The final Collage

ALL DONE!! Finally with everything figured out I could fully mount it to the boards and call it good :)

Final steps

In the final steps of this project was the challenge of adhesives. At first I had decided rubber cement would be a nice choice, which I'm discovering more and more is never a nice choice. About a little over half way through I decided to switch to double sided tape, which worked wonders in comparison. So much so I actually went back and retaped almost all of the already "glued" pictures.

The Collage process

Once I had taken all of the pictures I thought could get me by with enough I printed them out and started on my composition layout. I started out by organizing my photos into different groups of times and places in which they were taken making it easier and more organized to work with. It was fun and difficult and I changed my mind a lot. But over all it was a fun creative puzzle to work my problem solving skills on.

Museum Reflection

Touring the photo room in the Spencer Art museum really inspired me. All the different works and their meanings, really spoke to me, and what I could accomplish with this project. Through analyzing and talking about specific pieces, changed the way I could analyze my own work and improve upon it. The pieces Elle picked really inspired me to become my own artist and really have a voice through this image collage. I wanted to have a clear message through my work yet meet all the requirements for the project. This Museum visit gave me the inspiration to put myself into this project and rise up to the challenge. 

Errol Morris on Photography Summary

I found his views on photographs to be very unique and interesting. I liked how he spoke of photographs being connected to the physical world. I like hearing photography talked about in such a universal and meaningful way, as if there’s so much more to it than what meets the eye or what other people have made it out to be. I love how he speaks of his work and how he has tried to recover that original connection the photograph has to the physical world. I found it unique the way he talked about whether a photograph could be truthful or honest and how most people believe photographers shouldn’t stage their shot, or pose their shot, otherwise it isn’t true. And Morris’s response was there’s no such thing as a false or true photo. every shot it somewhat posed. In his words “ Isn’t there always an elephant just outside the frame?” Meaning, every photographer when choosing their shot chooses what to include and what not to include, therefore posing the photograph. I thoroughly enjoyed Errol Morris’s view on photography.

Ways of seeing: Psychological Aspects Summary

This video takes the audience through the ways the camera has changed the way we see. Its changed the way the second half of the 20^th century sees paintings entirely. Its helped us discover something about ourselves. The camera has given us a fresh perception of the world and has given us the ability to reproduce art. It has allowed us the ability to experience paintings and art in the context of our own life. With film it gives us the ability to manipulate an image and its meaning with movement and sound. The reproduction makes it easier to connect our experience with art with others recreating the experience. In this process the “seduction” of a work can be the effect of the painting working on us.

Masters of Illusion Summary

The Masters of Illusion Video was based on the beginning concepts found in the renaissance. Illusions were inspired by the challenge of taking something flat and making it appear three dimensional. The concept of illusions began in Florence, Italy where it strives as the renaissance monument. Here was where a famous renaissance artist discovered the formula to perspective and vanishing points. The first known painting to demonstrate true linear perspective and the science of art was the “Trinity”.  And Albrecht Durer was the one of the earliest examples of multiple point perspective. Leonardo Da Vinci was clever enough to study the eye for perspective and how light traveled into it to manipulated two-dimensional works. Soon the perspective of disappearance and the study of foreground compared to background began to take effect in paintings. The findings these renaissance men discovered are techniques we still use today which makes this video all the more important and interesting to analyze and understand.

Summary "Photography Changes Everything"

There is no single, simple story about photography. People may believe there is a right and wrong, is and isn’t when it comes to photography but in truth it resists being shaped by any single set of imperatives or standards and is very difficult to define. We are defined by the photographs we view, make, use, share, and respond to. The author goes on to explain how the book, Photography Changes Everything came about. Throughout the authors work they’ve thought about how to discuss all of the other images in the world besides the artistic ones, like the ones we live our lives with. Due to the impact camera phones have had on our society we are all photographers now. We are forcing a new relationship with photography. Photography changes what we want, what we see, and who we are. It has potential to change what we do, where we go, and what we remember. What cameras take in, we are just starting to better understand. As we are locked into a cycle of making, viewing, and using photographs, it is important to recognize that photography not only changes everything but itself as well. As photography evolves, so will we, and the ways we engage ourselves in media.