my journey towards a BA in photography
TONY RAY-JONES UK 7 June 1941 – 13 March 1972 Tony Ray-Jones was the forerunner for Martin Parr – set out in the 1960’s to capture Britishness before it was overrun the Americanism. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said…
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JOEL MEYEROWITZ Born New York 6 March 1938 Inspired by Robert Frank, he quit his advertising art director job and began taking black and white street photographs. An early pioneer of colour, he alternated with colour until 1972 when he switched completely…
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Aftermath or ‘Late’ Photography: the changing face of photojournalism In his essay his 2003 Essay Safety in Numbness David Campany talks about the changes in photojournalism seen in recent years, where we have seen video almost seeming superseding the still…
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CHARITY – MARTHA ROSLER “…which political battles have been fought and won by someone for someone else?” (Rosler (1981) in Bolton, 1992, p.307) Martha Rosler believed that the social conscience of well-meaning photographers such as Lewis Hine was…
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Rosler’s “In, around and afterthoughts (on documentary photography) The 1981 essay ‘In, Around, and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography)’ by Martha Rosler, is a typically self-indulgent and rather inaccessible academic essay with rambling sentences without a clear structure. However, it…
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Reporting of the Death of Ian Tomlinson (for images follow the link in bibliography to the Wikipedia over view of the case) On the 1st April 2009, there were large demonstrations in London focussed on the start of the second…
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Citizen Journalism Exercise Find some examples of news stories where ‘citizen journalism’ has exposed or highlighted abuses of power. How do these pictures affect the story, if at all? Are these pictures objective? Can pictures ever be objective? Write…
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