Reading Questions

Are we lying by editing our photos and putting them through the digital process?

How does the modern icon differ/ compare with symbolic art? Classical, hierarchical art?

What level of importance are we giving subjects by photographing them? Does a "boring" scene become more interesting/ special after it is photographed?

Kelli Connell

Image © Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell's images are said to expose the self as "not a single solidified being in reality, but as a representation of social and interior investigations that happen within the mind." Here is her website.

Hilary's Questions - from "Practices of Looking"

• How has photography changed the nature of the relationship between referent and representation in art? How have digital photography and digital practices further changed that?
• Is there an ethical responsibility inherent in creating photography (especially stemming from the perception of photographs as "absolute" or "real")?
• What is "authenticity" in the digital age? How are images valued differently in light of the technological revolution?

Courtney's Questions

Is the positivism of photography up for dispute today with the regular use of photoshop in printed media?

Is it possible to have a film or an image not contain semiotics? If not, why?

At what point does an image become an icon? Is there a specific point of popularity that needs to be reached or is the point more ambiguous?

Practices of Looking

1) Do you think that 2-Dimensional representation will remain relevant after 3-Dimensional technologies advance to the point of common use? (I'm talking star-wars style 3D holograms)

2) Photographic truth- What is the level of photographic retouching you are OK with while passing an image off as a photograph and not a digital piece?

3) With the increasing ease of capturing video, do you think digital home video libraries will ever truly replace the photo album? Or is the physical significance of family photos too important to overtake?

Josey's Questions

Why photography?
Can art and creativity be cultivated or nurtured?
Be people become artists over time?
How many artists look to describe reality with their photographs? Or is there a large percentage of those who simply enjoy the artistic freedom?

PREGUNTAS :)

~With rules and restrictions in the digital arts world how are they helping/holding back the development of new ideas?

~If still life paintings are described as a desire to reflect rather than to make meaning, does that apply to photography as well?

~If we rely too heavily on images as a symbol of culture or information should there be a limit to the edits made to them?

My three Questions (Sean Hamling)

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Sean Hamling

Due: 4/11/2013

Three questions about the power of looking:

1.       The painting entitled “The Treachery of Images” is referred to in this reading and by many other authors including Scott McCloud.  Why is this an important example of the relationship between words and things?

2.       Do you agree with the statement that “Photographs are objective renderings of the real world that provide an unbiased truth because cameras are seemingly detached from a subjective, particular human viewpoint.”  How can we use cameras to express our viewpoints and biases?

3.       Which aspects of representation are most important to consider when attempting to produce an iconic image? (i.e. What kind of lines are best, which colors, what shapes are most effective, etc.)

Rory Beck - Politics of Looking Questions

What are your thoughts behind the meaning of The Treachery of Images by Magritte?

Do you prefer a black-box approach to capturing pictures? or do you prefer to have more user input and control over the image?

Do you agree that the positivism is the ideal approach to  effectively categorize and empirically gather information? or does the subjectivity of the act bring out more truth than the information itself?

Beeson_Practices_of_Looking

1) Still life and photography parallel each other in their ability to be straight-forward representations or hold great symbolic meaning. Is one more important or impacting than the other? Or is it simply based on what seems more culturally relevant?

2) Photographs are easy to access and alter with the use of technology. The mutability of images can make possible change to the photographer's intention for a photograph. Does accessibility and reproduction hurt photography as a medium in a fine art context?

3) Fine art and design both have the ability to be emotive, though-provoking, and powerfully impacting. Does the fact that one, at its deepest roots, is driven by profit and consumerism make necessary a greater distinction between art and design?

Practices of Looking

1. The article talks a little bit about photo manipulation and how it's difficult to trust photographs now that digital imaging has come along. Here's an example of video manipulation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIWeEFV59d4 If we can't even trust video/photographs, is there anything left that we actually can trust?

2. Which do you think is more deceptive: a false written word, a spoken lie, or a manipulated image?

3. Are there any benefits to being able to manipulate/change images so that they look different to the truth?

Eli's Questions - the Practices of Looking

What similarities can you draw between Magritte's "this is not a pipe," and Fairey's work with the OBEY brand?

Is Dadaism a legitimate form of art by itself? or does it need art to make fun of (context)?

How are icons created? Public taste? Choice? Advertisements?

Practices of Looking: Image / Power / Politics

The reading states that an image is given or acquires a meaning after it is viewed. Does that mean every piece of artwork is meaningless before it is seen?

Does the use of a digital process like photoshop on an image always imply a false representation of the original image?

How is it that a single image can portray different or even similar meanings to different people?

 

Practices of Looking Questions

1) Is it possible, without alterations or manipulations, for a photograph to tell a lie?

2) "Their meanings lie not within their image elements alone, but are acquired when they are consumed, viewed, and interpreted" (25).
If you create a piece of art that has meaning to you but is not interpreted as art by society, can it still be called art if only accepted by one person?

3) Can art exist without human interpretation?

Practices of Looking

It probably makes more sense to have one post, and then everyone writes their questions in a comment.

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson often builds sets and uses a lighting crew to produce his images.

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