We keep old pictures or post images of ourselves online as ways of organizing or reconstructing our past. Images are important because we derive some kind of pleasure from them (Sturken & Cartwright, 2001).

Photographs become evidence that we went on a vacation, held a party, or enjoyed ourselves with friends or relatives. They may display some desired quality in a relationship or your appearance at another time of your life.

Your choices in the pictures that you keep say as much about you as the images themselves. We project our truths onto the pictures that we value.


This project will explore myths you may have created or desires possibly expressed through symbols in an important photograph. Consider what it represened to you. Choose a photograph that you have possibly kept for a long time or that is important to you for some reason, and think about the questions below as you post a description of it.

Color or black & white?

Is anyone posing?

Who took the photo (do you know) ?

Is there an intended focus?

Do you know what was happening?

What details point to a specific era (clothing, hairstyle, car, decor)?

What is your favorite aspect of the it?

How do you recognize yourself in the photograph?

Why is it important to you?

How has its meaning changed since you first acquired it?

Sunday, May 16, 2010

From Brent


i decided that this year i would be completely drug and alcohol free at thanks giving. then i got into the sublime with my camera, my sublime: plastic, dayglo-in-the-dark sublime. this is the kind of sublime where omniscience is a product of sobriety, the sudden awake of conscious acknowledgement that we are wrapped in family.

that's the family at the bottom reach of an endless blue wine, the one we sink into after struggle against rip tide, when the life guard is away.



it's all fantasy though... i paint shadows and funeral reds into things where they don't belong... i make a wake out of a tea party... i define positive space through the juxtaposition of so much shadow so as to say: this is who i am in the eyes of myself, family...
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