B.A Portfolio: critique

During my critique with Laura Mongiovi we focused mostly on how my works were gonna be displayed. We discussed the option of framing them. She stated that because my images have a feminine aspect to them that adding frames would give them a sensual feeling. Adding frames to them would also make them precious objects which illustrates how we turn photographs into precious objects in order to immortalize our beauty through photos. She also mentioned the possibility of not framing them and having them coming slightly from the wall creating a space between the wall and the images as to see through the burned whole. By doing this it would give my work more of a human aspect.

B.A Portfolio: week 13 works

This weeks works I'm still getting the progression if decay in the flowers and the graininess of the photo. Once I have gotten to the end result with these I will begin going back and start burning them. I'm really pleased with the way the image is degrading with the repeated process of copying the photo over and over. I would like the image to eventually be unrecognizable with the continuation of copying the image.

B.A Portfolio: week 12 works

In this weeks works I've just been building on to what I've been doing for the past few weeks. With these ones I've started to show the progression of decay with the flowers in the beginning stages of wilting. I also started to use photo copies of the photo in order to get the image to become grainier in its progression of deterioration.

B.A Portfolio: week 12 critique

In the short critique for this week, I heard a lot of comments that I heard during the big critique of invited people. This week I only showed a few of the ones I have done that would show what direction I was going in as I have done several images in the past few weeks. A few comments were about showing the stages of decay with the flowers which I fully intend on doing in future images. Some also were not sure how the burning fit in to the pieces. It was stated that this is because I'm showing aging and decay over time where as the destruction from fire is immediate and rapid.

B.A Portfolio: week 11 works

These images for this week, along with last weeks, are going to be for beginning of the linear progress showing decay and degrading of youth and beauty. This is why none have been burned so as to start the narrative with the peak of youth and beauty.

B.A Portfolio: week 11 reading

On Photography by Susan Sontag

"In photography's early decades, photographs were expect to be idealized images. This is still the aim of most amateur photographers, for whom a beautiful photograph is a photograph of something beautiful. In recent decades, photography has succeeded in somewhat revising, for everybody, the definitions of what is beautiful and ugly." pg 28

Photography has always been used to showcase the beauty of the one photographed. In a way it was used to establish evidence of ones beauty in a youth and beauty obsessed culture. Even in today's society photography is used in magazines to show the readers what the idealized beauty is that society has created.  Photography allows someone to encapsulate ones beauty for as long as the photo last. This grants the photographed person to memorialize their beauty and youth as both begin to fade with age. This ideal is ironic as photograph, eventually too, deteriorate and fade defeating the purpose of photographing oneself. This, I feel, definatly relates to my work as Im using photographs of a beautiful figure but destroying it as to ruin the purpose of the photos. This as allows me to dismantle the importance of beauty and youth by taking away the figure beauty.