13. JUNE 13
House of Bondage [Cole] (Foam)
How did it affect you?
What is the effect of making aesthetically beautiful photographs of disturbing subject matter?
How does the apparatus of the camera enforce a certain usage of the camera?

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Haven [Langendijk] (Foam)
Why were these photographs utopic? How might utopia be discovered in poverty?

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S/S 23 [Cwynar] (Foam)

What effect does cropping have in photography? (removes contexts. frames/focuses. defamiliarizes.)
Compare her use of color to the other uses of color we have seen this trip? How is her color particularly '70s? Why is it?
How is color determined by the fashion industry?
Technology is not neutral. Color film chemicals initially calibrated to best show detail in a white model's face. Skew faces of color to dark extremes.

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Colours and Contrasts of Spain [Siquier] (Huis Marseille) 
What effect does color have in an otherwhise white landscape?
Is there a most "natural" way to photograph a human face?
How does one develop a lifelong creative practice? (make, ask what you like about the last thing you made, fold that into the next thing you make, etc. Follow your interest/curiousity).

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sontag reading
How is ordinary photography always primarily surrealistic? (stops motion, freezes history to be seen later)
According to Sontag, what is the strangest thing about photography? (creates a parallel, simulated world)
According to Sontag, why can't a photograph alone (without captions and a historical context) create a moral position? (it just is what it is.) examples? exceptions?