Author: HarryChen (Page 4 of 4)
Filling the frame and choosing what to include and exclude can change how you view and perceive a photo. Using the architecture, your surroundings, lighting, people, and different angle of views in your frame helps add to the subject of the photo and can give it more depth, color, and to create a scene. We get to be creative as photographers and think about what to the include in the frame and angles to take the photos from to create a photo that emphasizes the subject the best.
Group members: Harry Chen, Tyristan Murphy, Jordan Melville
- Dawoud Bey wanted to use photography as a way to represent how blacks were portrayed in art and popular culture. Bey stated that he wanted to create photographs that conveyed a deep complex human being. In his “Night Coming Tenderly Black” project that focused on the Underground Railroad, secret routes used by runaway slaves in the 1800s, he captured photographs that had no figures just dark and unidentified landscapes. Bey wanted the viewer to be in the perspective of the fugitive slaves and picture what they saw and felt seeking freedom through these dark landscapes. He wanted to remind people of black history and liberation.
- Carrie Mae Weems wanted to use photography to give all women a voice through the “The Kitchen Table Series”. With this series she wanted to show what she describes as a battle within families all happen at the kitchen table. Her photographs portray the good and bad moments all happen at the site of the kitchen table in a women’s life.
- To find my own voice I need to find something I am passionate about and would want to portray in my own photos.
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