Blog Prompt 3

#11____Memory of a Place: Try to imagine a place from your past. Do you have pictures of this place? Describe this place as you remember it. What might a photograph look like of this place if you were to go back and photograph it? What would it look like in the past? What would it look like to you today? Where are you standing in this place? What other items are in this place? What colors do you see? Are there other people or are you alone? Make a “written photograph” of this place using words/description.

I remember going to this park by my house in Detroit where we would always have family birthdays and picnics. You would park on the road and walk into the center where there would be picnic tables. If  I went to photograph it today I feel as it would be lifeless, run down, and deserted. In the past it was very vibrant and alive. Usually I would be standing and watching everyone going into the area we picked. When I was younger I would see lots of play gyms and swings with reds, blues, yellows.

#12____Memory of a Photograph: Which photograph from your past do you remember most? Describe this photograph. Describe how it makes you feel when you remember/think about this photograph. How have you changed? How has the place in this photograph changed? What would a reenactment of this photograph look like? Would you act or look differently if you reenacted this scene today?

I remember looking at my parents wedding picture that hangs in our living room. It is just my parents in front of a light back drop. I always get a good feeling when I see this photograph because it was such a special day for them. It was way before I was born but still seeing my parents dressed up and happy makes me want to travel time and go visit them. If I took this picture over my parents would be a lot older however, they would still be as happy. 

#13____Human-Made Space: In the past, photographers who were interested in how humans impacted the natural landscape grouped together to form the New Topographics. “"New Topographics" signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field.”http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibTopo.aspx

In addition, at the same time in history artists created (and still do create) “land art” in which they use materials found in the landscape to make sculptures that remain in the landscape. Many of these works now only exist as video recordings and photographic documents.

Pay attention to the number of ways in which you encounter humans’ interaction with nature and the physical land. Write these down. Using these as inspiration, describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might create that would be documented by a photograph. Describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might make in a man-made landscape that would be documented by a photograph.

I encounter many people on my walk to class. I also encounter people when I work on an ambulance. I deal with so many people that every place I set foot on I could recreate. Whether its an emergency scene or just a friendly walk. I was at the park when I met a guy and his dog about to play catch.  I took some photos but ideally you could create this photo in many different ways. Just taking the guy and his dog and put them in any environment they would still do the same thing. 

#14____Unknown vs. Familiar Space: When photography was invented, it became a way to document and reveal the specific aspects of both familiar and faraway places. Imagine a familiar place. Imagine a faraway place. How would you use photographs to convey the difference? Can you imagine any places that have been “touched” very little by humans? How might you photograph them?

A familiar place might include some of your personal effects in the photos. Perhaps it may even include an object close to you that would allow someone to know this place was important to you . A unknown space may be captured in and obsolete way. Perhaps not including anything would give a solitude feel since you/anyone doesn't really have a connection to that place.

#15____In-Camera Collage: Collage brings together two or more items that were previously separate. The resulting piece usually visually references the fact that they were once separate entities. Imagine an important place in your past. Imagine an important place in your present. Imagine who you were in both of these past and present places. Describe how you might use a slow shutter speed and/or double exposure to capture two moments in one image that tell a new narrative about these important places and how they relate to who you are and were.

I would use a place that is very personal to me and has helped me grow in many ways. I would try to double expose that photo of the place and also of myself standing tall almost above it because I became stronger having to deal with everything that place brought to me.

#16, 17, & 18 Please respond to three of the following quotes.

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals

I agree with this quote things I don't always see tend to have more meaning. We tend to overlook things that are not as visible.

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman

Most of us create feelings or new ideas in photographs, at times we try to invent something new. Our eyes are different from each others and we just want the world to see what we see.

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott

True the person may still be alive today but that moment you photographed the image you took a picture that can be replicated however it can not be the exact same photo due to the time difference. You create history when you take photos it isn't literature but it is a visual account of a moment in time.