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…
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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…
Diane Arbus Photobook
The book is a series of Diane Arbus’s ‘Freaks’. A collection of square format black and white prints which celebrate the diversity of human kind. Dominated by portraiture, Arbus also reflects on interior spaces, almost like a anthropological study. She explains that she likes going into people’s houses and understanding how they decorate it. Her portraits are…
The Subversive
sub·ver·sive adj. Intended or serving to subvert, especially intended to overthrow or undermine an established government: “Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities” (Erica Jong). n. One who advocates or is regarded as advocating subversion When talking about subversiveness in terms of the creative field, the possibilities are endless. George Rodger was a…
Out of the Archives- Tim Linfield
A short post about a appropriating archives for contemporary art. Visually it appears that artists use collage by means of appropriation. However, Tim Linfield used book archives as the raw material. He encourage people to make their own books from old books. Rewriting the language as it were and questioning the typical structure of a…