Untitled
8" by 10"
Gelatin Silver Print
2008
6 years ago
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by Katherine E Bateman
About Me
Note:
Images scanned .jpegs of original darkroom prints.
Prose original work.
Artist Statement: Privacy Series
As I started to map out out my concept ideas for the final assignment, I went back over my contact sheets from other weeks, and focused in on the decisions made in the light assignment; dodging and burning, mood, and making my usual dark tones work with more range and variations. I started piecing together words and details that I would want in my piece; different textures, treasures, thoughts/senses, and a certain haunted feeling.
So, I went with this study on privacy, alternating between invaded and preserved, from the perspective of telling a story. I wanted the shots to be seen as if standing within the gypsy speaker, but have this persisting quality of anxiousness and unanswered questions. To have a sense of being pulled from someone else's mind; following along with an invisible person in the world, a haunted person.
I hope that throughout the study there's a sense of becoming private or becoming disturbed, so that it's somewhat mystic/hazy...
I kept coming back to the word "private".
We're preached to every day that our generation is something of a new digitalized, interconnected, sit-in-front-of-facebook all day while texting, kind of world. But what does it really mean to pry into a stranger's or a friend's life?
Why does the action of capturing feel so personal to the cameraman, and so uneasy to the subject?
We're preached to every day that our generation is something of a new digitalized, interconnected, sit-in-front-of-facebook all day while texting, kind of world. But what does it really mean to pry into a stranger's or a friend's life?
Why does the action of capturing feel so personal to the cameraman, and so uneasy to the subject?
So, I went with this study on privacy, alternating between invaded and preserved, from the perspective of telling a story. I wanted the shots to be seen as if standing within the gypsy speaker, but have this persisting quality of anxiousness and unanswered questions. To have a sense of being pulled from someone else's mind; following along with an invisible person in the world, a haunted person.
I hope that throughout the study there's a sense of becoming private or becoming disturbed, so that it's somewhat mystic/hazy...
What becomes private to you?