Theory and Methods ARH 411

Positive Images Summerana, Photography tips and tools for photographers example,  Weekly Top Ten – Before/After Edit         What are photographs and how do they affect us today, what kind of power does photos have? Well in this weeks reading we talked about positive images and tackled the ideas of same sex art depictions, We read about the power of images and what it can depicts, as well as how images create a form of representation to the people; especially for subcultures within society.      When we think of photos it can be thought as showing an altered reality, with today's technology we can take photos and videos and edit them so easily to make ourselves appear better to brighten an atmosphere and make the beaches look more fascinating or almost magical with photos we show this perfected idea of reality but I wouldn’t think that reality is completely exposed and reflected in photos, because of the technology we have we can see these al...

Indigenous Epistemologies Joaquin Villegas, God the Father Painting the Virgin of Guadalupe, mid-18th c.      The Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have been made by the hands god and the image above is to represent this story. The way we learn of the importance of this image came from an indigenous man who had a vision and this image had appeared naturally, she became a strong religious figure for the indigenous people. The way knowledge is shared varies from place to place and Kovach discusses the Indigenous epistemologies that show exactly that we can learn from many places and learning is infinite and can mean much more than what we are normalized to learn within our society knowledge can come from many sources.      Kovach describes indigenous epistemologies as being a different way of learning that is very strongly connected to the beliefs and practices of the indigenous people. These practices compared to western epistemologies are viewed as being extr...

   Phenomenology Yves Klein, Leap into the Void, 1960      During our reading we read about the idea of a reciprocal relationship between the viewer and the object/person being viewed. We learned that not only do we as the viewer experience an interaction with the object but the object/person being viewed also has an interaction with us. An example in the class discussion was our interaction with a coffee cup and how we feel and experience that moment the object is also having a forced interaction of being picked up, carried, sipped from, and put down. These interactions create a type of story and when this idea is put to art you’ll understand that these artworks are interactive and we can feel emotions from something that we view; This idea plays on all of our own personal experiences and that is how we interpret art work, how we see it, and how we interact and feel about an art piece. Not all people will feel exactly the same about one piece but many may relat...