Week Two- 01.12– The creation of the image
Questions and comments about the reading. In order to properly understand the questions posed by Calvino, we pondered the question: what is photographic image and how it differs from other kind of images
What is an image?
Relation images to reality: painting / photography/ digital
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Pictures mental aural visual statue ideas memories, patterns, optical illusions poems, projections maps hallucinations dreams diagrams
Image’s relation to reality
What is a photographic image? Photography and the real
What is a digital image?
Pixel, resolution, image size, manipulation
Image formats
Homework:
- Elaborate a definition of Digital image
- Select a passage from Italo Calvino’s story and comment on it.
- Elements of visual composition
The Origins of Archetypes:
Today we talked about the relation between past (our ancestor) and now (us). Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist) explain about it, check the link if you have time.
http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/tp/archetypes.htm
note that Jung talks about ‘ideas’.
How about experiences and feelings? As main sources for art, Are they also inherited? How? What is the role of art? To create archetypes? Is art different from Photography? What is the function of photography compared to art? Where do they differ?