Blog Prompts Week 4 (#19-21)

#19. Can you think of anything that:

1) should not be photographed? Why?
2) cannot be photographed? Why?
3) you do not want to photograph? Why?

#20 Describe at least one photograph that you could take for each of the following “place” prompts.

• An image of a synthetic “place” such as Disney World, Las Vegas, a Hollywood set, a diorama, etc.
• An image of a fantasy/fictitious environment concocted from your imagination.
• An image of a placeless space such as the Internet, cell phones, e-mail, e-bank, surveillance, etc.
• An image of a public space.
• An image of a private space.
• An in-between space that brings to mind one of the following ideas: nomadic lifestyles, displacement, rootlessness, out-of-placeness, boundaries, movement, expansion, etc.

#21

A. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of “news”-related photographs.

B. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of “snapshots”, including family photographs, cell-phone shots, photos posted to facebook,

C. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of advertisement photographs, including fashion photography, product photography, etc

D. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of film/movie and television stills.

E. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of yearbook photos, senior pictures, and team/club/sports group shots.

F. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of stock images. http://www.corbisimages.com/ http://www.gettyimages.com/

G. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of fashion photography.

H. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of paparazzi shots or celebrity photographs.