my journey towards a BA in photography
C&N Overall reflection Context and Narrative has been a challenge for me, I have found that narrative photography is not a natural fit for me. Although, I do understand that is not something I should run away from. It…
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Nicky Bird – Question For Seller “Almost everyone has their own collection of pictures -the earlier ones may be organized in packets or drawers, some may be in albums, others scattered around in a disorderly fashion but impossible to…
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Gregory Crewdson The course manual directs us to watch a video that is no longer available on YouTube and I can find no alternative links on the student website which is rather disappointing. I have done a brief search…
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This again was a recommendation from my tutor and this is wonderful book which simplifies, shortens and summaries key works of photographic theory which can be notoriously impenetrable for the inexperienced student. e.g. Susan Sontags On Photography, Barthes Camera Lucida…
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This book was a recommendation from my tutor Robert Enoch as it gives a good through introduction to the major concepts in modern photography theory – hence its title. Not necessarily the easiest book to read in parts, in general…
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This is a very different book to the other book I have by Ian Jeffery, The Photo Book. Whereas The Photo Book takes you on a whistle-stop tour of the development of photography over the last 150 years by showing…
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Liz Wells is a professor in Photographic Culture and Plymouth University and she has edited together this rather useful volume (now in it’s 5th Edition) which cover several major arrears of photographic theory, with chapters covering: Key debates in photographic…
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I have had this book for a good while I think the first Christmas after starting to study with the OCA. I added it blindly to an Amazon or Book Depository Wisj List and I received it as a Christmas…
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C&N Assignment 4 – Response to Feedback Dear Robert Thank you for your feedback and annotated essay. Reading your feedback and comments, I understand your points. This is my first essay reading a photograph, so I was a difficult…
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C&N Assignment 3 – Self Reflection Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills When I am taking photographs I am often pre-occupied on getting the basic technical elements in place and I neglect the artist side of the work. With this assignment,…
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