Diana Macaraeg - Weekly Post 3
Sean Stewart
- Sean Stewart's technical choices were to showcase vibrant colors and aged subjects/buildings. Stewart chose to use a view camera in an attempt to slow down his picture taking. He stated that allowing a camera to be on a tripod, that it will reveal and create meditation in the scene, unlike a hand held camera.
- Sean's Rivertown setting, was placed along the Monongahela River Valley in Pittsburgh. Stewart being a native of Pittsburgh, one of the hardest places in America, he wanted to showcase a lower-working class nearby. His main focus was to offer an observation towards the life of north-eastern America that is often ignored, when it was seen in the past as "America's strength."
- Beyond Sean Stewart's visualizes, I throughly enjoy the content behind it. Knowing that in history that the North East of America was usually depicted as "Real America," it was interesting to see that there is progress slowly developing. To see that some buildings are torn down or tattered, older cars and traditional convenience stores still being used, gives an uncertainty towards this towns future. It's content can either give a perspective that this town will soon diminish into an industrial land, or remain in it's static slow developing lifestyle.
Really interesting concept on how Stewart is showing these once booming businesses and through economic collapse throughout the Northeast has effected them. Seems like he is scratching the surface of the businesses and can get a lot deeper with his concept though.
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ReplyDeleteI really do like the saturation of the photographs and how they are appropriate for each one. In some way, the way he took the photograph portrays that something was once in them.
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