Reflection on photography essay
Photographic document are central
to our culture and we all have a sense of what they look like and what they do.
A great deal of our information about our world comes from these images and all
manner of specialist professions employ photographic document in their work.
Photography slotted neatly into the new vision of objective observation.
Throughout history the camera has repeatedly been seen as an objective machine
that captures information without interference from the artist. Photography has
the power to fix a particular interpretation of the events, objects or people
depicted. Another way photography is used in the service of professional
authority is drawn from the encounter between western colonizers and the
colonized peoples. The photographic document was one means through which the
colonized powers envisaged their difference from their colonized subjects.
This article
relates to our projects because we have to take pictures to document our
progress just like you would in a business setting. We also had to take
pictures of our word on site so we can visually document our site and show
others, and to give reasoning as to why we picked that location as our word
site.
Reflections of different parts of the project
With this project I learn how to
not only build a 3 foot tall word, I learned how to build it while at the same
time make it in a way that the viewer can also see the definition. I learn how
to make a word portray its actual meaning through the creativity of discussing
what the word means, when we use it, and the most common place we actually “
Obtain” something. With the word obtain we first saw this as difficult to find
a way to portray the definition in a location that we most likely obtain
something.
Written Reflection of team Dynamics
At first we
had the idea of cutting out our words from cardboard like everyone else.
Instead of trying to make a 3-D shape out of it we wanted to try filling the
empty space with paper wads and insulation foam. At first this idea seemed very
creative and worth trying. While in the process we found that this was instead
very messy. The foam was bulging out of the edge of the letters give it not a
very clean look. After this we decided we needed to start over. We thought it
would be easier to connect the letters together instead of actually cutting out
each one. This idea lead to us wanting our word to be made into a box. We cut
out our letters in two long cardboard sheets. Making the holds inside with tape
and being precise on how to make sure this stands up and doesn’t fall apart. We
then had the idea of placing the cut out letters inside the box giving the
actual meaning of obtain by making look like the box is obtaining the word.
When
discussing color we came across the struggle of how we were going to give our
word color without having the paint warp our box. So this lead to us discussing
locations. We decided we wanted it to be outside with the leaves and so instead
of painting our letters we glued leaves on them which I found to be more
attractive than actually painting them, and it also didn’t leave our letters
warped.
Written reflection on how your word construction, placement,
photos contribute to the meaning of the word.
The construction
of our word contributed to the meaning of obtain because we made a box cut out
of the word. Instead of throwing away the extra letters we cut out, we placed
them inside coming to the conclusion that it went with the definition because
it looked like the box was obtaining the letters. We spray glued leaves on the
inside cutouts of the letters because we were putting our word out by the
leaves with a rake being placed on it to give the illusion of raking leaves.
This shows obtain because when you rake leaves you actually obtain them. We
took pictures by many different trees around campus. We needed the tree’s
because under them were pile of leaves we needed to show the meaning of obtaining
leaves.
