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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Szymon Roginski
Polish photographer Szymon Roginski and photographer Kasia Korzeniecka collaborated on this collection of photo sculptures used for the launch of fashion designer Ania Kuczynska’s 2009 spring/summer line. The photographs were constructed into three-dimensional shapes and rearranged to create a photograph out of those shapes.
Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milk.com/szymon-roginski/#ixzz1wa6qToid
Reversals portraits by JK Keller
Hong Sungchul
In a series of work entitled String Mirrors, South Korean artist Hong Sungchulcreates three-dimensional sculptures/photographs made of string. The pieces consist of hundreds of printed on elastic strings that when lined up together, display an image. The strings are strung on several rows giving the pieces varied depth that is both delicate and beautifully presented.
Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milk.com/hong-sungchul/#ixzz1wa5h0YKp
Gay Block
Gay Block pairs old and new photographs exploring the passage of time and how it changes us.
Reading Response: Deborah Bright
Deborah Bright reviewed the depiction of the American landscape. Whether noble, picturesque, sublime or mundane, the landscape image bears and intense and lasting cultural imprint. She explained the historical and social significance of the choices or an artist and how, whatever its aesthetic merits, every representation of landscape is also a record of human values and actions imposed on the land over time. I am really compelled by that because I think the things we create are deeply connected to our values whether we know it or not. Bright explained that beyond the personal level they reflect collect collective interests and influences, including political, economic, and social values. That is interesting because sometimes we are unaware of the plethora of influence that surround us daily.
It was interesting to read about the questions she posed about the types of ideologies landscape photographs explore. Who are they creating for? Why do we still make them? And why is it so masculine dominated?
Reading Response: Deborah Bright
Deborah Bright reviewed the depiction of the American landscape. Whether noble, picturesque, sublime or mundane, the landscape image bears and intense and lasting cultural imprint. She explained the historical and social significance of the choices or an artist and how, whatever its aesthetic merits, every representation of landscape is also a record of human values and actions imposed on the land over time. I am really compelled by that because I think the things we create are deeply connected to our values whether we know it or not. Bright explained that beyond the personal level they reflect collect collective interests and influences, including political, economic, and social values. That is interesting because sometimes we are unaware of the plethora of influence that surround us daily.
It was interesting to read about the questions she posed about the types of ideologies landscape photographs explore. Who are they creating for? Why do we still make them? And why is it so masculine dominated?
Reading Responses
Pg. 381-427
This section talked about digital manipulations. How to rescale and resize, adjust resolution, contrast and tone. It talked about how to adjust in in photoshop but also how to manipulate those things in the darkroom. It explained levels and curves. Digital and analogue burning and dodging. Color adjustments and hand coloring.
Reading Responses
Theory B: Part II
Text allows the viewer to question the authenticity that we automatically associate with photography. Photography us ysed in technicale writing as well. Conceptual art, speech. Words can also become the image.
Reading Responses
Theory B: Text and Image:
This part talked about how text and image are “connected but irreconcilable ways of delivering information.” Text adds voice, because as Duane Michals said we are story tellers not truth tellers which I think is a fascinating distinction, especially considering photography is often viewed as a realistic documentation means; it is seen as visual testimony. The question was posed, what is doing the illustrating? The image or the text? It also addressed photography in selling and marketing.