Phrasing and Framing Famous Men
Michael A. Vuksta
Your feedback is important to us!
After viewing our curriculum units, please take a few minutes to help us understand how the units, which were created by public school teachers, may be useful to others.
Give FeedbackBACK INTO THE LIGHTWRITING
If I were to reintroduce the analogy of writing like I photograph, I have now taken measure of the light reflecting from various objects, primarily words and photographs. Having done this I would now select appropriate shutter-speeds—to the writer this may be analogous to choosing a chapter title—(to arrest motion if I were to express the reality of objects in the frame or to allow the motion to become blurred and admit uncertainty to some of the objects of observation) and lens opening size—to the writer this is similar to the choice of voice or point of view——(to also allow for this possible expression of certainty/uncertainty in relation to distance into the frame). Now, before releasing the shutter and exposing the film, I would peek out from behind the camera and just be with the subject for one brief second, to experience it again in actuality before preserving it. To be present with it before it becomes a document of memory. To enjoy it in its living context without the deflection of memory.