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I would’ve never thought of doing what you did. You took the shadows and darkness and manipulated them to create photos where we can discern human figures but the people themselves are shrouded in anonimity. The last two pictures from the first set are my favorites. The pictures are lucid and comprehensible but can be abstract or ambiguous at the same time.
In your second set of zoomed-in art, you made it so it was hard to see what medium or surface the art existed on. This made me lose any conceptions of certain art forms being better than or requiring more skill than any other. The photo of the blue and red man’s face looks as it could’ve been on a mural if you hadn’t told us it was from a poster of yours. By eliminating our basis towards certain mediums, you effectively let us see art in a different light.
Your presentation was certainly one of my favorites. You have a great eye for color and detail, and you are a master a conveying mood and atmosphere. I like that you split your photos up into two distinct categories, and it is truly interesting to see how bleak reality seems in comparison to the lively paintings that you captured. I especially like your photos of the shadows; to me, they seem surreal-perhaps a bit inhuman. Very thought provoking.
First, I’d like to say that I enjoyed the way you categorized your pictures into all that is in relation to each other. However, I definitely am more drawn to the second category where each picture of a piece of art is zoomed in to a specific part. Although I do not know each work as a whole, I know that doing this with the camera focuses me, or the audience, to what you as the photographer is looking at or what you’re thinking about.
Your second category of pictures really caught my attention. This idea of zooming in to pictures to change the focus of the viewer and thus change the meaning of the painting altogether is brilliant. When a person looks at a painting for the first time, his first reaction is probably to absorb and take in the painting as a whole. Once he starts looking for specific details and dissecting the painting, then he may find a different meaning within the piece and change his opinion on it. My favorite picture is the last one.