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Nearing the end of the semester project statement
Well once again I did not get to capture all I wanted to this past Thanksgiving break but I did stay within my theme of agriculture. Since the smoke from the Paradise fire had moved its way down to Livermore my pictures are smokey, but I found that it actually helped me portray a depressed look. The reason I am okay with that is because the land is depressed due to the drought. Since there has been no rain to grow the grass, when the cows have their babies and produce milk for them the mothers begin to look poor in their build. To help them retain their nutrients my family feeds big hay bales in the fall and winter. When we do have a good winter this gives the grass a chance to regrow in order to last all spring and summer. I wanted to try and get pictures of my family in action but the first time we fed, which is when I took most my pictures, I was the one doing the work and then everything that was supposed to take place such as our branding and doctoring got postponed because of rain. So I decided to make this an intro to livestock and equipment on the ranch. I took pictures of the cattle out on the flat where we feed and then I went to the ranch yard where I took pictures of equipment we use to doctor and tag our cattle. Along with some tack we use on our horses and ourselves. On my final project I hope to elaborate on this theme and topic more than I have already done. On my final I can assure that there will be a mixture of ranchers and cattle in action doing hard work and then what the end of the day looks like where we clean up and then feed our crew that helped us that day.
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Kara Walker
Kara enjoys exploring and exhibiting race, gender, and sexuality through silhouette figures. She sets up her projectors to throw light in many various directions to cast a shadow of a viewer’s body on the walls so that it interacts with her figures and landscape. Walker has been exhibited in many museums and is best at showing both sides of the good and bad at once. An example would be the historical realism of slavery mixed with a romance. At the moment she is faculty at Columbia University for their MFA program.
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Albert Chong
Chong focuses on personal mysticism, race, spirituality, and identity. He works as a contemporary artist with photography, sculpture and installation showing the celebration of objects and their beauty. Most of his work consists of still life in black and white.�� Albert was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the youngest of eight siblings. In 1997 he made his way to the USA at age 17 and settled in Brooklyn. He attended school in New York City and had his BFA with Honors by 1981. He is currently a professor at University of Colorado but has taught at multiple colleges. He has received many awards for his work and presence in museums and galleries internationally for 20 years.
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Lorna Simpson
Receiving her BFA in Photography form a School of visual arts in NewYork and receiving her MFA from University San Diego was a big accomplishment for Simpson, but her well-known work in the mid 80s of large scale photograph and text work covey views of gender, culture, history and memory. In the mid 90s she started working with large multi panel photos printed on felt. She eventually turned to film and videos to address identity, always questioning memory and representation. Along with multiple books published, her work has been exhibited and collected in the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center and many more.
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Latest Project to Newest Project
The most recent project I have done in photo was different from what I proposed originally because I had not made the time to get back home to Livermore. The project was still agricultural themed but it presented the more competitive side of things. I had taken pictures of the Fresno State Rodeo Team practicing for their first two rodeos of the season. Those events are based off of a rancher’s way of life and show off our animal athletes’ abilities. Now that I have captured the fast moving way of the cowboy I will now have the opportunity to go home and capture the more steady and continual work from the ranchers and the animals they care for and raise. Animals such as the horses they work with and the cattle that they raise year round. I want to try and show the things they use to make the work happen, how they use the tools, and what they wear. Anything that has to do with their work I’m going to capture.
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These are a few pictures of what the team might do on our down time.
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I stayed in the agricultural theme but for this project instead of getting ranchers and the cattle and what they do I captured the competition side of their lifestyle. The roping events seen are adaptations of how ranchers do their work. Rodeo came from cowboys that became competitive and made timed competitions to see who was the “best” cowboy around.
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Plan and Proposal
For the project coming up in photo class I would like to base most of my pictures off of agricultural life around my family’s ranch. On this ranch we run a cow-calf operation of Black Angus cross cattle. They are the ones that are usually black and have no horns. The ranch is located in Livermore, California so I will have to make time to travel up there in the next couple of weeks. I think that in today’s world there isn’t a lot of knowledge about ranch life and agriculture going around as much as it used to. With these pictures I hope to capture cattle and maybe some other creatures such as horses or dogs and even my family, which includes my father, mother, older brother, grandpa, and grandma. I hope to show the people outside this culture how much work is put in to keep the cattle industry running and what the outcome is when the work is “done”. I wish to photograph their figures and locations, doing different activities and at different times of day. I will be taking these pictures with a Canon Rebel with just a zoom lens. If I find I need something different I will make appropriate changes. I chose Ranch Life/ Agriculture as my theme because not only is it going out of style, but I am part of a ranching family that has been homesteaded in the Livermore Valley since the 1860s. My older brother and I are 5th generation ranchers. We are not only helping with the herd of cattle my family owns but we are starting our own herd. We intend on keeping traditions alive. This is something that is a part of me that I am hoping to capture with a camera!
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These are what I believe to be the end of my pictures for my zine!
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These are all part of my zine project. A majority were taken on my family’s cattle ranch. They focus mostly on the nature and objects at the ranch. (click on them and they will be more in focus)
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These photos are a mixture of color, shape, contrast, patterns, symmetry, repetition, and maybe a couple other elements or principles of photography.
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My furry friend “Poncho” is an example of texture. I also think that the last picture of him symbolizes color harmony or may be seen as a balanced picture. A line can also be detected from the pictures of him next to the water trough.
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