I was intrigued on Dan's various internship experiences, and how he aimed to find internships that were connected in some form to what he wanted to study. His trip to West Africa, was a rewarding experience, mainly because he was able to learn about the fashion trends being adopted by the African people. Africans are organic and trend setting for their attire, and I was surprised to see many changing forms in their attire to more American style dressing. Dan's experience there, lead me to think about how surveillance in fashion is rooted in photography. There is an abundance of demands for the latest fashion, and the large mass of people in our society keep track of it.
How would Dan respond to a job where caution and or surveillance was not needed in photography?
I'm really interested in the multi-intership too, I mean that's tons of experences and oppertunities he encountered, and after the accumulation of all this MOMA offered him a job. It's like you just keeping trying until something comes up. Perfect moment capture during the exploring.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it was interesting that Dan Leers got to study how photography was adapted to the culture of West Africa, and how it was changed to fit their purposes. It might be intriguing to find out what Cartier-Bresson would have thought about the African style of photography, for it was in a way spontaneous like his pictures were. For instance, the picture of the African woman laughing that we saw. That must have been taking spur of the moment, just as Cartier-Bresson caught decisive moments in his photos.
ReplyDeleteHow cool. A lawrence grad doin' some cool things! My question is, in a trip to Africa wouldn't you be overwhelmed by other things and not think about trend setting fashion? Wouldn't a LU Alum want to maybe do some other things that really could make a difference in some peoples lives?
ReplyDeleteStudying fashion in Africa was a sort of next step exchange cycle -- western fashion majes its way to Africa via LP covers, is adapted and re-expressed in photographs studied by Leers...
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