Response to Jason Salavon

Jason Salavon used very creative ideas to make unique photographs that people both could not make without technology, and also probably would not think to even make at all. I love the first photograph of the morphing of the Titanic scenes. You are able to see such a complex movie in film scenes that are not individually recognizable, but you can see the blended of a common theme to the movie. The centerfolds have a similar idea. You are not able to see each individual woman, but you can see common themes for that time depicted in what people thought was the ideal sex symbol and beauty of that decade. You can see those common themes change over time in each of the different blended photographs. I thought the One Special Moment photographs were very unique since it shows something that is so special to everyone in the photographs, but it makes you realize how common each of those events are for many different people. The Census Data photographs also show commonalities in people over time that people may feel is unique to them, but is actually very common. The 3-D light images add a certain visual value that flat images could not. I liked to see that data could be represented in such a way that would not only make it easy to understand, but very pleasing to look at. I like when artists use technology this way in their photographs, since they are making something they normally couldn’t, not just smoothing out imperfections.