When reading Susan Sontag's article "On Photography" I kept going back and thinking about the video I watched earlier with David Hockney. At the beginning of the video he talks about photography as an art that is much simpler than working on a painting but then again it's not. It's thinking of that split second that you want to capture and how you are going to develop this image and then mount it and all the back story that no one really thinks about, unless you are a photographer.
Sontag also brings up the same point a little but also goes a little deeper. Talking about how photographs are an easy, handheld thing and can be reproduced multiple times. Adding them into a book can make them last even longer than they could as an image alone. It's all things that you kind of think about but don't really think that much about unless it somehow comes up or, like I said before, you're a photographer.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Think Hockney
Today in class we watched a video on David Hockney and the way his visions become a reality in a final product. All I could think the entire time was, I love the way he thinks and I love the way he works.
He went through the motions of deciding on what to photograph, and thought about it for a long period of time. Slowly making his way to finally photographing the event, and filming the event to show a difference in photo and video. He then, because of the time he was doing this, had to take the film to a one-hour photo service to develop his film. Sadly they messed up two rolls, but hey it happens. I know it happened to me a couple times when I was first getting into photography, a roll of film gets messed up and you move on. He did great at moving on. He worked with what he had. Even a note left by the man who developed the film and messed up the two rolls he incorporated into the final project.
Overall, like I said in the beginning, I absolutely love the way he thinks about his subjects. I want to think more like Hockney. I like that he used to think, exhibitions of photos weren't a big deal. Then did an experiment with a grid of Polaroids and got inspired. A new way of thinking of photography. Creating a scene with not just one photo but multiple photos with each other. Photos that don't just show a person in one perspective or one emotion but multiple emotions.
Today, I am very much feeling inspired by David Hockney.
Here is the link to the video that we watched in class today. Enjoy!
He went through the motions of deciding on what to photograph, and thought about it for a long period of time. Slowly making his way to finally photographing the event, and filming the event to show a difference in photo and video. He then, because of the time he was doing this, had to take the film to a one-hour photo service to develop his film. Sadly they messed up two rolls, but hey it happens. I know it happened to me a couple times when I was first getting into photography, a roll of film gets messed up and you move on. He did great at moving on. He worked with what he had. Even a note left by the man who developed the film and messed up the two rolls he incorporated into the final project.
Overall, like I said in the beginning, I absolutely love the way he thinks about his subjects. I want to think more like Hockney. I like that he used to think, exhibitions of photos weren't a big deal. Then did an experiment with a grid of Polaroids and got inspired. A new way of thinking of photography. Creating a scene with not just one photo but multiple photos with each other. Photos that don't just show a person in one perspective or one emotion but multiple emotions.
Today, I am very much feeling inspired by David Hockney.
Here is the link to the video that we watched in class today. Enjoy!
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