Prewar cinema called Dovedale Cinema, built after 1931, no records in the 1925 or 1931 Kinematograph year books. However, there is an aerial photograph from 1929 of Windmill St, before Dovedale Street was built. 1929 Top Right 1932, Forked road bottom right The Kinematograph Year Book 1942, 1949 & 1954 Rivoli Cinema –…
Category: Archives want to be Free
Digitising Archives
Archives were made so that we could have references to aid us in the future. For example, things we learn are written down and stored. It is important things we decide to keep for future use. But as we are guided through the digital transition, physical archives are visited less and less: why do we…
#Phonar DC Lecture
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Transformative Storytelling
Using only found images (ie images from family albums and local library archives, not published in magazines) research and construct a photo-artefact/story that weaves a narrative linking the people depicted within. Development : Build and include a soundscape relevant to your story. Include personal stories from the subjects depicted. As I have been developing my…
Transformative Story Telling Recommended Reading
The links provided at Phonar.org to give inspiration for the task have proven more useful to my practice as a whole. I have been looking at archives: their appropriation and their preservation. Joachim Schmid Joachim Schmid appropriates ‘forgotten’ archives from the every day in a similar way to John Stezaker who I wrote about. His…
Significance of Family Albums
What better way to research popular opinion about family photo albums than to have a look on Twitter. I typed in the search bar ‘family albums’ and there are results. I can’t say it is a popular Twitter conversation. However still, it is interested to see that people still reflect on family albums. I can’t…
Appropriating Family Archives
Over the last couple of weeks I have been redesigning my book Unwelcome Invitation. The original book explored how the viewer and photographer alike intruded on a person’s environment. A conversation between space and possessions with dead pan portraits. However, remastering the book’s design, I have effectively appropriated it with a new meaning, adding archive photographs from…
Dream Photography Job
What a tough question! The more I am experimenting in the creative industry I am reaching the decision that I would like to work in publishing (preferably editing and making photobooks as beautiful artefacts). I would love to work one on one with artists and photographers to design delicate hand made books in small editions….
Eugene Richards
Eugene Richards, award winning documentary photographer, has many projects which makes the viewer really think about what he’s framed. In this powerful and raw book, Eugene Richards takes an in-depth and very intimate lookat the inhabitants of three troubled communities: East New York; North Philadelphia; andthe Red Hook Housing Project in Brooklyn, New York. –…
Subversiveness, Simon Norfolk and the Citizen
So in 350MC we have been discussing subversiveness. Jon Levy shown us a short clip today of an interview with war photographer Simon Norfolk. Norfolk asks “where is the critique on photojournalism?” and what are they doing in Afghanistan? The war has be fought longer than Vietnam and yet there have been no iconic photographs…