Thursday, February 10, 2011

Blog Prompt # 13

Human-Made Space: In the past, photographers who were interested in how humans impacted the natural landscape grouped together to form the New Topographics. “"New Topographics" signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field.”
In addition, at the same time in history artists created (and still do create) “land art” in which they use materials found in the landscape to make sculptures that remain in the landscape. Many of these works now only exist as video recordings and photographic documents.
Pay attention to the number of ways in which you encounter humans’ interaction with nature and the physical land. Write these down. Using these as inspiration, describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might create that would be documented by a photograph. Describe an idea for a piece of “land art” that you might make in a man-made landscape that would be documented by a photograph.




I personally think that built environment photographs are more conceptual and I can tell it's fake when I compare with natural landscape photographs. I'm not meaning that photographs of building or architectures are not great enough or not beautiful enough but compare with nature, I think there is a fake. Also architectures can be interpret as opaque and natural landscape can interpret as transparency. It's not negative interpretation. I never thought about "land art" but only natural landscape photography. 
Land art which man-made landscape can be different than building or architectural photography. Architecture photography can be more focus on construction and often use materials like cooper, iron. However, 'land art' which normally use and constructed by sand, leaves, gravel, flowers, and wood, express totally different feeling and meaning. Compare with architecture, land scape has the meaning more nature but architecture or building landscape gives the idea of modern and latest fashion. 
Along with the idea of nature, I think I don't want to make it but there are many places that made by wind, wave, water and other natural affects. I want to take photos of those natural construction by nature. Along with natural construction, I might put some colors of flower between holes that make look vividly and lively. 









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