PHOTO ESSAY - BICYCLE WHEELS (Monica & Athanasia)

Monica Fraga (42845912)

Athanasia Bakopoulos (42113865)

THEME: WHEELS
SUB-THEME: BICYCLE WHEELS

Rationale

Through advancements of technology, social media sites such as Flickr are currently representing a shift and change in the way people relate to the everyday image. These images have “become less about special or rarefied moments … and more about … ones discovery of the small and mundane” (Murray 2008: 151), which represents this new movement of everyday aesthetics.

With the theme of bicycle wheels we were able to depict and illustrate our understanding on focusing on the everyday objects that we habitually take for granted through our creating of a photo essay consisting of 24 images.

Bicycle wheels represent movement, time and continuance, which we wanted to demonstrate through our photo essay. By altering and editing photos from saturated and warm tones to black and white tones we were able to demonstrate a change from day to night that depict the movement of these bicycle wheels. More so, we captured these very mundane objects at different angles to further illustrate this movement. By capturing images closer and further away from the wheels, our understanding of everyday aesthetics was shaped as we see the objects portrayed in different and creative ways, thus adding beauty to the ordinary.

BrunoXe's '90s break' has added a unique element to the photo essay. The instrumental and long tones of the music further support the wheels portrayal of time and continuance.

These aspects of photo editing, stylization and music all support the notion of everyday aesthetics of framing the small and mundane objects within our environment and our lives. 

Reference List

Music:

'90s break' courtesy of BrunoXe: Available at http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/379203/90s-break, published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, Accessed: 08/10/12

Journal:

Murray, S, 2008, 'Digital Image, Photo Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics', Journal of Visual Culture, vol:7, iss: 2, pp. 147-163.