07/05/2017

Exercise 3 Photography

Derek Trillo, The Cheshire Plain Beeston Castle

A photograph was taken from Beeston Castle. It took some time to find the place on Google maps, but I found it. It is interesting to see the place from above and from the street. The view is completely different of course. I was always amazed how our mind built maps which we use for orientation. Our mental maps are different than the "real" maps. I know the moment when mind comparing its mental map with a geographical map. A moment of WOW I had completely another idea how it should look the map. As a child I tried to draw a map from my memory, I was satisfied, but it was entirely different from the real.













The ground level photographs look like a different place, we do not see the same details. We are not able to recognise the lines, the small "wood".

The same situation is in the second photograph. The view from a high attitude gives us a lot of information, we can see more building, more roads. Seeing the same place from the ground level we get a different image of the place, more details of closest objects. Seeing it from above we can get the structure of the town divided by roads for example.

John Davies, Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1983

I really like the photograph. Without spending some time I would certainly overlook the details here, like the football match or training, the horse on the left corner. We can see those information thanks to the elevated viewpoint otherwise we could not. If we have a closer photograph of the towers we could not see the football players. The towers would be out of its context. Great example how to introduce an object into the place it is. The effect of being able to see the football game in the shadow of the towers is somehow surreal, the connection between pleasure and current technology in that time. It reminds me, Julian Verne's stories. Really big objects - towers and small creatures playing the game.


01/05/2017

Research point

http://mitchepstein.net/american-power-intro

Some of the photographs remind me environmental where I live. I like the contrast between huge cooling towers and the houses, nature and industry. The bay in the mountains shows how the man can change the nature.

https://paulwalshphotographyblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/forbidden-land/

An interesting subject here. It is great to see "privatisation of land" in these photographs. I like the empty three photographs which show the signs for public footpaths, a restriction and stand-alone sign private which makes me aware what is allowed and what is not. The empty landscape and in front is a sign Private is amazing. First time for me to meet the word ramblers :-)

These projects are showing that the photography is very powerful to convey a connection between the man and his invented technologies in Epstein's series. We can follow Godwin's ideas around the privatisation of land in her photographs.

I have also been somehow attracted by the strange human being things in nature. I have collected some photographs of steam line pipes from google car's eye.