Pieces

07Nov06

By Ann C 
“Perhaps true, total photography, he thought, is a pile of fragments of private images, against the creased background of massacres and coronations.”  “Adventures of a Photographer”  (Calvino 186)     
Photo by Katie, Flickr username: At~A~Glance
 

            This picture, Incomplete, relates to several topics that we discussed in class and saw in the readings.  Its caption reminded [...]

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Identity in Photography

07Nov06

“In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art.” Barthes Camera Lucida 13

Cosplay is when a person dress up as a character [...]

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Forgetting to Remember

07Nov06

 KevinL
“It is only when they have the photos before their eyes that they seem to take tangible possession of the day spent … Everything else can drown in the unreliable shadow of memory” – Calvino Adventures of a Photographer 177

Photo: Arbron 
It seems that photography has become a crutch for the human memory. With photos we [...]

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Beauty of Photography

06Nov06

“The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow”
~Calvino Adventures of a Photographer 179

This picture is of a flower that most people would deem beautiful if they looked at it. The real question is not whether [...]

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Another Blogging Assignment Option

05Nov06

Assignment: Find a photographic resource on the web that you like, and write a blog post that explains what it is and how it relates to our course. Be specific about the things you like about it. Describe the images that you see. Make connections between the site and our recent [...]

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First Blogging Assignment

03Nov06

It seems to me that the blogging assignment I gave you on Thursday — writing about Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” and Italo Calvino’s “The Adventures of a Photographer” — didn’t provide a particularly fun or easy introduction to the world of blogging. So, I want to open up an alternative topic [...]

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