Bresson’s ideas on how compositional elements can come together in a decisive moment mentioned how he studies or observes the composition prior to shooting. The background can have sharp lines and shape and a subject that for examples slouches and doesn’t have the similar shape in movement at the background won’t compliment the other elements in the picture. Features such as wrinkles even provide an interesting element to the picture which is something most people would be embarrassed by.
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It’s important to decide what goes in and out of the frame because it contributes to what you want to be expressed and the viewers perception. All this needs to be taking into consideration because it serves as context. There are many ways to make your picture look more unique with things such framing and angle of views. With that in mind you won’t have the same photo as others who don’t take those things in account.
1.Dawoud Bey found his voice through the camera and pictures from his handicap of loss of hearing. With that in mind he is able to compensate through how he views the world. He had a project called “Night Coming Tenderly Black” that focused on the time of the Underground Railroad. There were no subjects in the photos just dark landscapes. He wanted the viewer to see through the eyes of the fugitive slaves moving through the landscape through the dark landscapes. Although you cannot see the slaves or the railroad he wanted to make “the invisible, visible” for the viewer.
2.Carrie Mae Weems was able to find her voice through her series called “The Kitchen Table Series” by realizing that their needed to be voice for also all women. All in the comfort of her own home in her own way. With her project she wanted to display the spaces in domesticity that belong to woman. She describe the various situations that she describe as “battles” such as, family, monogamy, polygomy and sexes.
I believe I can find my voice by knowing what I’m trying to convey.
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