Marieke Self-Directed Research: Difference between revisions

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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?

To me this also has a lot to do with vulnerability and protection and the tension between them.

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 (I'm not saying this is always the case). So I think I prefer it when the information you get from the image stays vague in a way.

Research

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 * [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7b0a/f5463bc3be37a1b4649a6c80e56b350b94ec.pdf History of infrared detectors]
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfi8TUeoXjo Thermal camera: Migrants]
+* [https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/wwii-bunkers-d-day-photos/index.html Infrared D-Day]
+* [http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/air-strikes/top-10-infrared-kills/4646339250001 Military sensation video]
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