Blog Posts #11-15

#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.

My old front yard at the house I lived in till I was 10. I'm not sure if I have a picture of it my family's photos are all over the place, but I still remember bits and pieces of it. It was summer the grass was bright green and there were five tall trees, one was a pine, two were up by the road near the ditch they weren't pines but they would always drop the most leaves in fall. The pine tree was near the house it had a huge base my sister and I would hide under there and play collecting pine cones. The last trees were by our driveway they weren't as tall as the other trees but at age 10 I couldn't reach the lowest branches and these trees followed down the drive 15 paces apart from each other and started with one of the tall trees near the road and ended with our fake wooden wishing well that covered the pipe that stuck out of the ground. My Tepee is out there too not far from the front door and cement front porch. The Tepee is made of large wooden boards my Dad gave me and a blue painters tarp all held together with twine and rope. I'm standing by the Tepee with my arms outstretched showing off my Tepee to my Mom who's standing behind the camera. I spent many hours outside in that yard and now I hardly set foot outside.

#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?

Oh its kind of embarrassing but I remember this photo the most maybe not in details like what age I was but what I was doing. I was little maybe 7 to 9 I only in my panties and a red airplane pilots vest that I stole off one of my big teddy bears. On my face I have his goggles over my eyes my knees are bent and my arms outstretched like I'm flying in the background is the teddy bear and my sister laughing while in her PJs. We're at our old house in the living room and there's a lamp on a table with a glass top. Today I don't do that I'm too timid to even dress up for Halloween and went I see that photo I laugh and think why did I act so weird as a kid. If I were to redo this memory it would look so inappropriate now that I'm older if redid it exactly but if I were to reenact this photo to be appropriate I'd dress up in one of my cosplay outfits that I wear of anime conventions.

#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.

#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?

For a familiar place photo I choose my town hall everyone sees it and I pass it every time I'm home. And a faraway place would be the woods back behind my house. They convey difference by how one is a scene of a man made building in a town with people while the other is a wooded area with no people and lots of trees. Places that have been touched very little by man would be like the forested and small lakes that not many people know of cuz they are out of the way. I could photograph them by taking shots of areas of grow in plants or if the is stuff that man has left show them interacting with the land.

#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 try to take the photo so that in the center in a diagonal line across it would be blurry and one side would have the past and the other side the present slowly coming back into focus I not sure what the images would be I really don't have any special places or anything I can't choose but they would tell what happiness I had gone thought as a child and the hardships as an adult.