Friday 10 May 2013

Notions of Truth

Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother



Behind the photo the Mother in this photograph had  just sold the wheels off a car to raise money for her family.

This photograph as a universal sense of motherhood. It has a resemblance to Madonna and child. Lange has played on a cultural reference, to get the meaning across.

It was shot on large format film, still in frame. Its not been cropped to show that it is an  authenticity photograph.




Robert Doisneau
At the cafe 1958 Paris

this photo has been used to translate three different messages two of my were done without the photographers consent 
  1. prostitution 
  2. parisan cafe
  3. alcohol 

the actual intended message was the Parisian cafe.



Pictorial realism

the running horse
by Eadweard Muybridge



Eadweard Muybridge answered a bet to see if a horse, while running, had all four hooves off the ground at once. He proved this to be the case by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutter of a bank of cameras.

These photographs were shown as a slide show and this was the start of animation.



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