In this section of Photography After Frank I found many
ideas and sources of inspiration for my project. This section talks about the ways in which
you can manipulate or collaborate with your surroundings and subjects to
achieve an artistic goal or theme. It
talks about how our artistic choices affect our work as photographers.
After
reading this I have some good ideas about working with light and combining
these ideas with the ones I liked from the Portrait section. I think I want to do a series of portraits,
possibly including my own, in a silhouetted or shadow style. I want there to be some lighthearted elements
in the shadow portraits that juxtapose the seriousness of the shadow and tell
us something vague about the subject. I
got this idea after reading the second paragraph in the section talking about
Duane Michal’s series entitled The Spirit
Leaves The Body.
I really
enjoyed the discussion of different ways of representing or capturing time
within photographs. This is cool and tricky
because the nature of photographs is to freeze a particular moment in
time. Working with these opposing themes
can create some very cool breakthroughs and results.
Lastly, we
read about how Ryan McGinley has found a way to stage his documents but retain spontaneity
at the same time. He does things like
invite a large group of friends to a beach house for a party and set up a
trampoline. Eventually and inevitably he
gets some great shots of his friends jumping naked. These pics still seem like he captured a
genuine moment, which he did, but the moment was carefully thought out and set
up ahead of time. Genius.
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