Tuesday, March 22, 2016

ASMAT --FROM BEHIND THE LENS--


                                                                              Foreword


One piece of photo even exceed the length of a series of words. Within the meaning is conveyed, a photograph is not
just a work of fiction, but meeting human
spiritual need that is prafanr.
When a pair of eyes staring at a photograph, it will be
appear boundless imagination that is based upon
punctum and studium, the linking process between
experience with a lasting sense then
reflected in the self-understanding, like strands photo

so mirror sheen of the individual pieces can also be
look in the mirror.
According to Roland Brathers punctum is a detail of a
photo gives an impression as if the eye
emotion flashed a knife stabbing. strength punctum
so great, beating the average picture, when
punctum to make an effort, then a pair of eyes
stare will remain imagine, despite repeated
closed. One can smile, laugh, silent,
angry, even tears in his eyes when he looked at a sheet
photo. Punctum certainly can not be separated from the Studium -
ability of a person based on experience
in dialogue with strands photos. An ever
identify a building well, for example jew -
communal house will soon know that the house
appearing in the photograph is a communal house Asmat.
But people who never knew jew, will
asked, "What house is it?" someone Capabilities
was decisive in dialogue with a photograph
or image --foto present meaning.
Baskoro, (2013) stated that a visual image can be
raises the significance or meaning. Meanings
which appears not actually come from photographs or
but the image itself appears in the brain or imagination
people who saw the photos. Etnofotografi position
Photography is not just
Top of Form
as a record of events but
as the image without words in which a photograph is not evidence
reality but a new reality.
The new reality that is "read" in a photo
a "game commentary" rational and reasonable
because it is formed by experiences
reflective because not an isolated experience.
Experience is not composed by solitude but of
relations of the things that have happened before.
This reading is not to duplicate the image
but for the explicit or affirm
a set of connotations in the image --foto--
--implisit previously existing.
Asmat is a reality very wide, about 23,000 ha
swampy land adjacent to the coastline.
Commencing in 2013 the number of districts continued to blossom from
seven to 19 with 221 villages were completely
growing along the river. Some clumps
with specification of life inhabiting the village
the said and persist over time into
historical records that are different from the lives of tribes
other nations. That Asmat became very
famous, because sculpture, already known to a wide audience.
However, how the shape of the engraving referred riel
as well as how the reality of everyday life Tribe
Asmat as woodcarvers? must be communicated
in a medium that is easily understood community
large.
Reportage photography with titles ASMAT -- FROM BEHIND THE LENS
-- is an attempt to answer
the question referred. Regardless of sculpture as well as custom
customs based on the belief
immortality of the ancestral spirits in nature safar --sorga-- dimension
Asmat tribe lives very spacious. Geographical position
is not easily achieved and geographical conditions in the form
bog is setting life
very challenging and requires a process of adaptation
outstanding in survival strategies. from the air
Asmat region will appear as green leafy
the trees, the rain forest is potentially
pour water all year round, settlement
people just seemed as if tiny speck
along the mighty river flow long snaking
the brownish water.
Too many specific things that can not be missed
without documentation to the reality of life that is not
contained in any tribes. While
history keeps rolling from one change leads to
further changes and expectations. The new reality is present
in various dimensions that must be enshrined as
which serves as a historical record of learning
for the next generation.


Dewi Linggasari

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