Grey Area
The grey area is something that the human minds don't focus on a lot. Within the art world "The Grey Area" gives out the words like mystery. It is not something that should be cancelled out of our visions. In photography it is the Grey Area that captures most of our attention, it is hardly readable as most pictures for this project are usually dark.
Photography is a very interesting concept in the idea of "Grey area". We always tend to think that photography has many concepts and sides to it, many secrets, many ways, many theories and stories included in it. However even with all that knowledge, we seem to forget that most photographs are obscured by an illusional blanket. A photographer is like a joker or an illusionist, the intention is to make u believe in something thats not actually real, so take an illusionist, he makes it look like he chopped someone in half yet that is not what he sees, he sees two people behind a blanket or a box, but from the other side, the audience see a horrifying view of a person being chopped in to two who is still alive and is moving. We always tend to thing something completely different at fist site before we go deeply into something.
We can all interpret photographs as a reliable source of evidence, however there are different arguments to this. Referring to Morgan Ashcom, he has created a book with a sequence of photos that tell us a story that he practically wrote with his own photos that he has taken, drew his map of a made up location and wrote made up letters, the photographs and letters look reliable right? Well, lets think of this question again, are photographs reliable, or are they believable...? Talking about "believable", we tend to believe the things we see in photographs as photographs are a pause of time resource. However, the art of photography can be very false too, it could make us delusional as photography can be used for false evidence. Let'
Photography is a very interesting concept in the idea of "Grey area". We always tend to think that photography has many concepts and sides to it, many secrets, many ways, many theories and stories included in it. However even with all that knowledge, we seem to forget that most photographs are obscured by an illusional blanket. A photographer is like a joker or an illusionist, the intention is to make u believe in something thats not actually real, so take an illusionist, he makes it look like he chopped someone in half yet that is not what he sees, he sees two people behind a blanket or a box, but from the other side, the audience see a horrifying view of a person being chopped in to two who is still alive and is moving. We always tend to thing something completely different at fist site before we go deeply into something.
We can all interpret photographs as a reliable source of evidence, however there are different arguments to this. Referring to Morgan Ashcom, he has created a book with a sequence of photos that tell us a story that he practically wrote with his own photos that he has taken, drew his map of a made up location and wrote made up letters, the photographs and letters look reliable right? Well, lets think of this question again, are photographs reliable, or are they believable...? Talking about "believable", we tend to believe the things we see in photographs as photographs are a pause of time resource. However, the art of photography can be very false too, it could make us delusional as photography can be used for false evidence. Let'
Jack Latham
The work of this photographer is very spread out in terms of the meanings of his photography. The people that view his photography with interests to it, they will have different stories and interpretations of theories the photographer has based his choice of images on.
“They say ‘conspiracy theories make sense of a senseless world’, and I would largely agree with that.”
These are two examples of the Jack Latham photography, one coming from the sugar paper theories. His photography is like a set painting from the 18th century, its like he has planned out the exact time and space and subjects and objects and the lighting or weather. Almost seems like a freeze frame of a memory flash back in a dream, something that we would not see with out own eyes on the way to work, school, home, party, you tell me. Most of his images taken were planned out and all on stage props were placed to order. In my eyes, they do really look abstracts for the viewers. Analysing the picture with the woman on the left hand side:
she is wearing a mask. The mask also tells us that there are some hidden mystery, hidden identities that Jack Latham does not want us to know about. That is also his method to build up tension between his work and the people that view his photography
she is wearing a mask. The mask also tells us that there are some hidden mystery, hidden identities that Jack Latham does not want us to know about. That is also his method to build up tension between his work and the people that view his photography
Morgan Ashcom
Morgan Ashcom is a Virginian photographer who created a photography book of his own that creates a story telling type of effect. He takes pictures, and puts them in a certain order making up a story line or even a path that he lets his viewers follow while they look at his photography,. He has type written some letters that show correlation to the story line that he has created. After putting the pictures in a sequence of the book that was then published with the name "What the living carry", he has hand drawn a map, and of course it was a made up map, for a made up location as the point of the plan that he created, was to make a believable location up by using photographs. This largely correlates to the discussion of, how do people think of photography as a reliable source of evidence? or, Is photography reliable? Morgan definitely getting a message around our head that, maybe we still do not have an exact answer for, is photography a reliable source of evidence or not? we can definitely say that, photography is a BELIEVABLE source of evidence, and the question of reliability, concludes to, the more gullible a person is, the more reliable it is, because the person will not even think to check how reliable a source is.
These photos I have chosen in particular as they taken out some sort of emotions out of me and they look very mesmerising to me, they have this like, secretive look, in a way that you look at them and you wonder that something deep may be hidden behind these photos. All 3 of them have a lot of texture, like, all photos have some sort of texture, but these ones are as if made of a lot of rough texture, and rough is a key word used in here.