WHAT IS NOSTALIGIA?
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. Nostalgia, as an abstract concept, can be described as something different to each individual, but the dictionary definition states that it is first a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition and second the state of being homesick.
HOW CAN NOSTALIGIA BE SUBVERTED?
What we know as feeling nostalgic, a warm positive feeling can also reflect which can induce sadness if you’re yearning for the past, and upset that the times you’re thinking of no longer exist, this can cause an individual to take it as an opportunity to reimagine or conceal. By recollecting these positive memories this could lead an individual to erase the negative parts for the memory in order to align with the stereotypical happy memories of the past.
WHAT CAN TRIGGER NOSTALGIA?
- FOOD
- FAMILY AND FREINDS
- PHOTOS
- SCENT
- MUSIC
- PLACES
- MEDIA
- MOVIES/TV COMMERCIALS
NOSTALGIA IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Becoming an artist/photographer you are able to interpret art in your own way, this is why each individual artwork has a unique style to each artistic. Since nostalgia is such an abstract topic artists are able to be inspired by anything, the positive or the negative, and express it in a way that is distinctive to one-self.