“Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance.” Lewis Hine Today we heard and saw a presentation by Charles Edwards entitled "Symbol & Meaning" He presented a Powerpoint originally developed for his college classes drawing on contemporary examples for current TV programming and film. His presentation demonstrated the use of props, color, framing and Christian iconography to develop and drive a story's narrative. His source of examples included True Detective, House of Cards, Submarine, The King's Speech, Deer Hunter, The Sixth Sense and Schindler's List to mention a few. His presentation was followed by a lively discussion of its content as well as related subject matter of photography. Below is an example from the series "House of Cards" where his halo was compared to the icon halos seen in religious iconography What else did we discuss today... Anthony Hernandez, a Southern California photographer, who is now having his biggest retrospective at MOMA in San Francisco. "Desperate Shadows" was reviewed in the NYT....the link is below www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/arts/design/photographs-of-desperate-shadows-cast-by-the-california-sun.html?_r=0 A local exhibit seen by a few of us is at Union Gallery / Curatorial Assistance got a thumbs up from those that saw it. Lastly, today was the start of an Edward Weston / Walt Whitman exhibit at the Huntington Library. The exhibit continues until March 2017...more in a later blog post.
Of course, we had our 5 minutes of political commentary with only a few weeks to go!!!
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