Week 8 - Circulation & Authorship of the Photo Image

  • Authorship = ownership
  • Circulation = sharing images
    • previously through photo albums
    • digital era - social media
  • Internet = problem with authorship - stealing photos
  • Michael Wolf - real fake art - Chinese urban area - photographing copy artists' work
  • Richard Hamilton - 'father of pop art' - taking photos and paintings from magazines and makes a collage
Data Bending
In the workshop, we used Audacity and Text Editor to edit the information behind the image to distort it. Some results are below:




Editing in Photoshop
Later in the workshop, we went out and captured images with foreground, middle ground and background. I then picked one of these images and explored the editing tools in Photoshop to enhance the image. This image and the contact sheets are shown below:



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