Project title: Different Angles Reveal Different Kinds of Beauty
- Introduction to your work:
My project is called “Different Angles Reveal Different Kinds of Beauty”. This project will finally present 30 pieces of photographic works of the city I live in aiming to reveals the beauty people would ignore in their everyday life. The project will cover both landscape photographic works and human figure photographic works. after watching my photographic works, audiences will not only be impressed by the ignored details in their everyday life and attracted by different kinds of beauty but also be evoked to think of the ideological idea of the equality of beauty of objects, figures and landscapes and so on. The idea of my project is inspired by the photographic project of Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the 1935 to 1937, and photographic works by Barbara Probst. Therefore, my project will present both the realistic scenes of the city, while at the same time, uses special techniques, camera lens and image compositions to present unique visual images of the world.
- Project description:
This project will present photographic works aiming to explore the ignored beauty in our everyday life. I believe that beauty can be discovered if we change our angles to see the world. Thus, this project will show how beauty hidden in our life when we change our angles. For example, today, people who living in the cities may easily ignore the beauty of skyscrapers. To identify their beauty, I would take photos of skyscrapers from unique angels, such as from a special angle of elevation, or setting a small object as a reference to generate great visual contrast. Also, some details of a skyscraper will be shown, such as the images reflected from the glass windows of the skyscraper, the plants around the skyscrapers and the various people who work in the building and so on. When taking landscape photography, I would emphasize the unique angles to reveal the subjects or things people may ignore in their daily life. When taking human figure photography, I would emphasize the express of people’s identity through their facial expression, movements and gestures and so on. In sum, as the title of the project suggests, this project will finally reveal different kinds of beauty from different angles. Therefore, after watching my photographic works, audiences will not only be impressed by the ignored details in their everyday life and attracted by different kinds of beauty but also be evoked to think of the ideological idea of the equality of beauty of objects, figures and landscapes and so on.
- Outcomes
1) Photographic works: based on the theme analyzed above, around 30 pieces of photographic works will be presented.
2) Media package: by the end of the project, a media package will be presented with all the photographic works as well as a short conclusion and reflection essay for my project.
- Methods and materials
The project will be conducted through photography. The equipment used in the project include:
1) Cannon camera with different lens.
2) Adobe Photoshop
3) Laptop
- Time schedule
1) By the end of week 6: complete the first project proposal
2) By the end of week 7: determine the venues, subjects and objects for the project.
3) By the end of week 9: complete the first draft, around 50 pieces of rough photographic works.
4) By the end of week 12: complete the selection and edition of the final 30 photographic works.
5) By the end of week 16: complete all the photographic work and the media package.
- Reference
Baldwin, S.(1968). Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Barbara Probst. (2020). Works. Barbara Probst. Retrieved from http://barbaraprobst.net/works/.
Berger, M. (1992). FSA: The Illiterate Eye, How Art Becomes History. New York: HarperCollins.
Crump, J. (2001). Walker Evans: Decade by Decade. New York: Hatje Cantz Verlag.
James, C. (2018). The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes. New York: Cengage Learning.
Rosenblum, N. and Morganroth, A. (2007). A World History of Photograph. New York: New York University.
