ART 340 - Photography : 2015

The conceptual basis of my work for this final project will be taking simplicity and turning it into chaos. In order to represent this, I will be taking a simple to-the-point photo, and creating two prints. After that point, I will cut the photos in a way that allows me to place them in overlap with each other to show the simple photo in a different chaotic light. The artist that somewhat inspired me to do this was Julie Cockburn - she manipulates portraits in ways that represent many meanings. This project will be a challenge because I’d like to recreate this idea from a variety of simple photographs, and figure out the best way to overlap the photos. My final vision is to have the photos printed as 8.5X11s and on luster paper.

Chapter 9 Notes – Looking at Others

- Mel Bochner cared more about how we use photography to conceptualize our lives
- More about analysis than the medium
- How the photographs are used to make meanings
- ‘The photograph is a lie’ ~ Carl Andre
- Art is meant to be a direct experience
- Has to be looked at from many perspectives
- Huebler saw that people get self-conscious when looking into a camera but this can be helped by telling them they’re beautiful
- Camera can be used as a ‘duplicating devise’
- Different versions of reality
- The title/text can relate an image to a particular reading
- Thinking can be more crucial than the photograph
- Both a critique of representation and a critique of vision
- Colour – for holiday snapshots while black/white – art photography
- ‘Narrative art’ – expresses emotions and sets off thinking
- Advertising – shows myths and ideology of our society
- Desire = a sense of lacking
- Consciousness = the space we create around ourselves
- Photography relates to the unreal of realism