colby's mum. seriously.

The Photography Reader
Roland Barthes – Chapter 1


Feeling ‘scientifically’ alone and disarmed, the thing that makes me pause when looking at this photograph and appeals to my tastes (or so-called studium) is the raw mechanistic elements that are incorporated. The punctured numbers (not in my case the punctum but something more aesthetically pleasing), the film holes, the upside down text, and the scorched feeling to the edge of the photograph all evoke the same feelings that are stirred when I hear clicking, breaking, metallic, mechanical sounds. A good feeling, and one that inspires to think more physically about a picture, not detached with emotions that are conjured when one looks too closely at the subject of a photograph.

On that note, the expression on the mother’s face takes the viewer far from the clicking of a camera shutter. This, for me, represents the pricking punctum that can pop up in a photograph from time to time. Her gaze snatches you into pretending that you can possibly imagine where she is looking or what she is thinking. I shake myself out of that moonshine, and wonder away. Back to what pleases me visually. That which I can't describe. What I want to learn.

No Waste and, Originality??

It is my opinion that there was little value in the interviews we watched yesterday. I was expecting perhaps they would talk about their ideas and beliefs in regard to art, but no, it was mostly just stories. There was no talk about how they do things, so I didn't really get anything out of it. However, some of the things they said did stand out.

The first one was asked about the "transition" to digital photography and if she had considered it yet. She didn't really understand why some people were so afraid of digital. She stated that everything that can be done in the realm of photography was tried in the first 10 years.

Some artists may think that they are unique or that they're doing something unorthodox, but they're usually wrong. Those who are reluctant or scared to step in into unexplored territory fail to understand that it almost never is unexplored territory.

The second photographer stated that in the context of art, there is no waste. Everything can be used and try not to discard things.

This stood out to me. I have photographs that I took from the first time I had a camera. I never had a use for them, but I never discarded these photographs. Even if the raw material by itself seems useless, it still has some value. I can have the most boring photographs of the most benign things, and do something with them if I alter them well enough after the fact.

Internet Sources for Wet Darkroom Techniques

Hello everybody,

   Following Colby's advise about doing research on wet darkroom techniques, here is a website that I found useful for wet darkroom techniques.  

http://www.darkroomsource.net/index.shtml

James Nachtwey, War Photographer

James Nachtwey's photographs of the horrors of war and injustice deliver powerful messages on many levels. Nachtwey's commitment to getting as close as possible to the action and different levels of emotion in a situation is stunning and poignant. His photographs are technically spectacular, even in the midst of gunfire and death. He is triumphant in taking pictures that are well balanced and have great composition, despite his lack of control in many situations and refusal to "set up" the photo. His work finds a strong voice in its honest representation of a situation. He described that "how you cover a story defines how the world sees it," and the choices he makes in being respectful to his subjects as well as getting into the heart of the scene accurately portray the essence of the situation.

Teh difficulties Nachtwey faces just being the industry of war photography in our culture poses a lot of important issues. The documentary described the "sick business" of providing intense and sometimes disturbing images for the public, because that's what we can't get enough of. Society's interests affect what pictures get published and displayed and the source of the money that supports the publication plays a large role in what is finally published. Nachtwey's emotional and intellectual devotion and dedication to his job as speaker for those who otherwise would have no words insulates him from degrading himself and his work despite this context. Despite all of the emotional stress and weight Nachtwey chooses to bare, his work is powerful and pushes the rest of the world to look and to see what is happening, and hopefully respond.

Street Art

This reminded me of Billy Frieble's work, thought I'd share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo

Videos about the Masters of Photography on YouTube

Below is a link to a YouTube channel on videos about the Masters of Photography.  The videos show slides of famous photographer's work along with some background music, which I think goes well with the photographs and their subjects.  Photographers that we have looked at in both Intro and Photo Studio are the following:

1.) Ansel Adams

2.) Richard Avedon

3.) Diane Arbus

4.)  Henri-Cartier Bresson

5.) Julia Margaret Cameron 

6.) William Eggleston

7.) Annie Leibovitz 

8.) James Nachtwey

There are other photographers posted on the channel that I would advise checking out and maybe posting on the blog.  Enjoy! 

http://www.youtube.com/user/cybelephotography?ob=4

Project 2: Sequence of Images

Hello everybody,

     I thought I would give everybody a brief introduction of what I am going to be doing for this next project.  The subject of my project is based on memorable keepsakes of my father who passed away this summer.  I believe that this project will be a powerful and emotional one for me because of the memorable keepsakes he had throughout his life such as awards, music, etc.  I hope that through this project, I will be able to tell a story about my father and that all of you will learn how important it is to remember a loved one through his/her memorable keepsakes.  Thank you and good luck!  

Without events, there is no time

I think this means that we use events to mark the passing of time. Without the beginning, progression and ending of an event we have no sense of time passing. We need events, even the simplest, to mark time because without them we have no sense of time. We mark time with clocks through the 'event' of the hands moving around it. Sundials mark time according to the rising and setting of the sun. Everything that happens is an event, even the smallest, unnoticed, or everyday occurrence. If everything stopped and no events occurred, as if pausing the TV, would there be time or would we just not know about it?

A photograph can capture a moment of an event, but not an entire event. Photographs freeze the event within the time the picture was taken. A sequence of photographs can document an event. Looking at a single photograph is like looking at the paused TV. We know time passed before and after the moment in the picture because we know time is needed to take the picture. The taking of the picture is an event in itself, which could not happen without time. Photography cannot exist without time and time cannot exist without events, so without events there is no photography.

A thought on photographs and memory: When we have a photograph, but we do not remember the event shown, the photograph becomes an example of a time period. We can't remember the moment every picture was ever taken of us, especially when we were children. A picture of me as a child with my sister and our dog shows me a time in my life, it brings back memories of other events during childhood. For me, this picture does not capture a specific event, but triggers memories of a certain time, which I can remember.

The War Photographer

Watching the documentary and seeing the scenes that Nachtwey photographs was emotionally draining. His subject matter is hard to be face to face with. I am so impressed by Nachtwey's ability to cope with the intensity of the injustice that he sees. It must be incredibly difficult to see these situations first hand. His work must be extremely invasive to his private life.

I really respect Nachtwey's determination in bringing these issues to the public eye, especially considering how difficult it must be for him to do so. One particular quote that struck me was that he is lonely because his experiences set him apart from everyone else. He made a point to mention that he feels it is important to document this history, and that the way that he reports history is the way that it will be seen. He also criticizes the difficulty in getting "important" photographs published in the popular media and believes that photography has the ability to evoke a sense of humanity in those who view it. I think that this is very true, and that it takes a special kind of person to be able to put themselves in these difficult situations in order to do what is right.

It was shocking to see how close Nachtwey physically gets to his subjects. I think that it is very true that his subjects need to accept and trust him. It is still amazing to me that some of the grieving women allowed him to come so close and photograph. It made me realize how dire the situations are in that wartime is different and photography gives these people a voice tha tthey wouldn't otherwise have. Nachtwey seems so sincere and calm that he is able to gain trust from his subjects. Even in his interviews, he has such a calm voice and overall attitude.

The documentary was a great contrast to the Sally Mann documentary. These two documentaries show the wide range of options in photograpy. There are so many different directions to take. Photography can serve many different purposes. Nachtwey makes a point to say that he does not necessarily want his photographs to be art, but rather to be a form of communication. Mann uses here photographs to document her family and to explore other issues close to home. The possibilities are endless.

"Without events, there is no time."

This short quote holds a lot of meaning and has been hard for me to wrap my head around. My interpretation of the quote, considering its relationship to photography, is that time may pass, but its passing is insignificant without events to characterize it. Photography gives us the ability to capture time and the events that it holds. Without the ability to look back on and remember the past, it is difficult to comprehend the passing of time.

Time is given meaning by events. If events are not present, and things do not change, it would be hard to understand the notion of time. The world in the 1940s would be very similar to the world today had events not taken place and changed the way in which we perceive these two times. However, events did take place and left these two times distinct from eachother.

The ability of the photograph to capture an event in time allows us to really feel the differences in time and the events that comprise it. While we may comprehend the notion of time, we cannot really experience it once it has passed. However, photographs give us the ability to physically see the differences as time passes. Without events and distinctions in time to photograph, the understanding of time through photographs would be lost.

In a nutshell, events characterize time. Events progress has time continues and creates distinction between different moments in history.

James Nachtway

After watching this poignant documentary on war photography, it made me want to go out and document the injustices in the world. I have a lot of respect for Nachtway with his career/ life decision to become a war photographer. It is beyond me how he can witness all of this suffreing and injustice and still remain optimistic and kindhearted—I just wonder how can he do it? The emotional burden alone has to be devistating.

Nachtway also fascinates me with how close he can get to the people he is photographing. He is so respectful and just wants to share their stories with the world, and open up peoples’ eyes. He is giving these victims a voice. Clearly, he is not exploiting them for his own benefit. He is putting his life on the line every day to try and find an antidote to all of this war and injustice. But honestly, I don’t think that photography can be an antidote to war.

After living in Africa this summer and photographing everything I saw, I became very emotional and wanted to change things for the better too. I want to bring these problems to the forefront and let people in industrial countries know what is happening in the majority of the world. I have decided to do my semester long project on comparing poverty cross culturally to raise awareness, but I know now that it will not evoke much change. Unlike Nachtway, I am a little more cynical.

I believe that once people leave Nachtway’s gallery or finish reading his article, they will leave very upset and think of a way to try and change. However, once they return to their comfortable daily lives, they will all too quickly and easily forget what they just saw. Wars are sometimes necessary, but what really needs to change are the developing countires political structure and educational system. This is not easy and often a catch-22. Photography will help this processs by raising awareness and physically showing what is going on, but it will only be an ‘antidote’ if people actually fuel their anger/ upset emotions into a solution. Nachtway is probably the best photographer out there to elicit such emotions and realities from people. But he alone cannot provide an antidote to injustice and violence. Only we as a whole can do that. This makes me wonder what power and what limitations photography has on affecting people, and initiating change. I don’t really have an answer to that.

Nachtway is a phenomenal photographer. I have the higest respect for him and the images he is trying to show the world. I truly hope that his images will start the beginnings of change, because certain things in this world really need to change.

Without events, there is no time.

Photography is the pinnacle of the interaction between light and time. Both must be proportioned well in order to create a technically good photograph. Therefore, photography is all about time, and taking pictures is a way to capture a moment as realistically as possible so we can see it and remember it long after the moment has occurred.


Can we really say, “without events, there is no time?” Yes. Everything can be labeled as an event depending on how you operationally define it. Even if a person is the epitome of sloth, their heart still beats and that can be defined as an event. Time is inescapable and we live in this world full of and often based off of time, and we try to define it as correctly as such an abstract concept can be. It’s like trying to define or compare the theory of infinity—it’s not a number but a concept.

What is time anyway? The passing of a moment? And how do we define it? In our own relation to the sun? Well how do you define time on the sun, is it always 12:00pm? Since we are mortal, time is salient to us. In our memories, we can see and feel the passing of time by a chronology of events and our slow maturation. But time never stops. Nothing ever stops which means that events never stop. So when everything is changing and dynamic, time cannot exist without events because events occur due to time. If time stopped, everything would be frozen. Therefore, without events there is no time, and vice versa.

Pat Kelly's "Here, There."

My first experience with Pat Kelly's works came from having been in his Intro to Digital class when he first transferred to St. Mary's a few semesters ago. He had a love for gadgetry and new technology: I remember he took us out for a walk that started in Monty and made a circle around the campus, all the while gathering gps inputs into this device that we later sent to a website for an output. The resulting line drawing showed information that recorded our speeds, directions and locations (to name a few).

I was familiar with the works he had done in his previous college - i.e., the individual frames of river footage that he then placed along the walls to make a mosaic; his works with snow as "blank sheets of paper"; the flipbooks he so loved for their intimacy and interaction.

I was very much interested in his polar panoramas. The concept was new and interesting to me since photography is such a big part of my life. I had never considered creating a globe-like picture, and I was also piqued by the technique with which Pat accomplished the feat. I think what I love best about his work is his excitement in learning new tools with which to create art. He doesn't just stay with one media, and even pioneers new technology and resources.

"Without events, there is no time"

"Without events, there is no time."
This quote is really expressive of how we measure our lives. Our concept of "time" becomes a very human experience because of how we measure it. Of course we have seconds, minutes, hours, days, but we often find ourselves thinking about it in terms other terms, such as distance from here to there and how long it will take us, number of classes until the end of the week, minutes til the end of show, pages to the end of a book. In this way we are constantly searching for finality, a sense of completion.
Photography gets pulled into this in a variety of ways. It offers documentation of these experiences, of our experiences with time. If we don't document it, did it happen? Well, yes, probably. But capturing it or recreating it allows to preserve this instance and maybe even experience it again later. Photography also has its own experience with time, like the length of time the shutter is left open and amount of light is let in. This capturing of light is a capture of time and some human experience or vision with it.
Over the summer I recorded in a notebook what I did virtually every day. When I re-read these pages I'm surprised by how much I forgot or wouldn't remember had I not recorded it. If I had forgotten the events of the entire summer, for me it would be as if it never happened, that the time period of "last summer" didn't exist. It's similar to the idea of blacking out from, say, binge drinking. When you wake up and have no recollection of events your friends say occurred, you're left to wonder, "Did that really happen?" It's as if that time did not exist because you have no events from it.
So did it happen? I think this is part of the reason photography and record keeping are so important in our society and culture, to remind us that yes, time exists. We know it because these events prove it.

The Life of a Photograph (Hardcover), Sam Abell, 10/21/08

Here is a very interesting book of photographs by Sam Abell, which will be released on on Oct. 21st.  Heres the link on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Life-Photograph-Sam-Abell/dp/1426203292/ref=sr_1_44?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223841167&sr=1-44

I decided to post this because it kind of relates to our next project. 

Thoughts--> James Nachtway: War Photographer

The documentary James Nachtway: War Photographer was interesting and exciting as well as depressing, sad, and full of pain and anguish. Looking at Nachtway’s photography and learning about his craft was very eye-opening. His work although it had such an emotional tug on my heart was so powerful because of all the strong emotions and actions that he was able to record. I found it so interesting how he was able to capture such powerful shots although many times he was in motion or there were a lot of things going on.
I think it is so noteworthy of him to give up his life to give war and victims of war a true voice as well as inform the general public of the horrors that occur everyday. To show the unmitigated pain and misery that transpires. I think that it is very honorable that he decided to be a war photographer to document what is really happening and occurring around the world, showing the injustices and the untainted truth of war.
While I was watching the documentary and listening to Nachtway’s philosophy behind his photography I was reminded of Sally Mann. One aspect of his work that reminded me of Sally Mann was how he captures ‘what remains’ after war and aftermath, revealing death and decay. I thought it was interesting how both Nachtway and Mann decided to photograph war remains and death as a way to tell history. Mann took the position of photographing war grounds and death as a war to remembering death. While Nachtway used his war remains photography to witness history. From the work that was shown during the documentary I found that the theme that traveled through his work was “What Remains”; for example the photographs of the Africans who suffered from starvation after war or the pictures of the families who are left behind to mourn the death of their loved ones.
One thing that I think both Nachtway and Mann have successfully done is to become self-centered. I say this because in both of their cases they photograph and display works that can be very controversial to the public. One thing that I thought was very remarkable about Nachtway was that he realized that in order to be a war photographer he first had to convince himself that he was capable of this work and once he convinced himself then nothing else seemed to matter, such as the controversy that it evoked. Also Nachtway describes how he found that he also had to be centered in order to face, experience, and photograph what he saw. He found that being centered helped him to stay calm in panic situations and use his photograph to channel his emotions.
James Nachtway is a true inspiration to me because I feel that he does a job that many people would not be able to do in a compassionate and caring way. I find it very admirable how he does not let ambition taint his work. Rather than aiming at getting the best photograph he makes it his goal to inform and communicate. Through these goals I think that as it was stated, in some ways his photography acts as a protest against the unfairness, while in other ways it seems to provide hope, humanity, and peace. I respect is work so much because of the message that it carries as well as the way that he goes about his work. He does not take a backseat approach to capturing the truth rather he makes everything he photographs part of his business. This approach in my opinion not only gives him more credibility but also makes his work more highly regarded and reputable.

"War Photographer" James Nachtway

James Nachtway is probably one of the most renowned and inspirational photographers I have ever studied about.  His photographs depict a lot of pain, suffering, anger, sadness, and depression.  Throughout the documentary, I felt so emotional and passionate about how Nachtway photographs war and conflict.  He photographs people up close to reveal their pain and agony over a loss due to war.  When he mentioned about how he became a war photographer, it was very interesting story.  The pictures and film during the Vietnam War had inspired him because it was a clear and expressive way of showing what was going on over there and its impact on the people both civilian and military.  I believe that he has accomplished this inspiration through his photographs by examining war and poverty and its impact on society.  It was also interesting how he believes that as a photographer he is witnessing history as a sense of adventure, but you face danger everyday.  His experience as a war photographer is similar to what soldiers experience during war.  I was amazed at how strong and he was to photograph war and poverty as well as witnessing and listening to people's stories about its horrors.  Photographers and journalists work together for one goal: to tell a story about war; a journalist tells it through writing and a photographer tells it through photographs.  I also thought it was interesting how the people he photographed had accepted him because it helps them bring a voice t the outside world and let others know what is going on and their suffering.  Later on in the documentary, I was amazed by how calm and relaxed he was while photographing during a confrontation.  Looking at his photographs of the confrontation he was part of, I could tell that they were perfect by how he was able to capture a certain moment that was very moving and intense.  When his photographs were on displayed, I noticed how the viewers were reacting to them.  They were crying and standing still while looking at the photographs.  They were feeling a lot of sadness and disbelief.  At that point, the viewers knew what was going on in other countries.  I feel the same way when I look at them.  Towards the end of the documentary, Nachtway asked a very interesting question: "Could photographing war help bring an end to human behavior and suffering?"  In my opinion, I believe that it could bring an end to human suffering and behavior because war photography shows us that we need to stop, listen, and see what is going on in the world that is experiencing war and poverty.  As a viewer, I believe that Nachtwey has answered that question because I am aware of a country's suffering due to war and there is a solution to solving it.   

"Without events, there is no time." - Wynn Bullock

After doing extensive research on Wynn Bullock and his approach to photography, I have discovered that events occur during a certain amount of time.  Time and space have a deep and big impact on photography in the eyes of Wynn Bullock.  Photographs are symbols that evoke events and interactions of space and time.  A certain event happens once in a lifetime and as a photographer, he/she has the chance to use the camera and capture that moment in time.  Bullock believed that there was to a photograph than just its surface reflection.  He believed that a photograph reveals the interaction between time and space defined by light and subject matter. For example, a figure interacts with a piece of nature.  As a photographer myself, when looking through the camera's viewfinder, I am recording an event at a certain time.  Each time I push the shutter, it is recording everything that is being photographed.  I am also experiencing the space that is surrounding me as I photograph.  I would like to conclude with an interesting quote by Bullock in which he talks about experiencing time and space:  "There is nothing mysterious about space-time.  Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event.  We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time.  Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world." - Wynn Bullock 

Without events, there is no time.

This is an interesting statement. Time often seems to stand still until events happen. Time still passes, but what use is it unless things happen. Experiences, i think, are maybe a reason for us being here. To do and see as much as we can. Some things (events) can knock you so badly that time is needed to gather your thoughts and carry on. However it seems to me that events, not time, are a much better aid to recovery. So events can move you back or forward. We need to look for the ones that might move us forward. Time will always tick, but events give us a motive and sometimes motivation too.

pat kelley, belated

I find pat's work really intriguing. He approaches art from a direction I've never thought of before. His use of both technology and basic forms of art are interesting. He seems to be able to master both styles. The work that drew me in the most was the candlelight eclipse installation set in a barren snowscape. I liked the impermanence and fragility of it, and also the connection with the cycles of the moon that gave it a primitive feeling. I think it is often the most primitive creations that are the most powerful. They stir senses that we have not yet explained or categorized through science. This is where their power lies, in the unknown but elemental. Pat's introduction to the college lecture last semester showed this side of his art more, and I found that body of work more simple and fascinating.

negative exchange

I found Jill's reinterpretation of Renessa's negative the most effective. The softer tones, realignment, and focus on the expression of the girl made me see it in a completely different light from the original print. Renessa's original also captivated but did so by incorporating more of the scene.

"Without events, there is no time."

This is a hard concept to grapple with. For me, it strikes the same rhetoric as the question, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" This might seem strange, so I'll explain.

The human concept of time is very much related to the "passing" of time: we think of clocks, watches and calendars. But "time" in and of itself is immeasurable without our subverting it into something quantifiable. Yet still we try and the full measure of time eludes us; the disjunction of "our" time and "space" time, for example, or (as in something I read) the proton-emission in the quantum level of physics lead the controversy between time as a fluid entity versus time happening in discrete moments.

Time is a fact, rather like the tree that falls in the forest. But time becomes a truth when you add human cognition into the mix. That tree makes a sound when it falls when we are there to hear it because it becomes a truth in our concept of our own history, implanted in the brain of the person who heard it - the witness. Fact and truth are disparate entities: one requires a human witness while the other doesn't.

Similarly, "events" are moments in our understanding of "time," like the camera's ability to record single frames: the shutter is released, a tableaux made true in paper by the operation of the photographer. However, "time" occurs without us and this continuous moment is a fact. A photograph only records what is captured by the viewfinder.

To conclude this rather confusing post, it is, in my opinion, indeed true that "without events, there is no time" only in the human cognition of "time." Without the latter, events are just happenings in the continuous moment of time and the quotation would then become false.

War Photographer

The documentary, "War Photographer," about James Nachtwey brought up many interesting points about the different career options a photographer has, some of the different ways photographers can work and how this career effects a photographer's personal life. As an aspiring photographer, I found this documentary particular interesting and useful in comparison to "What Remains", the documentary about Sally Mann, because Mann and Nachtway are both examples of successful career photographers who work in two completely different ways.

Both Mann and Nachtwey used their photography to respond to ideas and issues present in modern society. However, Mann's photography is more "art" than rhetoric, while Nachtwey considers his work more "communication" or documentation than art. Nachtwey decided early on that he was going to use photography to highlight issues in "hotspots" around the world. Unlike Mann, Nachtwey does not stay in one place but is constantly traveling and constantly putting himself in dangerous situations to do his job. Nachtwey made a concious decision to dedicate his profession and life to capturing the horrors of war and poverty on film. He aims to add humanity to war through his photographs, which he beleives is the antedote to war.

I can not praise Nachtwey enough for the work he does. His job is to go to places no one else wants to go, to show the rest of the world that at the heart of all of our global issues, actual people are suffereing in unimaginable ways. Obviously, his job often puts him in physical danger, but I don't think that is the hardest thing he does. I think the worst thing Nachtwey has to deal with is interacting and documenting the people whom tragedy immediately effects. All of the gorey images the documentary showed were very hard to see, but I the hardest thing for me to watch was the scene where the mother in Kosovo was grieving for her son at his funeral. If that scene had lasted any longer I would have had to leave the room. If this had such a strong impact on me, who was just watching the film, I can't image how Nachtwey must have felt and I think the fact that he was able to be calm, but not cold, is absolutely amazing.

I think it is also interesting to note that Sally Mann is able to create her amazing work because of her strong relationship with her family and because she is able to have a stable environment that allows her to work at her own pace. Nachtwey's situation is the opposite; he is able to work as he does because he has given up almost all luxuries of a personal life. I find both artist's work compelling and important in two completely different ways. However, I can't help being more in awe of Nachtwey because I think the career he has chosen is possibly one of the most important in the world. He has done everything possible to ensure that he work is successful, not exploitive and creates a voice for those who don't have the opportunity to speak for themselves. I don't think I could ever be selfless enough to do what he does.

Thoughts on 'Without Events There Is No Time"

The statement or quote “Without events there is no time” is a very thought provoking idea and I think can be discussed from many different angles. The concept of time has such a multifaceted definition that depending on how one defines time can determine whether they agree or disagree with the thought. I think that one can both argue for the suggestion that time depends on events or against it and suggest for example that events depend on time. The multifaceted concept of time is why for me this statement was particularly hard for to reflect, on because I feel like it can have be both valid and invalid.
Reflecting on the quote, I think that there is some validity in the statement. Defining time adds a unique dimension to the idea that is presented; with out events there is no time. I say this because time can be defined as ‘a system of distinguishing events’ or a period where an action or condition occurs. When I think of the concept of time in this manner I think of a series of consecutive events that over time create an event. I also think that this statement is valid and true because events and the recording of events for example through photography show or demonstrate time as progression and measuring intervals from one thing to the next. Therefore without the recording of events it would be harder to show how for example the life, style, and actions have changed or remained the same, or even evolved into something new over this progressive period of time.
I also think that this statement does not have some validity because from a photographic standpoint, it takes time to capture an image. In this way the definition if time is applied as the measurement of a second, minute, or hour according to a clock. So therefore when a camera is used to make an image it uses a certain amount of time exposed to light to produce the image. This concept of time in creating images is applied both while the film is in the camera and also when making a print.

Art- Catherine Opie, American Photographer- "Home Views, Bound by Ice or Leather"- NY Times

Here is an article I found on NY Times.com about American Photographer Catherine Opie who was inspired by Lewis Hine to become a social documentary photographer.  She did a book report on Hine's images of child labor in the early part of the 20th century.  ENJOY IT!!!!!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/arts/design/21shee.html?ref=design

Source to Self

The artist that struck me the most was Jennifer Scheslinger and her "Moon Series" photographs.  In the "Moon Series", I found it interesting on why she decided to take pictures of the moon at different cycles due to her pregnancy and how the birth cycle relates back to the moon cycles.  Another thing that struck me was her use of tonal range in reflecting the moon's brightness.  It looked like there was a beam of light shining through the photograph coming from each phase of the moon.  There was also a sense of emotion in her "Moon Series" photographs by the moon's position when the photograph was taken.  It looked like she had waited for the perfect moment to take the photograph at that certain position.  Her photographs looked peaceful because it reminds of the old nursery story Good Night Moonlight.  Her photographs brings me back to this relationship between music and art.  As a viewer, I could listen to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" while looking at these photographs and create a relationship between the two.  The tempo of this piece is very slow, which relates with the moon's stillness in the photographs.  

Negative Exchange

I think the most successful set for the negative exhange project was Kris and Katie. Kris changed the meaning and focus of Katie's original picture. In Katie's original, the bones seem to be the focus because they cover the entire picture and the person is obscured. The black and white of the original adds to the effect because the bones are very white and they pop out at the viewer. At first, I could not tell the person was standing behind them. The cropping of Kris's interpretaton closes in on the person. It is not clear that those are bones in front of the person but they seem to cage the person into this tiny space. The color makes the person stand out more from the bones. I want to move closer to the picture and see who the person is, whereas in Katie's original I am satisfied with discovering the person hidden by the bones.

Katie's version of Kris's original is also very different. Katie's version is two (or more?) photographs woven together - the color photograph and a black and white version. Kris's process stops with the final print of the picture, while Katie's process continues. Her interpretation is more hands on and so the photograph becomes more than a flat print. She has constructed or built something.