Last week before I quickly rushed off to Kent I presented the first draft of my symposium. I wasn’t happy with having to present something to rushed and not ready to actually be read aloud. I also wasn’t prepared visually: with a topic that in its nature isn’t really visual there weren’t any pictures I…
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Lives of the First World War
The Imperial War Museum are calling for stories, documents and pictures of the people served, held by families today. Their aim by the centenary for the IWM is to have 8 million personal stories built on a digital platform using multi mediums. The project – called Lives of the First World War and launching next February –…
Cinema Reseach 1960s
From reading the Chief’s log I was not in the understanding of what ‘Rank’ was. So I looked up on Wikipedia that ‘Rank Organisation’ was a big British cinema company: The company grew quickly, largely through acquisition. Significant developments included: 1938 – Odeon Cinemas was purchased 1939 – Denham Film Studios were merged with the facilities at Pinewood and the Amalgamated Studios in Borehamwood were…
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…
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…
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…
350MC Dream Portfolio
Choose 6 photographs that represents what you aspire your photographic practice to be like. 1) Donna Schwartz I chose this image not really because of the aesthetics: I prefer more natural lighting as opposed to a fill flash. However, the visuals in terms of composition is compelling because the viewer is drawn into the environment…