Week 2 aperture reasearch

Research 2 photographers 

Sally mann

Sally Mann born 1951 is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.

Narrow DOF

Candy Cigarette 1989

This image uses a small f/ value which gives a narrow depth of field, the focul point is the girl holding the cigarette and everything else in the image is out of focus. The veiwers eyes are drawn to the focus point and it gives it a dramatic look.

 Wide DOF

1984-1991

In this image Sally Mann has used a wider depth of field for this image, all if the image is in focus but the high angle gives an innocent look to the boy and the DOF makes the image seem bigger and dense.

Tanu Gago

Born in Sāmoa and raised in Manukau City, Tanu Gago belongs to a large family with a diverse cultural background. Gago draws on his unique perspective and life in South Auckland to make art that directly engages with urban social issues including the fluid nature of ethnic and gender identities. In his 2010 solo exhibition You Love My Fresh at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Gago presented a projection constructed in three parts. The first work titled You Love My Fresh featured a composite of black and white urban photography emblazoned with bold yellow text. Phrases including ‘Your cultural experience makes me cynical, violent and resentful’ and ‘I feel redundant as a citizen of your first world’ bounced and shuddered across the screen, demanding attention. In his most recent body of work Avanoa o Tama, 2012 Gago presented a series of photographs of Polynesian men which destabilise preconceived notions of gender and sexuality. Gago challenges the social and cultural expectations surrounding the representation of gender by concentrating on the ambiguous and performative nature of masculinity and sexual identity.

I think this photo is amazingthe wide depth of field having everything in focus and the composition of the photo with the lighting , placement and time of day really make this photo a stand out. i love that you can even see car in the back it makes it seem so authentic and the wide depth of feild brings this photo together by adding clear objects and features 

In this photo aswell as the top Tanu has used a Wide dpth of field

http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/8408/tanu-gago