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--
Howard Hu
1/24/2022 01:08:07 pm
This is an image of a girl holding a dinosaur-like skeleton. The colors are mostly gray and yellow but it appears like black and white. The reason why the author uses these is because she wants to show the unique perspective of her expressing herself - could be lonely, desperate, mature. The lighting in this is more dark shadows. The main objects in this image are the girl herself and the skeleton that she is holding. In the image, she is holding up the skeleton with her body.
Aidan Skelly
1/24/2022 01:09:07 pm
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Cecile Tchandja
1/24/2022 01:12:36 pm
This image is of a woman holding the carcass of some sort of animal. The girl’s torso and arms are the only things in frame, we can not see her face. The animal’s head to be specific, with its mouth open kind of baring its teeth. This image has a brownish blue tint from the way it was created. The lighting seems to be in the sun with shadows all over the body as well as along the animal head.
Max Lloyd
1/24/2022 01:13:09 pm
To start of the image is of a person holding a crocodile skull with a flowery dress. The colors in the photo are not vivid, they are mostly monochrome. The lighting in the photo is pretty dark judging from all the shadows that take up most of the photo. An object that is very strange in this photo is a crocodile skull, and then the flower dress. What is happening in this image is a person holding the skull of some animal.
Alex Lambert
1/24/2022 01:14:26 pm
This image is a woman holding an animal skull in a dress. The image is in black and white so there are not many colors. The image is trying to be dark and being in black and white helps it a lot. If it wasn't black and white, it would probably have average lighting because it looks like it was shot outside in the middle of the day. You can't see the woman's face, because the main focus of the picture is the skull she is holding.
Ramiro Cavazos
1/24/2022 01:16:34 pm
This image shows the body of someone holding a skeleton head of a dinosaur. The photo is monochrome and only shows shades of blue and in some spots a beige look. The photo is focused on the person and is shot using outdoor lighting. The outdoor lighting can be inferred by the background. This shot only includes the torso of the person holding this irregular object. It shows nothing more and their body shows the entirety of the skeleton head.
connor cruzen
1/24/2022 01:17:45 pm
The Image is a woman holding a gator skull. The image is mostly black and white but it kinda has a shade of yellow vibrance that lightens up the image. This image uses dark shadows and expresses darkness and sadness. There is one person in this image with a gator skull and in a forest. In the image it seems like the lady is holding the gator skull and she is not really doing anything with the skull.
Kate Philbin
1/24/2022 01:19:06 pm
This image is very detailed. I’m not sure what the idea of this picture is supposed to be, but the picture itself is pretty in a way. The girls outfit is an elegant dress with small flowers sewn into the fabric. It almost looks like she is sad about the skeleton she is holding, or in a way is in pain. The picture being black and white is kinda hard to figure out the mood behind it so I suspect this is a sad picture. The teeth of the skeleton look like they might have rotten or leftover blood on them. But the head definitely represents an important figure in this picture.
Wyatt Fincke
1/24/2022 01:20:45 pm
The image is of a woman holding an alligator’s skeleton head in a white dress without showing the woman’s face. The image is using black and white coloring that makes it look to be very old or changes the critiques emotions on purpose. The lighting is pretty dark mixed with a yellow tint to make the picture feel even older than it is. The objects included in this image are a dress, an alligator’s head, and no face of the woman.
Breana Toohey
1/24/2022 07:12:55 pm
This image is of a woman in a dress holding a fossil skeleton head of what looks like a crocodile or alligator. The colors that are being used in this image are black, white, gray, and blue. I feel that these colors were used to give a certain vibe of calm and depression. It makes the viewer feel sad and lonely. The lighting of this picture puts light on the subject (the woman), and then it makes the background black. It is hard to see what is going on in the back, and the background is very blotchy. The only object in this piece is the skeletal head of the animal which the woman is holding.
Kiara Dwivedi
1/24/2022 08:15:32 pm
This is an image of a woman holding what looks like a skull of an animal, possibly an alligator. This picture looks old because of the woman’s dress. The dress looks older because of its material and flowers. The ruffles on the dress also make the picture look older. The skull is also hollow and its teeth are still intact.
Veronica Lobo
1/25/2022 07:08:40 am
In this scene I can see that there the artist Jaime Erin Johnson is holding a skeleton of some type of animal which I believe is an alligator, it seems to be very heavy because of the way she's holding it, This image uses light and darker shades of the color white, but it also has a kind of cool tone. There are some very dark shadows and not much sunlight, there doesn't seem to be any kind of studio setup. The dark colors make this scene dramatic. Jaime’s face doesn't appear in the scene, which takes some of the details away, because there could be lots of details as to what is happening with the expressions on her face. Comments are closed.
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