when I was on my way to Penn State to get all my stuff. This sign is now seen on every major roadway displayed bright and loud to remind us this is no joke and to please stay home.

For these images I wanted to capture how COVID 19 has affected people’s lives. We now carry most of these products with us anywhere we go just to be safe. We are almost always in a state of paranoia. My mom uses that lysol bottle to spray everything she has touched, especially when she goes out to the store or to get gas. We use the thermometer to check our temperature just to be sure we don’t have a fever. We use Clorox to wipe every surface, and Tylenol because at the end of the day this is all a big headache.

Becca Baker—Assignment 3

These images were taken at Walmart. I wanted to document the reactions of people due to the Corona Virus outbreak. I found it important to show the behavior of shoppers and the store overall. Many shelves were empty, on necessity items, there was a sign permitting limited shopping only. Surprisingly there was toliet paper stocked, however, you can only purchase a limited amount. I noticed a large amount of workers restocking shelves and overall more workers on the floor. In the first image, you can see a woman is even wearing a mask.

These images were taken at a nearby town, fifteen minutes from my house. This main street is normally extremely busy its so hard to find a spot on the road. The street it lined with different shops, boutiques, restaurants, but when I visited, everything was closed. I wanted to document how strange it was to see an empty street. The only car you see is my mother’s mini cooper in the one image. I found it necessary to document the closed signs, as every store had one. There were only a few stores open and only for limited hours. The only people I noticed outside were walking their dog.

Damian Gray – Assignment 3

I Chose option two for this assignment, Photographing my response to the COVID-19 crisis. This was the first time I have been back on campus in a week since the shut-down began. This was a time when I would normally have class in the Carnegie building. I chose this specific area on campus because I felt this had the most traffic flow of students. But besides seeing only one car drive through and an elderly couple walking , the campus felt abandoned. The only thing I can think about when seeing these photos is “This would be a great time for senior photos.”