I am addressing the themes in the reading we did in
class on architecture, “The Eyes of the Skin”, how architecture brings people
in with their own personal feelings and connections combined with the ekphrasis
of Unexplained Presence and Straight Photography.
I used a photograph that I took of a piece of
architecture because this simple photograph/clock tower has a personal
experience and story behind it from part of my life that means something to me
which it may not mean to another.
This photograph allows me to explore my experiences
surrounding this snapshot and what led up to it/came afterwards. For me this
was a combination of two days on our road trip to Kings Dominion, but limited
only to that road trip.
For this photograph I wanted to get a shot from the
base of the clock tower to represent how colossal it was to us citizens looking
up at the time, so far away and out of our control. My tone in the writing was
as if I were telling this story to a friend that didn’t make the trip.
I learned to appreciate some of my pictures that maybe
weren’t that great of a shot, but the true greatness lies in the story behind
the shot.
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