Cindy Sherman
Option 1:
Choose a photograph from the film or from your chapter on Camera Arts. Write a reflection about that photograph to present at the beginning of class next week.
Option 2:
Choose a personal family photograph from your past and write a short autobiographical story about your memory of that moment.
10 comments:
A photograph that really struck me is the one where a vietanmese officer holds a gun to the head of a vietanmese prisoner. I've seen this picture over a dozen times in my lifetime and I feel the same hopeless feeling every time I see it. In my mind, I try to imagine what he must be thinking and also wished I understood what the real situation was. I couldn't imagine seeing somebody get shot at such a close range. Black and white pictures always stick with me more thatn color photos. I get to appreciate it for what it is without being distracted by the clors, just shadows for contrast. In this case, it adds more drama and fierceness to the photo. I can understand how that photo effected peoples' feelings about the war.
http://www.kameraklub.co.za/digitza/digimages/ICON_Viet_Cong_Exi.jpg
Charles Sheeler
Criss-Crossed Conveyors – Ford Plant, 1927
I chose the picture taken by Charles Sheeler called “Criss-Crossed Conveyor”. I really enjoy the overall composition of this picture. This picture was created in celebration of the overwhelming industry that was blooming over recent times. I like how he took something that is so ordinary and make it look so stunning. He makes this factory look so much more than a factory. It almost seems to look like the Emerald City in the wizard of Oz. I really enjoy the look and feel of this picture. Just by looking at this picture you can tell that it’s an artistic picture and not an amateur one.
Sean McCreary
Media Arts and Animation
I'm gonna talk about one of my family portraits!
http://avzurita.com/images/random/zurita.png
In this photo, I'm the one on the far right.
My memory of this photo is pretty vague actually. I was 3 years old, we were living in Texas at this time. I have no idea why I'm making such a terrible face. I remember getting ready and going to Sears (pretty sure) and waiting around a lot. I was climbing all over these little block things that they had in the waiting room. I don't recall the moment the picture was taken, just afterward when I was glad to be going back home and changing out of that dress.
From what my mother told me when she sent me this picture, it was taken in September 1989 in Texas, right before we had to move to Michigan to live with her parents. My mother is ashamed of her hair, "Everyday in the 80's was a bad hair day"
A note, my father had separated from my mother just under a year before this picture in Germany. I think we all look a bit happy strangely enough.
Alecia Zurita
Media Arts and Animation
I chose a photograph of my family not including me. For as long as i can remember this picture has always been on the wall in my house. It is my grandfather, grandmother my mom on the left, uncle in the middle, and my aunt on the right. I never met my grandmother or my aunt, and that is why this photo is special. I thought it caught the feeling and emotion at that point in time. The struggle, love, hard work and love for family. The picture is dated back to 1956 in Brooklyn New York.
Matt Wilder
Graphic Design
The photograph that I have selected is one of my bother and I, it is the oldest photo of us together that I have because most of our things were distroyed in a house fire many years ago. I received the photo from my grand mother. I have learned to embrace photography because of how much truth it captures but most of all because of the memories that photos hold...lyrics to a song say "memories don't live like people do, they always remember you..." And if all that people have to remember me is a photo, I hope it's a good on. Photography is an amazing art that will be aoud forever!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/stringlessspy/family.jpg
I chose to discuss this family photo of my father and I, basically because I only remember parts of this trip to disney world. I know that I was three years old and Disney is a place that you bring your child. This trip should have been monumental to my childhood, but I only have one memory of this trip. I slightly remember riding the "Its a small world" ride for a breif second. Then I also have this one photo. This photo sums up the extent of my trip to disney world. Its all I have to remember what should have been a monumental trip. It makes you realize how many events that you go through and you forget throught life. Makes you appriciate photography.
I chose this picture of me and my husband on our wedding day because it was the favorite day so far. I remember feeling extremely excited and anxious, I was nervous, and very emotional. I think I went through more emotions that day than any other day in my life up to this point, and I will always remember it as a beautiful day. Everytime I look at this picture, I am reminded of the reasons I married John, and our beautiful love.
Here is a direct link to it:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2045558&id=209501476&saved#/photo.php?pid=31169166&id=209501476
Diana Gazabon
Interior Design
The picture I chose was that of a group of children that are risking their lives or just about nothing. This image is a real in your face reality type of picture. There is no hiding or denying the truth. This picture was very shocking to me before I read about it. And when I found out that these children are only 5 thru 10 ( YES ! FIVE YEARS OLD) I wanted to die. They are working in a Battery Factory in Bangladesh. They don’t go to school because they work about 50 hours a week in the Factory. These children are working for 1 Euro a WEEK! (That is $1.45) These children are caked in toxic black soot, its in their lungs, poisoning them and, at the end of the day, they will wash in one of the world's most polluted rivers. This is CRAZY TO BELIEVE !!!
http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/sm3/sep2007/3/1/E9CE3A62-D0E3-99CE-0BDAA240747E46E5.jpg
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