Wednesday, September 28, 2011

New Addition to List of Experiments

So in my Photo 3A class our first assignment deals with the snapshot aesthetic.  I am LOVING this!  It is forcing me to look at literally everything different.  In our last class, as well as today's class, as a question to sort of describe this task Annie asked us to think "How do we unlearn what we have been taught about proper photo taking?"  I have been following this as literally as I can, I have been taking cheesey/cliche photographs and shooting from the view of my hip/stomach.  I am shooting cliche images because, for one reason, we are taught that this is absolutely wrong! and the other reason is because I want to explore cliche photos and also I am keeping the viewer in my mind as I take them because artists are not the only people who will ever view my work so why am I ignoring those who have no art background as non worthy of viewing them?  This notion of thinking of the viewer is new to me as well since I make most of my photos for me and me alone.  I know just about everyone at school is aiming to get a show eventually or be in a show one day but that is not a concern of mine, it never really was, I just want to know I have a great body of work and that I have grown artistically.  I am going to try and shoot 3 rolls of this; two black and white (I miss it!) and one color.  This is going to be great!  Human error and natural beauty at its best :) 

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