Studium and Punctum

This picture represents Studium I think. The way the sun is shining on the water looks like glitter and seems almost mythical. It has beautiful colors and shapes and light, but there is nothing there to prick your attention to make it a Punctum photograph.

(me and my friend's legs at an old quarry we swam in)

This is a still frame from a film by Tsai Ming-Liang called The Hole (1998). To me, this is an example of punctum. This photo clearly possesses a lot of questions... I mean its a man in his underwear with a beer can? however, the punctum to me is the fact that there is a giant hole in his room and his leg is stuck in it. This is the part that "pierces" your thoughts. When I look at it I am drawn to it. I want to know why, how, what is on the other side and if u see his leg sticking through from the room below? 

I don't think I got this right. Maybe niether of them are punctum? Not sure, but I tried!

Studium/Punctum

Herman Leonard was one of hte most iconic jazz photographers of his era. Although he took some very interesting photographs, most of them show the typical jazz scene of a smokey bar and close up of some musicians. I choose to show his work for this because his most famous photograph has a very prominent punctum in it, and it is his use of light (this punctum is what made it his most famous). The other photography shows studium because although it is an influential image of a recognizable man, there is nothing that stands out quite like the first image.

-Punctum

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-Eliza Dobbins

Aperture Assignment

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-Roger Wieand

studium and punctum

studium. this is a commercial picture. although the female there is pretty, the viewers have almost nothing to response other than "oh, she is pretty."

this is punctum for sure. still a commercial picture. the white eye lines and the hair are stunning and attractive, which definitely stimulate the sensual part in the mind of viewers.


KAini Zhou

Studium and Punctum

For me this photo is studium because although it's interesting, it doesn't grab you and pull you in.

This expresses punctum for me because the girls eyes just grab you and make you want to explore the photo, going from her eyes to her hands covering her mouth.

-Belkis

Barthes'-studium and punctum

Robert Mapplethorpe 

William Burroughs, 1979

Studium: There is something about this photo that I don't quite get. I am not drawn to any of the objects in a positive way, I feel very impartial to them, hence I feel disconnected from the picture. 

William Klein

Smoke and Veil, Paris (Vogue)

Punctum: Looking at this photo, I'm very pleased with it. The reason I enjoy looking at it is because I like the contrast between dark and light and I am immediately drawn to the darkness of her left eye and the smoke below it.  I feel that people can be drawn to the intense darkness of the left side of her face, the light on her right side, and her expression is that last to see--yet also very powerful. 

-Tali Lekorenos 

Studium and Punctum

(Werner Branz)

Branz's photo of this row of tulips was an immediately obvious example of studium to me -- I find the subject matter generally pleasing, and there are a number of lines that I find beautiful, but no one line or shape or detail draws my attention more than any other.

(Michele Clement)

This photograph interests me because it's not something that I initially expected to think of as an example of studium. During my first glance at it, my eye went immediately to the white of the church's front wall, and I thought that that would wind up being a point that held my interest. However, the more I look at it, the more I find that I'm just as drawn to the deep deep blacks of the shadows and the grays of the exposed grass as I am to the brilliant white of the building. I feel more interested in the depiction of a range of shades than in any individual shade, more gently caught up in the image as a whole than powerfully struck by any one thing.

(Michele Clement)

This photo works as an example of punctum and studium combined for me. I'm interested in the image's broad subject and the general way the shapes of the two sea-horses play off of each other. At the same time, though, I find myself constantly drawn to the way the tip of the paler sea-horse's tail curls and to how tiny and fine its point is, even in comparison to the other sea-horse's tail-tip.

(artist unknown)

For me, it's not the boy's face hovering out of the recess that works as the punctum; it's the patch of dry pavement on the sidewalk next to him. I think part of the reason I find it so striking is that its presence can't be explained by anything else within the frame; there's nothing visible that could have kept it from getting as wet as the rest of the sidewalk did.

-- Kate Morley