Peer Critique

For my peer Critique, I've chosen Julia's "Morph Me". She morphed her face, doing things such as making one eye bigger than the other, or stretching her smile, chin, and nose. In the picture, she is clearly the focal point, drawing your attention directly toward her "sexy face". Her purple shirt also stands out against the dull yellow lockers.
The look Julia has created makes the work silly; the colors making it look bright, and the shape of the face is somewhat realistic, yet it is morphed enough to look abstract. It looks as if she were going for the "troll face", even though her eyebrow proves to be quite provocative. I find this piece of art to be very successful.

Vintage Colorization Photo

Vintage Photo

ELF

Iconic Photo Analysis

Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973)
Gloria Swanson

Born in Luxembourg, Edward Steichen and his family moved to the American Midwest while he was just a toddler.Throughout the 1890's, Steichen pursued his artistic ambitions in painting, and in the 1895, bought his first camera; becoming a driving force behind the first school of Milwaukee. In the fall of 1900, Steichen went to London where he met the American photographers Fredrick Holland Day and Alvin Langston Coburn and participated in the New School of American Photography exhibition organized by Day.

This photo is interesting because the black and white color contrast is appealing to the eye. Even though the print over the picture is interesting in its self, the fact that her eyes can still pull you in is intriguing.

Steichen’s portrait of Gloria Swanson has taken on iconic masterpiece status overtime. Created in 1924, just as the first feature-length sound movies were emerging—effectively truncating the actress’s brilliant silent-film career—this image caught the essential Gloria Swanson.