© Jaime Erin Johnson Today you will be writing about this self-portrait image by artist Jaime Erin Johnson. Now that you have made your own self-portraits, think about the great difficulty the artist must have gone through to get this shot. What equipment might she have used? What do you think the lighting scenario was? Where was this photograph made? What kind of light did the artist use to get the shot?
This photograph was made using cyanotype, which is an antiquated photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. The artist used tea to stain the print and make it look brownish blue. Your analysis must be 5 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded. If you do not complete your analysis in class, you must finish it for homework by midnight. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Zac Isaac
11/21/2019 09:29:54 am
In this picture, there is a skull of an alligator. The lady is holding the skull to her chest. The colors used in the photo are black and white mostly. There are dark shadows in the picture. It is an interesting photo.
Diego Saucedo
11/21/2019 09:35:21 am
In this image we can see a woman, she’s holding what looks to be the skull of a crocodile, her face is not showing and she seems to be holding the skull as if it was some type of “precious object”. The lighting in this image is pretty dark and grey, it looks good but i would lower the highlights a little more.
George Welch
11/21/2019 09:35:44 am
The image looks very old at first glance. It uses a lot of darker colors and is stained with tea. The photo uses a lot of dark lighting. It doesn’t look like it was made in a studio and doesn’t look like it was set up like a studio. The photo only has a woman’s body and her holding an animal skull.
Kurt Bliss
11/21/2019 09:36:51 am
The image is off a woman in old timey clothes holding an animal skull. The image has a brown tint to it to display the tone and mood of the image. The lighting is pretty bright but is off put by the way the image was created. This image uses a very interesting composition possibly to display the feebleness of life and carelessness of death. It think the colors and lighting really bring out what the artist is trying to display in this image.
MJ Ervin
11/21/2019 09:38:18 am
This image is of a girl who is holding some sort of skeleton head while wearing a dress they wore a long time ago. It looks very old and not so much new. The lighting in the image is kinda dark and brown there aren't any blues or yellows in the image. The image is of a girls neck to hips holding a skeleton head. There is also some trees suggesting she is in the woods or forest. She is gripping the skeleton and holding whille it seems like she is looking up into the sky.
Ryan Shields
11/21/2019 09:40:51 am
This image is of a lady holding what looks like an alligator skull. The image is tinted brown and the lighting is relatively dark. There are some shadows in the image and some objects in the image are a gator skull, a lady in a dress, and what looks like trees in the background. In the image a lady wearing a dress is holding a gator skull with some trees in the background.
Nathan Bond
11/21/2019 09:42:06 am
There is a lady holding a skull. The skull looks like it could be a crocodile’s because of the shape and teeth. She is wearing an old type of outfit that has little flowers scattered around it. We can’t see her face but we can see up to her chin and hair. She’s also wearing a skirt so maybe this outfit is a dress.
Elise Miles
11/21/2019 09:42:39 am
The image is of a girl with a huge alligator skull in her hands. The colors are a really dark bluish brown with whites to emphasis the girl. The lighting in the image is bright but not too bright. The objects in the image are the girl, the dress she’s wearing, and the alligator skull she’s holding. In the image the girl’s head seems to be pointed upwards because all you can see is a long neck. She also seems to be holding the alligator skull really tight.
Garrett Greiner
11/21/2019 09:43:37 am
This is an image of what appears to be a woman in a dress. The person’s face is not revealed in this image. The person is holding a skull of an animal. The shape of the skull resembles that of an alligator or crocodile, but I am not sure if this is the case. She appears to be standing near a river/body of water, as you can see reflections in the bottom half of the screen, which leads me to believe that this is the case. There are most likely trees behind her, as in the top half of the screen you can see little dots of light, which are probably the spots where the sunlight found its way past the leaves. It is hard to tell what exactly is going on, as there isn’t too much information present in this photo.
dana salinas
11/21/2019 09:43:42 am
This image by Jamie E. Johnson shows a self portrait of a woman holding a crocodile’s cranium and is surrounded by what look like trees or one assumes that she at least is outside. The woman is dressed in a very traditional and old-fashioned dressed because of the pattern and material that is being used. There are flowers and ruffles on her sleeves which indicate that the style she was going for is not modern. There aren’t many different types of colors, just different shades. All of the shades are dark and mellow with dark shadows in the background. It almost looks like she’s in the middle of nowhere because the tree-looking shadows seem so abundant.
Anaya Zachery
11/21/2019 09:47:31 am
In this self portrait by Jaime Johnson, we see the torso of a woman wearing a flowered dress and holding an animal skull of some sort. Her face is not visible. The focus in this photo is most likely placed on the gigantic skull she is holding in her arms. We see quite a lot of shadows in the image, and can imagine that it was taken outdoors. Because of the unique printing process used, there isn’t much color variation that we can see, but I think that the original scene probably had a lot of colors going on.
Max Sherburne
11/21/2019 06:28:27 pm
This image is of the photographer taking the photo. She seems to have a lot of animal skulls and stuff like that, based off of the other images I’ve seen. The details are really nice, she did a good job of making the photo seem old, probably using tea bags. According to inside sources, this was originally a digital negative turned paper negative, then transferred onto light sensitive paper, and dyed brownish blue with tea (Thanks Ms. McCauley.) Comments are closed.
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