Upload File

1.looking at photographs - the self · looking at photographs “photography is a system of visual...

  • Home
  • Documents
  • 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
36
Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.” - John Szarkowski, photography curator at MOMA

Upload: others

Post on 14-Oct-2020

1 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

Report

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

LookingatPhotographs

“Photographyisasystemofvisualediting.Atbottom,itisamatterofsurroundingwithaframeaportionofone’sconeofvision,whilestandingintherightplaceattherighttime.Likechess,orwriting,itisamatterofchoosingfromamonggivenpossibilities,butinthecaseofphotographythenumberofpossibilitiesisnotfinitebutinfinite.”

- JohnSzarkowski,photographycuratoratMOMA

Page 2: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 3: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 4: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

“Thisrecognition,inreallife,ofarhythmofsurfaces,lines,andvaluesisformetheessenceofphotography;compositionshouldbeaconstantofpreoccupation,beingasimultaneouscoalition– anorganiccoordinationofvisualelements.”

HenriCartier-Bresson

Page 5: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

Nomatterhowyouapproachit,beopentotheunexpected,becurious,askquestions,whenyougettheanswer,it’stimetoasknewquestions.

Page 6: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

Itisamergingofideas,lifeexperiences,education,culture,politics,morals,memories,… history

Page 7: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

• Photographscreatemeaningandcanhaveatransformativeaspectinitshistorical,politicalandsocialcontext.

• Iwantyoutounderstandphotographyasameanofcommunicationthatarticulatesideas,memories,desires,etc.inyourownindividualprism.

• Photographyisavisuallanguageandweneedtoacquireavisualvocabulary.

• Wereadimagerylikewereadatext.Thislectureisaboutidentifyingwaysofreadingandinterpretingphotos,makingimagerymoreinteresting.

Page 8: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

RobertMapplethorpe(1946-1989)Self-Portrait,1988

HowtoreadaPhotograph- Itmighthelptoarticulatewhatisinthepictureandhowitisputtogethertechnically

- Oftenwordswillleadyoutoaninterpretation

Page 9: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ArnoMinkkinen (b.1946) DuaneMichals (b.1932)Narragansett,RhodeIsland,1973 TheIlluminatedMan,1968

Composition- Whatisexcludedissometimesasimportantaswhatis

included- Agoodcompositionoftenmakesitapparentastowhyapicturewastaken(e.g.leadinglinestothemainsubject

matter,depthoffield,focus,light)

Page 10: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

RobertMapplethorpe(1946-1989)GregoryHines,1985Self-Portrait,1985

TechnicalChoices- Technicalchoicesmadebythephotographeroftenhelpyou

understandhis/herintentions- Thesametechnicalapproachmightnotnecessarilymean

thesamething

Page 11: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ChristianVogt(b.1946), FrameSeries,1975-76

“Maketheinvisiblevisible”- ChristianVogt

Page 12: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 13: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 14: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ChristianVogt(b.1946),FrameSeries,1975-76

Page 15: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ChristianVogt(b.1946),FrameSeries,1975-76

Page 16: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ChristianVogt(b.1946),FrameSeries,1975-76

Page 17: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ChristianVogt(b.1946),FrameSeries,1975-76

Page 18: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ChristianVogt(b.1946),FrameSeries,1975-76

Page 19: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

ContextofTime

Page 20: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

AlfredEisenstaedt(1898-1995)V-JDayinTimesSquare, August14,1945

Page 21: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

RichardAvedon(1923-2004)WilliamBurroughs,NewYork, CarolCrittendon,bartender,July9,1975Butte,Montana,July1,1981

Page 22: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

Canwereadthesameimagedifferently?

Page 23: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

EdwardWeston(1886-1958),Pepper(No.30),1930

Page 24: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

“Itisaclassic,completelysatisfying,–apepper– butmorethanapepper:abstract,inthatitiscompletelyoutsidesubjectmatter. Ithasnopsychologicalattributes,nohumanemotionsarearoused:thisnewpeppertakesonebeyondtheworldweknowintheconsciousmind.“

“[I]tisdisgustandwearinessoverhavingmyworklabeledandpigeonholedbythosewhobringtoittheirownobviouslyabnormal,frustratedcondition:thesexuallyunemployedbelchinggaseousirrelevanciesfromanundigestedFreudianferment.”

- EdwardWeston

Page 25: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

AlfredStieglitz(1864–1946) MitchDobrownerEquivalent,1929 Rainshafts,2017

Page 26: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

BadExamplesofBlogWriting

Page 27: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 28: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 29: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 30: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

GoodExamplesofBlogWriting

Page 31: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 32: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s
Page 33: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

Howtomakeadifference?

Thinkdifferently,bebold,gotoplacesyouhaven’tgone,beinnovative,experiment,expressyourselfinyourownvisuallanguage,knowthehistoryofphotography,

Thereisalwaysadifferentwaytophotographthefamiliarsubjectmatter.

Page 34: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

WilliamMarxperformsJohnCage’s 4’33” (1952)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4

Page 35: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

10Thingsthatrequirenophotographictalent

beingontimeworkethiceffort

bodylanguageenergyattitudepassion

beingrespectfulfollowdeadlines

cometoeachclassprepared

Page 36: 1.Looking at Photographs - THE SELF · Looking at Photographs “Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s

StrategiesforEssayWriting

“Acommonstructuralflawincollegeessaysisthe"walk-through"(alsolabeled"summary"or"description").Walk-throughessaysfollowthestructureoftheirsourcesratherthanestablishingtheirown.Suchessaysgenerallyhaveadescriptivethesisratherthananargumentativeone.”

Source:https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/essay-structure


Model Engineering Association of New Zealand Incorporated. … · 2018. 5. 2. · 5 NATIONAL MODEL ENGINEERING CONVENTION NELSON JANUARY 2018. From looking at all the photographs

25 Years at Gleneagles: Looking back & looking forward

Part One. Looking At The Looking At The Misuse Of Scripture

Wash your hands - Alain Elkann Interviews€¦ · Wash your hands By Alain Elkann He sat at his desk looking at the framed photographs before him: his father, his grandmother, his

Looking Back at 2016 ... Looking Ahead to 2017

AUTHOR Mead, James V. TITLE - ERIC · AUTHOR Mead, James V. TITLE Looking at Old Photographs: ... My story about my great-grandmother formed an unfinished propositional bridge not

Historic photographs of timber treatment works at Martin

Looking at Movies - WalkaboutLA.orgwalkaboutla.org/robfilm2/What_is_a_Movie_files/Looking At Movies.pdf · Looking at Movies From the text by Richard Barsam. In this presentation:

Looking at Pictures - roystonphotographicsociety.co.ukroystonphotographicsociety.co.uk/.../03/Royston-PS-Looking-at-pictures.… · John Szarkowski 1973 . Looking at Photographs 2

A Directory to Photographs at Harvard - Library Preservation at

Seeing Photographs - WordPress.com · Seeing Photographs Light As photography utilizes light-sensitive materials, whether analog or digital, the ... Looking up at a subject can make

UFO PHOTOGRAPHS: PORTRAITS OF A MYTH? · 2013. 2. 1. · Shortly after noon, August 3, 1965, Rex Heflin, a highway traffic inspector, took 3 photographs of a metallic-looking disc,

APPENDIX A PHOTOGRAPHS OF PROJECT … Palacios Creek Site Photographs Sheet 1 of 6 Photo 1: Looking at the Business 59 bridge, facing northwest near the northern extent of the project

Stargazers...Materials for Star constellations. Immersion day - looking at objects/photographs/pictures related to the space race — discussion Watch live footage from NASA …

Looking forward at

Searching for the right feelings: Emotional metadata …...– photographs, videos, music (Rasmussen Neal, 2012) – “matter and energy” (Bates, 2006) • “Looking at us as a

Looking at You

Looking at Music

Jacques Lowe - People (Looking at Photographs)

west view Zeitlin at 75-looking back · - west view Jake Zeitlin at 75-looking back Text by Ward Ritchie, Photographs by Amanda Blanco "For half a century, while Los Angeks indulged

Stanley Kubrick’s Stunning Early Photographs on Display at

Taos Pueblo Photographs at Harwood

LSP at 50: Looking back, looking forward · LSP at 50: Looking back, looking ... Research into language use should be descriptive, looking at what kind of language is used in particular

ArtsECO Fellows Joelle Worm, Directoruwm.edu/.../71/...2017-Fellows-Lesson-Griepentrog1.pdf · Teacher instruction: While looking at photographs by our artist, Alicia Ruis, I will

Looking at

“Here’s looking at you, kid.” Detecting people looking at ... · “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Detecting people looking at each other in videos. Manuel J. Marín-Jiménez

A Directory to Photographs at Harvard

The Great Wall of China Looking Beyond the Pictures: Analyzing Photographs

Looking at CLIL

Lens Work Editor’s Comments · Photography; John Szarkowski’s Looking at Photographs; and that great series of books by Lustrum Press, to name a few. Technical manuals (Adams,

HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD INDEX TO PHOTOGRAPHS€¦ · index to photographs page 6 pa-635-53 dam segment 1, view looking west across water quality gate bay from top of

Information and Filing Standard - Internal Revenue Servicethis publication on pages that would otherwise be blank. You can help bring these children home by looking at the photographs

photographs by Maria D. Minor 1 Looking at the Thai ... at the Thai Wedding Industry photographs by Maria D. Minor. ... Thailand around the turn of the 20th century during the reign

You are looking at DNA. You are still looking at DNA

Looking at Class Through the Looking Glass