Design Collaborative

Blog Assignment #6: Childhood Memories

For this blog assignment, create five photographs that reflect memories from childhood.

These memories can be yours alone, generic memories, or the memories of others.

Think about how memories change with time--they often become warped, twisted, and distorted, like any good story that becomes transformed in the telling.

Anna Gaskell, Wonder

Simen Johan, Evidence of Things Unseen

Roger Ballen, Shadow Chamber

Artists Critique

I chose to critique Richard Misrach "On the Beach". At first I thought the pictures were beautiful seascapes of the sea with a little twist here and there. Than with the birdseye view of the beach with all of the people I was really kind of surprised by the angle it looked really cool. Than with the pictures that were of people alone on the beach, I thought they were really lonely, I felt like they were abandoned or lost at sea. It kind of was a "downer". BUT I do really like his approach to showing different angles or views from what you normally see of beaches. They are very well composed and very well lit.

Artist Critique

I have chosen to critique John Paul Caponigro's Reflections album. Some of them look like they are just taken from the shore line, but other's look like you could be underwater looking at a storm of sorts. I was drawn to these photographs because this is something that I always look at when I am near water. I wanted to add one of the photographs but from the website you get a pdf file trying to save an image you get the whole document. So hopefully you have taken a look at the Reflections album and admired his photographs like I did.