WRONG!

September 3rd 2024

Harry Pedrick

This contact sheet aims to show how even when a photo breaks the rules of photography, we can still get meaning out of a picture. This is accomplished with context. Context is the way the photo was taken as well as when and why. It gives the picture, meaning. For example, if a photo was taken during wartime, it can give context to how civilizations may have lived during a war. It also shows the nature of human life. By making photos that seem bad, it can help show that raw photos can actually embrace human nature. It’s not filtered or changed, but exactly what is there.

 

This Contact sheet was inspired by John Baldassari, an artist who published a terrible photo, with incredibly high exposure. This photo was titled with the word “wrong!”

 

 

 

 

 

Citations:

Baldessari, John “Wrong” Photograph. Dragon’s Exchange, ISB, 22nd August 2024. https://dx.isb.cn/dash/#/classroom/648607/sections/lesson/344114/page/344116/edit, Accessed 22nd August 2024.

The purpose of rules in photography is to help keep order and add interesting elements. The rules of photography are that we need to have purpose, and a sense of composition.