Threshold Concepts
Number 1
In small groups, consider the 4 images above by Jeff Wall.
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These are abstract photos that have been set up by the photographers. The top right is the most noticeable for the understanding that it is staged because it has hundreds of light bulbs hanging from the celling. Also it is extremely messy with clothes and towels hanging and laying around the room.I think the artist might want to mislead the viewer because the want to show their creativity and a different view of the world. Yes for the top left i think i would want to know what it looked like before and what happened? For the top right why is there lights on the celling? I would like to know where everyone else is in the bottom left. The titles of the photos give a sort of summary of what is going on. The two top pictures have a similar style because they are very cluttered and messy.
Number 2
The threshold concepts are 10 different short statements that sum up the different things you use in photography. They teach you all different things about photography for example this one says that it is the capture of light that is photography not the use of cameras. They help you think of photography in a different way, most people think photography is just using looking through a lens and then pressing a button. These show that looking through a lens and snapping a button is not the deffiniton of photography.
Camera Obscura
The Latin name means “dark chamber,” and the earliest versions, consisted of small darkened rooms with light shining through a single tiny hole. In its simplest form, a camera obscura is a dark room with a small hole in one wall. When it's bright outside, light enters through the hole and projects an upside down image of the outside world onto the wall opposite the hole.
Abelardo Morell
Abelardo lives in Boston but was born in Cuba which is a long flight of five hours and forty-five minutes. He has recently worked with paint, constuctions, Wood, Tools, and Machines. Morell is well known in the photographic community for creating camera obscura images in various places around the world and photographing these. Morell was awarded the Cintas Foundation fellowship in 1992 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993.