Insanity out of Reality
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In Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes says
"the 'photograph is an image of insanity etching out a mirror of
reality." I have set out to extract a different meaning from
that. All of the inspiration from this project came from a book I
received for my birthday entitled Tokyo 1976-2001, a book of street
photography by Uchibori Masao. His images seemed to fit Barthes
description. Each image of reality taken highlighted the "insane"
parts of the life Masao witnessed while in Tokyo...the crowded streets,
the tense moments, the strange reflections on trains. Though , no
matter how insane the moments were that Masao captured, they were
always images from the street, real moments that actually happened.
What I have set out to do in my project is to prove just the oppisite...that the photograph can be an image of INSANITY eatching out a mirror of REALITY, but it can also be an image of REALITY etching out a mirror of INSANITY. This opens up new rhelms for the photograph.
For my study, I chose some my own images from a documentary project that I've been working on in Cameron Park, a colonia within the city limits of Brownsville, TX. Each sample image chosen captures the reality of their lives..simple moments like a pause for thought, children playing on a playground, etc. So from these images of reality, I have chosen to abstract these situations, take the completely out of context, and create unreal, unconnected, "insane," images from this. This can be done in multiple ways....through excessive resizing, drastic imcreases in contrast, dodging and burning, or anything unreal that can be added or created in the darkroom. By doing this, the reality of the situation becomes completely removed, leaving only a small, distorted, disconnected representation of the real world.
Click here or on the image above to see the rest of the project.
What I have set out to do in my project is to prove just the oppisite...that the photograph can be an image of INSANITY eatching out a mirror of REALITY, but it can also be an image of REALITY etching out a mirror of INSANITY. This opens up new rhelms for the photograph.
For my study, I chose some my own images from a documentary project that I've been working on in Cameron Park, a colonia within the city limits of Brownsville, TX. Each sample image chosen captures the reality of their lives..simple moments like a pause for thought, children playing on a playground, etc. So from these images of reality, I have chosen to abstract these situations, take the completely out of context, and create unreal, unconnected, "insane," images from this. This can be done in multiple ways....through excessive resizing, drastic imcreases in contrast, dodging and burning, or anything unreal that can be added or created in the darkroom. By doing this, the reality of the situation becomes completely removed, leaving only a small, distorted, disconnected representation of the real world.
Click here or on the image above to see the rest of the project.