#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.
If I were to think of a place from my past, it would be my old house. The house had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a fenced in yard. I have pictures of both the inside and outside of the house. For me, the house holds happy memories and sad memories. If I were to go back and photograph it today, it would look different because of changes and home improvements that the current owner has made. In addition to home improvements, they have their furniture, their pictures on the wall, and their decorations in the house that make the house different now from when I had it. I image that they might have even painted some of the rooms, since this is common change people make. Also, there might be children around the house or pets.
If I were to think of a place from my past, it would be my old house. The house had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a fenced in yard. I have pictures of both the inside and outside of the house. For me, the house holds happy memories and sad memories. If I were to go back and photograph it today, it would look different because of changes and home improvements that the current owner has made. In addition to home improvements, they have their furniture, their pictures on the wall, and their decorations in the house that make the house different now from when I had it. I image that they might have even painted some of the rooms, since this is common change people make. Also, there might be children around the house or pets.
#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?
I have had a lot of pictures taken of me over the years, but the photograph that I remember the most is a picture of me when I was a little kid. In the image, that my mom took, I am laying down with a blanket covering my body and only my head showing. The blanket was made for me by my mom and has an image of a teddy bear in the middle. She folded the blanket so that the teddy bear's head wasn't showing and laid it on me, so that my head matches up with the bear's body. I love the picture and I have happy thoughts when I think about the photograph and the times that I bonded with my mom. I have changed since the image was taken because I am an adult now and the place that the image was taken, my mom's house, has changed because of home improvements. Since I still have the blanket, I could try to do a recreation image. However, I think it would look funny because my legs would stick out of the bottom of the blanket.
I have had a lot of pictures taken of me over the years, but the photograph that I remember the most is a picture of me when I was a little kid. In the image, that my mom took, I am laying down with a blanket covering my body and only my head showing. The blanket was made for me by my mom and has an image of a teddy bear in the middle. She folded the blanket so that the teddy bear's head wasn't showing and laid it on me, so that my head matches up with the bear's body. I love the picture and I have happy thoughts when I think about the photograph and the times that I bonded with my mom. I have changed since the image was taken because I am an adult now and the place that the image was taken, my mom's house, has changed because of home improvements. Since I still have the blanket, I could try to do a recreation image. However, I think it would look funny because my legs would stick out of the bottom of the blanket.
#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.
There are many ways in which people interact with nature and the physical land. I have seen people writing in the sand or leaving their feet imprints in the sand. Also, I have seen people playing in leaves or throwing leaves into the air and watching them as they land back on the ground. I could document any of the above interactions in a photograph. An idea for a piece of "land art" that would be in a man-made landscape is to use common everyday objects to create a scene that looks like a nature scene.
There are many ways in which people interact with nature and the physical land. I have seen people writing in the sand or leaving their feet imprints in the sand. Also, I have seen people playing in leaves or throwing leaves into the air and watching them as they land back on the ground. I could document any of the above interactions in a photograph. An idea for a piece of "land art" that would be in a man-made landscape is to use common everyday objects to create a scene that looks like a nature scene.
#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?
If I wanted to show a difference between a familiar place and a faraway place, I could have people in the images. By adding people to the images, it would help the viewer understand that they are different places because of the way the people are dressed in each place. I can't think of any places that have been "touched" very little by humans. Photographs are taken by so many people, to document so many different things that it is hard to imagine a place that hasn't been documented.
#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.
Two important places I could collage are Baker College, where I received my business degree, and MSU, where I will be receiving my arts degree. My life has changed so much between the time that I received my business degree and the present at MSU. If I were to combine two or more images of these places, I would have the left side represent Baker and the right side represent MSU. I would try to combine them so that they looked like one building. Also, I would try to add myself into the image. On the left side, I would have my graduation cap and gown on and on the right side, I would have Spartan clothing on to represent the fact that I haven't graduated yet, but to show the viewer that I am still a student.
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