After research the art works and literatures from these artists and philosophers, I can more understand how to express the memory in image for an art aspect. And also I have studied more knowledge form the philosophy theory. Function and meaning of memories can never be replaced by technology. But we should be grateful for the presence of those who may be reproduced , playback memory's technology.
Photography and video honestly recorded the particular imges, that images are from the part of the past, every detail can not be copied. They are unique existence.
The memory in image will bring us to think and remember, we will through the photographic and video to think about their story and destiny, and even to imagine the state of filming . The significance of photography and video is that will freeze memories in a separate , new space ( time and space ) . And I want to do the work which is: Go through my photography and video , the audience will pulled out from the reality, temporarily to brought them in a new world which is I created. This is when I finished to read all the literature, the request for myself.
However, as the photo / video is showing up in the memories of the image, I think it must need to have a certain readability. Although the memory is a very personal thing, but it being viewed as a work , my personal opinion is : it will no longer exist in the images for your personal mind. The artists should have a responsibility to pass it with the accurate approach to the audience . The good art work will moved the audience. Meanwhile , I will measure my own work to using this standard
In another hand, especially through I read the Camera Lucida from Roland Gérard Barthes, I am strongly believe the essential characteristic of photography / video's image is real. "This really existed" (Roland Barthes said) for photography, there is no more straightforward, so a good photography / video should not deviate from the true qualities. In nowadays many people use Photoshop / After Effects for those makeovers by the "fantastic" work, I do not think those are Photography / video, at best, is an alternative to the camera as painting tools, and through computer software subjective re-creation. Of course, like painting, as it can be fantastic, but the philosophical views of photography Roland Battle of my understanding, photographs and videos should screen "real" as the essential characteristics.
I also try to use the real way to make the photography. For example, In the last term I made a photography work. In the photos, an old lady is holding a fish tank sitting on a swing. The fish tank is filled with water and there is a beautiful red goldfish swim inside.
The fish tank is meant our brain. Inside the fish tank(brain) is our full of carrying old memories. In the cold night, the memory of inside the fish tank, quiet but exudes a slightly light, the light through the transparent fish tank, passing out the warm which in the memories. The goldfishes swim in it and repeatedly wandering. It never goes outside. The goldfish looks always vivid. It is a symbol of our most persistent memories. We are never know the age of goldfish. It looks always young and never changed. However in fact this biological trait is their memory very short. So this feeling empty but looks beautiful's creature live in the aquarium repeated around, seems to be empty and helpless. So we are always carefully holding our memories, actually it is a kind of self-deception.
In my photography image, the old lady holding the fish tank. In her fish tank, there is the memory of her childhood. She can remember when she was a child, she was sitting on the swing. Someone was standing behind her and push her very gently. She is very miss that moment, because now she is old, no one will accompany her. She always feels alone. In her mind, she is very looking forward to anybody can come to push her swing like before. So she had been sitting there, very gingerly holding her fish tank(care of her memory), awaiting anyone can help her back to the memory. However in fact her swing is can't be pushes, if someone pushes her swing, the fish tank will overturn and broken.
Around this work, I think the most important point which is the Luminescent fish tank in the photos. I personally think that, if the tank shining is through the software post-production (eg: Photoshop), the entire work will become boring. So I refer to Benoit Paillé's works. Montreal-based photographer Benoit Paillé has been working on a fascinating series of landscapes using a bizarre lighting method involving a suspended glowing square. The images above are not photoshopped, the 1x1 meter light is instead hung in the center of each photograph and the resulting image shows the unique form of illumination that creeps into the surrounding area. Paillé says his goal is to redefine what a landscape photograph is by questioning its reality, creating a kind of poetic moment in space and time. In my opinion. He can put photos of the device itself to make a natural light. This is the point which I most admire.
So I tried to find the natural light for the fish tank in photographs like him. Then I looked for some spotlights hidden in the bottom of the fish tank. Finally I ensures the fidelity and authenticity of the photos.
This really existed - photography and video as a cultural phenomenon, it is that different from the human eye can see "real", and is different from the nature and characteristics of the other arts. The arts, in a nutshell is the photographer through the camera's "eye" feature, art reflect the real, so real explanation of things, so real humbling.
Finally, go through analyzing the artists and philosophers theories and works can help myself better improve to understanding of the memory in image. And also will enrich the connotation for my own art work. I also improving my work have more theoretical basis.
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