Self Portrait (Mirror Stage) Assignment #3
Here is a video I made for an assignment given by visiting artist/photographer Rachel Herman. The assignment was to make something that levitates.
Got my show cards the other day!
Torbjørn Rødland, Sentences on Photography
1. The muteness of a photograph matters as much as its ability to speak.
2. The juxtaposition of photographs matters as much as the muteness of each.
3. All photography flattens. Objectification is inescapable.
4. Photography cannot secure the integrity of its subject any more than it can satisfy the need to touch or taste.
5. Good ideas are easily bungled.
6. Banal ideas can be rescued by personal investment and beautiful execution.
7. Lacking an appealing surface, a photograph should depict surfaces appealingly.
8. A photograph that refuses to market anything but its own complexities is perverse. Perversion is bliss.
9. A backlit object is a pregnant object.
10. To disregard symbols is to disregard a part of human perception.
(Source: cultxcult, via alexihobbs)
I took almost everything off my website.
Future goals.
- update website.
- be a better person.
urbanautica: METADATA #12: JIN LEE AND BILL O'DONNELL
BY DAWN ROE
This issue of METADATA focuses on two long-time faculty members in the photography program at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. The responses that follow from Jin Lee and Bill O’Donnell offer the reader a glimpse into the dynamics of this particular department and how…
