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In the Republic, Plato famously likened most of what we perceive with our senses to a play of shadows that we assume to be reality. Here, the first-year Photography students happily embrace the phenomenal world and present alternate ideas on this shadowplay.
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Alice looked in the mirror of her room and wondered: what lies on the other side of the reflection? She walked through the mirror and so began her story Through the Looking-Glass. In the same spirit of adventure and curiosity, the first-year Photography students set about capturing images of the reflection and bending of light through various mediums.
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The first-year Photography students have finished their exploration of natural forms. Nearly two-thousand years ago, the Roman poet Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things to explain the Epicurean worldview that natural phenomena accounts for existence, and the highest good is to have an unfettered mind receptive to a pleasant life. Our up close study of these natural forms is only the latest in a long thread of attempts to convey the pleasure of observing simple things.
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Categories: PHOTO 1
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In 1855, Walt Whitman self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, featuring the twelve poems that would later be titled “Song of Myself.” Students in the first year of Photography respond to his entreaty: “You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them […]
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