Circumventing The Inevitable

You may be asking, "Tiffany, if this is supposed to be a blog mainly about photography, why have you not posted any pictures yet?"
Well that is a very good question random inquisitive guest!
The main reason is that I don't have a card reader on hand and have yet to move my current pictures over my hard drive. I'd rather keep this blog up with my current work rather than posting things I shot months ago.
Also, now that I have a camera at my disposal I'll be able to shoot more than just for the assignments given in my classes, something I'm very much looking forward to. Tomorrow I will be able to pull up my pictures and I will make sure to post them here.
I'll be posting images from the pet shoot I did for Adv.Portraiture, shots from my trip to the North Carolina mountains with Michael, and some of my sports stuff for my Photojournalism class.
But again, that will be tomorrow.

For now I'm going to talk a bit about Man Ray.

Man Ray is known more commonly for his photography, which is what I'll talk about here, but he also had painting, sculpture, collage, and cinematography under his belt.

I love his pictures, they lean mostly to the surrealistic side which I find fascinating. Especially given the time he worked in (the early to mid 1900s).

Here are some of his more well known pieces:

 Man Ray,  Le Violon d'Ingres, 1924

 Man Ray, ‘Larmes’ (Tears),  1930

 

Man Ray, La priere (Prayer), 1930

I'm not usually a big fan of Portraiture, but Man Ray just has a way of taking the simplistic and making it appear otherworldly.

Quotable Quotes:

"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human."

~Man Ray