my journey towards a BA in photography
Richard Avedon, Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent (1981) A woman lies on her side against a plain floor and plain background of the same neutral colour and material, gazing into the camera lens, naked except for a bracelet…
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C&N Assignment 4 – Preparation Assignment 4 calls for us to write a 1000 word essay about any image, and I have given this a lot of thought to choose the right image. And I have chosen an image that has…
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The Photography Book by Ian Jeffery Book Review This a small compact book reference book containing around 500 images from many different genres of photography and 1 image per photography. It provides a whistle-stop tour through the last 150 years of…
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Death of the Author Simplified <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/YkQsRVrWM6c” frameborder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; encrypted-media” allowfullscreen></iframe> I stumbled up on the above Youtube video, i it s ashort summarisation of Barthes Death of the Author, not wanting to go much further as…
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Roland Barthes Camera Lucida This is Barthes last book and was written shortly after his mother’s death. The Book is about what makes a photograph memorable, but it also Barthes processing the grief for his mother through trying to…
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Jeff Wall’s: Insomnia (1994) Example of how to read an image The course notes point us to OCA tutors Sharon Boothroyds 500 word interpretation of Jeff Wall’s Insomnia. This is an inciteful read, as gives a practical demonstration of what…
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Diane Arbus In Singlar Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs Read and reflect upon the chapter on Diane Arbus in Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs by Sophie Howarth (2005, London: Tate Publishing). This essay begins with the statement:…
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Deconstructing and advertising image Rip out an advertising image from a newspaper supplement and circle and write on as many parts of the image as you can. Comment on what it is, what it says about the product and why…
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Exercise: Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1974 There are three subjects in the image, the main human subject is placed squarely in the centre with the others flanking her on the vertical third lines, however, the main protagonist in…
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Reading Photographs – An Introduction The objective of any picture is to be seen and photography, like cinema, is a visual language that has its own vocabulary and grammar. The technical aspects involved in photography: focal length of lens,…
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