John Clang

This is the online portfolio of John Clang, featuring a large number of pictures taken in urban areas, focusing on the contrasts and comparisons of the city and its occupants. My personal favorite piece is the one that greets you when the website first loads, and it looks like many pieces have been ripped out of magazines and pasted together, describing perfectly the chaos that exists in urban areas.

http://www.johnclang.com/artwork/time.html

Just an interesting clip on Cindy and her "self portraits."

David Dawson on Lecian Freud

Lucian Freud was British Painter who died in June 2011. David Dawson, Freud's model and studio assistant for 20 years, photographed Freud's daily life. Not only is there photographs of Freud in his studio but there are also some of his daily life outside of painting. One of the photographs I thought was funny was Freud applying shaving cream with a big paint brush. It really shows how much painting surrounded this man's life. I always find it interesting to see an artist in his workspace. I feel like these photographs reveal a lot about Freud that his paintings didn't even reveal. Also the fact that David Dawson worked for Freud for so long, he was able to get more intimate photographs like him cuddling with Kate Moss. These are beautiful portraits that show different aspects of Freud's life.

Happy Valley: A Photographer Reflects on His Mormon Upbringing

" My brother Nathan, dressed up as Jesus Christ, tries to get three of his five children, dressed in Biblical attire, to pose for photographs which will be painted depicting scenes of Jesus with children for a religious album."

For the last 10 years, photographer Brian Shumway has been returning to his hometown in Utah, a place known as “Happy Valley” to create a "visual and emotional exploration of his own childhood and adolescence by photographing his siblings and their children." Happy Valley is a nickname to a town in Utah that is made up of 80% Mormons. Brian Shumway once practices the same religion but as he got older, he branched off. Shumway said, “to an outsider, living in Happy Valley would probably seem idyllic. It’s quiet, clean, middle to upper-middle class, Caucasian, has almost zero crime [and a place where] people leave their doors unlocked at night and neighbors borrow baking soda from each other.” I think the photographs are beautifully taken and show a peak into his family's lifestyle. Without some of the descriptions under the photographs, I wouldn't have known some of the restriction or rules Mormons have. I really appreciate the lighting in a lot of these, especially the one of the little boy with the sword.

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/05/happy-valley-a-photographer-reflects-on-his-mormon-upbringing/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#16

Edward Weston's Group f/64-Keith

I don't think I need to introduce Edward Weston's work. His images of organic subjects with unusual angles, and extremely crisp focus, all come with his reputation. What interests me with Weston, is his founding of the West Coast Photography Club f/64. Him, Ansel Adams, and many other West coast photographers made this a popular and expanding photo club. The mentality is that the exposure should be extremely long with an extremely small aperture, to get the best depth of field. The iconic image of the pepper is over a 6 hour exposure. The time put in is definitely worth it, I wish we as photographers still practiced this mentality more often, to reach perfection in our images.

Street Art

Many of you have probably seen this work featured around campus. This is the first time I took a look at the making of the work in action. The flash animation of the collage of pictures creates in incredible since of time narrating the remarkable and pleasurable works of street art. The massive murals stretch with talent. Now there is a dvd thats out exposing the documentation. I would love to cover a piece like this one day, as I find this incredibly inspirational.

(( http://www.juxtapoz.com/Street-Art/blu-dvd-available-now ))

Mister Cartoon

I'm a huge fan of illustration and mixed media. Juxtapoz is one of my favorite sources, it's an excellent reference for inspiration introducing you to other growing artists. 
Juxtapoz online Magazine states 
" Juxtapoz contributor, and now Southeast Asia-based photographer, Dylan Maddux, documents Los Angeles-based tattoo artist and former Juxtapoz cover artist Mister Cartoon as he travels to Bangkok, Thailand. Cartoon talks about the various ways people use transportation in the city, some of the influences and observations he has made about Bangkok, and of course, there is a little talk about tattooing. (via UP)".

You can check out  more of Maddux work on the link below. 
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Tattoo/mister-cartoon-in-bangkok-by-dylan-maddux

It's wonderful to see design, illustration, and photography come together in a movie. This is a wonderful piece for people interested in documenting, and art form.