Cannot believe that this is the last class! So excited to see what everyone has created and stories to tell
1. Photos on conflict and in my case clutter
2. Picking out my first potential photo for the photo essay, and was definitely used\
3. Some of the GIFS made for our final project
4. Final Photo Essay- MY PEOPLE
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When looking through all of the pictures I tend to take, I noticed that they are of my friends doing our favorite activities–eating, drinking, skiing, etc. My people are who I spend my time with and who I share … Continue reading
I live this picture that I took of my two friends after a spring ski trip. It was only the three of us and I wanted to take a picture I them being themselves. Even though I was behind the camera you can still see me in one of their goggles.
Diane Arbus and “The Boy with a Toy Grenade in Central Park”
Diane Arbus’ method of photography was very interesting to learn about. Her photographs are all in black and white and all of people. I liked how the film used narration of Diane’s actual words over her photographs.
For a while I could not see the pattern in her photography. I thought that she was just taking pictures of people with interesting looks. But then it was revealed that she was purposefully taking photographs of people that society tends to look away from–the freaks, cripples, disfigured, old, etc. Her choice to direct her lens at these people who do not get direct eye contact on the street was heart warming. I like the idea of using a camera to make other people see what they otherwise refuse to. With her photographs she gave these people a moment of attention and a lifetime of notoriety as one of her subjects. Her thoughts on the lives of “freaks” gave a better insight as to whys she sought them as subjects for her photographs. Her notion that they were born with trauma, yes the rest of us have to experience it later in life makes sense. They have to grow up and live with something, something that she wished to photograph.
Diane Argus felt deeply for subjects, and these deep feelings as well as her own may have led to her death. However without her connections to her subjects, her photographs may have not been the same.
This week we learned A LOT of new things, but I really loved the GIF making
1. But we also learned Photoshop, which has a HUGE Learning curve. but I’ll take any sort of practice on it that I can take. We made minimalist posters, I really loved my Party Down one
2. Reading the short story Jon was weird, and I did not understand the connection to gifs until we discussed it in class. We can get closer to a pure communication through shared experiences. GIFs and facial expressions are a part of that ability to share an experience.
3. MAKING GIFS.. high fives for all
4. Daily Shoots! I took every one of of my pictures using my phone, than edited and manipulated them using various apps
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