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Seeing Visual Culture
Deprivation
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Deprivation of light
Christopher Tuner and Victor I. Stoichita "A short History of the Shadow: an Interview with Victor i. Stoichita" discusses light and knowledge and how deprivation of light in both a physical and literally meaning can lead to lack of knowledge like Plutos cave allegory
Plato "The Allegoy of the Cave" Discusses a thought for if humans lived underground in a cave completely deprived from light and the outside world
Paul La Farge "Colors/ Black" La Farge discusses darkless and blacks lack of light and color and his experience with darkness in deprivation of ligth
Deprivation of sight
Oliver Sacks "The Mind's Eye: What the blind see"
In this article Sacks discusses the experience of a blind man who experienced a state of that he called "deep blindness" where after a few years of being blind he could no longer see images in his head. This state of deep blindness deprived Hull of his internal and external sight, leaving him completely deprived of mental and literal sight and images
Georgina Kleege "Blindness and Visual Culture Culture: An Eyewitness Account" Kleege discusses blindness and the hypothetical blind man often brought in in media and philisophy. The mind men despricbed are deprived of their sight for the sake of argument and are often reduced down to only beings who have been deprived of their sight
Georgina Kleege "Molyneaux Redux" Kleege again discusses the otherness blind people face, they are deprived from their humanity for the sake of their deprivation of sight
H.G. Wells "Country of the Blind" This story is about a place in which everyone is blind and no one had ever questioned it. Wells shows how the deprivation of ones sight can lead to deprivation of being a part of the whole of society
Vibrancy
Vibrancy in emotions
"Lorna Simpson "Darkening" this artwork is vibrant in emotional complexities. This piece focuses on equality for women and black individuals
Another vibrant piece by Lorna Simpson exploring the vibrancy of color through icebergs
Krzysztov Kieslowski "Three Colors: Blue" This film concompases the story of a woman who lost her husband and son in a car accident, the film is dull until hues of vibrant blue start to come into the film when representing heightened emotions and the main character further exploring what happened to her
Derek Jarmin "Chroma" "Blue blood is ruby" is a. quote from this except displaying vibrancy though visual descriptors and emotions
Yves Klein " The Evolution of Art Towards the Immaterial" Provides a vibrant depiction of art, life, and being human.
Carol Mavor "Blue Lolipop" provides a vivid description of vibrancy and color through the depiction of a blue lollipop
Vibrancy of color
"Mother of George" shows am emotional story of a woman trying to get pregnant and the film uses vibrant yellows and blues to represent emotions in the story.
"The Wizard of Oz" is a beautiful vibrant film that uses vibrant colors to tell a story about finding yourself and love
James Turrel- these pieces use light to show vibrancy of color at LACMA.
David Batchelor "Chromophiba" discusses the vibrancy of color and why its important to not exclude color from people and places
Walter Benjamin "A child's View of Color" Discusses the spirituality of color and vibrancy and how important it is for children and for children to be able to use vibrant colors to express creativity and to be able to see vibrant colors visually
Stanley Cavell "The World Viewed" Discusses color in film and the vibrancy of the world and how it can and should eb captured
Carrie Mae Weems "Colored People" This series of photo provide beautiful vibrant portaits
Josef Albers "Interaction of Color" discusses color and vibrancy in different ways and how colors and prospective interact with one another
Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison "Objectivity" Discusses the color of subjectivity and anyalyias color and how it can be used
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Maria Popova "19th-Century Insight Into the Psychology of Color and Emotions" Discusses the color wheel and how its been used to represent color and emotions over the years
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Static
Static White
Robert Rauschenberg "White paintings" These are a set of all static white paintings
Le Corbusier "A coat of Whitewash" discusses white washing and how society values pure static white such as milk. The white that's valued is often inhumanly pure and unattainable but still white is seen as static and perfect by society
Yves Klein "Untitled White Monochrome" This piece is a static all white art peice
David Batchelor "Whitescapes" discusses Bathelors experience going to a part in which the house the party was hosted at what all a start static white. The white was so static it felt inhuman and unnatural because that static white is so rarely kept white and replicated in the real world
Herman Melville "The Whiteness Of the Whale" The what is a pure white that's static and unchanging. The white in emetine and looming.
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Hilaria Loyo "Blinding Blondes: Whiteness, Femininity, and stardom" discusses race, whiteness, and young beauty. As well as how color can be used against indeviduals.
Blumenberg "Light as Metaphor for Truth" No matter what way you look at these pieces the light is static and bright
Lawrence Weschler "L.A. Glows" "The haze that fractures the light scattering it in such a way that on many days the world almost has no shadows" This is a quote that gives insight into how static and bright L.A. can be, The sun can leave the scapes of L.A. looking umoving, like its stuck in time.
Joan Didion "Los Angeles Notebook" "There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles Air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension" This quote again shows the unnatural static stillness one can feel in Los Angeles.
Hans Blumenberg "Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation" Discusses white and light uses in philosophy,
Static Machinery
Trevor Paglen "Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You" Discusses machine on machine imagery in visual culture. The machine on machine images are lacking humans and provide more static imagery and emotions
Hito Steyerl "How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational" This is a video project about being seen and visual images. I but this in this category because the way the project is presented is through a static robot voice that almost gives you an uncomfortable out of body experience while watching it. The project feels as though it was not made my a human but robots therefor the static empty uncanny feeling to it