As you know the project is an analysis of places, things, phenomenons, etc. through photography.
An image and a photography in particular always fails to tell the truth (which is why it is such an interesting art form and such a manipulative weapon....). Thus you cannot be naive into thinking that it portrays reality.
But precisely because we know it, we can allow ourselves to be dupe... and push the medium to its limits.
Therefore
- every single picture has to be consciously composed
- blurs, traces of movement, extreme close-ups, phenomenons only visible by using photography, ... , are greatly encouraged
- photographs which are lying about the subject they pretend to capture are also much welcomed
- you have to decide on appropriate lens, lighting, position, angle of view, etc. and detail it on your presentation
and...
- the diagrams have to take this fact into account - they have to talk about the photo also and not only about the subject taken (the diagrams are very important in this exercise and you are completely free to develop your own language according to your skills, the theme you are working on and the words you chose so please start developing this language now and post your attempts on the blog for comments
- as much as you can make up your own words for elements and principles (the words could be found, or invented, or made up form 2 or more existing words...) and define them YOURSELF (no dictionary definition). Be creative and rigorous in this process.
For the final presentation, you will have to present the process of finding your theme/idea, developing your photographic experiments and translation into diagrams.
Bring your A0 on Monday.
ps :
a reference for those working on inventories... (and a beautiful reference in general)
the photographic work of Bernd and Hilla Becher
water towers
gravelplants
tall furnaces
and an interesting revisit of their work by artist Idris Khan
(superposition of all images from a series)
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