This online blog has been created to enhance the communication between students during the artmaking process. While working on a photographic work and upon completion, students will post their images and wait for comments from their fellow peers, teacher, and other registered users. This blog will also be used as a venue to discuss historical and contemporary works by artists from around the world.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Artist Sketchbook Prompt Eight
Take a look at some of the work from a recent portfolio Ms. Cress created durng her time in Boston this summer. What thoughts cross your mind when you look at these images? What emotions do you feel?
Oh Ms. Cress! You like taking pictures of dilapidated houses don't you? (It's okay. I do too.) Anyhoo, I think I'm still going to contribute to this blog because I never did when I was in class, and I think it could be beneficial to me...
As I look at these photographs, I can only see specific, zoomed in portions of a house. This makes me wonder what the rest of the house looks like. Is is just as sad and worn as the doos, windows, or siding? What the does the inside look like? Is it as abandoned as the outside looks? Who lives or lived in these places, and why did they allow the outside appearance to become so decrepit? Maybe it wasn't them at all. Maybe random passerbys decided to deface the properties. Whichever the case may be, when I look at these images, all of these questions and possiblities run through my mind. Only one emotion, however, floods my mind when looking at the photographs though: somber. Whether you use the adjective of sober, sad, bleak, or depressing, it all means the same, and that's what these images scream at me. Aside from the building being very worn and battered, I get this somber feeling from the monochramtic color palette the images all share. Something about the same colors/neutrals being used throughout give the subject a lack of life and therefore very depressing.
I think of being in a town with ancient buldings that are used as college buildings for frat houses and what not. I feel dissapointed that the buildings are fixed up for the people who live in them. Stephanie Latendresse period five 10-6-08 photography 3-4
I love these picture, especially the first one, because I love old, dilapidated buildings. The pictures make me want to go and find these places, and they make me wonder about who lived there and what they were like before they were neglected. Olivia Ottinger Photography 3-4 Period 2 10/6/08
These pictures are great. They remind you that everything and everyone gets older but just because it's old doesn't mean it still can't be beautiful. Brett Burke Period 2 Photo 3-4 10-6-08
These pictures remind me of exactly what it is, The City. It reminds me of the streets around here. It shows that things that we see everyday can inspiring.
When i look at the images it makes me wonder who lives behind those walls what are the like. It also makes me wonder how the street they live in looks like. The emotions that i feel are curious.
I really like the top one. the window in the corner adds a nice composition, and the siding on the house adds good contrast. I also like the reflection in the window, the branch, because it guides my eye towards the window and then down the house. Good job!
Ms. Cress, you have such a distinct style in photography. As soon as i saw the fist image i knew it was your work. I love the images, my favorite piece is the one with the doorknob with the light green pant thats been chipping away. The images kind of make me feel lonely in a way, or just like im in a place where im not familiar.
I saw most if not all of these at your show, and i love every single one of them. It shows abandonness, damage, and history. I wish people would fix up these kind of houses more than they do (If they even fix them up at all) Anyway, these are great images of abandonness, and shows how people treat property. They don't care.
11 comments:
Hello SHS...
What an inspiring class site. Without access to Flickr, a blog was going to be my next step.
May I direct the students of SEHS to come by and visit as well?
Ms. Bernard
Photo Instructor@SEHS
Oh Ms. Cress! You like taking pictures of dilapidated houses don't you? (It's okay. I do too.)
Anyhoo, I think I'm still going to contribute to this blog because I never did when I was in class, and I think it could be beneficial to me...
As I look at these photographs, I can only see specific, zoomed in portions of a house. This makes me wonder what the rest of the house looks like. Is is just as sad and worn as the doos, windows, or siding? What the does the inside look like? Is it as abandoned as the outside looks? Who lives or lived in these places, and why did they allow the outside appearance to become so decrepit? Maybe it wasn't them at all. Maybe random passerbys decided to deface the properties. Whichever the case may be, when I look at these images, all of these questions and possiblities run through my mind. Only one emotion, however, floods my mind when looking at the photographs though: somber. Whether you use the adjective of sober, sad, bleak, or depressing, it all means the same, and that's what these images scream at me. Aside from the building being very worn and battered, I get this somber feeling from the monochramtic color palette the images all share. Something about the same colors/neutrals being used throughout give the subject a lack of life and therefore very depressing.
I think of being in a town with ancient buldings that are used as college buildings for frat houses and what not. I feel dissapointed that the buildings are fixed up for the people who live in them.
Stephanie Latendresse
period five
10-6-08
photography 3-4
I love these picture, especially the first one, because I love old, dilapidated buildings. The pictures make me want to go and find these places, and they make me wonder about who lived there and what they were like before they were neglected.
Olivia Ottinger
Photography 3-4
Period 2
10/6/08
These pictures are great. They remind you that everything and everyone gets older but just because it's old doesn't mean it still can't be beautiful.
Brett Burke
Period 2
Photo 3-4
10-6-08
These pictures remind me of exactly what it is, The City. It reminds me of the streets around here. It shows that things that we see everyday can inspiring.
When i look at the images it makes me wonder who lives behind those walls what are the like. It also makes me wonder how the street they live in looks like. The emotions that i feel are curious.
The buldings and stuff are really interesting, its one of the things i like taking pictures of, especially when i go downtown or something.
I really like the top one. the window in the corner adds a nice composition, and the siding on the house adds good contrast. I also like the reflection in the window, the branch, because it guides my eye towards the window and then down the house. Good job!
Ms. Cress, you have such a distinct style in photography. As soon as i saw the fist image i knew it was your work. I love the images, my favorite piece is the one with the doorknob with the light green pant thats been chipping away. The images kind of make me feel lonely in a way, or just like im in a place where im not familiar.
I saw most if not all of these at your show, and i love every single one of them. It shows abandonness, damage, and history. I wish people would fix up these kind of houses more than they do (If they even fix them up at all) Anyway, these are great images of abandonness, and shows how people treat property. They don't care.
Ryan Hamlin
3-4
12/10/08
Period 1
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