Analyzing Photographs

Laed by stephen Shore’sNature of Photographs

Maya Takes to the Streets Ryan MC Ginley Published: mei 30, 2010

Seen: New York Times Magazine Photographs@ Foam, A-dam, 2012

 Physical Level: In exposition: listed, full colour silver plated gelatine print Size: c.a. 250 x 100

Shot for New York Times Magazine

Depictive level: At first sight you might thing the frame seems passive, but it’s actualy an active frame. The frame cuts buildings on all sides. The woman on the swing (maya) enters the world of the photograph and is fixed at the center of the image. These things together gives us the optical illusion of depth, while looking at the flat object.

Time Just one split second is fixed in the image. We can see she is/ was moving (swinging) because of her posture, and her hair. Still the image is sharp. This asks for a high ISO-rate and short exposure.

Focus At centre the image is most sharp, the edges and depth of the Image are more and more blurry. This enlarges the optical illusion of depth

Mental Level: The picture “feels” like you’re real high. Since our focus shifts while reading the content of the flat image, we mentally experience depth and wideness

Mental Modeling: We’ve all experienced looking over a landscape from great hight. And everybody has been on a swing experienced of the rush inside and wind blowing through your hair as you swing. The photograph taps on to this all time (childhood) memory, and leads us to thinking/ feeling/ imagining seeing ourselves on this swing high above world’s skiline

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BACK TO THE SOURCEMarlo Broekmanns published from serie “lovers” 1982-2009

Physical Level: Projection of digital reproduction of a photograph Analogic area, multiple shades of grey

 Depictive level: Active frame chosen, probably to isolate this small part

of world into its own, and rule out any kind of distraction the photo, taken in the 80’s did not change in time, the world did…or has it? The photograph is sharp, and since the imaged world only contains these two subjects, all focus is on them. Closed up, with his nose right in the middle.

Mental Level/Mental Modelling: as shifting our focus and reading the picture, by instance I doubt my eyes and wonder if I see this right, or if it’s my mental model telling me I see a man eating harry pussy. Is it her pubic hair? Or might it be his moustache? I’d call it an mind-fuck. Today, it might just be a funny picture. But back in the day, as you can see, most people didn’t shave their genitals. Neither were explicit erotic based pictures as accepted and infiltrated in media & society.

Bronnen: Voor Maya Takes to the streets:

Foam, Exposition New York Times Magazine Photographs 2012, www.Foam.org

Ryanmcginley.com (official site of photographerNew York Times Magazine http://www.nytimes.com

Voor Back to the source:

Google afbeeldingen kunstfotografie sprong eruitFontys Mediatheek zoek fotograaf Marlo Broekmans Invisible forces : Auteur: Diana Blok (1952-); Marlo Broekmans (boek bleek helaas niet aanwezig / terug gezet)