Me Age 20
Thursday 31 March 2011
Monday 28 March 2011
601Artspace
http://www.601artspace.org/645724/Cultural-Memory-Matters
The 601Artspace featured powerful and provoking images by Joseph Rodriguez and Martín Weber. The images attempt to expose how cultural subjects are framed and naturalized. These images were striking and confrontational. There were elements of performance in Rodriguez work where his subject had been asked to hold signs which were translated in the exhibition, giving the people in them a voice. These people appeared vulnerable but honest in there statement and position. The images really spoke me to, engaged me with there simplicity and Rodriguez work is one of my personal favorites.
Orchestra of Disorientation
A film by The Photography Collective for The Collectives Encounter at Format International photography Festival 2011.
"The work is a catalyst for discussion on the validity, identity, reality and role of the Flâneur in society and the world today. Focused around a central thoroughfare for pedestrian in Birmingham UK, the work combined the photographs of 13 photographers in a wide variety of flâneurial guises. However the photographic work arguably only comes into its own as an edited film - creating an disorienting orchestra of the cycle of modern life that the editor chooses to conduct, or not."
Susan Sontag wrote that the flâneur 'is gazing on other people`s reality'
The format festival was a great source of inspiration. This piece was one which I couldn't stop watching, I don't usually engage with pieces which include video, maybe because I mainly deal with the still image. But this piece challenged my idea of what the still image can achieve, when combined with space and media.
Created by The Photography Collective a group of 13 photographers who`s main aim is the challenge the concepts within photography and the format in which we exhibit them. Firstly the Flaneur relates to how we understand urban phenomena and modernity. These still images have been brought together and are presented as moving ones. With sound and movement the viewer is indulged with juxtapositions, I found this very engaging and an unusual experience. I think the group have definately achieved a piece that is disoriatating. I wonder what effect these images would have if they were placed in frames on a wall.
The question arises when we think consider the aura of these images, if alone would they have have the same effect? Barthes notion of the Punctum comes to mind here, and the question of the ability of these images to communicate actual events. He reflected upon the relationship that the obvious symbolic meaning of an image (studium) and that which was purely personal and dependent on the individual (punctum) Barthes considered the photograph to have a unique potential for presenting a completely real representation of the world, or here create an alternative reality. This piece implies a naturalistic truth to the viewer, that the cycle of modern life is something that can be experienced, however what is most interesting is how it manages to create a new reality, one in which allows us to question the cycle of modern life, day to night, the cycle of people. This representation is made even more real with the use of non-diegetic sound establishing an eerie atmosphere. The fact is, even without the sound, the movement the images still hold the aura to represent the world around us. Very fascinating Indeed.
"The work is a catalyst for discussion on the validity, identity, reality and role of the Flâneur in society and the world today. Focused around a central thoroughfare for pedestrian in Birmingham UK, the work combined the photographs of 13 photographers in a wide variety of flâneurial guises. However the photographic work arguably only comes into its own as an edited film - creating an disorienting orchestra of the cycle of modern life that the editor chooses to conduct, or not."
Susan Sontag wrote that the flâneur 'is gazing on other people`s reality'
The format festival was a great source of inspiration. This piece was one which I couldn't stop watching, I don't usually engage with pieces which include video, maybe because I mainly deal with the still image. But this piece challenged my idea of what the still image can achieve, when combined with space and media.
Created by The Photography Collective a group of 13 photographers who`s main aim is the challenge the concepts within photography and the format in which we exhibit them. Firstly the Flaneur relates to how we understand urban phenomena and modernity. These still images have been brought together and are presented as moving ones. With sound and movement the viewer is indulged with juxtapositions, I found this very engaging and an unusual experience. I think the group have definately achieved a piece that is disoriatating. I wonder what effect these images would have if they were placed in frames on a wall.
The question arises when we think consider the aura of these images, if alone would they have have the same effect? Barthes notion of the Punctum comes to mind here, and the question of the ability of these images to communicate actual events. He reflected upon the relationship that the obvious symbolic meaning of an image (studium) and that which was purely personal and dependent on the individual (punctum) Barthes considered the photograph to have a unique potential for presenting a completely real representation of the world, or here create an alternative reality. This piece implies a naturalistic truth to the viewer, that the cycle of modern life is something that can be experienced, however what is most interesting is how it manages to create a new reality, one in which allows us to question the cycle of modern life, day to night, the cycle of people. This representation is made even more real with the use of non-diegetic sound establishing an eerie atmosphere. The fact is, even without the sound, the movement the images still hold the aura to represent the world around us. Very fascinating Indeed.
The Rhetoric of Images
The City That Never Sleeps. February. 2011
This image creates a visual juxtaposition, which I achieved through a reflection. This multi layered image creates an interesting perspective, allowing me to bring together two perspectives challenging the association. On one hand we can detonate that the image is of an advertisement for shoes, with the presence of a women also in the composition, taken in New York. The place changes how we see the image, we instantly think of New York and how it makes us feel. For me in awe of its grandeur, it isn't clear if the women is also part of the advertisement and if not who is she and where is she heading. I am playing on the idea that advertisements are as real as we make them by blurring the boundaries of reality.
Aaron Hargreaves has explored his own personal experiences as he embraces the transition from boyhood to adult. Coming of age is something that we all at one stage in our lives go through and this project is a reflection of his own experience at this important time. It is the union of two journeys; the memory of childhood’s ideals and faith and one of the confusion brought by the beginning of adulthood. The broken images act as a confrontation between these two, one in which a Christian upbringing does not prepare for the realization and acceptance of your true sexuality.
Aaron is a fine art photographer who has dealt with many commercial commissions, he brings many of his own personal quirks and obsessions to an image to create an alluring visual sensibility.
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