Blog Prompt 3

#11____Memory of a Place: Try to imagine a place from your past. Do you have pictures of this place? Describe this place as you remember it. What might a photograph look like of this place if you were to go back and photograph it? What would it look like in the past? What would it look like to you today? Where are you standing in this place? What other items are in this place? What colors do you see? Are there other people or are you alone? Make a “written photograph” of this place using words/description.

• The place in which I am remembering only has a few photographs of it. Nothing remains the same from the photograph to today. There would be different furniture, paint, and considerable aging.  I am standing in the same place in which I stood in the photograph. The people have clearly aged. I have aged, the scene, aside from paint and furniture, has stayed the same. I am in a dining room with my parents.

#12____Memory of a Photograph: Which photograph from your past do you remember most? Describe this photograph. Describe how it makes you feel when you remember/think about this photograph. How have you changed? How has the place in this photograph changed? What would a reenactment of this photograph look like? Would you act or look differently if you reenacted this scene today?

• The photograph that I remember the most is one were I am holding my younger sister (by 14 mos). I am 2 in the photography, she 6 months.  We are on a carpeted floor during christmas. This image reminds me of the strong bond between one older brother and one younger sister. The place no longer exists, and for me to recreate this photo would consist of me now 21 holding my 20 year old sister, would be rather challenging. The photograph if done correctly would be interesting to see. Personally, I would be as contemporary as possible in the representation of our styles, and yet as historic as possible in the background.

#13____Human-Made Space: In the past, photographers who were interested in how humans impacted the natural landscape grouped together to form the New Topographics. “"New Topographics" signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field.”http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibTopo.aspx

In addition, at the same time in history artists created (and still do create) “land art” in which they use materials found in the landscape to make sculptures that remain in the landscape. Many of these works now only exist as video recordings and photographic documents.

Pay attention to the number of ways in which you encounter humans’ interaction with nature and the physical land. Write these down. Using these as inspiration, describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might create that would be documented by a photograph. Describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might make in a man-made landscape that would be documented by a photograph. 

• I would place twigs in the ground in a manner resemebling that of a tree and lay down behind them to slightly see my face with the camera on the ground to ground perspective. behind more trees, naturally!

#14____Unknown vs. Familiar Space: When photography was invented, it became a way to document and reveal the specific aspects of both familiar and faraway places. Imagine a familiar place. Imagine a faraway place. How would you use photographs to convey the difference? Can you imagine any places that have been “touched” very little by humans? How might you photograph them?

• Take a double exposure photograph of two doors and framing the doors in the center and the facade around it, so the two exposures have overlapping doors. I think if you are to take pictures of a place that is largely left untouched by humans, I would go about it by taking a landscape style pictures, A way in which you can capture the  place/scenery as is. With little to no human presence. 

#15____In-Camera Collage: Collage brings together two or more items that were previously separate. The resulting piece usually visually references the fact that they were once separate entities. Imagine an important place in you r past. Imagine an important place in your present. Imagine who you were in both of these past and present places. Describe how you might use a slow shutter speed and/or double exposure to capture two moments in one image that tell a new narrative about these important places and how they relate to who you are and were.
  

• I would take several pictures of the same exact framed focal area from different perspectives. Keeping the center as the center but yet from different perspectives. The doors would be  a door which I regularly enter, while the other being a door that i regularly exit.

#16, 17, & 18 Please respond to three of the following quotes.

“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” Duane Michals

• With this quote I agree to a certain extent. I think that if you are trying to capture the person for who they are or as the image is then yes. However, if you are purposefully trying to display the subject in a different manner or in a certain concept, then you can change characteristics to suit your needs. However, the base still remains the subject.

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals

• I am a very curious person. I am always driven by not knowing. I hate not knowing. This drive I believe helps my imagination. My imagination is always working, making a reality for me. I know what I can see and that bores me.

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.” ~Ansel Adams

• Landscape photography is so hard. You have so much to manage when taking a photograph of landscapes. Space, Lighting, Demension, Porportion, Framing, Detail, etc. You have to fight it being a cliche, you have to work with the perspective and how to make it unique.

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott