I have to present a paper I wrote on archival albums next week. I’m pretty nervous - and instead of going over my research, I’ve been thinking about how I would visually talk about albums as combinations of photographs/writing/drawing etc… that are placed together to tell a story about some experience. These are just notes…
Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images
Here are some of the pictures the photographer named Nikki Graziano have captured. Graziano, is a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, she overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos.
“I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says.
Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead. Once she’s got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph. See more of her Found Functions series at Nikkigraziano.com.
(Source: expose-the-light, via and-slash-or)
Field Work: In Progress.
Taken within the Vancouver Archives, these are the hand-drawn embellishments that have been added by the family album’s author.







