A collection of visual ideas produced by the student artists of Western New Mexico University while working with adjunct faculty member, Tyler Bingham (Fall Semester 2010).
PurchaseI think it is always fun to observe what other people get out of looking at someone else’s photos. Everyone sees the world differently, making photography a fun class to take and study as an art.
each generation’s got to find its own way - you might just have to get angry these days - and throw those rose colored glasses away - you can’t change what you won’t even say
Full StoryI see myself as an evolving artist in all media, striving to become a creative mastermind. Art is my way of being able to communicate my ideas visually.
Details“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
-Ansel Adams
I thought, when people come through these gates every Sunday, they may believe that they are one step closer to entering the “real” pearly gates to heaven.
Full StoryI never meant to love photography; it happened quite by chance. I just wanted to expand my horizons, not create a new romance. I really love photography; I think I have found a new best friend.
Read MoreI say live life to its fullest and never give up. I love taking pictures of still life, capturing life’s moments in a photograph so that the moment can live forever.
Details“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
-Minor White
Photography is like fishing, catch and release. Braving the elements to capture a shade, form, moment--you may look at the beauty, but you must let it go, allowing the photograph to live its life away from your expectations of what it should be.
Read MoreSeeing splendor in what many would see as junk, I used abstract “portraiture” to bring the viewer an aesthetic sense of each object, though I usually left enough of a solid hint as to its true nature that the viewer would correctly interpret what was seen.
Full StoryThese pictures were all taken in my hometown. Although it may not seem much at first, I have come to find it very beautiful indeed.
Details“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost
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If we are to make photographs that raise questions or make assertions about what is in and around the picture, we must first be aware of what the ideological premises are that underlie our chosen mode(s) of representation. Such awareness will structure the aesthetic, editorial, and technical decisions that are made with the goal of communicating ideas in a provocative (and yes, creative!) way. As part of this program, a reassessment of the museum/gallery system is in order. Many artists have found it necessary to seek other venues for their work. Should the rare fate of “art fashionability” befall the photographer engaged in socially committed work, s/he must be vigilant about protecting the work from being removed from its own history—from having its captions removed, its tape recorder unplugged, or its sequence jumbled. It goes without saying that any issue-oriented work becomes transformed by history and loses its immediacy with time, but this is no justification for abandoning the work’s current cultural task to the first (or highest) bidder.
FROM: Bright, D. (1989) Of mother nature and marlboro men: An Inquiry into the cultural meanings of landscape Photography. In Bolton, R. (Ed.) The Contest of Meaning (pp. 125 – 143). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press."