Megan Klansek's Photo Blog

 Man Ray This week we are focusing on Man Ray, an influential photographer from the 1900s. He was born in 1922 and is actually known for his photography without a camera. He created these pieces by putting pieces of cut-up paper on a piece of photo paper, then exposing it to light to create negatives and positives, and then developing it in a dark room. It was the same concept as with film cameras but just without the lens and creating the photographic settings on his own. (MoMA, 2017)      This is the first piece I chose to talk about from Man Ray.  This piece reminds me a lot of a circus in a way. I think this is because it kind of looks like there is a spotlight and the optical illusion of the rings kind of reminds me of a circus act. One thing I really like about this piece is the light-to-dark contrast. Although the piece does not have a 50/50 balance of black and white, I think that the smaller amount of light works well for the piece. One thing I don'...

   What Does Photography mean to me? By Megan Klansek     Nowadays, you see photographs everywhere you look. Whether it's on Instagram or in advertisements, they are all around us. I can't think of a single person who doesn't  enjoy looking at pictures. I think they are special for a lot of  r easons, including their ability to let you look at something through a different lens (literally AND figuratively) and they  allow us to capture moments.      One of the reasons photography is so special to me is it allows us to look at things in different ways. Heiferman writes in his article, “Photography challenges our assumptions and the limits of our perceptions by revealing to us what would otherwise easily go unnoticed.” I think this is one of the most beautiful things about photographs. I've taken photographs in my hometown of ordinary places and when I look at them later, I see a sort of beauty I never noticed in that place before. ...