Abelardo Morell's

Tent Camera

In the tent camera Abelardo would create a camera obscura using a tent. He in basic terms created a pinhole camera using a tent. He had the image projected on the ground. He created images in away that was unique at the time. He created a way to utilize camera obscura in a way that had never been done before. This is evident in his photos.

PHOTO 3 PINHOLE SERIES

Noumena

By: Spencer Schnoor

Noumena is some event or phenomenon that is known of without using any senses. The term noumenon is mostly commonly linked to Kantian Philosophy by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and is rarely a concept that the general population would understand or use due to its depth and complexity. In the Philosophy of Kant neumonon is an object as it is in itself independent of the mind as opposed to phenomenon.  It was first used in 1796 and derives from the Greek nooúmenon and nous.  You can never fully understand the concept of noumena, only phenomenon. Phenomenon is anything that appears to be or is an object of the sense, so it can be fully understood.  Unlike neoumena which is an event or object that is known without using any senses.  

                Noumena by Kant:

According to Kant you can never fully describe the concept of noumena or know what it is. Because simply trying to identify, study, or classify noumena is in fact trying to identify, study, or classify a phenomenon.  Since  noumena is an event known without the use of any senses it cannot be observed, studied, identified, or classified.  In other words our human minds can correlate in useful and accurate ways with the structure of the universe but cannot correlate noumena. Instead we must gather which thoughts relate to noumena relate them to the concept of phenomena so that we may try to further our understanding of noumena in a way that is possible. However ther is confusion in the “exact”  definition of noumena.  For example noumena is generally defined as, some event or phenomenon that is known of without using any senses. If there was something understood about noumena that would mean that the human mind would have to be able to understand everything phenomena as well as noumena. Since we aren’t capable of understanding all things there would have to be some concept that represents the unknowable and that is where noumena comes into play. It represents the unknowable such as the concept of afterlife, heaven, hell, Dante inferno, and damnation.

                Although it is true that Immanuel Kant was the first person to use the term or concept of noumena, the concept of it has been in existence for awhile and has had history with negative critiques against the concept.  Some of the most notorious critiques included George Berkeley and Arthur Schopenhauer.  Arthur Schopenhauer criticizes the work of Immanuel Kant on noumena in which he does so by stating the flaws of Kant’s work. Schopenhauer stated that Kant did not distinguish between the concrete, intuitive, and perceptional knowledge of objects and the abstract, discursive, conceptual, knowledge of thoughts. Also Schopenhauer stated that Kant’s work was obscure and did not clearly explain his concepts.

An example of noumena could be the concept of purgatory (dante inferno).

Alexander Harding

"Six Suns"

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To me "Six Suns" by ALexander Harding is an image that is most about light.

The six beams of light displays the power and intensity of light in the world. While the shadows around the image display the darkness of the world and shows the importance of light. Light can be manipulated to make an image as well, you see this with the effect of the light on the ground. It creates a blue figure on the floor with a greenish yellow haze around it.