Final Project Idea

I am thinking about creating a huge lipstick made out of poster paper and placing my photos on top to create a lipstick collage. I plan on taking some more photos for my final project. I will outline about 20 lipsticks shapes to create my book. I plan on placing at least 2-5 images per page, based on the theme selection.


After discussing with my classmates and my professor about possible ideas, I finally decided use an empty lipstick tube and place my art coming out of it like the actual lipstick. I will have a sketch of what I actually plan to do for class because I ordered the empty lipstick containers online. The pictures below are photos that I know I want to use for my final project. I do plan on using maybe two more images that I take this week.

• 20-30 new prints due in class PLUS 
• Book format due via blog post:  
• 5+ sentence written proposal describing how you will print, bind and format your book 
• 3+ images/sketches showing how your book will be printed, constructed, bound and presented. These could be:
• Hand or computer drawn sketches of what you want the finished book to look like
• Reference images of other books made similarly
• 6 image selects for final due as blog post (post six images that show your "best of" so far, that you will definitely use in your book.)

Lighting Assignment

Soft light

Hard light 

Light from above

Light from below 

Side Light 

My artist for my Oral Presentation

I chose Eugene Richards because I was intrigued by his work from the recent exhibit I attended. A few of his pieces from his exhibit spoke volumes to me and I was eager to learn more about his journey. 

Oral Presentation

Eugene Richards 

Jasmine Santiago 

Eugene Richards is an American documentary photographer. Richards has published many volumes of photography and been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII Photo Agency. 

Born: April 25, 1944 (age 74 years), Dorchester, Boston, MA

Movies: The Rain Will Follow, Thy Kingdom Come

Spouse: Dorothea Lynch (m. ?–1983), Janine Altongy

Awards: World Press Photo Oskar Barnack Award, MORE

Education: Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( wikipedia.com) 

Facts: 

Richards has published seventeen books. Exploding Into Life, which chronicles his first wife Dorothea Lynch’s struggle with breast cancer, received Nikon's Book of the Year award.  For Below The Line: Living Poor in America, his documentation of urban and rural poverty, Richards received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room received an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, an extensive reportorial on the effects of hardcore drug usage, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. (eugenerichards.com) 

His style: 

Richards focuses on profound aspects of life that are often ignored such as family, birth, death, poverty, physical health and prejudice. 

For more information: 

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/eugene-richards?all/all/all/all/0

https://eugenerichards.com/ 


Slides on google docs 

Week 8- 20 Photos