Here's the picks:Cleveland
Washington
Carolina
St. Louis
Buffalo
Kansas City
Jacksonville
Green Bay
Cincinnati
NY Giants
Detroit
Chicago
Indianapolis
Seattle
It's weird to see still frames of the tv, it takes me back to some of our early work. It's like they were never meant to be seen like that. Or it's too easy for them to look really funny?
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I had a student last year who was working on a project where s/he took photos off the tv screen and presented them as images -- thereby asking photographers to consider these images in the same way they think of static photos (ie moment captured in time, constructed space, lens, frame, etc). The project got mixed results and some misunderstanding from the viewers because it was hard to get away from the "well you just took pictures of the tv" critique.
What I found interesting about the project (specifically the attempt, not so much the results) was that it really laid bare how easy it is to capture interesting images from the tv, and how dismissive people are of that imagery. If it comes into your house at all hours of the day, shouldn't you read its content critically? This was the core student's thesis. Ultimately, though, even in a room full of people who do nothing BUT take images seriously, and view them critically, the television origins made them easily dismissed.
When you say "It's like they were never meant to be seen like that. Or it's too easy for them to look really funny?" I completely agree -- not because we can't or shouldn't look at the images seriously and critically, but because we don't.
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