confidence it would make my parents proud. However, one day in photography sophomore year, I reconnected with a friend from middle school, who introduced me to two of her other friends. The four of us stuck together, whether it be in class or outside of class. As time passed in photography, all of us spent an abundance of time in the dark room in order to get our assignments done. During our time in the dark room, the smell of photography chemicals surrounding us, my friends would talk about serious
For my personal study, I have chosen to compare and contrast the art work of two photographers linked to my explorations of the theme of Identity in my sketchbook. I am determining identity in terms of dark, ghastly and celestial aesthetics and with a specific focus on the idea of whether an individual's identity is socially-constructed, or pre-determined and engraved in one's soul which always retains - unlike the socially conceived idea of identity which eventually ceases to exist as death takes
art is to ape or faithfully copy and represent, nature or art imitates art. He believed that photography is essentially predisposed to the social functions that have been conferred upon it. The social uses of photography, presented as a systematic selection from objectively possible uses, define the social meaning of photography at the same time as they are defined by it (Bourdieu 1990). As much as photography is a form of realism and objectivity, it seems to be less realistic when what is framed is
materialize the intimate relationship between our body/mind and the arts. Some of the situated questions we will raise are, for example: What aesthetic principles underlie and inform our practices? How do we see the boundaries between Design, Art, Photography and our lives? What is our relation to light, darkness, and color? How do we acknowledge our construction of reality through our senses and lenses? Through diverse subjects centered around Body / Mind (self-portrait, the bare body, a surreal moment
primary factor that contributes to making a documentary comes from capturing the lives of real people. Rather than imagining a narrative like fiction films, documentaries find real narratives, ones that come from the world everyone resides in. They can focus on current events, past ones, or both, any one can be formed to shape the narrative of a documentary. While a narrative is important to any piece of film, when it comes to this genre, making a statement and informing those who watch it is essential
mode of narration that became popular as an alternative model during the decline of Hollywood dominance. According to Hayward, the term – art cinema, ‘refers predominantly to a certain type of European cinema that is experimental in technique and narrative’ (2013: 23). Hayward also outlines art cinema as ‘Second Cinema (European art cinema and the cinema of the auteurs)’ (Hayward 2013: 383), which incorporates various issues that were faced by post-war European countries. Although art cinemas share
as it were, eyewitnesses ourselves. However, a witness's objectivity can easily be questioned. One needs only to point out the infamous human factor: individual memory aberrations, post-traumatic effects, self-interest and other manifestations of personal emotions. In view of this, different mechanisms of justification of
reveal to the audience their experiences of self-transformation and change. Both films are instigated by the progression of the protagonists’ fundamental relationship with the territory that they traverse. However, regardless of the distinctive narrative significance in both Indochine and The Motorcycle Diaries, the characters remain within a controlled and bounded space in their influence, meaningful only in relation to that of the travelers, with their movement curtailed and with limited opportunity
whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.” A museum holds the identity of the people, and their history, it is important for us to appreciate them. For this paper I chose to write about my personal favorite museum, it is also the largest museum in London: the Victoria & Albert museum. I will discuss the history of the museum as well as its purpose and role in today’s society. The Victoria and Albert Museum is located in central London, United
Pikes Peak, Colorado Spring, Colorado by Robert Adams depicts the conquered land that was once part of the frontier myth. This frontier myth made us believe in the unlimited land and opportunities that awaited us in the West. More importantly, the myth told us that it was our duty and destiny to make this land our own. Paintings of westward expansion, like Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1861) by Emanuel Leutze, depicts settlers constantly moving forward, expanding and conquering the