Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remembering my very positive experience with Keanu and the deep friendship that began that day, I got excited, too. It was hard not to. Deans popped breath mints and administrators started to comb their hair. I called one of my faithful friends and asked her to bring a camera. In a flash my friend arrived, and we were ready...
Much of this violence takes place in the sumptuous, domestic setting of the flat. the roommates spend their illicit cash on indulgences like champagne, a video camera and other toys for use inside the flat. The contrast between the luxurious setting and the gruesome events which unfold within is riveting...
Separated into three three conceptual themes--"Camera Vision," "Creative Vision" and "Constructed Vision"--the selection traces the upstart medium from a mere mimicry of established media to its emerging self-awareness as its own medium, and finally to its larger integration with the mass culture...
...Camera Vision," the first theme, begins in the mid-19th century with the awkwardness of photography's initial undertakings. The original challenge posed to photography was how a mechanical and scientific medium could function as a forum for creativity. Photographers responded by subverting the mechanical nature of the medium and imitating its paternal ancestor of painting...
...dawn of the machine age brought the camera to a new state of self-awareness. Photographers eschewed the painting-like limitations by experimenting with angles, fragmented imagery and new developing techniques. Chasing Shadows' next conceptual segment, "Creative Vision," demonstrates photography's prerogative to meld realism with creative distortion...