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Allana Taranto earned her
Masters in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art, and holds a
Bachelors degree in Photography and Media Studies from Hampshire College. She
spent several years teaching studio art in the Boston Public Schools. In
Holyoke, Massachusetts, she worked as program director for Positive Development,
an after school photography program for at-risk youth. Allana also was a
teaching artist through the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The San Diego
Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She created and
implemented exhibition-based curriculum used in public schools in San Diego. In
2006 and 2007, Allana was a California Arts Council Grant recipient. Allana's
wedding photography has been published in Destination I Do, Exquisite Weddings,
Palm Springs Life, Vintage Indie, So Your Engayged and The Knot.
Ars Magna is house at AD Hoc
Boston, a creative co-working studio for professionals to work, collaborate, and
host community events.
The name ‘Ars Magna’ is a nod to my six years at Boston Latin School, where I
translated various war diaries and epic poems of love .
For the verbivores among you, Ars Magna is also an anagram of anagrams.
Does it really all come down to what is aesthetically pleasing to the human eye? How do we know what is pleasing? Isn’t that just a little subjective? Oh, this rule of thirds, you say?
Read the rest »Part of all this composing an image means dealing with the lines, shapes, color and of course negative and positive shapes and space that we see. And we all start with this rectangular space/shape we look through – the frame.
Read the rest »All surfaces have texture. In photography it’s not the literal surface of the monitor or the print , of course. But the visual or implied texture. When we look we imagine the sensation, our brains translate we are seeing into the feel of a surface.
Read the rest »We see in colors (well most of us do). Know how colors behave, and how to use them to your advantage.
Read the rest »What we are looking at is not necessarily what we are seeing. Really. There is a difference between what are are looking at and what we are seeing. What we are looking at shapes how we see.
Read the rest »And we begin with Lines. Lines have length and breadth and importantly – direction.
Read the rest »Using visual thinking is about getting better images – not through post-processing, not with new gear, or more lighting equipment. It’s about learning to look and being self-aware so we can identify and clarify our own unique point of view.
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May 7th, 2012"...In the end it's the pictures that matter, not the equipment you used to capture them."[...] Read the rest »
