Textures of Re-use

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Edward burtynsky, critique

Edward Burtynsky photographs speak to human ingenuity and humean excess as well as the wastefulness of human industry. In the picture is a airplane graveyard, airplanes in which are no longer needed but highly expensive when they were acquired. Military might is relative to the technology at a nations disposal. These are dinosaurs from only decades ago but still rival most countries military resources in technology and expense.
The photograph to me represents a revolution in both military and consumption and much like a veterans death, the loss of a loyal soldier. lined up in the same fashion as tombstones these planes mimic the changing landscape of war as well as priorities. When something becomes to costly to maintain it sits, much like our junkyard, land fills and in a human aspect, elderly. Waste is very human and in my opinion has become such a daily routine that the fragments of lost necessities find places out of our eyesight. Edward Burtynsky finds these lost or looked over things and creates a pattern pleasing to the eye but thought provoking.

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Photographs and Context, Terry Berrett

The reading for this week was an interesting one in that it could have used some photographs to better explain the uses of the photograph produced by Robert Doisneau. The article explained how his photograph was construed many different way because of three aspects, internal context, external context and original context. Being a Strategic Communications major I am inclined to agree with Berrett because any message is subject to misunderstanding either intentionally by the sender or unintentional by the environment around the message being communicated. I think in seeing, reading or hearing things we tend to add or own imagination to things. The media for the most part is more aware of that now then ever before and play on that to entertain a individual audience. I really enjoyed the reading but still cant help but put my own story or captions to the examples given regarding the photographs many uses over the years and the misrepresentation of the original context.

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A little inspiration...

this guys work is thought provoking and a beacon of American photojournalism. http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_huey.html

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