my journey towards a BA in photography
Exercise: Image and Text Poetry Part 2 Poetry is starting to defeat me as is metaphorical and visceral interpretations in photographs – I am doubting if I am an artist or just a photographer. It said that you become an…
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Exercise: Image and Text Poetry Part 1 The aim of this exercise (and Assignment Two) is to encourage you to develop metaphorical and visceral interpretations rather than obvious and literal ones, to give a sense of something rather than a…
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Photographing the Unseen – 3 Case Studies This exercise asks us to look at three Level 3 students work who explored themes that were not necessarily visible. The students were Peter Mansell with his series on Paralysis, Dewald Botha’s Ring…
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Response to Barthes – Death of the Author In summary here Barthes is saying the author of the written word and visual arts have often spoon-fed their audience with the information they needed to understand a work. Giving a…
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Duane Michals: This Photograph is my Proof This photograph shows a couple in an embrace on a bed and even without the accompanying text, there is a warm to the image. The caption uses the past tense and suggests it was written…
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Research Point: Kaylyn Deveney Kaylyn Deveney Born March 25, 1967, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Deveney relocated from the USA to Wales to study for me photography masters, when we started talking to Albert Hasting an elderly neighbour, these chat…
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Research Point: Karen Knorr – “Gentlemen” Karen Knorr is a German-born American photographer who lives in London, who well connected on social media to promote and share her work. “Gentlemen” is series of 26 images documenting the interiors of the…
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RESEARCH POINT: SOPHIE CALLE “Take care of yourself” Sophie Calle was born in Paris, France on 9th October 1953 is a writer, photographer and artist of the unexpected (Jefferies, 2007) For her inspiration ‘Take Care of Yourself’, Calle used…
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RESEARCH POINT: SOPHY RICKETT “Objects in the Field” Sophy Rickett was born in London, England on 22 September 1970 and is a visual artist, working in London in photography, video and sound. However, that short bio doesn’t do justice to…
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How captions can change the meaning Exercise: Cut out some pictures from a newspaper and write your own captions. How do the words you put next to the image contextualise/re-contextualise it? How many meanings can you give the same picture?…
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