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…
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…
Contemporary Archive Appropriation Collage
Contemporary archive art? Doesn’t seem legitimate does it? However, it appears that instead of creating bodies of work based on new media, artists are commonly looking toward archive sources to curate and recreate their own work with his own message. One common tool to marry old and new media is using collage. Take John Stezaker, exhibited at…