Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Photograph as Contemporary Art Chapters 7-8

Revived and Remade

I enjoyed this chapter because I feel like the photos had a lot of style to them. There are different types of cultures being presented from all over the world and I think it's interesting to see how photographers show their idea of beauty and how they differ from different photographers and different era's as well. I really enjoyed Joachim Schmid's No. 460, Rio de Janeiro on p. 212. The subject is lying on the floor with little clothing on, possibly posing. The photograph was actually found by Joachim either lost or thrown away on the streets, the photograph is cut up into four pieces. The personal life of this woman and whoever originally took the photo is unknown but we can assume the subject being deleted from someones life.

Physical and Material

This chapter focuses on actual objects however they give a digital or unrealistic feel to them. I like how creative these photo's are. It feels as if the objects or subjects are a piece of art and they're painted on the canvas. I like how some of these photo's did use Photoshop or some sort of photo editor to make their photo's look unrealistic. It adds something new to the book and I personally enjoyed it because it goes back to the technology aspect of things and ties into what we are doing now which is using Photoshop in the three photos we took to create a composite.

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