Metaphor+Photography

The three photographers that I chose were Juliann Kost, Jerry Uelsmann, and John Paul Caponigro. I like Juliann Kost’s work because some of her images, like the one I chose, have a picture within a picture. This is a really neat idea and she crafts her images so they flow nicely. Jerry Uelsmann has really inspired me! I love how he takes one image and puts another one inside of it. For example, the image I chose and the image Ms. Bjork has on her banner, are very similar. They both have hands bordering the internal image. I love this idea and I definitely want to use it in my photography. John Paul Caponigro also has really inspired me! The image I chose from him is a dusk scene and there is light flowing through the clouds illuminating the water. I love how it looks and I think I can reproduce an image like this to fit in with my song. Eminem- Space Bound “Nobody knows me I'm cold Walk down this road all alone It's no one's fault but my own It's the path I've chosen to go   Frozen as snow I show no emotion whatsoever

I got a hole in my heart, I'm some kind of emotional rollercoaster Something I won't go on 'til you toy with my emotion, so it's over It's like an explosion every time I hold you, I wasn't joking when I told you you take my breathe away You're a supernova... and I'm a   I'm a space bound rocket ship and your heart's the moon And I'm aiming right at you

Let's cut to the chase But a door shuts in your face Promise me if I cave in and break and leave myself open That I won't be making a mistake

Just promise me you'll think of me every time you look up in the sky and see a star 'cause imma space bound rocket ship and your heart’s the moon.”

I chose this song because the Eminem Recovery album was the soundtrack to my summer last year. I think this song describes how I felt at some point in my life fairly well. Also I can relate a lot to the artist in regards to this album being a fresh start for him as well I have been making fresh starts and working on getting my life together. I was inspired by the photographers work and I think I could make some really awesome images with these lyrics.

The song was written by Marshall Mathers (Eminem), J. Scheffer, and S. McEwan. Some ideas I have for this song would be to take a picture of hands in the shape of a heart and put a picture of the night sky, with the stars and the moon inside of them. This is an image that would be inspired by Jerry Uelsmann. My other image idea would be to take a picture of the night sky, like John Paul, and capture it with the moon and the stars, edit the moon into a heart shape and paste a shooting star into the image. I also think it would be interesting to take a photo of a star zoomed in as close as possible, symbolizing the center of someone’s universe or someone watching over. I also would like to take a picture of the lake and editing snow into the foreground, melting into the lake symbolizing how someone can grow colder over time. I can’t exactly imagine any other interpretations of the song. I think there could be some but I think the lyrics are somewhat straightforward metaphorically.