Digital Media Production
Rationale
“Kitchen Objects”
We chose the theme of kitchen objects, as we believe that it is a simple
yet effective theme to communicate the everyday aesthetic through photography.
Murray (2008 p. 151) discusses the shift in photography as moving away from capturing
‘special or rarefied moments of domestic/family living and more about an
immediate, rather fleeting display of one’s discovery of the small and
mundane’. The theme kitchen objects demonstrates this, as kitchen objects are
the epitome of everyday, mundane items. We cook with them, we eat food off them
and we clean them. Once their use has been fulfilled they are forgotten until
once again needed. All actions an average person completes in a day starts and
finishes in the kitchen. Our
fleeting moments with kitchen objects embody the new form of everyday aesthetic
photography known as ‘ephemera’ where images focus on the discovery of ordinary
subject matter with no lasting meaning (Murray 2008, p.155). To enhance such
dull objects the avid photographers within this genre seek to highlight their
natural beauty through ‘composition, use of lighting and framing’ (Murray 2008,
p.155). Similarly, our use of
neutral backgrounds, positioning and editing draws focus to the unique aspects
of each object’s everyday aesthetic.
References
Murray, S 2008, ‘Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notion
of Everyday Aesthetics’, Journal of
Visual Culture, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 147-163.
Hannah Dunlop 42820286
Lynette Anne (Annie) Collins 42797055
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