Feedly Response #10

I chose to respond to the blog titled Love, Lust, and Loss: A Photographic Memoir of the 80's. I first thought that the title including love, lust and loss was so broad and covered just about anything but at the same time it is basically all inclusive and are topics that can connect a large amount of people, which appears a goal of the photographers. The photographer mentions wanting to capture moments of humanity while being able to completely ignore society and the institutions that were created about society that causes the separation between each. I read as though the main goal of was to photograph the realness of the 80's and what was happening but also what came of that, the good or bad didn't matter it was just the truth.

I think that this was very accurately captured in the photographs. I think the black and white gives the appeal to a sense of reality and the truth, very similar to something I am trying to capture in my own work which kept my attention the more I looked at this. All kinds of people from different, cliques, backgrounds, areas or society and essentially any other differential label is included, which gives this a reality of the 80's. I think the title is perfect because no matter what is being photographed it is very true that love, list and loss is a huge connector for what is being displayed. There is so much happening in these works that hold so much content that you simply can't just look at them for a few seconds and move on. The photographer did a great job at being able to entice the viewer in the photographs which would essentially make them think further about what he wanted to get across.


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Work-in-Progress #4

Since the last critique I have decided that I really like the portrait photos in the black and white rather that in color. Having the black and white portrait in comparison to the color photo of the tattoo I think gives it a feel that I really like. The portrait gives a documentary, rawness, very real type feel with the tattoo in color gives a vibrancy that I think gives the idea that the photo is the reality and the tattoo is just an addition to that reality of the person. I think that with the two different looks it breaks up multiple photos together and really gives an importance to each of the portraits with their tattoo and that way it doesn't look like too much at once. 

I chose to use the photos I did for this critique to adjust the size when printing because I feel like they are photos that are at the quality of what I want the final images to look like. I went with the larger size for printing because I felt that it would work well with what I really want to get across to the viewers. I felt that the larger size almost draws a viewer into seeing them as a person and can draw from that when comparing it to their images of the tattoos. I went a little smaller with the tattoos because the larger images felt almost too much and were a bit overwhelming. I tried some different sizes but I know I will just have to see which ones just kind of work together the best. Overall I think for this critique I have been able to better understand where I want to go with this project for the final of it with a more clear idea of what I want it to say to the viewers and how I might do that. 

Feedly Response #9

For this blog response I was really interested in the signs of life exhibition blog post. I think that there is an extreme of amount items and things in life that are passed by and forgotten about or not given any attention to that shouldn't be. Not to say that all things have a huge importance or significance but I feel like there are definitely parts of life that do. A example in the blog posts are sign seen in everyday life. There can be a huge array of what they could mean. They could hold a historical or political significance or could be humorous, important to community or a business or anything, it can really be limitless. Some of the works that I like more are Love Written In Aluminum Blanket Foil, Hell Is..., and Field Trip. There is just something about these works that shows a raw truth and a sense of realness that not matter what is unavoidable. I think that art like this really shows how so many people are consumed in their own lives and are completely unaware to their surroundings at almost any given time and they can be missing so many things that art limitless to making a difference in their life, but only if the to the time to play attention to it. I am always drawn to work that is on the lines un bordering unacceptable or inappropriate especially if it is for something that is so true. I think that art is a perfect way to push boundaries and show the real world and what really happens in life even if it is unconventional.

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Emerling Chapter 3

So far I have enjoyed this chapter much more than the previous two. I felt that this chapter was much easier to deconstruct what Emerling was trying to say and what he wanted the readers to pick up on. Admitingly Emerling stated that the definition of documentary photography is not an easy one which I agree with but he later, I feel like, tries to put very strict boundaries and guidelines on what is considered documentary work which I felt essentially defines it in a way. I also did not necessarily agree with his argument for the relationship of artwork and documentary. Emerling states that a photograph exists between both but later insists that artists work is either one or the other in which he poses the question of which is documentary and which is art. What I really like about this chapter was how Emerling states and doesn't shy away from the idea that a photograph is more than a photograph and how important the context is to the artist when creating their work.

The question that kept coming back to me while reading that I think is specifically important is, Is the a definition of documentary photography and what would you explain and describe it as?

Feedly Response #8

I chose to do the article about how artists respond to criticism about their work. I chose this because I think it is very important for artists and I think its great that this was talked about through the perspective of an artist while it happened to them. When most people and artists receive criticism in a way that redirects their work they let it change what they're doing when they have a reason why they're doing that subject. The first example used is a great way that many people should follow yet I feel like most don't. Basically if you don't like the criticism and you feel like it wasn't helpful to your work in a way that can help improve it and only discourage simply ignore those comments. It's commendable to people who can just disregard something said about work that they are working hard on and care about. For my work I would like to think that I can follow along these lines when presenting among my peers. To obviously listen to all that has to be said and analyze it, whether or not I find it helpful but in the end if thats not where I want to go with my project then I don't have to comply. The responses that help aide my work in the direction I want to go are the ones that I can listen to.

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Feedly Response #7

I was interested in this blog post because of the title Love and Debauchery because those are not two things that I usually think of that would go together. Once I began to look into the work and read what it was about I started to understand what that meant more. One of the things I like the most about the photos are that they are including everything. There are no parts of the life in Miami left out whether it would be typically seen as a positive or negative. It mentions how much the atmosphere and type of life shifts in Miami in the smallest times like from morning through the late night and how different scenes are typically seen during specific times. I think that the artist did a great job of capturing all of those because there is such a wide range of photographs that could include almost any event that might happen during a typical day or night out in the city.

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Work-in-Progress #3

Since the last critique I have been able to define a more specific approach for what I am aiming to achieve in my project. I was struggling the most with how I wanted the series to come across in a way that wasn't stereotypical and gimmicky that made it seem like here is a person and here is there tattoos. I want the viewer to be very aware of what I am trying to do. I want there to be a comparison between the individual and their tattoo because I want to be able to make a point that this person has these tattoo for their own reasons and they make them who they are but are still able to look at their face and say they're still a person without their tattoos, or if they aren't visible they still remain the same person. I feel like its now important to include a small part about how tattoos are seen in society because it makes a difference and I want to explore that a little bit. Even though it has begun to be extremely better in terms of judgment from society, a stigma still remains. By saying that tattoos make a person who they are but are not al who they are is included in that. An individual can be presumed as one thing by their tattoos but is by no means defined by them and are not limited to what their body shows other people.

I have been working much more to edit the photos to how I want them. With trying a little bit more editing to the faces I decided that I want the pictures to look aesthetically pleasing by editing the contrast and brightness but I really want to keep the faces photos as natural looking as I can without diminishing the quality of the photo. Overall I exposed the photos a little bit more than what I would think a "natural" look is so they have a brighter appearance once printed. For the tattoos I'm struggling with deciding if I want to make some of the blacks and the colors darker and more saturated if the are a little pale in actuality or if I want to leave them closer to how they were when photographed for more of a true appearance and representation.

Feedly Response #6

For this feedly report I was interested in the work of the Unseen Photo Fair. I think it is kind of ironic because the actual work of what is being done is seen, just in the format of the final product. What they are exposing is everything 'behind the scenes' of the work of a photographer that isn't seen and usually not know by the viewer at all. By using the work of performance and interactive works, the viewers are able to actually experience and evaluate an artist process of preparation and forethought that goes into their work. I think this is important to show and is done so in a very productive way. an artist could just as easily create a project exposing this but instead the artist work together to create it in a live performance way. This will have the viewer really understand beyond any other means, I think that this could have been shown.

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