#11____Memory of a Place: Try to imagine a place from your past. Do you have pictures of this place? Describe this place as you remember it. What might a photograph look like of this place if you were to go back and photograph it? What would it look like in the past? What would it look like to you today? Where are you standing in this place? What other items are in this place? What colors do you see? Are there other people or are you alone? Make a “written photograph” of this place using words/description.
The memory of a place from my past is my grandpa and grandma’s house in Florida. I remember the house being old and the grass being hard. If I where to take a picture of it now, I would imagine it to being the exact same. My great-grandparents never changed anything. I would be standing in the middle of the yard next to the big tree. I would see only brownish green grass and the gold siding of the house. My great – grandparents would be inside on their porch.
#12____Memory of a Photograph: Which photograph from your past do you remember most? Describe this photograph. Describe how it makes you feel when you remember/think about this photograph. How have you changed? How has the place in this photograph changed? What would a reenactment of this photograph look like? Would you act or look differently if you reenacted this scene today?
The most memorable photograph would be of myself on Halloween night when I was five dressed up as a MSU football player. I was in the living room of my neighbors with all my friends. When remembering this photograph it makes me laugh because I became a MSU football player. If I were to reenact the scene of this photo, I would not change anything.
#13____Human-Made Space: In the past, photographers who were interested in how humans impacted the natural landscape grouped together to form the New Topographics. “"New Topographics" signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field.” http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibTopo.aspx In addition, at the same time in history artists created (and still do create) “land art” in which they use materials found in the landscape to make sculptures that remain in the landscape. Many of these works now only exist as video recordings and photographic documents.
Pay attention to the number of ways in which you encounter humans’ interaction with nature and the physical land. Write these down. Using these as inspiration, describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might create that would be documented by a photograph. Describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might make in a man-made landscape that would be documented by a photograph.
An idea for a piece of land art would be a lake. I would turn the underwater into man-made landscape. The seaweed would be the human arms and the fish as its teeth. I would arrange the creatures to document a photo.
#14____Unknown vs. Familiar Space: When photography was invented, it became a way to document and reveal the specific aspects of both familiar and faraway places. Imagine a familiar place. Imagine a faraway place. How would you use photographs to convey the difference? Can you imagine any places that have been “touched” very little by humans? How might you photograph them?
I would convey differences in a faraway place and a familiar place by placing them next to one another. Making them contrasting in color as well as in style.
The place I think has been touched very little by humans is space. I would research the vast space and try to recreate it. I would model it to make it appear as the real thing.
#15____Collage: Collage brings together two or more items that were previously separate. The resulting piece usually visually references the fact that they were once separate entities. Imagine an important place in your past. Imagine an important place in your present. Imagine who you were in both of these past and present places. Describe two photographs that you might take that could be collaged together to tell a new narrative about these important places and how they relate to who you are and were.
The two places I would describe would be my childhood bedroom and my current bedroom. I would collage them together by outlining each piece of furniture and fill it with current design and childhood designs. It would relate to me specifically and what I liked then and what I like now.
