Megan Klansek's Photo Blog

Barbara Kasten Barbara Kasten was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1936, She is an american artist, but her most well-known work involves photo and video projections. She was really interested in geometrical designs and focusing on colors as well. She used mirrors, lights, and other things that bring her visions to life. She studied art at the University of Arizona before going on to grow her art education at other universities. The first image I am choosing to talk about is this one. One thing I really like about this image is the contrasting colors. It is easy to see that Kasten is really intentional with the colors she puts in her photographs, like choosing the complementary colors of purple and yellow for this one. The color pairing just makes the image more interesting. Another thing I really appreciate about this photo is the use of the mirrors. It’s incredibly difficult for photographs to be done using a mirror just because you have to be really intentional about what shows up in yo...

  Phillips Halsman Phillipe Halsman was born on May 2nd, 1906. He was an american photographer, although he was born in Latvia originally. Halsman didn’t become interested in photography until much later in life after he served time in prison. He started shooting for companies like Vogue and became a well-known portrait photographer. He was most famous for his sharp-focus images because, at the time, almost all images had a soft focus on them (Wikipedia). One of the images I am choosing to talk about by Halsman is this one. I love how spontaneous his images look. I love how they look chaotic but not so chaotic that you don’t know where to look or get overwhelmed when you see them. I also think the timing of the images is impressive because this was when they were still using film. This means he didn’t know if the images were good, but probably just had to take like 50 and see if any of them turned out good. I think I can appreciate his work especially because I can understand tha...