Chuck Close: Visual Intellectual Photographer

Alex Kotlowitz met Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers in 1985 while working as a journalist. He was interviewing them for a photo essay in Chicago magazine on children living in poverty. The violence that occurred every day where the brothers lived in Governor Henry Horner Homes, or Horner, disturbed Kotlowitz. Lafeyette and Pharoah are 12 and 9 years old at the start of the book but have experienced more than many kids their age. The boys did not seem sure of what life held for them. Lafeyette told Kotlowitz, “If I grow up, I’d like to be a bus driver,” Lafeyette was not sure that he would grow up at just 10 years old (x). Kotlowitz wanted to show what it is like for children growing up in urban poverty after seeing the brothers’

Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940 in Monroe, Washington. His father, Leslie Durward Close, was a sheet metal worker, and his mother Mildred Wagner was a trained pianist. Chuck Close’s hobbies as a kid where painting and art. Suffering from severe dyslexia, Close did poorly in school but found happiness in making art. After earning his MFA from Yale in 1964, Close turned out to be one of the most famous American art world by creating large-scale, photorealist portraits that

In New York there was an art museum called The Whitney Museum of American Art they were the first ones to display Chucks works of art. From there Chuck had became more and more known because of his art works and other exhibits displaying his canvas’s. “Even during those recurring moments in the cycle of art world fashion when painting has been pronounced dead, the relevance of his work has remained evident. One of the strengths of his work is that, since it has never been in style, it can never go out of style. It is unaffected by fashion( The Ebook).” In 1988, Chuck had a spinal artery rupture after this incident he almost became permanently paralyzed from the neck down. He regained consciousness from lots of therapy and rehab but he never let the fatal accident of his spinal artery jeopardize his career. Some people think because of his accident he became an even better

Chuck Close is an american artist known for his realism portraits that are about 9 feet tall. He has faced many challenges in his life including dyslexia and eventually becomimg paralysed from the neck down. He believes that these challenges have made him a stronger person and artist. As he said, “Almost every decision I've made as an artist is an outcome of my particular learning disorders.”

Chuck Close is a Artist that had many problems in his life. Close has Dyslexia, which made him fail school when he was younger. Then he found his future in art at school. Later in life he got a kidney disease which made him have to stay in bed for almost a whole year. When he was in when he was having time with that problem his love for painting grew. Next, he graduated from Yale and got his MFA.

It was there that he dabbled in new forms, styles, and materials and also produced some Pop art. Chuck Close spent quite a bit of time trying to find his artistic niche. In an interview with Ilka Scobie, Close explained that he had been doing big paintings “forever… In graduate school I made the biggest paintings. That is the only aspect of my work that hasn’t changed…” (3). Although Chuck Close experimented for a long time before he found his signature style, which seems to be a combination of a gridding process, abstract expressionism, and portraiture, it has turned into something very unique and appealing to the viewer. The time he took to figure out his personal style was certainly not wasted. Close explained that his inability to recognize faces (prosopagnosia) “may have inadvertently pushed me in the direction I’m working today—trying to scrutinize the faces of the people I know and love, and trying to figure out what they look like” (Smith 15). Chuck Close’s signature style depicts the faces of many different people in an abstract way. He uses a grid method and each square is “made form multiple small geometric forms” (Ravin, and Odell). His work is abstract and very large. Close’s paintings are remarkable, viewing them at an up close view or at a distance gives the viewer an entirely different experience. It is almost as if the viewer is looking at two separate pieces of

American artist Chuck Close was born in july5, 1940. He is still alive today at 77 years old. When he was younger he had a lot of challenges in life. When he was in school he was not good at math or reading because of his learning disability called dyslexia. The only thing he was good at was art and with the help and support of his parents he eventually Graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. and then received his M.A. from Yale University.

Chuck Close is also known as Charles Close was born in Monroe, Washington July fifth 1940 he is recently the age of 76. Chuck was born with severe dyslexia that at the time wasn't a thing so everybody thought he was dumb. Not only this, but he also had neuromuscular which meant he could barely lift his feet . Chuks parents were artists and encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming an artist. Chuck Went to Everett Community College. When chuck was fourteen his mother took him to an art museum. One of the newer artworks was a drip paint picture using tar aluminum paint gravel etc. He was so outraged because it did not fit

For some, a picture is just a beautiful work of art, but for Lewis Hine photography was a way to communicate a message to the world. When Hine was taught the photographic process, it was still being established. This being said, photojournalism was also just evolving as a method to visually communicate information. In an effort to better his photography skills, Hine began to photograph the immigrants of Ellis Island. He was very adamant about social reform and reflected this in his work. Lewis Hine’s captivating photos inspired social change in America for the less fortunate.

Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940 in Monroe, WA. His parent are Leslie Durward Close, and Mildred Wagner Close. In his earlier years when he was in school he had learning disabilities and back then they didn't have any ways for treating these disabilities. the disability he had was dyslexia. Because of his dyslexia his teach thought he couldn't learn or that he evan wanted to learn. Chuck would create these paintings and then he showed his

Charles Thomas ‘Chuck’ Close was born an only child in 1940 Monroe, Washington to parents that both held a sight for artistic endeavors. He is known to everyone outside of his family as ‘Chuck,’ a name he has always hated. It was in high school where he made attempts at individuation that he started referring to himself as Chuck. Only by an accidental dubbing taken place during an interview in 1968 that this stuck as his professional art name. His father passed away when Chuck was eleven forcing him and his mother to move homes for the fifth time by the age of twelve. Growing up, Close showed difficulty in his academics and social life which led to being tested and diagnosed with dyslexia. Out of his learning disability it became apparent that he suffered from another disability known as prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia is a condition in which he cannot recognize faces. He stated that “people I look at all look immediately familiar to me, but I have tremendous difficulty figuring out who it is and where I've seen them before. I never can memorize.” He developed his own system of memorizing by sensory deprivation and used art as a way to prove that he wasn't exaggerating his condition.

To compare a contemporary photographer with a historical photographer to see how photography has evolved and how it can be used?

He was born in Monroe Washington, on July 5. Chuck grew up with a condition on face blindness. He couldn’t remember faces that well, but when he drew it he could remember. Leslie Close and Mildred Close were his mother and father. He also had a brother named Martin Close. Close wasn’t very skilled in his core school classes, but he was good with his hands,

Memories can be as short-lived as the moments that created them. The recollection of events and the deterioration of memories over time is a constant process that cannot be stopped. This inevitable passing of memory is fused to the inevitable passing of human life. Emily Davis’s still life photograph of wineglasses is reflective and fragmented, allowing the image to act as a metaphor for this fleeting aspect of memory through its own memory-like qualities. The photograph is also symbolic of the transience of human life through the use of the traditional symbol of the wineglass, ultimately serving as memento mori.

There is not a term or word that can be used to define documentary photography. It can be ‘described as a form, a genre, a tradition, a style, a movement and a practice’ (Wells, 2009, p. 69). Documentary photography separates itself from photojournalism as it does not specifically cover breaking news or events, it is intended to draw attention to real-life situations, for example, focusing on a certain group of people or certain locations. The aim of documentary photography is to expose society naturally; it acts as a visual language. A photographer who does this in their work is Tony Ray-Jones.