Qisheng-DS: 十一月 2013

2013年11月17日星期日

Project 5 proposal

For the final project, I decide to take photographs about buildings mostly in our campus. At the beginning, I was deciding to take photographs of landscape. However, to take great landscapes requires a great amount of time for traveling. So the final idea of my final project is to take photographs of buildings in the College of Wooster. If possible, I will also try to find other significant buildings within Wooster area and include them in photo pool of my final project. The final project should looks like a series includes photographs of buildings in black and white form. My idea is not inspired by artists; it is inspired by photographs in our libraries which represent the history of the college. The reason why I choose to take photographs of the college is that I have already being here for three and half years and haven’t captured any photographs for this campus. So I think to do this project, I will both practice my skill on landscape of building and create a series of my own college memory. At this time I have very limited understanding in photo printing area, so it would be better for me to decide the size of prints after gain more knowledge in printing area.

Reading response

In this article, the author provides a phenomenon that is interesting to common photographers. The phenomenon indicates that many successful photography based art project have evaluated photography as art product. Several examples are provided by the author, in these examples, many artists used photography as medium object in their art project. In other words, these artists made photographs as the fundamental components in their project, and further composed these photographs in a certain form in order to represent artists’ ideas. The result is that many artists combines photography whit other media to compose the final art, which sometimes limits itself into a smaller scale.