2013年9月29日星期日
Chapter 7 response
The focus of this chapter is on
contemporary art photographs and their styles and ideas. Specifically, the
chapter concentrates on photographs that represent photographers’ own cultural
knowledge of generic as well as specific images. The first half of the chapter
provides art photographers of 20 century, and then the author also lists some
works of 19 century that are related to the topic. In this chapter the author
also discusses some of the photographic devices used by contemporary art
photographers such as camera obsura. The purpose of this chapter is to presenting
art photographs that represent artist’s idea and culture background and at the
same time showing us the world.
"On Photography" response
In “On Photography”, the author first
discusses how photographs related to people. The author provides multiple comparisons
between photographs and other mediums such as movies, paintings. The author
also introduces both emotional and practical affection that photograph can give
to people. Furthermore, some of the social and personal functions of
photographs are provided by the author. As a result, photography was treated as
“one of the principal devices for experiencing something, for giving an
appearance of participation”. Later in this chapter the author also compares
the camera with other objects which determines the role of camera in urban
world. At last, the limit of photograph, or the limit of the functions of
photograph is introduced.
2013年9月16日星期一
2013年9月15日星期日
Chapter 1
In this chapter the author introduces many
practical examples of photography. The author lists several photographers’ art
work in order to express different aspects of how artists represent their mind
via photography. Throughout the century, artists tried to use camera as an instrument
to express their ideas, which introduced a new area for photo-taking. Artists
started create artwork by first set up the scene they want, and then take
photos as intermedium of art. Combined with steady scenes or objects which were
settled up earlier and changeable environment, artists can always create
amazing artwork which reflects their mind and may be culture background.
Project 3 proposal
The topic of project 3 is “The Self
Portrait”, which is a topic existed for decades. For part one of the project, we
will take a self-portrait with some part our appearance. This one is kind of
simple because we can express ourselves via photo with our appearance. So I will concentrate on part of my face combine with the background environment. However,
the second part of the project is tricky with the vague requirement “self-portrait
without self-appearance”. This part is more like artwork other than photography.
For this part I will concentrate on my daily life interests and life style. At
the same time, I will try to include my culture background into this
self-portrait. Before I decide the details about how to express my self-portrait,
I will look at the history of the self-portrait and browse some of the
well-known self-portrait artwork in order to gain knowledge in this area.
2013年9月10日星期二
Homework #2
The author of “The Practices of Looking” introduces multiple
meanings of images. The author first describes images as the representation of
real world, which best explains the basic function of images. Then the
description is focused on the idea of images, the meaning of images, the
relationship between images and social society. Moreover, the author
exemplifies value of images within certain period. From the examples that
provided by the author, we notice that images are not only some certain scenes, but
represent much more than that.
2013年9月3日星期二
Homework - Adobe Bridge and Lightroom
Adobe Bridge has same basic functions with Lightroom but differs in details. First of all, Adobe Bridge only allows user edits photo
from existing storage. Lightroom, on the other hand, has its own database to
store images and allows user accesses image files at any time. As its name
defines, Adobe Bridge acts like a bridge between original image file and real
photo editing software; it only includes some basic editing functions. The lack
of editing functions makes users of Adobe Bridge must purchase other software
such as Photoshop. However, Adobe Bridge’s advantage is that it is compatible
to all Adobe’s software. For Lightroom, it is useful especially when viewing
and maintaining large amount photos. However, users of Lightroom still require
more powerful post photo editing software if they want multiple functions for
single photo editing.
2013年9月1日星期日
Project 1
Landscape photography is my interests of
taking photos. I really enjoy travel with my camera and capture every scene that
attracts me. Another major concentration of my photos is street photography.
The photos for project 1 best represent my photography style.
The first photo was taken on highway. I saw
the mountain on my way to Lhasa and then fascinated by the scene which includes
the mountain and the prairie. Nest photo is the famous Potala palace. The interesting
thing is that I was having dinner before I took this photo. During the dinner I
just looped up the curtain randomly and saw the scene in this photo. Actually
these two photos are in a series that I took in Tibet last summer. Most of the photo
s in this series are landscapes, which perfectly expresses the natural environment
of Tibet. However, I also took many photos that concentrate on the life style of
people in Tibet. Last two photos of the project 1 can exemplify the local population. Moreover, these photos can determine that
religion, the Tibetan Buddhism, is the most important part in local people’s
life.
For me, the fascinating part of photography
is because it can help us capture memorable moment in our life, and that is why
I will keep taking photos.
At this time I don’t have a favorite photographer.
However, great photography can always inspires me and help me enhance my skill.
For example, photos below were taken by my friend. The magic is that his photos
always make me want to know how to take and edit photos as what he did.
Although I know good photography requires professional camera and sufficient
lens, I admire more about how my friend composes the scene and edits the photo.
Introduction chapter summary
In the introduction chapter of the book The
Photograph as Contemporary Art, the author Charlotte Cotton describes existing
motivations and expressions in photography world and also provides history
knowledge for this topic. There are eight chapters in this book; each of them
defines a particular area of photography. Furthermore, the author explains how modern
photographers contribute their works to art photography. Later in introduction
chapter, Charlotte summarizes and describes the topic for each chapter in this
book. In rest of the chapter, the author lists some examples of contemporary
photographers and their work which had influenced the art photography.
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