I was watching this video, and it made me really start thinking about how easy it is to record information with the cameras that we have available to us in this day and time. It hit home with what we've talked about in class.
http://www.mymorningjacket.com/gogo/video/
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
JC
(Jessica was having trouble posting this, so here is her question.)
Most of us, while we have all spent a lot of time the darkroom, have not printed in traditional color format. The book addresses (P.305) the digitalizing of image making and the false innocence that follows. If each of you were asked to print in traditional color format would you choose different sorts of color assignments to pursue or would you continue with your original subject matter because the end result is still a two dimensional print? Also do you view traditional printing processes differently than inkjet printing (or images captured in digital format) and personally does it affect your overall view of the aura of the work?
Most of us, while we have all spent a lot of time the darkroom, have not printed in traditional color format. The book addresses (P.305) the digitalizing of image making and the false innocence that follows. If each of you were asked to print in traditional color format would you choose different sorts of color assignments to pursue or would you continue with your original subject matter because the end result is still a two dimensional print? Also do you view traditional printing processes differently than inkjet printing (or images captured in digital format) and personally does it affect your overall view of the aura of the work?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Chapter 7
"The new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form" (Ritchin)
Do you think this notion has already been solidified in how photography is viewed today? Does the truth even matter anymore?
It seems like people are becoming more passive about images that are altered, looking though a magazine one might say, "that's so photoshopped!" (now that I think about it, I hear this all the time) but people continue reading fashion/celebrity pollution*. What does this say about the society we live in? altered images find their way into "news" publications more frequently now, while most are caught, do you think there will be a time when these things commonly pass under-the-radar and are just accepted as fact?
* sorry?
And an additional sorry for being really bad at this.
And just because:
Do you think this notion has already been solidified in how photography is viewed today? Does the truth even matter anymore?
It seems like people are becoming more passive about images that are altered, looking though a magazine one might say, "that's so photoshopped!" (now that I think about it, I hear this all the time) but people continue reading fashion/celebrity pollution*. What does this say about the society we live in? altered images find their way into "news" publications more frequently now, while most are caught, do you think there will be a time when these things commonly pass under-the-radar and are just accepted as fact?
* sorry?
And an additional sorry for being really bad at this.
And just because:
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