Prompt 25

Write a detailed description of your “motivations” for your final self-proposed project. Why are you interested in this subject? What do you want to convey? How do you want viewers to respond? Why are you inspired to make these images/this project? Do you want to evoke emotions in viewers? Shock viewers? Make them laugh? Make them think? Inform them? Reveal something about how you see the world? Reveal something about yourself, a person, a place, a feeling, a memory, a moment in time?


I'm interested in this subject because it is quite interesting to see how a person can change (or not change) over the course of their life. I want the viewers to respond by remembering memories of their childhood and their dreams. I'm inspired by this project because childhood is an important period of time for every person and can heavily influence the way they act, think, and grow. 

Final Project

For my final project, I want to incorporate photography with drawing/collage.

My idea is to take pictures of a selection of my friends, and ask them what they wanted to be as children. For example, I wanted to be a teacher, so I would take a picture of myself and edit it digitally by tablet drawing. I would redraw the background to look like a classroom and perhaps even edit my clothing.
My goal is to take the person's childhood dream and play it out visually.
The pictures wouldn't come off as realistic, but rather a more playful sort of image.

Constucted- Final images

I wanted the photograph to be heavier on the side that the subject is 100%opacity on and lighter on the side where his image is more see through.

The prompt was "subtle disruption", so I chose to change my subjects eyes with magazine cutouts. I wanted it to be something that you would find more "normal" when you first look at it, but double-take when you realize it isn't actually part of him.
I chose to leave the actual disruption to be something that really exists, rather then editing it with photoshop. As for the rest of the picture, I used photoshop to darken and copy certain parts. 
I wanted this piece to represent first impressions and how you need to see a person again to find out who they really are.

I chose to add multiple pictures together in opaque layers. This prompt for this project was "collage" and I wanted to create something that would work together. In order to make this image, I put multiple images on different layers and played with the opacity settings in order to create an image in which your eye can capture multiple scenes. 
This image represents the places you frequently go and your memories of them.

I chose to put three images together to create one because I wanted to create a storyboard effect. The prompt for this image was "Narrative". 
I did little editing on the images, but I placed them together with a black border. 
This image represents the timeline in which one daydreams. One starts out by drifting into thought, and their vision blurs, various scenes play through their mind and then they snap back to reality.

The composition within this photo relies on the dark hallway leading to a bright white. I only cropped and added contrast to the original photo in order to create a nightmare type of effect. This image was created after I had been sitting in a basement and my friend's cousin came out of nowhere with a bunny suit in his hands. I wanted this image to represent a childhood nightmare where something innocent can become something that scares you.

 

 

Works in Progress Critique

 Constructed Miniature Stage

Subtle Constructions

Prompt 24

A. Pick two images from any of the “constructed reality” photographers presented in class or linked on the assignment sheet. Describe how you could recreate these two images on a “smaller scale”.

I really enjoyed "Throne of Aphrodite" that Lauren posted and "Voodoo Queens" by Nina Chakrabarti.

I could recreate these images on smaller scales, first by using Voodoo Queens as an influence. I could take portraits of friends and family and do designs on their faces digitally, yet have the designs relate to the kind of person the subject is. To recreate the Throne of Aphrodite, I could create make a little chair out of candy and use other colorful candy to create the colorful surroundings.

B. Describe your plans for your self-proposed final project (if the plan is the same as before, paste it here again and give a bit more detail). During the final critique for Assignment #5, you will discuss/present these ideas to the class.

"A way I could create a series of photographic images is to take a topic such as childhood dream jobs and create multiple pictures to express the subject. I could create scenes in which would represent the multiple stereotypical jobs that a child would dream of doing: Teacher, Astronaut, Artist, Veterinarian, Policeman, and etc. 

If I could combine any other media with my photography, I would incorporate digital drawing. Since drawing is my hobby and passion, I feel it would be important to use this project to show the differences between the expressive qualities of drawing and the more realistic qualities of photography. I would use the idea I mentioned in Part A. "

Gathering a few friends and asking them about their childhood "dream jobs", I could use those friends as subjects and photograph them. Using photoshop and other pictures I take, I can combine them into the proper job setting. Then I can digitally draw in the rest of the project to create a scene in which the subject's childhood dream job is played out visually.

Seven Last Words of Christ (1898) by Fred Holland Day 

Fred Holland Day, born July 8th 1864, was an American photographer. He was one of the first in the USA to suggest that photography should be considered a fine art. Many of his photos included symbolic imagery and his photographs "allude to classical antiquity in manner, and often in theme". 

"Day, who was part of the late 19th century pictorialist movement that attempted to apply the characteristics of painting to the photograph, donned a crown of thorns and played the crucified Christ for his camera. He appears in a series of photographs inspired by the last utterances of Christ on the cross. 

    Crump said, "I became interested in Day when I viewed Robert Mapplethorpe's Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective in 1988. This series of pictures, which certainly influenced Mapplethorpe, inspired the subject of my second book, 'F. Holland Day: Suffering the Ideal.' "- http://www.aeqai.com/articles/102010.htm

This image, depicting the dying words of Christ, is interesting in the way it is laid out and how Christ is portrayed. I feel that the artist using his own image to portray a religion's person of interest is a bold move. Other than that, this image does not evoke much impact upon me because of religious religions, so I feel that I cannot relate.

http://www.sandyskoglund.com/
From this website, I found an image that was quite interesting. Titled Fresh Hybrid, the image consists of life-like models of people in bright colors, combined with abstract people/tree combinations and lastly, real people. The blossoms on the trees are small chicks, like the ones I used to receive on Easter. The image is suggested to give a meaning of a lost innocence.