All of my posts are related to songs. This long 30 second exposure reminds of the video for the Liars song "Plaster Casts of Everything."
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Plaster Casts of Everything
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
"American Masters" W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364110/
In class we watched the film mentioned in the title. The film is a documentary that uses video interviews, slides of Smith's photos, and an actor portraying and narrating Smith's quotes. Portraying Smith in these sequences is Peter Riegert, who played Donald in National Lampoon's Animal House.
Photography Made Difficult creates dramatic scenes telling the stories around Smith's pictures. Some of which would be the brutal pictures of World War II, one picture showing a newborn Japanese baby being help by an American soldier.
Most of his photos show some sort of outside emotion, even without the context of the situation. All the movie needed to be was a slide show of all his photos and it would have done its job.
What Smith did was show what most people didn't want to see. Disformaties, death, life, and darkness.
The photos of the Kepone poisoning, to me, had the largest impact. Smith showed the deformed child being bathed. Something that no one else would want to see.
If it weren't for Time magazine, people would have not known about a lot of topics he covered. Thanks to the print medium people were able to see the pictures. Now, thanks to the Internet, people can see things like almost instantly.
Watching the movie, although rough for a first class was an inspiring way to start the class.
In class we watched the film mentioned in the title. The film is a documentary that uses video interviews, slides of Smith's photos, and an actor portraying and narrating Smith's quotes. Portraying Smith in these sequences is Peter Riegert, who played Donald in National Lampoon's Animal House.
Photography Made Difficult creates dramatic scenes telling the stories around Smith's pictures. Some of which would be the brutal pictures of World War II, one picture showing a newborn Japanese baby being help by an American soldier.
Most of his photos show some sort of outside emotion, even without the context of the situation. All the movie needed to be was a slide show of all his photos and it would have done its job.
What Smith did was show what most people didn't want to see. Disformaties, death, life, and darkness.
The photos of the Kepone poisoning, to me, had the largest impact. Smith showed the deformed child being bathed. Something that no one else would want to see.
If it weren't for Time magazine, people would have not known about a lot of topics he covered. Thanks to the print medium people were able to see the pictures. Now, thanks to the Internet, people can see things like almost instantly.
Watching the movie, although rough for a first class was an inspiring way to start the class.
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