a. The first pic of is of me and my girlfriend, Mandy. I took it so me and her would have a picture of us together, one that would make us look as attractive as possible. We are both in it so we would both care about the picture. if only i were in it, i wouldn't care and vice versa. also it shows our relationship this way, not just us as individuals, which isn't the point really. I keep it for the sentimental attachment i have toward Mandy. The picture is only significant in how it makes me think and feel about her or us as a couple.
b. I was the photographer. The subject is my relationship with my girlfriend. Because it represented our relationship, I decided it needed to be positive, as i hope that our relationship would be a positive thing for us both. we both had to be in it because otherwise it would only have value to one of us, and i intended for it to depict us as a couple, not us as individuals. I have other photos of just Mandy, and i feel a different way about them. those are more about admiring her and thinking about her as a person. This image is more about us as a couple. It invokes feelings and memories from me about dates and conversations we've had, which creates a strong sense of nastalgia. the attitude toward the subject and toward the photographer is friendly.
c. this photo was intended primarily for the subject and the photographer (though friends and family may have a emotional reaction to it as well). It's meant to be kept by mandy and myself for quite some time. I probably won't remember this photo in ten years though. if me and mandy are still together we will have had taken probably hundreds of other photos like it by that point; some better, some worse. some earlier in our relationship, some later. i don't think that will be a special emotional attachment to the photo and the photo quality is not good enough to make it irreplacable. If we are not still together we won't care about the photo at all anymore. the success and value of the photo totally hinges on the emotional attachement me and mandy have toward each other.
photo 2
a. this is a photo taken by my girlfriend mandy of me toward the end of our date. She took it trying to be playful; trying to catch a suprise shot of me. i thought it was interesting because while it's still about our relationship, the goal is no longer to look 'pretty' or intentional.
b. I think she partcially wanted to capture an image of me the way i look when i'm not expecting me image to be captured: not smiling, not looking at the camera. She was interested in this because she has a emotional connection to me. If she did not it would just be a very bad, unflattering photo of me. but her interest in me is not totally visual. she wanted to capture something about my personality on camera. The photo was not successful in an artistic view, but the process behind it was appealing to me.
c. I will not remember it in ten years. I'm suprised I did not delete it then, as i normally do to bad photos of me. but i kept it for purely sentimental reasons. however as mandy is not in the image, i will forget who took it and why it ever appealed to me.
photo 3
a. a stranger photographer a group of young women walking through the park. The purpose was to capture a image of people enjoying the park. The photographer wanted to encourage a certain emotional reaction out of the viewer. however i do not think the image was very successful and the image does not mean much of anything to me. I chose the image because i realized my other two images were both connected to emotional feelings involved in relationships i had. I wanted to investigate the total opposite end of the spectrum.
b. There is not emotional connection between the subject and the photographer. Therefore the photographer has no interest in the women's faces, or representing them as people. He only cares about them as forms to help him capture an image with the effect he desired. you can kinda feel the emotional seperation between them: the subjects are not looking at the photographer. In fact i don't even think they know he's shooting a photo of them. They are walking away with there backs to the photographer, which gives off a certain familiar feeling of strangers walking by, each having their own plans and goals for the day, that you have no way of knowing about in detail because you don't know the person.
c. This image was intended only for the photographer. The photographer found the image interesting, but i wouln't imagine has a particular connection to the image. I supposed he/she would only care about and remember the image if he/she thought the photo had a high artistic value, which i don't see that it does. More likely the person will taken a couple dozen more and forget the image within the month, as it is a very forgetable image.
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