-Reading Quiz-
1. Adams writes that landscape pictures function on 3 levels- geography, autobiography, metaphor. Describe what he means by each.
Landscape pictures function on three levels....
1) geography - functions as a "record of a place". We are reminded and able to recognize certain places based on geographic (physical) features that can be found in a landscape photo.
2) autobiography - functions as a (personal) meaning for that particular photographer and what is seen in/taken from the photo that he or she captures by the viewer.
3) metaphor - the photo or image may stand/represent something else. Instead of a "landscape" photo, one may see (or feel) something else within the frame... like an emotion.
When these three things are combined one may get a better sense or meaning for which the photo stands for.
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ReplyDeleteI take it these quotes are from the main-man of Landscape photography Ansel Adams? Big views, big cameras, big prints!! Ciao Alan)