Systemic Structures

Systemic Structures:

My favorite artistic style is avant – garde.  I chose this genre because I like capturing images that take time to interpret, and that are somewhat ambiguous, open to the interpretation of the viewer.  I chose to photograph architectural elements around campus in an unusual way.  Berenice Abbott, who was renowned for her unique photographic perspectives of New York City’s concrete jungle, was my inspiration for this project.  I wanted to capture the ordinary that surrounds us, and make it seem more extraordinary and different.  I experimented with the a narrower aperture and a higher ISO so that I could get as much of the image into focus as possible.  I chose to make the images black and white because, like Ansel Adams, I felt like color would be more distracting than complimentary.  Through these images, I feel that I was able to portray the BYUH campus in a way that is more metropolitan than it actually is. The ordinary can be made to appear unordinary, depending on how we perceive and remember our surroundings.