#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.
I'm thinking about the apartment I lived since I was born to my age of 11. I only have some pictures taken inside that apartment, in my home, but nopictures taken from outside. If I have a chance to go back there, I would take a photo of it from outside. I haven't go bak there for several years, so I don't know what is it look like now. There was a small yard in front of the building's entrace, where I always play with my friends when we were very young. There were some lilac trees and some other trees with yellow flowers which I don't know the name in that yard, so in my mind that yard was colorful and beautiful and full of the scent of lilacs. I was playing with my friends in that yard and my mother was calling me from our balcony on the third floor.
#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?
My graduation photo in elementary school is one of the most impressive photos in my memory. When I see that picture it reminds me many of the annecdotes happened when I was in elementary school, also I always want to call my classmates in elementary school after I see that picture. My elementary school has changed a lot by several times of rebuilt, the buildings looked totally different now. Also my classmates and me, after nearly ten years, changed a lot, too. So I would gather everyone again at the same place, make a photo with same people and same place in it, but has tota;lly diffenrent look.
#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 want to try use water to make some patterns. In order to show the contrast, I want to make a fire or flames pattern on the beach, not by colors, but just poor water on the sand to make that pattern. Water is one of the most flexible material I have ever seen, which is the most appropriate one for a piece of "land art" I guess.
#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?
When talking about a familiar place, I will imagine the places I had been before in my life. For the unknown place, I'm thinking about those places that all human beings are not familiar with. If I take a picture of the familiar place, I would make it clearly-focused and fully sharpened; for the unknown places, I will make the picture blured with slow shutter speed.
#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 your 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 will use slow shutter speed to present a sence of movement from past to now. So if I catch the place in the past with a figure in it use a slow shutter speed and then catch the same figure in a present place, and finally make them into a collage, it will show a movement from past to present.
#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
I can partly agree with this stateent. I guess photograghs should be provocative sometimes, but they also can be some normal pictures which include some unforgetable moments. They don;t have to be that provocative all the time.
“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals
This statement is definitely true. The probability of imagination is infinite, always. So we always have something new to explore with, which could make our life more interesting. That "new" things are more important and valuable.
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott
The statement is interesting because I have never think about this before. When the photo was being took, it is a catch of that moment, which represented the "present" of that time, so it is presenting the present. But when we look back from now to see that picture, it already become an old one which is representing the "past".
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