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Seeing Visual Culture, Shadows create, Purposeful Invisibility, ignorance…
Seeing Visual Culture
Purposeful Visibility
James Turrel showed us through his artwork how the sky is blue because of the circumstance, so when you change the context it changes the sky's color. It is an example of a matter of how the perception of our seeing forms the sky. 
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Ralph Ellison Invisible Man is invisible to everyone around him, but when he is in his extremely overlit underground dwelling he cannot be invisible, he is the most seen object in the room. He can control his visibility.
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave from The Republic The philosopher is one who explores the unknown and sees the light. The blindness is in normativity, to see is to step out of the ordinary.
White
Herman Melville writes about how creatures and celebrations are cenetered around the color white such as the "White Dog" festival. Seen as special or something that stands out.
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David Batchelor "Whitescapes" Chromophobia White is so overwhelming in this house. Makes his visibility feel out of place. The whiteness is so aggressive, tyranical.
Blonde Venus. She glows radioactive white. It overpowers the color black intentionally. The movie creates a supremacy of white skin.
Richard Dyer, "White" whiteness again treated as the norm, and anything else is abnormal, it is the center of focus.
Hilaria Lobo. The blinding blonde, epitome of whiteness in race.
Le Corbusier "A Coat of Whitewash: The Law of Ripolin," The law of ripolin is the law of whitening. It creates an exclusivity of whitening, therefore creates an invisibility to it's normality and everything else stick out like a sore thumb.
David Batchelor, "Chromophobia" This goes on to explain the fear of color and how whiteness has purged color and made color corrupted. He also explains how Hollywood has made the use of color a form of fantasy.
Battle with photography
Syreeta Mcfadden, "Teaching the Camera to See My Skin" uses greyscale to photograph black bodies, and teaches those who don't know that Kodak and many others purposefully try and drown out black skin.
Carrie Mae Weems, Colored People, Slow Fade to Black She photographs black portraits and uses bright and bold colorful filters to highlight features of her muses.
Unintentional Visibility
Revealing the self :
Oliver Sacks "The Mind's Eye: What the blind see" based on this everyone has different ways their brain works yet somehow even those who are blind know themselves.
Lawrence Wäscher "La Glows" The product of smog from the city unintentionally creats a glow to the LA atmosphere, at night the night still seems lit due to it's entrapment from the smog.
Christopher Turner and Victor I. Stoichita Short History of the Shadow. Some Renaissance artists held the belief that the shadow of a human is a projection of inner self on the wall.
Mother of George This film displays many colors at work that have an underlying meaning. Blue being one of the main colors has so many meanings that could signify sorrow, fertility, entrapment, marriage, I believe this so because Adenike runs away from the color is brought down by it, and constantly feels uncomfortable around it.
Three Colors Blue In this film we see how grief works through the main character Julie. Julie is at war with acceptance of her daughter and husband's death. Her battle to find herself again is seen through the color blue throughout the film it is a representation of her daughter and her time to grieve. Such as the blue chandelier, the lollipop wrapper, and the glowing blue pool.
Yves Klein, "The Evolution of Art Through the Material," In this excerpt Klein explains the complicated matters of color. how it opens the eye of man, gives him power, and how the color blue is a color without dimensions as are the ocean and sky. These are all aspects of how color defines abstraction and how the painter is chosen to get lost in it.
Robert Rauschenberg, "White Paintings" canvases painted entirely white. Shadows unexpectedly make a show on the portraits at different times of the day.
Georgina Kleege's "Molyneaux Redux," experiment makes the subject become seeing, it is a rash change to the past blindness. It is new and unfamiliar to the blind person.
Yves Klein Untitled and Le Vide. Le Vide means the void. This exhibit is a room painted white, empty except for a large cabinet. His reasoning behind this is his attempt to go beyond abstract.
The Wizard of Oz This film depicts a magical colorful world in which Dorothy wakes up to. It gives us the sense of realness in a fantasy land yet we never know if it can be true. Color is falseness on-screen and leads Dorothy into many traps, such as the dangerous red glowing apples, and the sleepy poppies.
Mavor, Blue Lollipop In her piece she describes Julie eating the lollipop. Watching the film you are left confused, but in this writing, we understand why Julie viciously devoured the lollipop in hopes to consume her daughter and keep her inside of Julie. It's an act of grief that will never go away.
All Light Everywhere The film makes the viewer uncertain in many aspects. What the film maker's place in the film is one. The unsettledness is also linked to cameras which are what the fillm is mainly about. Cameras also give to feeling of unsettledness to the ones being recorded/watched. It can be swayed in favor of the one behind the camera which can be biased.
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Shadows create
Paul La Farge, "Colors/Black" Black as a void of light, The color of not seeing can also be seen as freedom. It also being refusal turned into imagination.
Shawn Michelle Smith, "Photography Darkness, and the Underground Railroad: Dawood Bey's Night Coming Tenderly Black." These photographs are heavily swayed to a dark filter, the camera is the dark box that keeps the light out.
Purposeful Invisibility
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ambiguity
Stanley Cavell, "The World as a Whole: Color," Color gives us this possibility of a world that cannot exist, such that as the land in The Wizard of Oz Gives a certain wholeness to it.
Walter Benjamin, "A Child's View of Color" Our perception of color changes throughout our life. A child's obsession with color is pure. The idea of rainbows and colorful drawings is innocence and harmony.
Jared Sexton, "All Black Everything" Sexton refutes La Farge's claim. He believes that black is everything. Black is the color of mixture which in that is power. Black being a non-color also makes it all colors. It's range gives it hidden power.
Joan Didion "Los Angeles Notebook" The weather is not always visible yet it is a big factor of locals mood.
Georgina Kleege "Blindness and Visual Culture:An Eyewitness Account" She talks about how the hypothetical blindman is portrayed by many in history and their neglect of knowledge of the blind and make their intelligence invisible.
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