I'm in power for the hour, I guess today's gonna blow us away
I just came home from my last class as an undergraduate.
Exactly two years ago, on the last day of spring semester my sophomore year, Jake asked me out.
And now I have to write an 8 page paper on camera images in Bombingham, so alas, no celebrating for me yet.
But there is still a smile on my face...I made it.
I wrote this last night in a final essay for my photo class:
But recently I have started to wonder, what are these subjects leaving in my photographs? I see pictures I have hung on the walls: a collection of faces grinning, smirking, or being generally unaware that a picture is being taken. I use photography to show those emotions which people cannot see displayed on their own faces in the moment when they smile or laugh. I make it a point to show my subjects the pictures I have taken of them; I also use these portraits as a supplement to my own memory. But can a photograph ever recreate a person or a moment in time? Throughout this semester I have become acquainted with using Photoshop CS2 to manipulate digital prints, and even though I can now lighten, darken or desaturate a picture, I am still working with mere representations of light and emotion. I am reminded of yet another Sugimoto quote: “If this photograph now appears lifelike to you, perhaps you should reconsider what it means to be alive here and now.”
Please let me take your picture?
I want to show you what you leave behind.
Exactly two years ago, on the last day of spring semester my sophomore year, Jake asked me out.
And now I have to write an 8 page paper on camera images in Bombingham, so alas, no celebrating for me yet.
But there is still a smile on my face...I made it.
I wrote this last night in a final essay for my photo class:
But recently I have started to wonder, what are these subjects leaving in my photographs? I see pictures I have hung on the walls: a collection of faces grinning, smirking, or being generally unaware that a picture is being taken. I use photography to show those emotions which people cannot see displayed on their own faces in the moment when they smile or laugh. I make it a point to show my subjects the pictures I have taken of them; I also use these portraits as a supplement to my own memory. But can a photograph ever recreate a person or a moment in time? Throughout this semester I have become acquainted with using Photoshop CS2 to manipulate digital prints, and even though I can now lighten, darken or desaturate a picture, I am still working with mere representations of light and emotion. I am reminded of yet another Sugimoto quote: “If this photograph now appears lifelike to you, perhaps you should reconsider what it means to be alive here and now.”
Please let me take your picture?
I want to show you what you leave behind.