John Baldessari
Here is a video about John Baldessari.
John Baldessari John Baldessari was born on June 17th 1931, he was an American artist that was known for his work in photography and made a range of different images. John used to be a painter, however he started working for the photography era during the middle of the 1960s, in 1970 he began working in loads of different places such as photography, printmaking, film, video, installation and sculpture. John made lots of pictures but he burnt all of them as time goes on because he thought all his pictures that he made were 'Wrong'. He decided to make more pictures in the future which are not 'Wrong'. He thought that the colour white was wrong so he tried to make all his pictures have no white in them. Here are some pictures on the right that John Baldessari made above. Mr Nicholls shown us a picture that John Baldessari made. It was named 'Wrong'. I was asked to explain why I thought the
title was called 'Wrong'. |
Here are some comments that people made: - The Camera is out of focus. - It has colour and is very simple - Some of the objects such as the car and the tree don't find the frame. - He has used one of his mistakes as a work of art. |
Evaluation:
The image below on the left is too dark. You can only see half of what's in the picture which is the light coming from the sun - the doors. The angle that it was took made it hard to tell what's on the top left of the picture. I chose to take in front of the doors in block 2 which was pretty dark and I did shake the camera around a bit. The picture on the right is also dark. It's a picture of the sun and it looks like that the picture was took in the night with a sun and clouds around which doesn't make any sense. There are clouds right at the bottom of the picture and a bit of a cloud sticking out on the left. The sun is really light and it's making a shadow. The image on the bottom right has a foot sticking out in the picture right at the bottom left which is random. The object that is close to the top left should be in the middle, the outline seems very dull as well. The spaces in the concrete makes it look weird and makes the picture dark. There are a list of mistakes that I used when taking these photos they are:
- Moving the camera when taking the picture. - Holding the camera really close to an object without looking. - Spinning around randomly and pressing the button to take the picture. - Putting my finger on the lens and taking the picture. |
However, some of the pictures that people take when making the mistakes on purpose can look good. They can look interesting and go really well sometimes, there is really no such thing as a 'Wrong' photograph. People just say this because it looks different and not normal.