Presentation : Cultural imaginaries & landscape photography
Esteban Pastorino Diaz, Lauren Marsolier, Mishka Henner & Hall
Hah, finally my presentation. I misunderstood the date of the presentation and ended up going to the lesson having no idea that today was to be the day of the presentation. Was a big surprise for me. And a lack of communication in our group. In the end we had to make it in class hours which led to the fact that our group missed the flash photography session.
Cultural imaginaries-
This is a theory derived by 2 different concepts.
One of Halls culture definition and Benedicts idea of the imaginary.
Camacho explains that this is a notion upon which migrant communities imagine their own culture in a space that technically doesn’t belong to them.
photographers create cultural imaginaries. It suggests that the photographer may look at a subject in a different way to another person therefore will reflect their perspective through their photograph. This then allows the viewer to see from their point of view.
Esteban Pastorino Diaz was the first photographer we researched.
Some key points about him:-
-He was born in Buenos Aires, 1972
-focusing on ideas of challenging perspectives and perceptions of space
-Aerial perspective photographs, creating different perspective for viewer upon mundane landscapes.
Diaz creates cultural imaginaries through his use of model landscapes. By physically creating the landscape he is able to portray a more accurate portrayal of his perspective.
His photographs were so wonderful. When we first looked at Esteban Pastorino Díaz's Aerial series we quickly guessed that we were looking at a scale model set. There are scenes of what look like tract housing, views of dump trucks, airplanes, and trains. All these objects could be found in a child's toy box. But as we perused more of these photographs we noted that there is something awry. These are very complicated landscapes that lead to the conclusion that the scenes are real. For a moment we even thought of these settings to be toys or models of original things of some kinds. Upon further research we found out that the things we thought were toys were real and he photographed some of them from really high.
What seems like dolls in some sort of a clay modelled house are indeed real people if one looks closely. Diaz is an expert in using the depth of field aspect of photography.
If I were to use depth of field I would try to show mankind being larger than life thus in a way signifying them as powerful in their own right and that we dont need superheroes. Maybe I would need to employ low angle shots of people.
Landscape Photography
Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
This method was originally used to denote the background of a subject.
Usually an absence of human presence is witnessed in such photographs.
Lauren Marsolier
She was born in France, 1972. Now works in Los Angles
These places have inspired her landscape photographs with modern architecture
simple , symmetrical, void and digital photographs
“I became interested in how we perceive reality and how our times, marked by constant changes, affect us on a psychological level.”
famous work, Transition, represents the psychological experience
“Located somewhere between fiction and reality, her images represent a mental landscape affected by a world of constant change. They show an unreality become manifest, transitional non-places where human action and inhabitation are recorded in strange antitheses of nature and artifice, or, better still, artificial nature and natural artifice.”
This is how her work in Transition has been described.
Her work is an epitome of symmetry. Everything is in order and aligned. Makes the photographs look a lot neater.
I in my essay am trying to say how there is equilibrium in this world. There is good and bad. And the world is best as it is and doesnt need a superhero causing insane collateral damage which will create a disbalance in the force
Esteban Pastorino Diaz, Lauren Marsolier, Mishka Henner & Hall
Hah, finally my presentation. I misunderstood the date of the presentation and ended up going to the lesson having no idea that today was to be the day of the presentation. Was a big surprise for me. And a lack of communication in our group. In the end we had to make it in class hours which led to the fact that our group missed the flash photography session.
Cultural imaginaries-
This is a theory derived by 2 different concepts.
One of Halls culture definition and Benedicts idea of the imaginary.
Camacho explains that this is a notion upon which migrant communities imagine their own culture in a space that technically doesn’t belong to them.
photographers create cultural imaginaries. It suggests that the photographer may look at a subject in a different way to another person therefore will reflect their perspective through their photograph. This then allows the viewer to see from their point of view.
Esteban Pastorino Diaz was the first photographer we researched.
Some key points about him:-
-He was born in Buenos Aires, 1972
-focusing on ideas of challenging perspectives and perceptions of space
-Aerial perspective photographs, creating different perspective for viewer upon mundane landscapes.
Diaz creates cultural imaginaries through his use of model landscapes. By physically creating the landscape he is able to portray a more accurate portrayal of his perspective.
What seems like dolls in some sort of a clay modelled house are indeed real people if one looks closely. Diaz is an expert in using the depth of field aspect of photography.
If I were to use depth of field I would try to show mankind being larger than life thus in a way signifying them as powerful in their own right and that we dont need superheroes. Maybe I would need to employ low angle shots of people.
Landscape Photography
Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
This method was originally used to denote the background of a subject.
Usually an absence of human presence is witnessed in such photographs.
Lauren Marsolier
She was born in France, 1972. Now works in Los Angles
These places have inspired her landscape photographs with modern architecture
simple , symmetrical, void and digital photographs
“I became interested in how we perceive reality and how our times, marked by constant changes, affect us on a psychological level.”
famous work, Transition, represents the psychological experience
“Located somewhere between fiction and reality, her images represent a mental landscape affected by a world of constant change. They show an unreality become manifest, transitional non-places where human action and inhabitation are recorded in strange antitheses of nature and artifice, or, better still, artificial nature and natural artifice.”
This is how her work in Transition has been described.
Her work is an epitome of symmetry. Everything is in order and aligned. Makes the photographs look a lot neater.
I in my essay am trying to say how there is equilibrium in this world. There is good and bad. And the world is best as it is and doesnt need a superhero causing insane collateral damage which will create a disbalance in the force
Mishka Henner
-documentary photographer who has studied at Loughborough and worked at London for several years
-known for his contribution to the photography in the Internet and digital age
-ideas such as identity, the information age, exploitation
use the collection of public images from the internet, satellite and TV
-takes photos from Google Earth and finds images on Google Street View with use of image rich technologies.
-‘A new approach to photography is seeing the light - photographers without cameras. The need to press the shutter is replaced by a direct interest in images - not necessarily in making images. These photographers make books with photographs they find and sometimes they mix them with photographs they take. In this rising flock Mishka Henner is the trailblazer’.
I found this photographer to be the most interesting of the lot because of a project of his called 'No Man's land'
In this he employed google earth in certain regions of Spain to see the amount of prostitution going on in secluded areas. But he wasn't interested in groups of prostitutes, rather just the solitary ones. This work of his in my opinion was quite sensitive. It connotes that prostitutes are not viewed as a part of the society and they are secluded (denoted by him taking images of secluded areas).
ANALOG TO DIGITAL: THE INDEXICAL FUNCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC
IMAGES
This reading is basically what we did in the seminar once. Changing an image to an mp3. I never knew this could be done. The very fact that images could possibly have some files related to sound is astonishing.
Digital technology allows for greater ease in editing than analog photography, because it
transforms photographs from objects into data. Digital imaging technology theoretically
disrupts previous notions of the indexical connection between photographic images and "reality."
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