Jovana Blanco/ Artist Statement

As an artist/photographer my main focus was to capture photos of what I go through in life, my culture and what interests me.  Many of the photographs I captured have to do with nature and its wonderful beauty. I also love to take photographs when I am at family events because everyone has their own ways of having fun with their family.

One person that inspired me to take photographs was Tina Modotti because her work was very cultural and the photographs she would take involved children or women in unusual situations. The way she would edit her photographs was also different, she would either make them black and white or some other different shades. Most of my photos were de saturated with a pop of color.

I mainly edited my photos in black in white before I found out about the sponge tool which de saturates. I liked using this tool because I felt that it could make the littlest things pop out if I partially de saturated. I also adjusted the lighting and contrast in the photos because it would give it more of a retro look and the entire photograph stood out.

Now that I’ve learned what photography is about, I feel more confident in taking pictures and I also feel like I know more about the world of photography. I never thought of photography as something important, I would just take pictures and that would be it, I paid no attention to editing it. But now that I learned about all these things that can make a photograph look ten times better I will keep it all in mind when I go off and take more photographs. 

Annie Leibovitz

Photographer Annie-Lou Leibovitz Was born on October 2, 1949 (age 61) in Westbury,Connecticut. She attended San Francisco Art Institute and studied painting there. Even though she studied painting, over time she developed a love for photography.
In 1970, Annie applied for a job with the start up rock music magazine Rolling Stone. Annie's trade mark technique involved bold primary colors and surprising poses. In 1983 Leibovitz left Rolling stone and began to work for entertainment magazine Vanity Fair. Leibovitz's photographs ranged from presidents to literacy icons to many other different things.

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Homage to Tina Modotti

For my Media Arts class we were told to choose a well known photographer that inspired us by the photography they took. The photographer I chose was Tina Modotti. I chose her because I liked that her work is very cultural like and it also keeps me interested and thinking.















Tina Modotti, like other photographers, began taking photographs in the 1900's. She inspired me by the way she would take photographs of The Mexican Culture and the way every photograph she took represented something or had a story behind it. I plan on paying homage to her by taking photographs of my culture which is The Mexican culture that she would take photographs of. I also plan on taking photographs of people and things that mean something to me or help describe me and my life just like she did.

I also plan on taking photographs of babies or infants with their mothers  because i've noticed that she uses children and women a lot. Maybe because being a mother is said to be the best thing something could ever happen to a women.

Tina Modotti

  Tina Modotti, born in a small town in Northern Italy on August 16, 1896 and died in 1942.  When she was 16 she immigrated to the United States to meet up with her father who was in San Francisco, California.  Tina Modotti was a very creative person. She experimented with acting and was in several plays as well as being an artist's model. Tina was introduced to photography when she was a young girl in Italy by her Uncle Pietro Modotti who had his own photography studio. She then went on a trip to Mexico in 1922 to bury her husband Robo, who had died from the small pox. And there she persuaded Weston, Her lover to teach her photography and move with her to Mexico. Tina wasn't a war photographer but she was an artist who's life revolved around politics.

      Tina then decided to start a new lifw in mexico with Weston and one of his children leaving behind westons wife and three other children. Soon she and her partner openend a portraiut studio in mexico and went around taking photographs for Anita Brenner's book Idols Behind Altars. Later it was debated on who had taken most of the pictures for the book. Later on it was determined that weston was more of a lanscape and mexican folk art photographer and Tina was more of a politacal photographer who took pictures of Diego Rivera murals and other muralist. Soon after they blew up together in popularity and they opened a portrait business in mexico with thier connection. Later on Tina's political connections got her another three lovers as she went on in her life