IC w11 Writing

The word photography comes from photo en graphs which means natural writing with light and I have to write with words about my work, my intent, related work, reflection.

Now that I have been writing my essay for 3 weeks, I slowly find out that it is useful to think more deeply about my work and especially to tell it and let others read it.

It mainly helps me to explain my project to others. An investigation into clouds, visual is also so general that I can continue with it for a number of years. In principle, it is also about the impact of humans on the environment, an even larger theme.

What I was afraid of was that it would limit my work. That by writing down what you do you have to stick to it. What is always important in my work is that it involves a variety of research.

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Today I placed my intent in the chat during the office hours:

Intent

Clouds are moving towards the poles and are threatened with extinction. In this photographic research project I use the, sometimes latent, information from photos to create a 3D experience that focuses attention on the clouds with the aim of contributing to the conversation on climate change.

And I then figured out that the 3D experience part is indeed one of the things I have made but doesn't cover the (complete) project.

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For myself a list of forms of photographies, just to find it easy.

The theorie

The discovery of photography was all about tracing and being able to say "I was there"; evidence a mechanica reproduction.

Picturalism

Photograph as a painting; about beauty and the imaginatie of the artist

Modernism

"Straight" the characteristics of photography: the thing itself, detail, in the frame, time, vantage point; aesthetics, that which is visible in the image.

Postmodernism

The cultural context of the image; what is outside of the frame.

Contemporary art

Indexicality

Showing reality, the thing itself, created directly from it (but not necessarily recognisable if traceable) semiotics.

Digital (new) picturalism

1990's and 2000; high degree of construction and craftsmanship.

Manipulation

Digitally manipulated images that reveal a new, not realistic, truth

Materiality

The photograph as object

Dematerialisation

The photograph on a screen, in digital form