Blog review 1

The name of this week's blog is Flak Photo. On this blog one particular article stuck out to me. It was called [hyphen] Americans http://flakphoto.com/content/keliy-anderson-staley-hyphen-americans. What got my attention was the title, not only was it the only one in brackets, but I felt like I could relate to the title. Like it somehow represented me.




This article was about how this artist would take photographs of people of various race, age, and gender then turn them into tintype portraits. The article gave some background information about tintype in how it's an American invention that's been around since 1855, but phased out in the 1930's. Ironically, the very reason it fell out of popularity was why photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley wanted you use them. It takes longer to develop because the image has to literally grow into the tintype, it also distorts the image, and everything is a reverse from it's original image. The purpose of doing this, as the article explains, is to not show "the truth, but a desire" and to "live their way" into the moment. I found this article to interesting because it really take photography to a different level of art, literally because it actually has depth, and also in an abstract way in that it alters reality into something more than what a regular camera can see.


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Photographs by Keliy Anderson-Staley