Assignment 2 The Journey

Sequence 01 from Kelli Manning on Vimeo.

Decided to do the "self portrait" as my daily walk i take to class every day.

PRESQUE from Grace Kim on Vimeo.

Journey into the world of looking for place to live in Austin.

Hunt 4 from Juan Ruio on Vimeo.

Assignment 2

Shree_project2 from Santosh_Thapa on Vimeo.

Portrait project edit

Portrait of a country boy turned city from michael myers on Vimeo.

I followed my dad around as he prepared to go to work. Everything is unscripted and natural so all the shots are not staged. Sorry if the sound/music comes off a little rough as there are some tweaks that need to be figured out.

A Portrait of My Dad from Sam Burris on Vimeo.

Nala the Cat from Kori Smith on Vimeo.

Portrait

Here's my results, sorry if the post is a bit late.
Mostly playing with color-related filters etc.



Portrait from Andrew Wells on Vimeo.

here's my late submission of the first video exercise/project.
word of warning: shots were taken w/ my camera phone, so the quality is uh, less than desirable.

ILLUMINATE 2 from Grace Kim on Vimeo.

Self Portrait from Megan Stevenson on Vimeo.

The Ontology of the Photographic Image Reading Response

      This passage from Andre Bazin's book was a very interesting view on the art of photography. "It is this religious use, then, that lays bare the primordial function of statuary, namely, the preservation of life by a representation of life." I enjoyed this sentence because he is comparing the mummification of bodies to photography. How a photograph can immortalize human being or a period in time by preserving that moment in a piece of paper. He also talks about how painting, at that time much more popular that photography, can also try to achieve that goal, but no matter how realistic looking the painting is it will never match up to the reality of a photograph.
      Bazin calls painting an inferior art form to photography which is interesting because many people see it the other way around. I honestly used to think that photography was not an art form until i took a photography class. There is so much planning and other things that an artist needs to know to capture a beautiful photo.

Observation of a quote from Ontology of the Photographic Image

“The photographic image is the object itself, the object freed from the conditions of time and space that govern it… Those grey or sepia shadows, phantomlike and almost undecipherable, are no longer family portraits but rather the disturbing presence of lives halted at a set moment in their duration…” I found this quote to be very interesting because I found myself thinking does the camera really capture a moment of time? I’ve pondered over the fact that a picture of my vacation was truly an accurate representation of that exact moment. In a way I think this this is true. The camera is like human eye and it captures the moment with the constraint of the frame. However, lately I have been feeling it creates an artificial memory. Our memory of that moment transforms into a simple two-dimensional image. When I look at a photo of myself at a certain location I am seeing a perspective I never saw in real life. Sometimes the camera down plays the real beauty of that time in its distortion and limitations. So much is not captured in a camera and I find that by not documenting every part of my life creates more detailed memories.

Bazin's Essay response

Bazin’s essay so called “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” is a beautiful documentation of ontological praxis between ontological thinking and ontological materialism. Inside our social fabric, we are dissolved with various rituals, and photographing image is also one of a kind that humans are celebrating since eighteenth century.  Bazin is approaching with the ritual of making photographic image as a sarcophagus or an element to pour immortality in humans life.

     When human dies, we give them a name called ghosts. Since, it is hard to preserve ghost, camera is our new agent which helps us to breed those ghosts. An art of ghost preserving that allow us to flesh out the visual data of the ghosts. What sort of body structure he or she has? Is it a bulimic, anorexic, voluptuous, Obese, or slim fit? What sort of fabric they were wearing? Everything is preserved in a compact form and this is now called Photography.  These sort of thinking’s Bazin wants to suggest us through his article. 

Regarding the Bazin Reading

In regards to the excerpt from The Ontology of the Photographic Image, the most interesting subject of the reading is its comparison between film and the other media that came before it or coexists with it today. I very much enjoyed the statement that, unlike other forms of art, what is rendered by a photograph IS the very model of what was intended to be made, which is unlike any other art form. His idea that the means communication between artist and audience is, unlike in other art, based solely on what is chosen to be seen is also relevant. One of the most basic tools we have access to is collecting footage and subsequently editing it together to show to someone else. The order in which we show what we have, the way we show it, and what we leave out is the building block on which our other techniques come from. Through these we can create context, relationships between otherwise unconnected sequence, and the intentional destruction of a connected sequence of events.
It's all in the showing.

Andre Brazen

Andre Brazen delineates the purpose of painting and photography and the mechanics of their differences. The mechanics have improved in painting by ideological progression, such as discovery of perspective.  The painter sees first something with the eye.  That image is stored in mind and reproduced over time. The storage of the memory becomes more complex with a drawing and confers a unique ability to an artist.  Validity of the rendered form came into question when the reasoning behind realism was interrupted by the camera, thus came paintings with modern dimensional schemes.  The photographer also sees first with his eye, but the stored image replaces the drawing hand.  There is change of subjective artistry when comparing painting to photography.  Immediate images allow for a riddance of preconceptions about how something should be conveyed.  The artistry is altogether different because of the tools used.   

What is Cinema - theontologyofthephotographicimage

Cinema is creation, an art form that tells a story. It’s an evolution that overtook painting, and it’s a form of dramatic expression. It’s also an illusion and a discovery that satisfies “once and for all and its very essence, our obsession with realism”. For example, in photography the image is captured, yet in painting the image is created. Photography “does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption”. Photography can capture the photographers personality. “By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can see, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the artist”. The images in photography are real and factual.