Mind and Photography: Investigation of the works of Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky and Thoma Struth from the perspective Ramachandran s seven laws of artistic experience

Background and Aim : The human mind has undoubtedly influenced all aspects of his life that have long been debated by scientists and philosophers of nature and how it has affected the world around us. Also examining the role of the mind and how it works and affects phenomena is a hot topic for contemporary scholars and philosophers.The photography media has a significant influence on the creation of effective photographs and artworks since the invention of the camera. On the other hand, today the photographic media finds and finds more importance than ever before for the creation of the work of art and its recognition as art.Methods : In this research titled Mind and Photography: Investigation of the works of Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky and Thoma Struth from the perspective Ramachandran s eight laws of artistic experience, we investigate the relationship between mind and photography and how the mind of the creator of the photograph and the artist affects the final photograph as an artwork by examining the presence of features which V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein put forth in an article entitled The Science of Art – A Neurological Theory for Aesthetic Experience (1999) in order to introduce the prerequisites of an artistic experience by Gillian Rose’s method composition interpretation in 15 History- Painting photographs by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth.Results : The results of this study show that the photographer’s mind will affect his or her works through the features mentioned in the article, both consciously and unconsciously. Also features of peak shift principle, perceptual grouping, isolation, contrast, symmetry, generic viewpoint, and visual metaphor are factors that can be documented as mediators to influence the artworks and photographs by the mind. In the studied samples, peak shift principle and perceptual grouping were found to have the highest rate of use in the works and the least of them was contrast. Picture for Women and The destroyed Room by Wall and Sao Paulo, Se by Gursky also had the highest percentage of attributes mentioned above.Conclusion : The mind of photographer as artist influences his/her photographs and artworks, both consciously and unconsciously by using Ramachandran’s laws to create the final work. Because when he/she use all or some of those features and they greeted by his/her audience after being presented, he/she unconsciously will get encourage to create and adhere to what he/she has created before by realizing his/her works were accepted by society; Although he/she is not very likely to be aware of what happened by the brain s neural mechanism and its effects on this process.

کلیدواژه ها:

Photography ، Mind ، Neuro-aesthetics ، Jeff Wall ، Andreas Gursky ، Thomas Struth