Mapping Space and Time

Project Description

       This project was about being able to use space and time to map an area and show the little details from different views and times. Also using sections to alter or expand the view. And how it relates to the two dimensional picture in the three dimensional space. Also how the photographer relates to the space and where they are when taking the photo and how that affects the view and angels.

Summary of Project

       This project was about using an object and photographing in a way that your not used to seeing it and focusing on the little objects that make the normal picture whole. Learning how to look through a camera and not take a picture as a whole was the most difficult task for me and trying to set things up in a grid. In this project I learned that you can use different angels to allude the eye making things seem larger and smaller depending on where you stand and how you take the picture.

Camera Lucida Response

       This article focused on what the picture really was and that the story behind it is irrelevant but what it reminds the viewer of. That it may bring back memories to them or connections that have nothing to do with what the photographer intended. Also that the color in a photo is like make up and that a simple black and white photo shows the photo better, even though that there is color in the reality of the picture. And that every picture only capture a moment but it can tell a story that its very moment hold with the right person in possession of it. That all photos are limited in a sense of what is actually being seen but the imagination of each individual viewer will portray it in their own way. 

Errol Morris Response

       Points out that all photos are connected to the world in some way. Even if they are posed or taken with a bias they are still connected to the world in some way. And what makes a photo honest isn’t based on when or why it was took but the fact that it was token for a purpose to show others or document a situation. And that any photo only shows one moment not before or after so the only way to really understand it is to investigate it the best you can. 

On Photography Response

       This article focused on the ideas that a photo can only tell some of the truth and that people might rely on them a little too much. All photos of the same object can look different for many different reasons from position and angel to the zoom and other factors added in with technology or even other things. And that there is no real way to look at pictures and know exactly what is going on. That they capture a moment but only the viewer knows what that moment held and although books, documents and other things hold photos to teach and express ideas and facts the person learning should remember that this photo is really only one tiny segment of the real life experience. 

The Master of Illusions Response

The master of illusions is about creating a space and time using vector points and knowledge of geometric grid. How alluding the eye into thinking that there is this space that was actually created by a human. Spacing things in a grid and using the created space to look real when it’s an illusion. Using different angels and shapes to show things in a new way. 

The Photographer’s Eye Response

       This reading focuses on five main ideas of how and photo is formed starting with “The Thing Itself” which point out that the object in a photo can be portrayed in many different ways and how the photographer and the viewer portray it may be different so when taking a photo a photographer must really be focused on what he is trying to show and show it in the best way possible because a photo captures a subject during an event and which one is remembered is the main goal. Next is “The Detail” photos cant hold a narrative without a comment or subtitle, consecutive photos may help but without knowing the exact truth no one ever really knows how or why a photo was taken besides the clues they can pull from what they see. “The Frame” is manipulated by the photographer he is only showing you what it is they want you to see every photo continues to extend in every direction, so therefore that space is in some ways being recreated to only be viewed in one way. The “Time” is also manipulated no photo shows the future or past just the moment in which it was taken and before fast shooting cameras time was very crucial no movement could be captured and when it was taken and something changed the photo would come out blurry and now what the photographer intended to capture. The last idea is “Vantage Point” and how different angels or lighting effects a photo allowing one object to have many different views. 

Ways of Seeing Response

       Photography changed the way we see because a picture unlike a painting can be in more than one place at one time. Photos have made paintings less valuable in some ways like they are not the original so that makes them distorted but also the silence of what you may experience in a museum may be taken away in a photo of it because your viewing it in the setting of which you want to experience it. But photography has also let others study paintings who may not get a chance to see them in their original place. But the photo will never have the real affect on a person the same as the painting.