Dr. Kennedy’s talk was awesome. It was extremely interesting and thought-provoking. I’m in his class, The Problem with Photography, and I love it. I thought that he was the best speaker so far. He says that photography is a wicked problem in a multitude of ways. One way is in the fact that a photography does not always tell the whole story. A photograph also doesn’t tell the truth. They can be edited or changed, as well. Some photographs can be staged to look like something they’re not. Additionally, the photographer can struggle to create the exact image he wants. I was surprised by the fact that he will sometimes spend days doing an entire set of photographs that all have one theme or message, and then he’ll just throw them away if he isn’t satisfied with the results. It was also crazy how he was able to take something as simple as a “meat-beater” (he said that, I don’t know what it’s actually called) and turn it into a crazy image of weird shapes and colors. This shows the power of photography, and how powerful the affect on someone’s perspective of something can be. He was also able to take simple pictures of running water and turn them into colorful swirls and dots.
It is interesting how one photograph can hold some any stories. Nice observations