Clay Lipsky

Clay Lipsky's Website

       Clay Lipsky is a self taught photographer who strives to create timeless images. He works in multiple artistic mediums, winning an Emmy Award for his graphic design work
       In his work, "Atomic Overlook", Lipsky remembers a time when we feared nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union. He remembers when people could walk out of their front door and watch atomic bomb testing. The media would glorify the power and righteousness of America.

       To me, it represents the arrogance of humans. We fight over small tracts of land and arbitrary lines on this spec of dust flying through the universe. The whole time the people who are supposed to protect us sit with their finger on the button ready to usher in our demise. Meanwhile we sit idly by Comforted by the news that we are on the side of good, we chose the right path.

Chris Schedel

Chris Schedel is from Illinois and grew up in Ohio. He received his BFA from Bowling Green and his MFA from Columbia College in Chicago. He now is a prof there. He has a series called Coming home never felt so good he is shooting suburbia is the Midwest. This series is interesting because he is capturing this grand thing that is quickly taking over the Midwest, ruining the homes of the animals.

"These photographs examine Midwestern suburban housing subdivisions. They depict finished and lived in homes and neighborhoods, homes and neighborhoods in the process of being built, model homes and neighborhoods used for sales purposes, as well as the environment in and around them"

Al Magnus

http://www.almagnus.com/en/galleries-photos-art

Al Magnus is French and he started in B &W photography, he stopped working in photography and studied science qualifying in physics and chemistry scientist with a PhD.  Then in 2000 restarted in photography.

His photography shows a lot of floating objects and people with very dream-like scenes.  His photo La Jonquille shows a girl sleeping on top of daffodils which seemed very Alice in Wonderland like.  I choose him because his photographs with there dream-like qualities feel like imagination and fairytales and look like that's what they could be too.  (These photos are from New Photos and gallery 6.)

 

 

 

 

Jess T. Dugan
http://www.jessdugan.com/

     Jess is a portrait photographer that explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity and community. Jess received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Photography. She also got an ALM in museum studies form Harvard University. Her work has been exhibited nationwide. Jess's collection 'A Moment collected: Photograph at the Harvard  Art Museum' is a portrayal of people and the museum during its renovations 2008-2009. 'Every breath we drew' is Jess's most resent and ongoing collection that is used as an exploration of the power of identity, desire through portraits.
     I chose this artist because i found that she concept behind her work is similar to what I've been trying to show with my own. I found her way of approaching the subject matter in the way that she does helpful, it making me look at me work in a new light.

Vera Saltzman

Vera Saltzman is an artist who grew up in Novia Scotia, now residing in Saskatchewan.  Photography was simply a  hobby of hers until it became a vehicle necessary for forming a bond with the native Inuit people while she lived in Nunavut.  Her portrait series "Sue and Winnie" won an Applied Arts Award in 2012.

Sigmund Freud believed the uncanny to be something which leads us back to what is old and familiar but is at the same time "unheimlich" or uncomfortable. This series explores the idea of the uncanny as it manifests in a longing for youth, and a recognition of mortality. 
Driven by the nostalgia of our lost childhood, many of us have kept our dolls: sitting on a shelf, buried in a box in a closet, locked in an attic. In these portraits, women over 40 are posed with their childhood dolls. Each doll serves as an entry point into the history of our life which is both strange and familiar. In my photographic survey I consider the rediscovery of these doll-mementos, which lead these women to recall a past of comfort and security. It's hard to imagine a time and place when we would have played with these dolls. As young girls we spent hours with them. Our friend and confident, they kept us safe at bedtime, while comforting us during stressful times. Those days are gone forever, yet eternally present as evidenced by the doll: an assurance of a past. 
These images are tinged with a sense of 'memento mori' - 'remember that you are mortal.' As I age, I am constantly reminded of life's uncertainty. This series helps me reflect on the human condition: the transience of life and the inevitability of death.

bill viola

Bill Viola

 He is a leading artist in video as a vital from of contemporary art and in doing has helped to expand the scope of technology , content and historical reach. He has been creating his artwork for 40years. He uses video to explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. His work focus on universal human experiences like birth death and the unfolding of the consciousness. He shows his roots  in both the Eastern and Western art as well as spiritual tradition including  Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism.

http://www.billviola.com

Ocean Without a Shore, 2007 video/sound instillation

Emergence, 2002  - video installation

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Alain Etchepare, is a French photographer currently working/ living between France and Turkey.  She started out doing commercial illustrative work and then decided that she wanted to have more creative liberty and began exploring her own ideas.  Her work now is dream-like windows into the world around her, she is interested in the inspiration and imagination that can come from or be spurred by an image.  What I am drawn to is how she makes the work personal; she creates her own narrative by manipulating the angle and lens to give a strong sense of exploration. the main body of work that I am drown to is the Little stories in Berlitz.

Link to little stories in berlitz