Klett and Wolfe,website reflection

The work of Klett and Wolfe first and foremost struck me as being extremely labor intensive. The care in lining up old photographs and finding the exact places in which photos were taken blows me away. It must have been exhausting to just find the spot in which a photo was taken let alone get the angle even close. This is great, a appreciation for time is what we are as photographers and what a photograph in its essence are. To revisit time and place that was already captured and attempt to capture it again is very tough. Paying homage to the person who thought there photograph would never resurface or a place that hasn't changed and wont change for the span of human existance.

Artist critique; Robert Frank

Robert Frank is the artist i chose for the rephotography artist critique, I find his interest in diversity and the focus on socioeconomic classes of the timeframe intriguing and how much has changed since his shutter captured these images. This photograph exemplifies America of the era, showing disheveled people in a daily, bustle people of  color obviously separated. A reflection of American culture and powerful forceful text making people dive deeper into the meaning. I think and it looks as though the text is written on the bus but also may have been added later, i like to think the text was on the bus originally. It wouldn't be hard to reshoot this photo, maybe on a city bus looking out over Mercedes in traffic. When everyone thinks of a car as a necessity it is the impoverished that are separated by a bus now.  I feel nothing really changes, just shifts to meet the needs of the masses. A series about the Americas now would be interesting, I know of one photographer who did a walk across America but it seemed to me his work focused on middle America and the walls people build around them, normally not pretty. Same concept though, showing America the Americans.
http://www.aaronhuey.com/

Burtynsky throwback, ted talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_photographs_the_landscape_of_oil.html
thought this was interesting since so many of us chose Edwards work in our earlier critique.
I love TED

Aspen Mays: Map of the world

This photo is taken by photographer Aspen Mays and belongs in context of a collection called "1% of this is from the Big Bang." In my opinion the picture is of indecisiveness and the simplicity of the answers to all our questions. All of the questions in the universe can be arguably answered with this "map of the world."It speaks to the complexity of our human mind, we find ways to categorize everything and in the most primitive means we want the universe to answer our questions for us through the magic eight ball. Gutted and laid out this is what the future of our direct reality looks likes pulled from the constructs of a child's toy.
 This picture struck me and will stay with me for quite some time. the simplicity of white on white and the complexity and girth of the subject matter is inspiring and thought provoking. simple and broad, i love it.

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