Topic investigation for Thurs. Sept. 24

fam⋅i⋅ly
  /ˈfæməli, ˈfæmli/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [fam-uh-lee, fam-lee] Show IPA noun, plural -lies, adjective
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–noun
1. parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.
2. the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.
3. the spouse and children of one person: We're taking the family on vacation next week.
4. any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family.
5. all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor.
6. Chiefly British. approved lineage, esp. noble, titled, famous, or wealthy ancestry: young men of family.
7. a group of persons who form a household under one head, including parents, children, and servants.
8. the staff, or body of assistants, of an official: the office family.
9. a group of related things or people: the family of romantic poets; the halogen family of elements.
10. a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together: Many hippie communes of the sixties regarded themselves as families.
11. a group of products or product models made by the same manufacturer or producer.
12. Biology. the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usually consisting of several genera.
13. Slang. a unit of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra operating in one area under a local leader.
14. Linguistics. the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely spoken families of languages. Compare stock (def. 12), subfamily (def. 2).
15. Mathematics.
a. a given class of solutions of the same basic equation, differing from one another only by the different values assigned to the constants in the equation.
b. a class of functions or the like defined by an expression containing a parameter.
c. a set.
–adjective
16. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a family: a family trait.
17. belonging to or used by a family: a family automobile; a family room.
18. suitable or appropriate for adults and children: a family amusement park.
19. not containing obscene language: a family newspaper.
—Idiom
20. in a or the family way, pregnant.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME familie < L familia a household, the slaves of a household, equiv. to famul(us) servant, slave + -ia -y 3

Usage note:
See collective noun.
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fam·i·ly (fām'ə-lē, fām'lē)
n. pl. fam·i·lies
1. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
2. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.
3. A group of like things; a class.
4. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.
5. All the members of a household under one roof.
6. A group of persons sharing common ancestry. See Usage Note at collective noun.
7. Lineage, especially distinguished lineage.
8. A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.
9. A group of like things; a class.
10. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.
11 .Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera. See Table at taxonomy.
12. Linguistics A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.
13. Mathematics A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.
14. Chemistry A group of elements with similar chemical properties.
15. Chemistry A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.

adj.

1.Of or having to do with a family: family problems.
2.Being suitable for a family: family movies.


[Middle English familie, from Latin familia, household, servants of a household, from famulus, servant.]
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family

In biology, the classification lower than an order and higher than a genus. Lions, tigers, cheetahs, and house cats belong to the same biological family. Human beings belong to the biological family of hominids. (See Linnean classification.)
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Word Origin & History

family
c.1400, "servants of a household," from L. familia "household," including relatives and servants, from famulus "servant," of unknown origin. The classical L. sense recorded in Eng. from 1545; the main modern sense of "those connected by blood" (whether living together or not) is first attested 1667. Replaced O.E. hiwscipe. Buzzword family values first recorded 1966. Phrase in a family way "pregnant" is from 1796. Family circle is 1809; family man, one devoted to wife and children, is 1856 (earlier it meant "thief," 1788, from family in slang sense of "the fraternity of thieves").
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Main Entry: fam·i·ly
Pronunciation: 'fam-lE, 'fa-m&-
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -lies
1 : a group of individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption
2 : a group of usually related individuals who live together under common household authority and esp. who have reciprocal duties to each other
NOTE: The interpretation of the word family in a law context depends upon the area of the law concerned (as contract or zoning law), the purpose of the document (as a statute or contract) in which it is used, and the facts of the case. Often for zoning purposes, the occupants of a group home are considered a family if the organization is like that of a family or if the home is going to be a permanent rather than a transitional residence for the occupants. —fa·mil·ial /f&-'mil-y&l/ adjective
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Main Entry: fam·i·ly
Pronunciation: 'fam-(&-)lE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -lies
1 : the basic unitin society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their own or adopted children; also : any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditionalfamily family>
2 : a group of related plants or animals forming a category ranking above a genus and below an order and usually comprising several tomany genera —family adjective
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family fam·i·ly (fām'ə-lē, fām'lē)
n.

1.A group of blood relatives, especially parents and their children.
2.A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus.

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family

see in a family way; run in the blood (family).
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1st Artist talk for Sept

Spencer Finch is an all around artist. He Seems to be able to seamlessly paint, sculpt, and photograph all the while showing his love of color and without losing his vision or voice as an artist. He Finch never seems to have a problem getting his point across in his work no matter what medium he is working with. My favorite piece he showed during the talk was his Glacier Piece (shown Here) this piece fascinates me because it is a closed circuit. The water from the pool is sucked up to make ice which is then dropped into the shoot where it melts and once again becomes part of the pool. The water is dyed to reproduce the color of glaciers which is an amazing blue color I have never seen anywhere other than a glacier.

I also find the work Finch does with the color of light very interesting. I think it is interesting that not only is he importing light from another place and time, sometimes light that he himself was never able to experience like the light Achilles saw when invading Troy, but if you look at the gels he puts on his lights you would think there is no way he could get uniform light, but he manages to. He also manages to make a beautiful colored sculpture in the process.

Artist Research for Mon. Sept. 21

In the early 80's Nancy Burson was introduced to a computer morphing technology that helped shape her art. This same morphing technology was sold to the FBI by Burson and her then husband. That software is now used to age progress missing adults and children.

Burson used this program to combine recognizable faces in multiple ways. She did several where she merged the faces of famous female movie stars to attempt to create a perfect form of beauty.

The image on the left is a composite of Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, and Marilyn Monroe.

The image on the right is a composite of Jane Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset, Diane Keaton, Brooke Shields and Meryl Streep.

It wasn't just women she did though. Burton also did several war pieces where she took each leaders face that had nuclear weaponry and combined them in the percentage of nuclear power they had.

The image below is 55% Reagan, 45% Brezhnev, less than

1% each of Thatcher, Mitterand, and Deng

Later Burson adapted her computer software to be able to deal with the races. The software now has several algorithms that reflect six different racial profiles. She has started an on going project called "The Human Race Machine". This series it currently traveling around to different universities to show students what they would look like as a different race. Her main goal is to show the similarities not the differences between races to help all people become one.

"I think what's important is that we understand that we are 99.9 percent alike. It's all about sameness and not about difference, and I think if we focus on that then it would further our chances of going from "I-ness" to "We-ness" to Oneness, and I think that is what will hold humanity together," Nancy Burton. (http://www.marquecornblatt.com/art/hybridity.html)

Along with the traveling exhibit she also has several billboards (shown below).

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Topic investigation for Thurs. Sept. 17

Alien:

al⋅ien

  [eyl-yuhn, ey-lee-uhn] Show IPA

–noun

1.	a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization (distinguished fromcitizen ).

2.	a foreigner.

3.	a person who has been estranged or excluded.

4.	a creature from outer space; extraterrestrial.

–adjective

5.	residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there.

6.	belonging or relating to aliens: alien property.

7.	unlike one's own; strange; not belonging to one: alien speech.

8.	adverse; hostile; opposed (usually fol. by to or from): ideas alien to modern thinking.

9.	extraterrestrial.

Origin:
1300–50; ME < class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: italic; ">aliēnus, equiv. to *alies- (ali-, base of aliusother + -es- n. suffix) + -nus adj. suffix

Synonyms:
1. immigrant. 2. See stranger. 3. outcast. 7. exotic, foreign.

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Alien was mentioned during my meeting with Paul this week. He used it to describe the way my cross processed image made him feel. I thought the work stuck out and made me look at the image slightly differently. After reading the definition I like the way it fits subtly into my concept of racial profiling.

Artist Research for Mon. Sept. 14

www.gregfriedler.com

"Greg (Friedler) is an artist who is fascinated by identity and how people fit into society. His portraits attempt to unmask his subjects of their veneer and capture the rawness of their humanity on the page." (from www.gregfriedler.com)

I am very interested in the way Friedler has chosen to pair his couples. I think it is interesting to go back and forth between the almost bored looking faces and see not only the similarities but the differences in them.

I really like this image of the two young blond girls. I enjoy the way at first glance they seem so similar (due to age and similar styles of dress), but when you start to look closer you start to see differences. The one on the right seems to be more confident with her head tilted slightly up almost confrontational. Where as the one on the left a bit shy due to the chin being tilted slightly down. She even has a bit of curiosity in her eyes.

I think Friedler was successful in showing the individuals characters even with them being removed from their environments. The fact he allowed so much of the subjects personality to show through their clothing allows them to still have a voice even without showing a lot of expression.

Topic investigation for Thurs. Sept. 10

"The political and ideological discourses embedded in the conflation of scientific naturalism and photographic naturalism in the presentation of observable fact has long been recognized in photography, the body and visibility, and surveillance and control." (from Raw histories: photographs, anthropology and museums By Elizabeth Edwards p.131)

Anthropometric Photography has been in practice for a long time. Thomas Henry Huxley being one of the first to use this theory of comparing people visually through photography. In 1869 Huxley, a Darwinian biologist, started a project to document the people of the British Empire photographically. His intent was to compare and contrast the peoples under British rule. He wanted to show not only the people but the types of clothing that they wore to help better understand the different cultures. Ethnographic photography, another name for anthropometric photography, was a very popular through the 1860s and 70s as people began to explore and find new cultures to exploit.

Due to the lack of uniformity in this practice there were several photographers who attempted to create a set of regulations or guidelines on how to go about documenting these peoples. John Lamprey wrote an article "On a Method of Measuring the Human Form" wrote in 1869. This article became influential to all who were implementing the ethnographic process. Lamprey focused on the nude male figure, removing the ability to show regional clothing, this allowed the viewer to concentrate on skin color, hair texture and proportions of the body. This new way of documenting people made it easier to see the basic differences and similarities between all humans.

Artist Research for Mon. Sept. 7

This week I found a photographer who explores the idea of anthropometric photography, Valerie Belin ( www.valeriebelin.com ). Valerie uses one harsh light to produce heavy shaping/shading to the face. This one light also allows her to pale and remove any impurities in the skin allowing the focus to be on the contours of the face it self. Her intent in this is to help see the similarities in people and in turn look at the way avatars are generalized. She has also done studies on mannequins and the models they are based off of to see where the spark of life actually comes from. I think both of these photographic studies are interesting. The first (avatar study) because she is not only comparing people but the female and male form together. I enjoy the way she almost removes all color from her subjects except a little in the eyes and mouth. I feel in a way this dehumanizes the subjects and allow for a closer inspection without letting emotions get in the way. I enjoy the second study (mannequin study) because when looking at the images of model and mannequin it is sometimes very hard to see that spark of life she is trying to locate. The lighting she used here is very soft removing most contouring shadows and impurities in the skin allowing the differences between the two to show either in imperfections of the artist creating the mannequin or in finding that spark of life, whatever that might actually be.

Topic investigation for Thurs. Sept. 3

com⋅pare

  [kuhm-pair] Show IPA verb, -pared, -par⋅ing,noun

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–verb (used with object)

1.	to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.

2.	to consider or describe as similar; liken: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

3.	Grammar. to form or display the degrees of comparison of (an adjective or adverb).

–verb (used without object)

4.	to be worthy of comparison; be held equal: Dekker's plays cannot compare with Shakespeare's.

5.	to appear in a similar standing: His recital certainly compares with the one he gave last year.

6.	to differ in quality or accomplishment as specified: Their development compares poorly with that of neighbor nations.

7.	to vie; rival.

8.	to make a comparison: The only way we can say which product is better is to compare.

–noun

9.	comparison: Her beauty is beyond compare.

—Idiom

10.	compare notes. note (def. 32).

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME comparen < class="ital-inline" style="">serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: italic; ">comparāre to place together, match, v. deriv. of compar alike, matching (see com-, par ); r. MEcomperen < class="ital-inline" style="">y: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: italic; ">comperer < class="luna-Img" border="0" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" alt="" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: text-top; ">

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I think I would like to take a scientific approach and compare a variety of male and female portraits using a similar technique to the one I used above. I think it would be interesting to look at the similarities between male and female at various age groups as well as in different ethnic groups. The pair I have above match so well I would like to see if it is the age group or just characteristics of the two subjects above.