Complete a photographic
project in which you have used family portraits or snapshots in a new
context. Explore the ideas of
ancestral memory, archiving, history, and identity. How do photographs shape our memory? Do photographs tell Òthe truthÓ of our
pasts? Or do they tell a new story
or a carefully constructed narrative?
You may approach this
project with a variety of techniques.
You can make copy film negatives or digital files of your photographs
using the copy stand. You may also
scan your family photos and/or negatives. You may print new images with your
film negatives or your output may be a combination of traditional and digital. Feel free to explore multiple
exposures, layering, text, mixed media, digital, or other alternative methods
of image making.
For
some ideas on how family photos and histories have been documented and
explored, see the ÒCollected VisionsÓ website: http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu that has been put together by Lorie
Novak and NYU.