Monday, September 30, 2013
Chapter 7
As the last chapter of the book, the author explored several works of contemporary photographer, including magazines, advertisements, films and all other kinds of images. When we gathered all these work together, we will realize what to see, how to see and how to use feel the world and express our feelings through the images. In this chapter, author listed several photographers that neither did not recreate photography technology nor created photography files, but they gave us a brand new aspect of seeing history through photos.
On Photography by Susan Sontag
In on photography by Susan Sontag the author talks about how photography changed our perspective of what worse paying attention at and what is important. Photos are the world they do not not to be edited to show all the truth of the world. Even though photographers tied to reflex the reality as perfect as mirror, they still can not avoid the influence of personal preference and moral standard. However, images themselves do not have any moral stance, they could only help emphasize the scene people saw. These scene that people felt strongly emotional shocked will be reduce by time flies finally. Photography does not show that if we accept what is in the camera, we will understand the world but the opposite, after we have fully awareness of what’s going on, we are able to understand the image.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Project 3 Proposal
I alway believed that personal portray should not be limited the the person himself. In my part one of the project I was thinking of shooting the part of the body that could show a aspect of myself. Such as feet of a ballet dancer, hands of a painter, or muscle of an athlete. These are the parts that can directly tell people who they are at the first sight. Meanwhile in second part of this project I wanted to photo things that happened or produced because of my such as the mess in my bed, the organization on my shelf but not things that already exist that only have connection with me. I believed that what I made is more persuasive and unique on showing who I am.
Chapter 1 Reading Summary
Chapter 1 discussed different themes in photography through different photographers and there work. Some photographers use artificial performance to show a dramatical visual effect such as Jeanne Dunning and Tatsumi Orimoto. Some use the interaction between photographers and objects even sculptures for enforcing the portion of main character or object. Chinese artiest Ni Haifeng used human body and interaction between patterns and human body to inscribe culture and policy meaning which is also a novel function of expression. Also repetition was also a significant factor in photography. Repeating often transfers an idea of proof of something, therefore American photographer and poet Tim Davis used a lot of these technique to show the darkness of American suburban houses at night in his work. At last, the author introduced the usage of human gestures in photography, including hand gestures, facial gestures and other unexpected gestures that human body may explore during daily life.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Practices of Looking
The article showed six perspective of looking at a imagine. The six perspectives and there abstraction are listed below.
Representation: imagine is a strong tool for us to transmit information, instead of language, imagine can be more direct and detailed.
The myth of photographic truth: the history of imagine and the truth of photography is telling the truth and revealing the true-value of compensatory society
Image and Ideology: represent culture and aesthetic
The meaning of Imagine means that picture’s meaning varies by its usage
The value of imagine depends on economic and culture preference
The icon of imagine is what the imagine stands for outside itself, what symbolic meaning does it have to people.
Monday, September 9, 2013
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
The differences between Adobe Bridge and Adobe Lightroom
Bridge does not focus specifically on digital photographer, it contains various functions aims at different ares while Lightroom is designed by professional photographer and Adobe facing only and specifically to professional photographer.
Bridge is a control center towards multiple Adobe program while Lightroom itself can edit pictures on Raw format and output to Photoshop.
Bridge can only organize and control images on local disk however Lightroom support different data base for management and tracking.
Also, Bridge requires better configuration of computer and higher resolution rate of images.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
Reading Assignment
The introduction book “the photography as contemporary art” Briefly illustrated the structure of the whole book. The book was divided into seven categories and each of them explained a aspect in photography. All seven categories can be concluded in to three parts, which is design, storytelling, and aesthetic. The book also introduced the importance of emotions in photography, both photographer’s and character’s. At the end of the introduction author give few examples of remarkable photographer in cotemporary art and explained their great contribution in different areas. In the last paragraph, author stated the the recent tendence of photography which is the interest on historical photographer.
Assignment 1
It was a final project I finished in my Intro to Photography class last year. It was also my first professional work piece and my first time deal with black and white pictures and dark room. Same as most people, I was more familiar with digital camera and Photoshop technologies. The Intro class did teach me a lot about how important lighting and structures are in a qualified picture. When using digital cameras, photometer usually tells you if it is to bright or too dark and even if the photo itself was not well taken, we always have Photoshop and other software to save and edit. This picture was actually a double exposure. The first negative was a normal landscape and the second negative was a portrait of a skull. I spend a lot of time to coordinate the time of exposing both negatives and this one is definitely the most successful one. The inspiration of this project came from a filming skill, in most movies, when people is recalling something, the director always have a fade-in of the actor’s face and replace it with landscape of another story to show a different story line. That is why I named this picture memory. Personally, I will consider this picture as a great trail for myself on black and white photos and double exposure and I do hope I still have chance to work on this kind of technique in the future.
These photos come from a normal person on the Internet, she is not a professional photographer or artist but a regular person who has a camera and a lovely cat. Most of her work is about ordinary daily life with her cat. Her pictures might not be perfect with structure or lighting or other professional skills but it is important that she the consciousness of recording what happen in her daily life and always prepared for what is going to happen next. You can see from her pictures that there are many unexpected surprises, it seems like she id holding the camera all the time just to be prepared for the surprises. The thing that I admire most about she and her work is the idea of simpleness. In another word, she do represent all of us, unprofessional photographers, who does not have expensive equipments and skill or time to carefully edit the pictures. Since I might not be a professional photographer in the future, taking photos of daily life and everyday routine and being passionate about them could be a perfect option for me. I belive it is not the quality bur the idea the matters most in a outstanding work piece, at least as for me it does.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
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