Marieke Self-Directed Research

My favorite English words right now:

1. Visceral

2. Cathartic

The most complete PORTRAIT possible

This research is about the notion of a visible identity. What are ways to make the most complete portrait possible? When is a portrait valid,genuine and authentic? How can you make the invisible parts of anatomy visible? Let's say with an MRI or X-Ray hospitals can make photos of the invisible. Or words are words also valuable when you describe a person?

But people are also fluid and ever-changing so maybe still figurative images wouldn't be a wise choice. Unless they would be able to say something more then the first-hand impression.

Before I had questions about the meaning of reality but this has grown into more specific questions. The questions I have now are more clearly focused on humanity I guess. Maybe this reality is now more translated into concepts of authenticity and genuineness. So when is an image humanized or dehumanized?

Important quotation from Steve's class: Maybe it's not about realities, but about different levels of abstraction.

Visual Research

As a result of the Toolbox class I made a personal challenge for myself: No programs for altering in experiments. This is to stop myself from always changing my imagery afterwards with digital programs. By doing this I hope to expand my visual language. I realized that with these programs I mainly tried to mimic infra-red, ultraviolet and (psuedo)solarisation images. So I decided to research new ways for me to get images like this.

Until now I have researched infra-red the most. I started this research by putting the Hoya IR72 filter over my Nikon D40 lens. A few of the results:

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As you can see most of these pictures are not that clear and sharp. There are some sharp ones but I didn't select them. Because in a way the poetry loses when you see it clearly. So I think I prefer it when the information you get from the image stays vague in a way.

Artists that I find inspiring right now:

• Masahisa Fukase (Especially his Colour approach series) - http://masahisafukase.com/en/
• Jesse Kanda - http://www.jessekanda.com/
• Chris Cunningham - https://inverted-audio.com/visual/chris-cunningham-in-focus/
• Francis Bacon - https://vimeo.com/252319524
• Tacita Dean - http://www.tacitadean.net/

Stuff on infra-red and solarisation:

• https://feltmagnet.com/photography/Photography-The-Sabattier-Effect
• https://emulsive.org/reviews/film-reviews/rollei-film-reviews/rollei-infrared-400-christopher-schmidtke
• https://thedarkroom.com/infrared-film-photography/
• http://www.infraredphoto.eu/gentleintro1/

Planned resources:

• Cesare Lombroso - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cesare-lombrosos-museum-of-criminal-anthropology
• Museum Boerhaave - https://rijksmuseumboerhaave.nl/
• Morbid Anatomy - http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/
• Design and the Elastic mind - https://www.ted.com/talks/paola_antonelli_previews_design_and_the_elastic_mind?language=en
• Foundations of Social Theory, James Coleman - http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674312265

Reading List:

• The Emergence of Cinematic Time - Mary Ann Doane - 2002
• Psychofarmaca - Solomon H Snyder
• Taking the mask off - Cortland Pfeffer, Irwin Ozborne
• Mothernism- Lise Haller Baggesen
• Not that kind of girl - Lena Dunham