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Two Ideas Inspired By Digital Photo
Idea 1: A Tender Family History With Gloves On
The natural background in the photo of the gloved hand reminded me of old family photos of my mom and her siblings at a lake during their childhood. This inspired me to create a photo book of photographs of my grandma and grandpa from when they were dating, married and traveling. I would then collage different gloves on top of the photos in the style of the glove from TC. My family history is something that is fragile and incomplete and I am just learning about it more recently. The gloves represent the delicacy in which I handle my family history and also add humor to the images. No picture of my family comes without a funny story. The only issue is I would have to wait for my Aunt to send me photographs.
Idea 2: A Tender Family History in Rust
This idea came to me through my title for the first idea. I used to listen to a song called A Tender History in Rust by Do Make Say Think. The color of the glove reminded me of the rust. With all the same inspirations and motivations from idea one, this reminded me of the passage of time between when my old family photographs were take and today. For my second idea I would take two photographs that I have of my grandparents on their travels and fragment them into different compositions to create a disjointed but blended montage. This would represent the incomplete knowledge I have about my grandparents and their lives and the fragments of stories I have about the family. I would then overlay rust textures over the images to represent the connection to age and the passage of time.
Outcome:
RDHIR1 This is a link to it as a flipping book (I could not figure out how to embed it from this particular site)
My Aunt was not able to send me the family photographs in time for this assignment so I decided to pursue the second Idea. I took pictures of both images and uploaded them into photoshop. I then began to disjoint and fragment them by weaving them together by alternating from strips of one image to the next. I thought of this as breaking the two photographs down into many digital photographs. I then brought in the rust texture and overlaid it on the two images. I then planned to further fragment the images in multiple ways, however something really cool happened when I selected the area outside the images on the rust layer. When I clicked on the layer, which was not rasterized, while it was selected a weird glitch occurred. A new document opened and the two images appeared in this new document fragmented and in CMYK. When I left the document and came back a new arrangement occurred. I took screenshots (is this a digital photo? I read a debate about it online) and curated my favorites into the book and composition.
This result reminded me of how information (family stories) are spread and shared. Some is lost, some is fragmented, some is told out of order. I thought this result was perfect for the inspiration behind my initial manipulations.
This project maybe went a little off the rails from digital photography, but I feel like I had to follow where it took me.
Two Ideas Inspired By Digital Photo
Idea 1: A Tender Family History With Gloves On
The natural background in the photo of the gloved hand reminded me of old family photos of my mom and her siblings at a lake during their childhood. This inspired me to create a photo book of photographs of my grandma and grandpa from when they were dating, married and traveling. I would then collage different gloves on top of the photos in the style of the glove from TC. My family history is something that is fragile and incomplete and I am just learning about it more recently. The gloves represent the delicacy in which I handle my family history and also add humor to the images. No picture of my family comes without a funny story. The only issue is I would have to wait for my Aunt to send me photographs.
Idea 2: A Tender Family History in Rust
This idea came to me through my title for the first idea. I used to listen to a song called A Tender History in Rust by Do Make Say Think. The color of the glove reminded me of the rust. With all the same inspirations and motivations from idea one, this reminded me of the passage of time between when my old family photographs were take and today. For my second idea I would take two photographs that I have of my grandparents on their travels and fragment them into different compositions to create a disjointed but blended montage. This would represent the incomplete knowledge I have about my grandparents and their lives and the fragments of stories I have about the family. I would then overlay rust textures over the images to represent the connection to age and the passage of time.
Outcome:
RDHIR1 This is a link to it as a flipping book (I could not figure out how to embed it from this particular site)
My Aunt was not able to send me the family photographs in time for this assignment so I decided to pursue the second Idea. I took pictures of both images and uploaded them into photoshop. I then began to disjoint and fragment them by weaving them together by alternating from strips of one image to the next. I thought of this as breaking the two photographs down into many digital photographs. I then brought in the rust texture and overlaid it on the two images. I then planned to further fragment the images in multiple ways, however something really cool happened when I selected the area outside the images on the rust layer. When I clicked on the layer, which was not rasterized, while it was selected a weird glitch occurred. A new document opened and the two images appeared in this new document fragmented and in CMYK. When I left the document and came back a new arrangement occurred. I took screenshots (is this a digital photo? I read a debate about it online) and curated my favorites into the book and composition.
This result reminded me of how information (family stories) are spread and shared. Some is lost, some is fragmented, some is told out of order. I thought this result was perfect for the inspiration behind my initial manipulations.
This project maybe went a little off the rails from digital photography, but I feel like I had to follow where it took me.
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