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A Crop of Flags
@dailyshoot #ds211 "Make a photo of a flag today: national, state, or otherwise. Try to compose it in a unique way." Plus other Daily Shoot images for Assignment #ds211
This is a cropped version based on the most complicated iteration.
This might be a better alternative, at least the flags are more active.
Some may contend that this is not a photo at all, but it is not a pure screencap, and it was processed starting with a digital photo of the screen, shot with the Canon EOS 5D -- the metadata was preserved, even after added brushwork was applied to several layers of the processed image.
In a way, if there are questions or challenges to the "photo-ness" of this image, that will only serve to bolster my own discomfort with the narrowness of definitions and some of what is most challenging now about defining artwork by specific genres. The borders are porous, and alien (concepts) are sneaking across those borders each day. Is the flag a symbol, a work of art, a shield, a weapon, or all of the above?
Flags to me represent so many things about social conventions, coercion, struggle and contradiction. They are an artifact, and at the moment also, one of the things that disturbs me about many online communities. Or maybe this was just my reaction to seeing the preview of AMC's new Rubicon series?
file ref: _MG_3282flagPerspJumbZCR
A Crop of Flags
@dailyshoot #ds211 "Make a photo of a flag today: national, state, or otherwise. Try to compose it in a unique way." Plus other Daily Shoot images for Assignment #ds211
This is a cropped version based on the most complicated iteration.
This might be a better alternative, at least the flags are more active.
Some may contend that this is not a photo at all, but it is not a pure screencap, and it was processed starting with a digital photo of the screen, shot with the Canon EOS 5D -- the metadata was preserved, even after added brushwork was applied to several layers of the processed image.
In a way, if there are questions or challenges to the "photo-ness" of this image, that will only serve to bolster my own discomfort with the narrowness of definitions and some of what is most challenging now about defining artwork by specific genres. The borders are porous, and alien (concepts) are sneaking across those borders each day. Is the flag a symbol, a work of art, a shield, a weapon, or all of the above?
Flags to me represent so many things about social conventions, coercion, struggle and contradiction. They are an artifact, and at the moment also, one of the things that disturbs me about many online communities. Or maybe this was just my reaction to seeing the preview of AMC's new Rubicon series?
file ref: _MG_3282flagPerspJumbZCR