New Images
Here are the images that I had hoped to get posted over the weekend. They have not been altered other than cropping them to the 5x5 size and grayscaling them.
posted by Christy | 8:25 PM
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While this shows progress, I'm troubled by the seeming similarity between images. If you might identify what you're thinking the frame expresses as an emotion, it might allow your viewers a position to further engage (and judge) the actual emotion.
Just to add another dimension of research and history, Charles Darwin and famed photographer Oscar Rejlander (http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=38k3hef5997b8?tname=oscar-gustave-rejlander&curtab=2222_1&hl=expression&hl=emotions&hl=man&hl=animals&sbid=lc07a) teamed up to document human emotions some 134 years ago in the book, "The expression of the emotions in man and animals" 1872. Imagine cropping these to reveal only the eyes...
Check out these links:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/17/tearslaughter.php
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin3/expression/expression_intro.htm
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin3/expression_figs/plate1.jpg
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin3/expression_figs/plate2.jpg
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin3/expression_figs/plate3.jpg
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin3/expression_figs/plate5.jpg
(The bottom two are Rejlander... quite the ham!)
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin3/expression_figs/plate7.jpg
(with electro-shock applied to muscles... cool, huh?)
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/bff/302/makingfaces.html
Thanks for the web sites. I have checked out a few, but still have to check out the rest. I will be doing that this weekend. I hope to get a lot more shooting done this weekend. Wish me the best, I think I'll need it.
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