"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon
"This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
- Alec Soth - Soth, Alec. "Toy Fatigue", Alec Soth - Blog, November 26th, 2006.
NY Times article on the ethics of using Photoshop
Assignment #4
Today we will begin Assignment #4, your final assignment of the semester. A final print (at least 8x10 on photo paper) from the assignment is due the last day of class on 12/15/11. You are welcome to choose from the following list for your final assignment:
- Maggie Taylor inspired composite (unless you completed it for A3)
- Metal Objects composite on white (provided images and/or acquired images), then masked into an existing scene that you can shoot or find via stock photography
- Self proposed project with my approval
