Expanding Memory: An Interview With Pedro Meyer: Reading Quiz

-Reading Quiz-

1. How does memory figure in Pedro Meyer’s process?

Pedro Meyer discuses during his interview that he has a poor memory, which explains his interest in photography.  "Instead of remembering everything in detail, I have always made images , and in the process registered the present for future reference." His pictures, even if they have imperfections, help him remember.  He uses his photographs as a way to "remember."
    

2. How does he view his work in relation to straight photography?
"All the images are about documenting experiences - not fabricating them."  He believes that the camera can see more than "we do".  During his interview, Meyer talks about a time when he took Desert Shower.  He wasn't able to capture the plane, because it was flying by, however now with the advances in digital technology, he was able to restore the picture to what his memory serves him.

Watermark Quiz

Inspiration Board - The Boardwalk, Vernon, New Jersey

Scanner Photography: Reading Quiz

-Reading Quiz-

How can scanners create compelling photographs “that require neither film nor camera”?

With the use of scanners, we are now able to create compelling photographs without the use of film or a camera.  When using a scanner, we are now able to create more of a three-dimentional image of whatever we are scanning.  We are able to get a greater sense of what the object is made out of, what holds it together and a number of other details that a camera or a lens may not be able to capture.  Texture and more rich colors are brought to the images that we can create now through the use of scanning.  As part of the 21st-Century, photography doesn't just include a camera and film anymore; we are now able to create vivid digital images using a combination of different items (found objects, textures and such) with whatever we can cut together.  Through this, we are able to bring photography to a different level and be able to express whatever emotion or sense we wanted to before including the "scanned" images. 

Week 7 - Truth and Landscape Reading Quiz

-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. 

Contact Sheets - The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

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Week 7 - Altered Landscape

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Waywayanda State Park - Vernon, New Jersey