MAS110. Assessment 2. Photo Essay.
Rachel Slee-42874653.
Stairs.
The idea of the everyday aesthetic refers to photography
that has blurred the line between amateur and professional photography, and in
the digital age the ability to form interest on images that are experienced in
the everyday. Individuals show interest through sites such as Flickr, in
looking at objects or things they would have seen on a regular basis, through
the eye or lens of another. Murray reflects on the idea that the everyday
aesthetic gives interest to and, “privileges the small, the mundane, the urban,
and the industrial.” This reveals that the everyday aesthetic is not focused on
extravagant things, but instead on making ordinary things extravagant. In
keeping with the idea of everyday aesthetic, as an amateur photographer I sort
to capture some form of excitement in something that everyone witnessed and
even used in their day-to-day life, but really paid little attention to. This
is why Stairs are the main focus of this photo essay. It goes heavily unnoticed
the beauty that lies in such simple objects and the immense number of
variations in stairs that can be found. The design, material, shapes and
surroundings of a set of stairs can change the image or feel drastically and
these were the difference that I wished to highlight and emphasise.
Through the images being taken from several different
angles, it highlights the different angle we use stairs at, as they or we are
not always going in the same direction. Panning shots helps to emphasise the
different textures found in stairs as well as accentuate some of the obvious
structural differences. Some images show clearly the surroundings of the
stairs, (i.e fences, plants etc.) helping to reveal how they can sometimes go
unnoticed behind these surroundings and yet sometimes these other things can
really bring out the uniqueness and interest in the general ‘ordinary’ of
stairs.
References:
Murray, S. (2008) “Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our
Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics”, Journal of Visual Culture, 7: 147.
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