P2P Activity #7
For this assignment for week 7, I chose to use this photo of the supreme court I took last year during the summer. As many of you from our class can guess, this photo represents mechanical realism. Furthermore, you should ask yourself what is acceptable and unacceptable in photographic practice or even the truth about those images we see and how they are represented to us as an audience. I feel as though my photo does and does not change the argument in Finnegan’s reading. What I mean by this is, to anyone it just seems like an ordinary photo taken by a tourist, but you can also try to take it in any other direction for example, how there is no perimeter set up around the supreme court and how all that has changed over the last 2 years. I lean towards it changing because it cannot be taken out of that context due to the fact, I simply shot this photo in regards to seeing the actual supreme court in the D.C. or even how the building was built, and I wanted a memorable photo taken and no one could take that out of context. Today, all people want is the story and not the photo that portrays that story, and that is what caused the skull controversy. The media wanted to disregard the work of what the photographer did and do a complete 180 with it and say it was fake. Many people still do this in some respects today and I believe it should change and not have people twist the story with what we want people to visualize. The whole focus point for this is the visual aspect everyone should take into consideration. Even Though people miss spreading tons of information around, you can never take away the visuals that someone is seeing.
