Makes my hair stand up. Very heavy stuff.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFQnoMDFDAY&w=640&h=390] If some one finds a copy of this movie let me know. The only thing I could find really was a showing April 29 – Seattle – NW Film Forum.
Peter Dering from Peak Design has created a way to attach an SLR to any belt/strap with an easy release button. This saves having your camera dangle around your neck, requiring a hand to hold it in place. His invention seems like it would take a lot of getting used to, but it’s a pretty cool idea.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/23068544]
Hey if you have any great travel photos you should submit!
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/photo-contest/
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytJFyMHZl0] Here is a clip illustrating soviet montage. The basis of the idea is that you can juxtapose two seemingly unrelated images/scenes together to create emotion or meaning. I think it is interesting to look at photography in terms of early cinema (and even contemporary). I have always been interested in early soviet cinema. Dziga Vertov was a pioneer in Soviet film making and favored the “kino-eye,” the camera, over the human eye. He felt that the camera was an inncocent machine that recorded the environment without any biases–that it was an objective, more advanced extension of the human eye. Here is a quote from Dziga Vertov to his students.
Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.
—Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups, Dziga Vertov, 1926
Yet again here is another portrait from my trip across the U.S. documenting single people.
XoXo
-Cody M
A group of six WWU art students, including several photo students have formed Pigeon Vision, an artist collective, and will be hosting their very first show “Feed The Birds” this June!
What? http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127585523984196
Where? INSCAPE in Seattle
Who? Aimee Biggerstaff, Teresa Grasseschi, Megan Harmon, Tim Kenney, Adam McRae & Joe Rudko
When? June 2-30, with an opening June 2 5-9pm
Why?
Photo student Fiona Shearer was recently accepted into this year’s “Black and White” exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography. She will be featured in their show in Colorado!
check it out!! http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitors/2011BW/
Congrats Fiona!
Hey class,
Here is the photo I was talking about in class. The photographer watched and waited for the vulture to enter the frame to take this photo. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for this photo. A year later the photographer committed suicide. We can’t say why he did it, but I think its worth mentioning.
The debate this photo brings up is interesting. When taking photos what is your roll? Many people criticize the photographer for thinking about his work before saving a dying child’s life. But another thing to consider about the photo is what its saying and what its doing. We are brought in to a reality of third world country. Maybe this photo would strike empathy in most.
Let me know what you think.
-Cody Madison
