- Can a ‘bad’ picture ever be ‘great’? A picture can be great in different aspect, it can be either unique or organized. While the picture “Wrong” is a picture that people tend to feel more harder to understand. The reason that this picture is hard to understand is because it doesn’t follow the core rules of photography, which there is a significant difference between pictures using or not using the core rules of photography. Usually, the pictures that follow the core rules of photography tend to get a better effect and a better quality than the ones that doesn’t follow the rule. However, this doesn’t mean the picture that doesn’t follow the core rules of photography all receive low quality. Some pictures still tend to look mediocre, and usually, pictures that doesn’t follow core rules are belonging to abstract art, which requires people for deeper understanding. For example, in John Baldessari’s series, named “Wrong”, he uses selection of photograph that includes poor composition. The deeper meaning helps him to explain his perspective, that he thinks taking pictures should be something that is fulfilled with freedom, instead of these rules, and encourages people not to be limited by these rules and don’t be easily judged by someone else because of the quality of the photo. Overall, this mean a bad picture can somehow be great, but deeper understanding is definitely required.
- How important is context in photography? The context of photography usually includes lot of things, for example, it includes what the author wants to explain, the attitude of the author towards something (example: society, life), etc. Which photography is how photographers use to explain ideas, or to show an unique/deeper understanding of ideas. In my perspective, the context of photography is extremely important. It is mainly because the context is just basically how photographer express ideas through pictures and scenes. Besides the expression of content, another reason is mainly about the purpose, most pictures that were usually taken by different people were purposeful, for example, I sometimes take picture of random scenes because I personally feel the scene is beautiful or unique. While the others would think this is a purposeful picture because it can explain plenty of ideas.
- What feelings/states of mind of the photographer are suggested by the image? The feelings/state of mind of the photographer in one of the picture chosen by the series wrong, the photographer wants to express the feeling of not being judged by others because of the quality of the photo. The photographer had also suggested that there isn’t a specific idea that is wrong or right.
MLA: https://dx.isb.cn/dash/#/classroom/648613/sections/lesson/344114/page/344116. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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