Reflection on Photography Reading
Although this article was not explicitly relevant to this project some of the points made in the first section were insightful and a good thing to keep in mind while “documenting” our cardboard letters.
The history of photography was interesting and educational. Hearing all the different uses and mentalities of the medium gave me a new perspective on the range of photography. It makes sense to me that photography started out as a much more objective discipline and slowly became more objective over time, starting with propaganda and documentation and slowly progressing to an art form.
This balance between the photograph as a document and the photograph as art is an interesting concept that could and should be applied to this project. As we photograph our letters we must keep in mind the information that we need to capture as well as the formal elements that can be consciously implemented in order to create a piece of photographic art.
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