When walking around MOMI on the second floor I was immediately taken aback by this portrait. I was in love with the spiral fan behind the main models body to add a contrast between the black background, her black sheer outfit and the white fan. I also love how her face hits the lighting so that it creates a soft feel to the portrait and how the photographer created a balanced photograph with enough whites and blacks. My eye easily moved around the photograph with the help of the spirals surrounding the model and how her outfit or cloth leads the eye to her head. This photographer took advantage of triangles with her body as one, and curves with the background spiral around her framing the models face. This photographer also left the viewer with questions of where the model was, why she was there, and who she was.
Another piece at the MOMI that intrigued me were the zoetropes on the third floor. Being able to see how they worked and actually trying one out made me further interested in how to make movies. It was interesting being able to actually look through the holes while the zoetrope was spinning and seeing how each separate image could create a whole story. Exploring the third floor and the art of stop motion helped me see how photography connected to making films. It also made me put into perspective how much goes into making a movie or a tv show in general. I believe this museum was a good experience for our class to go to because it showed all of us how photography ties into filmmaking and how making a movie is not just recording a subject but you have to pay attention to sound, visuals, props, and lots more.
The last piece at the MOMI I thought was interesting was the daily point of view exhibition. A whole side of the second floor was a commentary about current media trends for the younger generation. I personally connected to the daily point of view ipad with the snapchat app open because as a teenager, this one was very relevant for me. Everyday I wake up and check my snapchat and it is my mode for communication with my friends and it shows me what everyone is doing in that one day. It really is someone’s daily point of view of their lives and this piece showed how this could be unhealthy and it is just online and not real life. This whole exhibition was a sensory overload with so many screens and sounds, which emphasized how much technology really is in our lives everyday. It also was a sort of education for people who might not know all the current trends on the internet today and lots of people can see what the teenagers are watching or doing on the internet everyday.