The CCP

When we viewed Lauren Greenfield's work at the Center for Creative Photography I found all of the images compelling in their own way. There was one that stood out to me more than the others though, and that was the one that contained a woman who looked as though she had just gotten her nose done. I thought this image was really interesting becuase at first glance that is all it seems to be: a woman who has just gotten a nose job. When I looked closer however, the information in the picture seemed to reveal more. This woman and her husband are at what seems to be a daytime party (due to the balloons), and this made it seem to me that nose jobs are relatively common wheere she is and not something to be embarrased about. I personally would probably want to stay home until my bandages came off, but she is at a party. I also found it interesting that this woman seems to be concerned about her appearance becuase of the nose job. But what seems to be her husband seems to be the opposite. He is sitting next to her in kind of a scummy sleaveless shirt, drinking what looks like it is probably a beer and doesn't look like he cares much about his appearance. She on the other hand if wearing a nicer sun dress making it seem as though in their relationship she is the only one that is concerned about these matters.



I really enjoyed the color used in these photographs. It is really dense and vibrant, and I really appreciated how it brought life to the images. I think that if they had been in black and white why would not have as much of the everyday life feel that they had to me. I think this feel is important becuase even though they feel like images that were taken in someone's everyday life, when I looked at them more closely they contained a liot of material that was clearly not as "normal" as I had originally thought. I also thought that it was interesting that the woman with the nose job was almost in the middle of the photograph. It really brought my attention to her first, but it didn't seem to only be saying, "This is a pticture of a woman with a nose job" becuase of everything going on around her.



While we were at the CCP we also viewed a lot of documentary photography that was a lot more abstract than the things we had previously been viewing. I really liked this. I thought that it was interesting that it could be considered documentary photography without showing images of people, places and things that happened. rather, they were showing images of things that have happened in a less forward way. I especially liked the image by Michael Flowman. I thought that it was amazing how he captured the dimension and texture of the snow from underneath, and when I read the caption it sait that he likes to capture images of things we cannot see. This made me wonder if this is what it looks like under the surfave of the snow. All of the abstraction in this exhibit made me want to include a few images of my own in my final project that were a little more abstract.