Hand Coloring

Hand coloring, or hand painting, is the process of taking a previously black and white photograph and painting over with dyes, watercolors, or oil paints in order to infuse it with color. 

Dusk + Dawn

In a series of two hand painted photgraphs called dusk and dawn, I tried to capture what dusk and dawn feel like for me. No dusk and dawn is exactly the same, but I attempted to portray each as I feel they are. Dawn is vertical with the sun coming up from behind a tree. I felt that dawn was vertical because when the sun rises, the mroning feels vertical for me. Colors are yellows, greens, dark blues in the shadows, and a light pink- the way I feel a morning is. It is clean, bright, and fresh. Dusk was portrayed as horizontal because that is the way I feel the sunset is, long and stretching far to both the left and the right. The colors are orange, red, and yellow, with darker purples in the shadows. I tried to imagine the end of something, and those were the colors that I associated with endings (sunsets, evening, eating dinner, etc.) I portrayed dusk as something darker, more mature, and a little bit moodier.


Elise Cugnart, Dawn  (2014)



Elise Cugnart, Dusk (2014)

Layers

I have been interested for some time in how the two dimensional medium of photgraphy can be translate into a three dimensional piece of work. The infinite possibilities of what works such as these could represent are particularly fascinating (time, movement, change, etc).

NOBUHIRO NAKANISHI:

Nobuhiro Nakanishi- Layer Drawing 8, 2012 - Inkjet print on film, acrylic, plastic


Nobuhiro Nakanishi- Tokyo SUnrise, 2010- Inkjet print on film, acrylic, plastic

ORNA FEINSTEIN: 
Orna Feinstein- Morel Log, 2011- Monoprint on plexiglass

Self Portraiture in Art

SELF PORTRAITURE IN PAINTINGS: 

Gustave Courbet, Self Portrait (The Desperate Man), c. 1843.

Édouard Vuillard, Self Portrait, 1889

PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF PORTRAITURE: 

There are three main ways to create self portraits in photgraphy. One is to photograph a reflection in a mirror  another is to photraph ones self with the camera in their oustretched hand, and the third is to set the camera up on a tripod or surface and use either a timed shutter release or a remote controlled shutter release. It is also possible to have another person press the shutter after everything has been set up. 

Robert Cornelius, 1839 

First photographic self portrait ever made. 

Eadweard Muybridge- Self-portrait as man throwing, climbing and walking, circa 1893

Star Books

Snapshot Aesthetic

The snapshot aesthetic is a trend in fine art photography that began in 1963 in the United States. It features everyday subject matter and off center framing to create a casual snapshot like look with subject matter that is strikingly ordinary. The beauty of the snapshot aesthetic is that it captures the fleeting moments of our everyday reality. Photography doesn't always need to be carefully set up and carefully thought through. Some of the most intriguing and beautiful things can come from the spontaneous mundane.
Photographers that use the snapshot aesthetic include Garry Windogrand, Nan Goldin, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Terry Richardson.

Garry Winogrand- Coney Island, New York (1952)

Robert Frank, Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey (1955) Gelatin-silver print