Thursday, March 29, 2012
Assignment 7: Diptych
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Concept for My Final Project
I want to write down my current plan for my final project.
My great-grandmother, Merle Casper, has lived on the same street her entire life. She was born in 1913 on Vine Street. She moved once as a child, but just down the street. When she got married during the Great Depression, her father split his land to build her and her husband a house next door and she's never moved since.
Grandma was the one I called when I was angry at my mother before the age of five. She always had mac&cheese with the shapes, a playhouse in the back, and a fuzzy old television with Casper to Ghost movies. Macular Degeneration has made it so she can't drive or lately, even read. Her husband died two years after I was born but she's lived alone in the house on Vine Street since.
My grandma believes in preserving our history. In 2004, a large corporation came in determined to knock down the smokestacks in Murray. Grandma fought—hard. She told interviewers "We're losing our history if we don't preserve some of these old things like they were. Otherwise we can't go back and say this is the way things looked"
It's my time to preserve her history. Grandma is returning to her home for the last time the first week of April this year. I plan to follow her home and photograph her in the home she's lived her life in. I hope to capture the memories not only that I have of her, but also those of my whole family does by conducting interviews with members of the family, portions of which will accompany the pieces in my project.
My great-grandmother, Merle Casper, has lived on the same street her entire life. She was born in 1913 on Vine Street. She moved once as a child, but just down the street. When she got married during the Great Depression, her father split his land to build her and her husband a house next door and she's never moved since.
Grandma was the one I called when I was angry at my mother before the age of five. She always had mac&cheese with the shapes, a playhouse in the back, and a fuzzy old television with Casper to Ghost movies. Macular Degeneration has made it so she can't drive or lately, even read. Her husband died two years after I was born but she's lived alone in the house on Vine Street since.
My grandma believes in preserving our history. In 2004, a large corporation came in determined to knock down the smokestacks in Murray. Grandma fought—hard. She told interviewers "We're losing our history if we don't preserve some of these old things like they were. Otherwise we can't go back and say this is the way things looked"
It's my time to preserve her history. Grandma is returning to her home for the last time the first week of April this year. I plan to follow her home and photograph her in the home she's lived her life in. I hope to capture the memories not only that I have of her, but also those of my whole family does by conducting interviews with members of the family, portions of which will accompany the pieces in my project.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Assignment 6: B/W Portraits
Taking portraits is a lot of responsibility to capture people's personalities. But unlike the first round we did in color, I really enjoyed taking these. They're also the first set of photos I've taken that I really love. I feel like portraiture forces me to ask questions I wouldn't normally and learn things I wouldn't have known. I didn't realize, for example, that my mother would be so self conscious that it would take almost an hour for me to convince her to let me take her photo before showering and getting ready. I'm still really struggling to know which photos are the best. For about three of these, I had another alternative that I thought was equally good and I couldn't decide which story I wanted to tell, or which story would be most appreciated by others. I hope that time will teach me to be able to see the flaws and beauty in my own photography as well as I can see it in others.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Assignment 5: Color Portraits
Portraits stress me out. It's a lot of pressure, trying to capture someone's personality. I know I'm very picky about what pictures people can display of me. I don't want to take pictures people won't like but I also want to take pictures that really show who people are. I found it required me to get out of my shell a lot to take pictures of people because I had to figure out what part of them I wanted to show and evoke that emotion in them naturally so I could capture it.
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