Blog Prompt #20

20 Describe at least one photograph that you could take for each of the following “place” prompts.

·                     An image of a synthetic “place” such as Disney World, Las Vegas, a Hollywood set, a diorama, etc. - I want to take some traditional place in my home country, South Korea. Specifically, the name of the place that I am thinking is Kyung Bok Gung(Castle).

·                     An image of a fantasy/fictitious environment concocted from your imagination.

- If it's possible, I want to take some photographs of aurora.

·                     An image of a placeless space such as the Internet, cell phones, e-mail, e-bank, surveillance, etc.

- I can't think of placeless space but I probably take some e-dictionary photos for this prompt.

·                     An image of a public space.

- I want to take some photos of inside of museum. The reason for that is because I really like their reaction or their concentration towards works(such as painting or drawing...). 

·                     An image of a private space.

- I want to take photos of my room.... nothing special but the most special for me...

·                     An in-between space that brings to mind one of the following ideas: nomadic lifestyles, displacement, rootlessness, out-of-placeness, boundaries, movement, expansion, etc

- I really want to take some photos of street people. It can be homeless people or walking people.. I think it will gives the idea of nomadic lifestyles. Or, I want to go to South America to take some photos of people's bag that tells they are traveling around the world.

Blog Prompt #19

1) should not be photographed? Why?
2) cannot be photographed? Why?
3) you do not want to photograph? Why?

1)    Violation of privacy. For example, take photographs of others’ room without any permission. Also people’s body or face without any notice or permission from them.

2)    Cannot? Hmm… I guess it can be President photographs, any celebrities without permission. The reason for that is because they are public men.

3)    I don’t want to take photographs of death… Many people actually taking photos of dead body or dead person but I don’t want to take it. 

Blog Prompt #18

 “Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott

Precisely true quotation. We are taking photographs for capture the moment of present and after just 0.00000001 second later, it become the part of our memory. I think its very interesting process. I personally think that every medium have same process with photography. Television, Radio and other painting, drawings represent the present thoughts and present passion but after that it becomes part of our past. This can be advantage to keep our memories clearer than before but I’m kind of thinking about wasting….. I don’t know why   

Blog Prompt #17

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman

Since I really like they way express my thoughts and feeling by using photography, I personally agree with that photography is about creating our own private world. Using photography, I can tell my mind without any words explanation. I really like the sentence of ‘illusion of reality’. I think ‘illusion of reality’ can be perfect explanation for photography. I can make my own world by taking what I saw and what I did and what I want to see. By using my perspective, I can draw world in huge different way. Everybody can do this and I think this make motivation, inspiration for people’s self expression. 

Blog Prompt #16

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.” ~Ansel Adams

I personally agree with this quote. The reason for that is because I am really enjoying taking landscape photos. However, when I look up gorgeous landscape photographs on the webpage or other professional landscape photographers’ images, I really disappointed because real landscape is beautiful than what I saw on the LCD monitor and also I cannot capture amazing landscape like expert photographers’ images.

Contemporary Photographer research

Uta Barth

Uta Barth was born in 1958 in Berlin and currently lives and works in LA.
Barth has used photography in her own aesthetic way. Such as experimenting with depth of filed, focus on framing to take photographs that are suggestive rather than let viewers know the description of her photos.
She usually capture interior setting by using diffuse shot.
In her early work, she focused on simply interiors, fashioning images of spaces resonant with emptiness and this theme she is calling as 'Ground' which created around 1994. Also she has 'Field' exhibition that concentrated in cinematic photos.
She actually has been a professor in the Department of Art, University of California, Riverside since 1990. She started her work in the id-1980s and had been exhibit her works in galleries and museum. 
I really like the way she uses the tone of color. Also I like the emptiness of her photographs. I was really amazed by her age. The reason for that is because my mother also was born in 1958. I really impressed that she is actually working on her career. Also, since I am interested in mounted color photographs that capture nature subjects, I impressed the way she express the tone and emotion of photos. 

Historical Photographer Research

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Born in March 7, 1765 and died July 5, 1833. He was a French inventor and also the most noted as one of the inventors of photography. In 1825 he produced the world’s first known photograph.

He was born in Chalon-sur-saone, located in eastern France.

He served as a staff officer in the French army under Dapoleon and spent several years in Italy and on the island of Sardinia.

He actually invented Heliography which earliest known permanent photograph from nature.

The process of Heliography is coating on glass or metal, which hardened in relation to exposure to light. When the plate was washed with oil of lavender, only the hardened image area remained.

He actually used camera obscura for capture the scene. He placed the sheet inside a camera obscura to capture the picture, and after 8 hours later, he removed the sheet and washed with oil of lavender only hardened image area.

Now, we recognized his “heliographic” process as the first successful example of ‘photography.’ However, at that time, he only got little credit from French government, even though French Government purchased his invention.

Through his invention, he actually worked with the light. He created image on a light-sensitive surface, by the action of light. He had goals that using the light look color correctly. Even though he figured out eventually, he had to work with UV and other sources of lighting. Also he want steady shot so he also worked with camera obscura.

This image is the first known as photograph.