BLOG POST WEEK 7
What is expanded photography?
During week seven of uses of photography, we focused on the way that photography can be incorporated and combined with different forms of media. During class time we watched La Jetée (1962, dir C Marker) a photographic film that played images with a VoiceOver presenting a story. This was incredibly insightful for me as it opened up a whole new world of possibilities that can be explored by pairing other aspects of media with photographs. Through an incredibly large amount of images Marker was able to create a number of personal and shaking moments throughout his photographic movie. I was fascinated by this, and although slightly freaked out by the storyline, I was overall very intrigued.
One of week 7’s readings ‘The truth of experience. Notes on expanded photography’ by Alfredo Cramerotti commented on how [photography] transcends its established definition’ as it has in more recent years become a major tool in highlighting and passing on information. Considering the ways that photography has played such a vital role throughout its history, whether that be through the images taken during overseas military combat or photographs taken of a car crash. ‘It can no longer be solely attached to a camera based activity’. Cramerotti continues to highlight how “it is essential to understand the forms of communication that bring us information’. Through both the photographic film and Cramerotti’s reading I was able to start two picture ways I could apply other forms of media to my photographs. Overall, it has been interesting to considered the vast variety of roles photography can play, whilst expanded using other media articles.
For example, a way I could apply other media such as music or animations to my photography could aid my creative process of different future projects of mine.
Camerotti,A (2011) ‘The truth of experience. Notes of expanded photography’, Digicult.