Shooting "Why are black people so loud"

The following were all shot on 2/28 with a Canon 30D

400 asa (which I think is a little grainy. I should have shot at a lower ASA considering I was shooting primarily outside.)

Why are black people so loud? (Business owner)

Why are black people so loud? (Business owner)

Why are black people so loud (when waiting for the bus)?

Why are black people so loud (when working)?

Why are black people so loud (when not working)?

Why are black people so loud (and fashionable)?

Why are black people so loud (when getting arrested)?

New Directions - Why are black people so loud?

Another thing that I discussed in crit was my growing interest in the single search suggestion "why are black people so loud?"

I feel like this question shows the racism in people using Google. It is a great social commentary.

I am going to spend the rest of my time working on this particular prompt phrase. The series I present will be five or more works displaying various photographs dealing with and addressing this question. They will all be displayed with the Google Screen Shot Label displayed in my previous post.

I am contemplating presenting my images in diptychs. One side of the diptych will be of a person of one race doing something. The other side of the diptych will be a person of another race doing the same thing. I feel like this is a simple way of showing that we are all just people.

I did a little bit more research on Google to see what kinds of results I got with the following two prompts:

Why are black:

people so loud

people so ugly

people better athletes

people so racist

people so violent

people so dumb

people black

people faster than white people

people so lazy

women so fat

WOW

and now for

Why are white:

people so racist

people called crackers

women attracted to black men

people smarter than black people

lighters bad luck

people afraid of black people

people so ugly

people called honkies

people so evil

people called caucasian

I'll leave you to chew on that. More photos focusing on this question soon.

New Work

Why are people posting colors on facebook?

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The answer to this question happens to do with breast cancer awareness. Women are posting their bra colors as their status' on Facebook as a way to remind other women to do self breast exams.

As an answer to these questions I photographed a couple images of actual bras. Another way of addressing this question was to take images of items that filled the entire frame with one color. I was the most intrigued with white. There are so many various shades and hues that still read as "white". I also considered the idea that the majority of bras are sold in white.

After WIP 2 Review

I presented my new work along with various presentation styles at critique. I came to the decision after some suggestions by my class to present the work as follows:

Here you can see the google screen shot is presented as a label or title of the artwork. I will now be working on making my own google label since the actual screen shot is too small and extremely hard to read because it is so busy. I want it to look like google classic (unfortunately right now Google classic has a strange olympic themed logo instead of its original.)

Presentation Styles

For midterm I am planning on having a couple different presentation styles ready to show to have my peers comment on. During my last review it was suggested that I show the work in a diptych style with the google screen capture on the left side and my image/answer on the right side. I have made a digital mock up of what that will look like.

This image on the left is the largest size my screen shot can print in its highest quality. I wonder if i should shrink the answer image on the right to be the same size. I could potentially enlarge the screen shot to the answer images size and have a loss of quality- which might enhance the digital/ electronic-ness of the entire project. I also considering creating a website for the project as the main way of presenting it.

New Work

Why did I get married too?

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New Work

Why are black people so loud?

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