12. JUNE 12 FOAM PHOTO MUSEUM [Keïta, (Mali: french sudan. 50s. Why black and white? What is the formal difference between photographing black faces and photographing white faces. (Kodak film actually default calibrated for photographing white faces.) what is colonialism? Post-colonialism? Who is the other? What is the male gaze? The european gaze? Exotica? How are keita's subjects treated dofferently than if he were european? How is our gaze changed as we gaze through his gaze? As we gaze decades later? Is it still the exotic other that we see? Compare to big heads portraits. How different? How the same? What so you make of the mix of african and european dress? agency What is style? How is it related to agency? ----- barthes reading How is being photographed different from being painted in terms of how you think as the subject? How is being photographed by a professional photographer different from being photographed by a friend with a polaroid? by a friend with a digital camera? by yourself with a digital camera? by yourself with a digital camera not to post online vs. to post online? at instagram vs. snapchat vs. facebook? others? What do you hope when a photograph is taken of you? What do you hope will be seen? How does photography change the person being photographed? (subject/object) Can you make a blank face? Is there such a thing as a generic expression? ------ Zelenkova] Czech mythology Did it seem mysterious and supernatural? Why (formally - lighting, framing), subject matter (no people, except with covered faces). The art of matching formal aesthetics with subject matter. ---------------------------------- EYE FILM INSTITUTE [van Warmerdam] What is humor? What is dark humor? What is the difference between film and video installation? Did they all work as loops? Why or why not? What is funny about a scene with a single person in a broad flat landscape? Is death funny? Can cinematic death be funny? Why? --- What is the relationship between movies and golem/humunculus? movies and magic? Action and movies? Car chases? Machinic wheel. Did you see the magic lantern? And the wall projections. Do you remember the black box film at argos? Proust's mom got him that to put him to sleep. Bergson's theory of dreams. ---- crawford artwork (from website) How is photography different than video? How are both "realistic"? How are neither "realistic"? How have photography and video changed our understanding of the real? (pics or it didn't happen) Are there any media that fall somewhere between photography and video? (chronophotography, animated gifs, aleatoric animation [explain stop motion studies]). Assignment: take a pic of something in the stedelijk and be ready to say how it is related to your work.