Enquiry Updates
{Unit 2}
- How does image explain object?
- How does image equal object?
- How does image equal ___?
{Unit 3, Week 1}
- How does “seeing” shape “understanding” and construct “meaning” in the context of everyday forms?
{Unit 3, Week 2}
- How does seeing shape our understanding of universal forms? / How does an object’s essence persist across different media?
Practice
I attempt to make text = image, prompting the reader to wonder: “Am I reading or am I seeing?”
I photographed John Berger’s Understanding a Photograph page by page, trying the following methods so that each page exists somewhere between image and text, yet is still perceived overall as a photograph:
- Retaining the shadow cast by my phone camera
- Using warm or cool lighting tones
- Including the blur that happens when turning pages
- Leaving a finger partially in the frame
References
Irma Boom: The Book is Not a PDF
This phrase made me think about the relationship among medium, content, and form, and about which “essence” is carried over in each transition of format—causing the audience to regard it as “the same object.” (Even though she used a negative sentence.)
Pokémon “Guess Who I Am?”
Reflecting on how “how to see” influences “how to understand.”
Helmut Smits, Here Comes the Sun
A certain “consistency” or “sustainability” is maintained between the sun in the image, the actual sun, and the sun’s trace.
Nobuhiro Shimura, Airing Book
Presenting a certain fragile, airy state that is captured by the paper and lingers on its surface.
Switzerland, CENTENARY OF CHOCOSWISS ~ CHOCOLATE MNH Scented MS 2001
Illustrates an example of “image as a mimetic object.”
