Past Present Future GLEN FOERD on the Delaware
PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE MEDIA ARTS STUDENTS AT
BENJAMIN RUSH
Front cover photo: Julia McCorry Back cover photo: Susanna Mercado
The Arts Academy at
Benjamin Rush & Glen Foerd on the Delaware Since October, 2014, students from my Media Arts class visited the Glen Foerd mansion equipped with cameras of all kinds, including mobile devices, DSLRs, and even some old-fashioned film cameras. Surrounded by the past and standing in the present, these young artists found fresh ways to see their environment. With each visit, they became more aware of objects and spaces previously overlooked. Some photographers were drawn primarily to the outdoors, finding hidden places where they could imagine a past, now overgrown. Others found quiet corners of rooms and simple spaces where light seemed to hang in the air like ghosts. Technically, photographs record information. In the art of photography, though the subject may be similar, the resulting photograph is as unique as the individual who took it. Edward Weston said, “Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas.� By using the past as their subject, these students are giving their ideas form, and in a way, showing us a vision of the future. -Louis Mazza, Media Arts Teacher
The Photographers Media Arts Students at The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush: Demetrius Banks Anthony Beltran Lauryn Breary David Casey Brittany Connor Alexa Delaney Marissa Donapel Katelyn Galiczynski Jeanette Gonzalez Joelle Guzman-Gonzalez Emily Hurwitz Rebecca Iannacone Michelle Johnson Jessica Kopchinski Michael Krauss
Heather Law Kevin Leese Tim McAndrews Matthew McCann Julia McCorry Adianez Mendez Susanna Mercado Elizabeth Merrigan Billy Perez Selena Pham Emily Pressman Tiara Sawyer Sandra Sebastian David Sistrunk Gabrielle Toska
*Production and editorial assistance by Brittany Connor
Contents: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LIGHT & SHADOW PATTERN & DETAIL
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Landscape
Emily Pressman, 2014
Emily Pressman, 2014
Emily Pressman, 2014
Emily Pressman, 2014
Emily Hurwitz, 2014
“ There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” -Ernst Haas
Emily Hurwitz, 2014
Susanna Mercado, 2015
Susanna Mercado, 2015
Susanna Mercado, 2015
Susanna Mercado, 2015
Kevin Leese, 2015
Kevin Leese, 2015
Selena Pham - 2015
“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes, but when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls� -Ted Grant
To me this quote means that when photographing in black and white the photo captures a deeper meaning and shows more of the detail than in color. So when you take the same photograph twice, but one in color and the other in black and white each of the two photos that has been taken can represent some different views on it. - Selena Pham
Selena Pham, 2015
Jessica Kopchinski, 2015
Jessica Kopchinski, 2015
Sandra Sebastian, 2015
Sandra Sebastian, 2015
Lauryn Brearey, 2015
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.� -Alfred Stieglitz
Lauryn Brearey, 2015
Rebecca Iannacone, 2015
Rebecca Iannacone, 2015
Brittany Connor, 2015
Brittany Connor 2015
Architecture
Susanna Mercado, 2014
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.�
-Dorothea Lange
The Glen Foerd Project has defined this quote for me, and taught me to fully conceptualize the idea of photography. There is so much history in this mansion, and my photographs have just become a part of it. I snapped different instances, which can never be recreated or experienced again...unless viewing my photos. It places you in my viewpoint. -Emily Hurwitz
Kevin Leese, 2015
Kevin Leese, 2015
Kevin Leese, 2015
Kevin Leese, 2015
Selena Pham - 2015
Selena Pham - 2015
Demetrius Banks, 2015
“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.� -David DuChemin
Demetrius Banks, 2015
Matthew McCann, 2015
Matthew McCann, 2015
Lauryn Brearey, 2015
Lauryn Brearey, 2015
Heather Law, 2015
Heather Law, 2015
Anthony Beltran, 2015
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Anthony Beltran, 2015
Not only are light and shadow significant to our everyday being, they are such beautiful aspects of existence. Different levels of light and shadow make things exist, but they also define, enhance, and glorify such simple things. Manipulating light and shadow can turn any individual being into a living work of art. Using certain light can highlight their more prominent features, and shadows can darken and enhance their hidden ones. Not many people take pride in wrinkles, or other lines in their skin, but I’m a witness to someone who’s cried over a picture that someone took of them, because they felt pleased with the amount of detail and definition that could be shown on their face; they were able to see things within their face that they themselves never had before. Utilizing light and shadow can make one person love another thing or being so much more than they already might. -Emily Pressman
Light & Shadow “Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.� -Leonardo da Vinci
Julia McCorry, 2014
Alexa Delaney, 2015
The light and shadows at the mansion are incredible. They allow an artist to experiment with such extreme mediums and perspectives and that is not something that you get to do often. -Alexa Delaney
Tiara Sawyer, 2015
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.� -Robert Frank
Every room at the Glen Foerd estate has a focal point of a window. Windows are said to be the symbols of essential life and light. The lights and darks contrast themselves to create a new, surreal feeling bringing forth the rich history and beauty the house and land has to offer Philadephia.
-Tiara Sawyer
Tiara Sawyer, 2015
Tiara Sawyer, 2015
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.� -Ansel Adams
Alexa Delaney, 2015
“Whether people tune in or not doesn’t change my best efforts or the quality of what I do, because when you make something for the sake of putting good out into the universe, the payback comes from a much more fulfilling place than any man made form of payment.” - Kat Von D
Susanna Mercado, 2015
Susanna Mercado, 2015
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” - Elliott Erwitt
Katelyn Galiczynski, 2014
Katelyn Galiczynski, 2014
Katelyn Galiczynski, 2014
Liz Merrigan, 2015
The dark spaces say the most. -Liz Merrigan
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” -Susan Sontag
Jessica Kopchinski, 2015
Being in such an old place, there is an unlimited amount of potential lurking within every aspect of the mansion. Instead of limiting myself to just the interior corners of the home, I decided to explore the outer regions.
Marissa Donapel, 2015
Though the mansion itself is a beautiful form of architexture, I find that nature often goes unnoticed. I wanted to capture the real beauty that we encounter on a daily basis. -Marissa Donapel
Marissa Donapel, 2015
“A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.� - Ansel Adams
What I think the quote is saying is that a really good picture will take your breath away. - Matthew McCann
Matthew McCann, 2014
Matthew McCann, 2014
Sandra Sebastian, 2015
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.� -Aristotle Onassis Sandra Sebastian, 2015
Adianez Mendez, 2015
“And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.� -John I picked this quote because I feel that it speaks of this sort of fleeting impossible relationship between darkness and light where they are eternally reaching for each other but never quite getting there. -Adianez Mendez
Adianez Mendez, 2015
Pattern & Detail
David Sistrunk, 2015
David Sistrunk, 2015
Julia McCorry, 2014
Julia McCorry, 2014
Photography doesn’t have boundries. There isn’t a word limit on a photo. -Liz Merrigan
Liz Merrigan, 2015
I never really know what to say. Words usually come out in jumbles or badly structured sentences. One thing I do know how to do though, is express things through art. My photography is voicing words that my brain can’t exactly put together.
During the adventures at Glen Foerd, my words were everywhere and had no exact meaning. They changed constantly but in the end, created a nice flow. It’s definitely different from what I started with, but turned out being even better. -Jeanette Gonzalez
Jeanette Gonzalez, 2015
Jeanette Gonzalez, 2015
Brittany Connor, 2015
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. - Elliott Erwitt
This Quote really stuck out to me because I feel like this is what Mr. Mazza has been trying to teach the class all year. -Brittany Connor
Brittany Connor, 2015
Michelle Johnson, 2015
“The camera has always been a guide, and it’s allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn’t even notice.” - Don Chadwick
Michelle Johnson, 2015
Michelle Johnson, 2015
I tried to take photos at angles that most people would never think about looking at. I think it shows a whole new way to view Glen Foerd’s beauty. -Michelle Johnson
Michelle Johnson, 2015
“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.� -Ernst Haas
Joelle Gonzalez, 2015
Joelle Gonzalez, 2015
Anthony Beltran, 2015