Feedback Notes:
The process of cataloging comes through when I start to identify and break down patterns & forms and start to organise them into sub sets. It would be interesting for me to further look into the ways in which we use these types of images to decode the kind of life that has been captured within them through the forms and visual cues present.
It could be expanded and built upon to create an anthropological study or portrait of the type of life that has been shown within these photographs. I could bring in more images, formal patterns and textual artefacts as well.
The methods of cropping, zooming, isolation and recontextualisation can change the intentions of the original set. They are methods that can compel a reader to look/see the images presented in a different context. However without some additional contextualisation through notations or symbols; the new sequencing and interpretation of the deconstructed images can become too ambiguous.
The aesthetic choices of the 4th experiment here highlight the aspects of ‘home archiving’ as opposed to archiving systems and methods adopted by institutions or museums. It highlights not only the contents but the personal and the personality of who is creating this archive as well. It might be interesting to take this ‘personal’ archiving further.
I could do this by experimenting with the form, adding in notations and/or symbols to help decode and contextualise the meaning I am trying to generate through this process of recording and deconstructing images.
References for me to look at or read:
1. Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive and Let’s be honest, the weather helped.
2. Mishka Henner’s Less Américains
3. ‘Ways of Seeing’ – John Berger
4. ‘What do pictures want?’ – W. J. T. Mitchell