This is the last lesson wrapped up by Gilles with the topic Post Modernist Photography.  I chose this, Stumbling Block by Jeff Wall as this photograph was liberating painting in a way, so painting can go back to their own nature. What painting would’ve done when photography didn’t intervene?

This photo is very complex, it looks like snapshot but it is actually staged. So well staged i suppose. I look at all those movements in the background and the different elements in the photo pulls the focus to the foreground. 

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This is where photography becomes a component in fine arts. It is now indispensable as it has reached the conceptual advancement where artists look more in depth into concept, like what could be read into an image, what kind of message it sends instead of it just being visually appealing. There's now proper education for photography and publications of a few influential books which encouraged the development of conceptual photography. 

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Overall, i feel that i've come so far with this elective, i came in knowing nothing much about the history of photography and now i feel so fuelled with information and knowledge imparted by none other than Gilles. I will now take into account of such time and space in photography since we live in a patchwork of events and the criticality of how the timeline overlaps when we look back at a photograph.  

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