tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19405316215934161062024-03-05T09:51:15.138-08:00P2: DocumentaryPdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-800694316493147502015-02-22T15:46:00.000-08:002015-02-22T15:46:43.475-08:00Reflections on the course...What do I think?<br />
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Well, this is certainly the biggest step I have taken in terms of my development - personal and photographic. Whilst I am still undoubtedly a grounded and logical engineer, I am becoming an enlightened artist and beginning to develop my own voice.<br />
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About halfway through the course my tutor commented upon the change in my language. I hadn't noticed this at the time; looking at some of my recent posts my language has moved even further - I know it's me but at the same time I'm struggling to believe it's me.<br />
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At the beginning of the course, I found the philosophy very disturbing, now I am happy to enter into and capable of holding my own in philosophical debate. I even have a string of quotes...<br />
[Aside: I still have a fundamental issue with Kendal L Walton!]<br />
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I have read and enjoyed reading Sontag, Barthes, Berger and Bazin. I never thought I'd be able to say that. I also have no doubt that the barrage of philosophy enabled everything to fall into place.<br />
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This is the hardest module I have completed so far, the additional workload was also significant. I was warned about this in my first conversation with my tutor and I am thankful that I listened. In my first blog post I stated that my aim was to post on a weekly basis - mostly this has been the case. This structured approach to the course has been invaluable, especially because some of my assignments were not completed within the anticipated time line. This delay (a draft assignment 3 was submitted on time, the final assignment 3 was submitted with assignment 5) was concerning at the time, but showed a clear and positive development between the earlier and later photographs. This development was also noticeable in the final formatting of the book.<br />
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Naturally my view of documentary had become more rounded, more open and more challenging; I have become less accepting of available information. This is nothing new, each of the courses has had a similar influence on my thought processes.<br />
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I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and I would like to thank my tutor for her support and her challenge.<br />
<br />Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-696901854378730632015-02-22T13:54:00.000-08:002015-02-22T13:54:35.437-08:00Assignment 5 - the images<br />
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<b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3YnkuM6A9JdZVBrbGlVU1RDY2s/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">All Saints Chilvers Coton Parish Church</span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm still not sure of the best format for this assignment - this is the link to the pdf as required by the brief. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My intention is that the description and the image lie side-by-side when viewed, this cannot be done when viewing the pdf. However, it would be achievable as an ebook.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feedback from my tutor "</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Myriad Pro;"><b><i>Although
slightly off tangent from the assignment brief and focus of documentary I feel
that the final project is working.</i></b>"</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I absolutely agree with comment even though as we have progressed through the course we have come to accept that any 'record' is a document; albeit without the necessary provenance, the document may lack credibility. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the reasons I selected Piper in the first place, was his very subjective view of the scene, especially as he was employed as a war office painter to record bomb damaged cities. Regardless, I accept that <b><i>my take</i></b> on the emotional journey of the rebuilding of the church is a work of pure fiction and hence questionable when submitted as an assignment for a documentary course. However, there are countless accounts of the emotional stories from survivors of this type of 'cathartic journey', the Yesterday channel broadcasts the like almost 24/7. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In terms of this particular 'journey' I have included all the key stages, so is <b><i>my take</i></b> likely to be that far out?</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder what Piper would have made of digital photography? I wonder how much more 'radical' his work would have become?</span></span></div>
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-33475475427466824332015-02-22T13:06:00.001-08:002015-02-22T13:06:03.648-08:00Assignment 4 - critical review<div style="border-bottom: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0cm 0cm 4.0pt 0cm;">
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Allen’s song ‘The Fear<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: #17365d; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>’<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'm on the right track; yeah, I'm on to a winner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Allen’s song went straight to number 1 in January 2009 and whilst
it was doubtless written ‘tongue-in-cheek’, it nonetheless, packs a weighty
punch directly at the culture we have created. Allen’s keen observational
skills enable her to poke fun at everybody, including herself, at the same time
as abdicating any responsibility for the situation – “And it's not my fault;
it's how I'm programmed to function.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">In our celebrity-obsessed, media-focused culture, it’s hardly surprising
the Allen’s words “I don't know what's right and what's real anymore” ring with
an ironic truth. As photographers, are we not at least partially complicit in
creating this kind of confusion between what’s right and what’s real?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Photography has never been, is not and will never be ‘<b><i>objective</i></b>’.
Is it not time we stopped talking about photographic objectivity and started
talking about the subjective truth of photographs?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“For the first time, an
image of the world is formed automatically, without the creative intervention
of man… [requiring only] …the instrumentality of a non-living agent.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>” “<i>The status of photography, at its birth,
hinged on what was thought to be its capacity for objective transcription</i> …
[and for decades subsequent literature about photography repeated this] … litany
of photographic truth<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
until it became a universal myth. “The photograph may distort; but there is
always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like the
photograph<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
and this is fundamentally why the photograph has been unable to shake off this myth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Objectivity is by definition
“activities (including behaviours) <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">not
influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing
facts”. </span><b><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0;">For the purposes of this discussion, let us ignore that the
audience believe they can view an image with objectivity forgetting the
influence of gatekeepers (those who decide what gets published/distributed and
where) and also that they are immune to the fact that their beliefs become part
of the interpretation. So, let us temporarily limit objectivity relating to
photography to two categories:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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team – photographer, developer, editor – the objective presentation of what was
captured in camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The human
eye takes its visible world with it as it walks<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”,
in other words we are able to see everything but not all at once - our eye
flits form one part of a scene to the other; the camera on the other hand, sees
every detail all at once but only within its specific frame of reference – the
boundary of the photograph. Thus the camera has not only changed the way we
see, it has given us more to see and because of this new level of detail changed
the way in which we perceived things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
understand how photographs work subjectively we must accept the “photographic
paradox<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”,
that in addition to photographic composition (the denotation), the photographic
sub-text (the connotation) of the image plays an integral part and must also be
considered. These two different but important messages do not work in
‘collusion’; rather, they form a structural paradox, wherein the connotation is
developed from information from the denotation. This ‘development’ in turn
creates an ethical paradox; theoretically the denoted information is ‘neutral
and objective and copies reality meticulously’, only to be ‘challenged’ by the
coded message (the connotation) that requires interpretation by the viewer resulting
in a potentially dramatically skewed reading because of their knowledge,
understanding and cultural biases. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Connotation
is further skewed when the photographer elects to stage the physical objects
within the frame. Isobel Hilton (The Guardian) echoes this view, in her article
entitled ‘The Camera Never Lies<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
(2008) on the run up to the Robert Capa-retrospective at the Barbican in 2008,
re-reviewing the controversy surrounding Capa’s photograph of </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Federico Borrell García (1936) and </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">commented on war photography that “<i>Ever since cameras first went to war, photographers have staged scenes,
rearranged bodies and had events re-enacted for the camera and we look at them
in two states of mind - open to their impact as authentic images, and aware
that to perceive the camera as a neutral observer is naive.</i>” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Category 2 – the photograph <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">William
Mitchell, accepted the existence of fake images and commented that “<i>extreme manipulation</i> … [was] … <i>technically difficult, time-consuming and
outside the mainstream of photographic practice.</i><a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>” However,
by the early 1900’s photographers were ‘normally’ reworking their negatives to
create the ‘perfect’ image. Ansel Adams (who died in 1984) <span style="background: white;">revisited favourite sites and reworked his negatives
(from that site) until he was happy with the results, of ‘Moonrise’ (Hernandez,
New Mexico, 1941) he stated that “<i>the
negative was always difficult to print</i>” – requiring significant dodging and
burning to create an acceptable print – he continued “<i>it is safe to say, that no two prints are precisely the same.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i>”
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reuter’s<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
stance on manipulation is “<i>that anything
that could have been done in a dark room is acceptable, but we can't tolerate
anything that changes the editorial context</i>”. To put this into context “</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Reuters, is one of the world’s largest international
multimedia news providers, reaching more than one billion people every day.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10.5pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thus, clearly the manipulation carried by Adams was acceptable;
unfortunately when Paul Hanson carried out the same techniques on his winning
World Press Photo (in 2012) of Muhammad and Suhaib Hijazi, the very emotional
debate that followed conceded that it ‘<i>did
not change editorial context’</i> but left world opinion divided regarding the
need for that ‘type’ on manipulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Approve or otherwise, the situation remains that
photographers regularly used dark room tools to perfect the look of their
images. Historically, the tonal look of an image started with the film the
photographer preferred, this was further enhanced by the chemical ‘reworking’ and
lead to the development of individual styles; similarly today many documentary
photographers have developed very unique and recognisable styles enabling them
to stand out in the crowd, for example, Edward Burtynski (CA, b 1955),
Sabastiao Salgado (BR, b 1944), Yuri Kozyrev (RU, b 1963), Marcus Bleasdale
(UK, b 1968). The ‘style’ may be specific to the photographer (e.g. Salgado) or
specific to a digital imaging laboratory (e.g. 10B<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>);
irrespective ‘style’ is a form of personal expression and as such directly
contravenes the definition of objectivity. But does ‘style’ not change the
editorial context? It could very well add gravitas to the article because of
the professional standing of the photographer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Deliberate fakery aside, the transportable nature of
photographs means that we should always question their integrity. For example,
a party, regardless of whether it genuinely contained any memorable moments,
becomes memorable as soon as somebody takes a photograph at that party – “the
event is only an event because the narrator/observer created the event; The
French Revolution was not the French Revolution from day one, it only became
the French Revolution after the event, the event is not what happened but that
which can be narrated.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
Since the relative importance of any given situation can only be determined
after the event rather than before (and often during) the event, the decision
to take the photograph can only have be arbitrary, therefore, subjective rather
than objective. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A photograph is created by isolating a fragment of reality
from its specific place and period in time; the danger, once isolated the
fragment immediately loses its original context and we are free to create it a
new one. “The camera multiplies possible meanings at the same time as
destroying original meaning.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
The same image will be treated differently by different people: - thrown in the
bin – considered worthless; stored in a draw – suitable for reminiscing;
printed and put in a frame on the mantelpiece - a proud moment to be shared
with everyone; printed and put in a wallet – a treasured moment to be relived
as required. In each of these situations, the same image has been given a new
context and has thus acquired new meaning. The status given to a photograph is,
personal, subjective and dependent upon the emotional relationship between the
viewer and the subject. In addition, this relationship can and does change over
time as the feelings/emotions of the viewer change towards the subject. Consider
‘the wedding photograph’ and a couples thoughts towards it as they approach
their fiftieth wedding anniversary as opposed to their decree absolute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The above
examines the personal relationship with the personal photograph, but do we
react any differently to ‘external’ images? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“A photographic discourse is a system
within which the culture harnesses photographs to various representational
tasks.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
Back to the </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">two photographic </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">messages and their importance – the
denotations readability and the connotations understandability – without these
the photograph has no intrinsic communicative value. A photograph communicates
via a set of signs and symbols that build into a visual language and the
combination within the composition dictate the strength (or not) of the
message. <s><span style="color: red;">Religious iconography is an interesting
example, it is everywhere and normally universally recognized – the people
because of their attire and the places because of the style of the building –
nonetheless, this recognition has done nothing to develop an understanding or
tolerance <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">towards other between
different</span> religions. We are still killing in the name our own God’s and
have been doing so for thousands of years! So, whilst the denotation is
understood, the connotation is what? Not understood, misunderstood, ignored,
not important because it does not relate to me – our reaction to the image is
totally subjective. Unless we can bring some level of personal investment to
the photograph, it is merely another picture to be glanced before we move on to
the next.</span></s><span style="color: red;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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photojournalists and towards user-generated content (UGC) - mobile phone images
from the general public - the justification being to “get the picture of the
explosion as it happens … [rather than] … get the picture of the firemen hosing-down
afterwards<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 10.5pt;">[16]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”.
This type of ‘heat-of-the-moment’ imagery is totally subjective and invariably
highly emotionally charged; designed to sensationalise the situation for the
sole purpose of selling newspapers and/or air-time. How can the fairness or the
balance of the image versus the actual situation be assessed without
journalistic experience? This surely adds another layer of re-contextualisation
to the story?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Simple and immediate access to digital technologies and
distribution platforms has created a springboard for our new culture of
‘Citizen Journalism’<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 10.5pt;">[17]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
(also known as civic, participatory and street journalism). It makes it very
easy for anybody to communicate a factual message; but very hard for the viewer
to determine the authenticity of the information. Regardless, the wealth of
information stored on social networks is becoming a ‘go-to’ place for producers
“social networks are opening up whole new vistas for documentary
filmmakers," enthuses Chris Shaw, editorial director ITN Productions.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 10.5pt;">[18]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Furthermore, individuals have been quick to
harness the combined power of the web and photographs to communicate. The
#HandsUpDontShoot hashtag has appeared in two demonstrations: the first in the
Ferguson uprising as a result of the shooting of Michael Brown and the second
in Hong Kong against the proposed extension of </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Beijing's</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> ruling authority. In
both cases the tag went viral, in China the government shut down the
state-owned media but rather than end the demonstration the </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">protesters</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> adopted
a new symbol – the umbrella – and instead of using words (which could be
censored) they uploaded photographs of umbrellas. “The protest was defined by
its performative elements, a unique, intuitive understanding of how to
communicate with the virtual space.”</span></span><a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0070c0; font-size: 10.5pt;">[19]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In order to make sense of our world, Allen states “</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’ll </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">look at The Sun and I'll look in The
Mirror” in theory, not an unreasonable option to refer to a dairy newspaper to
understand what is happening in the world. But does </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">objective
reporting exist or do captions and the relative position (on the page) of the photograph
further skew the original narrative? We are all now well aware that in
newspapers and magazine “p</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">hotographs, which fiddle with the scale
of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored
and tricked out.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
However, we still firmly hold to “our conviction that we are free to choose
what we make of a photograph … [rather than truly understanding that] … the
wholeness, coherence, identity which we attribute to the depicted scene is a
projection”<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> and as
such the vision (the subjective view) of the editor. <b><span style="color: #0070c0;">But where and how do we begin to understand
the information presented in the web?</span></b></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whilst photography is part mechanical function and part human
endeavour, neither of the parts is completely objective. Mechanical function
aside, the physical ‘extraction’ of an event from reality creates a subjective view
of that reality. The choice of framing, inclusion and exclusion of elements;
the camera settings; the style of the final image are all specific to
photographer and therefore subjective rather than objective. To continue to
drive for something that cannot be achieved is a fool’s errand and illogical. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Moving forward, rather than focusing on objectivity, it would
be more practicable to challenge photographers to tell the truth and work with
integrity and more appropriate to encourage the development of style and
individuality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paraphrasing Christopher Anderson (Magnum Photos) “F</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">acts do not exist, but truth does; authenticity and integrity are
things we understand intuitively. All photography is a lie; the question is not
whether or not it is factual, the question is whether or not it is true.<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%204/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v5.docx#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest
sense!</i>” whilst undoubtedly true, it’s hardly objective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt;">APPENDIX A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Fear</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I want to be rich and I want lots of money<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't care about clever, I don't care about funny<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I want loads of clothes and fuck-loads of diamonds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I heard people die while they're trying to find them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'll look at The Sun and I'll look in The Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'm on the right track; yeah I'm on to a winner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause I'm being taken over by the Fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Life's about film stars and less about mothers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">It's all about fast cars and cussing each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">But it doesn't matter 'cause I'm packing plastic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I am a weapon of massive consumption<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And it's not my fault; it's how I'm programmed to function<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'll look at The Sun and I'll look in The Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'm on the right track; yeah we're on to a winner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause I'm being taken over by the Fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Forget about guns and forget ammunition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause I'm killing 'em all on my own little mission<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Now I'm not a saint but I'm not a sinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And everything's cool as long as I'm getting thinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">'Cause I'm being taken over by
the Fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-39989386532339278262015-02-15T14:16:00.001-08:002015-02-22T15:29:06.276-08:00Assignment 5 planning (part 8) - the build processCreating the base element of each of the building blocks was a relatively easy process - converting the images to line drawings.<br />
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Having selected the image or images needed to create the final composite, they need to be converted into black and white 'pencil' drawings . This is done using the following navigation:<br />
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<b>Filter > Stylize > Find edges; Control +I; Control + Shift + U</b></div>
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Using Levels, the image then needs to be adjusted to reduce the level of detail and the amount of black included - this better enables any colouring that is required.<br />
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The next step is to add the artistic effects, in this case a blue and grey wash and etching to bring out the detail of the stone work.<br />
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Finally, for this image, the two grave stones were added.<br />
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Once all of the layers is switched on:<br />
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This assignment was very challenging in terms of developing a set of images that were able to be sequenced in order to communicate a narrative and also in developing a range of Photoshop techniques to replicate the different artistic styles utilised by Piper.<br />
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My initial attitude of 'how difficult can this be' quickly became 'why do I make life so difficult for myself?' This was much more do do with the development of the narrative rather than the way I wanted the final image to look. Once I could visualise the image, it was a case of trial and error to develop a technique that delivered that result.<br />
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My key learning form this assignment - be methodical and ensure that all of the assignment elements are covered before deciding what you want to do. I was (still am) fascinated by Pipers work and wanted to use him in one of my assignments. As such, replicating his technique was my area of focus; the development of a "<b><i>documentary photo-essay</i></b>" got lost until I finally had to pull the assignment together.</div>
Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-83673701535039356562015-02-15T14:16:00.000-08:002015-02-22T14:54:06.622-08:00Assignment 5 planning (part 7) - the ugly truth...<b>This post presents, in no particular order, some of the original images used to develop the All Saint project.</b><br />
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The initial shoot at the church provided some good photographs of the building and the graveyard, however, as the project developed and became more and more abstract in nature these original images were of limited use.<br />
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Subsequent shoots were used to capture shapes, textures and angles of parts of building to use as building blocks for the final compositions. These 'ugly' images would be of no use for anything but this kind of abstraction.<br />
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With the exception of the last two portfolio photographs in the grave yard, the images were taken back to their base elements - line drawings and then re-coloured - so the actual colour and exposure of the photographs was not important.<br />
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<b>Multiple image manipulation</b><br />
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The <b>cover image</b> is a single image with minimal manipulation - rubbish removed from the pavement and a little sharpening.<br />
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<b>Vision</b> is a single image but made up of 7 manipulated layers.<br />
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<b>Contraction</b> and <b>Solace</b> are the same single image and intentionally so, but again each is made up of multiple layers to create the desired final image.<br />
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All of the other images are made up of multiple sections of photographs - from 3 to 7 different photographs.<br />
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<b><br /></b>Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-89511365668766936802015-02-15T14:13:00.000-08:002015-02-15T14:25:14.412-08:00Assignment 2 - my Q&I sheet<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Question
and Information sheet</span></b></div>
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I submit a Q&I sheet with each of my assignments, to provide any additional information I feel my tutor may find helpful. In the Q&I I also reflect on the assignment journey and the work I have produced.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Some depressing
statistics...<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In
2012, the WHO<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%202/Q&amp;I%20Assignment%202.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> carried
out a global depression survey, it included 17 countries and found that 1 in 20
people (5%) of the population suffered from depression. As a result the WHO
estimated that some 350,000,000 people globally suffered from depression in
2012. The WHO stated: at worst depression leads to suicide and approximately a
million individuals take their own lives each year and for each person that
succeeds in committing suicide, 20 people fail. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mind<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%202/Q&amp;I%20Assignment%202.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>,
carries out a similar mental health survey, across England every 7 years, the
last one was completed in 2009 and the next one is underway currently. The
statistics specifically regarding depression (as a percentage of the
population) are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.6%
suffer from depression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">4.7%
suffer from anxiety<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">9.7%
suffer from mixed anxiety and depression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
conclusion of the 2012 WHO paper '<b><i>Depression - a global public health concern</i></b>'<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%202/Q&amp;I%20Assignment%202.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
reads "Depression is a mental disorder that is pervasive in the world and
affects us all. [...] On an individual, community, and national level, it is
time to educate ourselves about depression and support those who are suffering
from this mental disorder."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My project<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">As
previously stated in my blog, the images of depression I found on the web were
limited in content and also very much taken from the point-of-view of the observer,
rather than the individual. Whilst observation is undoubtedly important in
developing an understanding of any situation; the only way to develop an
accurate and complete understanding is to engage with the individual and learn
about it from their point-of-view. The task I set myself was to identify some
of the key themes of depression and then try to communicate them, in the form
of images, from the point-of-view of the sufferer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
key themes I selected:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">No future - unable to see anyway
forward<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Black dog - everything getting on
top of you<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Self medication - alcohol and
drugs to get away from your negative feelings<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bars - imprisoned in your own
thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Isolation - unbearable loneliness
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Everyday tasks - easy jobs become
impossible<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Frustration - because you can't
do anything to change the situation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stuck - bone weary tiredness<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">No
future<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This
is not about the future per se, but more generally about the sufferers low
self-esteem and inability to see anything positive in their situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This
image was designed to convey the pervasiveness of the disorder; the way that
even on a good day depression is always lurking and ready to take advantage
given the opportunity. Colours,<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%202/Q&amp;I%20Assignment%202.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
both hue and saturation, are very important when discussing feelings and
extensive studies have been carried out by researchers into how sufferers and
non-sufferers perceive colours. To summarise briefly, non-sufferers tend to
choose a much broader selection of colours, with a greater saturation range.
Whereas sufferers tend to choose a narrower selection of colours that tend
toward de-saturation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
most common shade of grey<a href="file:///I:/Documents/Photos/Documentary/Section%202/Q&amp;I%20Assignment%202.doc#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
selected by sufferers is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Grey
36 is the colour of the grey fog seeping across the image and distorting the
scene for the viewer (the sufferer). Whilst the fog is not bad enough to
prevent the viewer understanding the image, it is enough to cause even the
bravest a moments hesitation before wanting to venture down the path.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Black
Dog<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A
common name used to describe depression; we felt it was important to incorporate
a black dog image into the portfolio because it was the enabler for me to start
engaging with my colleague. Depression is a very debilitating disorder and certain
common phrases are used to describe it, for example, it overcomes you; its over
whelming; it gets on top of you; it grinds you down. As such, the black dog
metaphor is particularly useful for sufferers when they are trying to
communicate how they are feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It
seemed appropriate to continue the use of symbols in this image, so the steps signify
the daily challenges of life - fundamentally you always feel better when you've
reached the top. Here the sufferer has collapsed at the bottom of the steps
having been, quite literally, overwhelmed by the black dog. Rather than select
a specific bred of dog, to be the black dog, one of the sketches from my learning
log was chosen. This was to maintain the focus on the subject of depression, as
opposed to creating debate about the characteristics of dogs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When
my colleague first saw this concept for the image she found it amusing and we
discussed how and if it should be altered. It remained unaltered and under
review. Some time later, reviewing it in a very different frame of mind, my
colleague found the image disturbing. A further review and the image was fixed
unchanged. There is undoubtedly something about this 'comic' image that
effectively communicates the darkness of depression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Self
medication<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Depression,
alcohol and drugs frequently go hand in hand. It is commonly known that alcohol
is a depressant, as such, one would expect it to be something that sufferers
would avoid. But rather than avoid alcohol, it is often used to enable the
sufferer to move away from negative thoughts, to no thoughts, to nothing.
Alcohol creates a numb kind of numbness, rather than a negative kind of
numbness. Add drugs to this situation and you move from a low to a high; then
add alcohol on top of drugs and rather than creating numbness, it magnifies the
high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
only image that requires no explanation - drugs and alcohol are another coping
mechanism and 'needed' to give some respite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bars<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
problem of being imprisoned by your own thoughts; during episodes of depression
sufferers spend a lot of time reflecting on negative thoughts and events. The
more they think of the event, the worse their mood becomes and the less able
they are to think about anything else. This leads to the event becoming very
distorted in their own mind and the negativity associated with the event grows
out of all proportion. The sufferer ends up going around and around in circles,
locked in own their thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
narrow space between the wall and the bars was used to convey the anguish of
the situation - the inability to move or change the thought process. The wall
and the bars extend past the edge of the image to convey the continuous nature
of the situation - regardless of where you look, or go, its the same. The
reality of the situation, the fact that this prison is not real, is shown by
the left arm being on the outside of the bars. Often, the sufferer does not
have to think positive thoughts to get out of this 'depression', they only have
to stop thinking negative thoughts, in other words, just stop beating
themselves up. The 'prison' is being created/maintained by the sufferer's negative
thought process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Isolation</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is not the stereotypical feeling of being <i>alone-in-a-crowd</i>; this isolation is
created by the sufferer as a method of coping; a protection or rather a defense
mechanism. The sufferer creates a set of different facades to distance
themselves from the outside world, especially family and friends. These many
faces are used to avoid discussing the disorder, primarily because its
virtually impossible for the sufferer to explain their feelings - they know the
other person will not be able to take on board the extent of their feelings.
Invariably, they are right and this magnifies the depression and further
isolates the individual from 'outsiders'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This image was developed one position at a time, with
the model starting in the middle and then taking up the various different
facades as he moved around the circle of chairs. The right hand side of the
images shows the happy masks and accordingly the colour is saturated; this
contrasts with the sad masks on the left hand side where the colour has been
significantly de-saturated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Everyday
tasks<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Even
the simplest tasks become impossible. "Make you a cup of tea, on a bad day
it would be just the same as you asking me to climb Mount Everest!" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This
quote was taken literally and converted into an image. By altering the relative
sizes of the environment, making tea became a huge task. The cup and the kettle
become larger and the individual becomes smaller creating a very unnatural
effect for the viewer. The important thing was to maintain the rest of the
elements in the photograph at their real size, for example, the hob. the
microwave, the taps and tea towel, to emphasise the way the sufferer approaches
life. For example, if the task had been to make toast, the kettle and the cup
would be normal size, but the bread and toaster would have grown. The task at
hand becomes the most difficult and all consuming thing in the sufferers world.
A bit like a distorted kind of tunnel vision. Again, the greater the focus
applied the more difficult and tiring the task becomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Frustration<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
sufferer knows and wants the situation to change, the mood to lift, but no
matter how hard they try to change things - nothing works. Sometimes this
frustration is shown outwardly as anger - physically or verbally, but all too
often it is bottled up inside and a happy facade is applied for the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mirrors
are often used, in books and films, as a vehicle that enables the actor to
engage with their inner-self. Thus it seemed an ideal tool for this photograph,
here the reflection is the inner or hidden self and also the real
representation of the person; whereas the real person is actually the facade -
an ironic twist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stuck<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bone
weary tiredness; the complete and absolute lack of energy to do anything, yet
at the same time being unable to sleep. Unfortunately, this is a very common
symptom of the disorder, exhaustion that appears from nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Zevon's
lyrics "I'll sleep when I'm dead" sprang to mind and influenced the
development of this image. Whilst my colleague has never fallen asleep crossing
the road, she did fall asleep whilst cooking, resulting in her being rescued by
the fire brigade with thankfully only smoke damage to her kitchen dining room.
This accident waiting-to-happen scenario is meant to highlight the
vulnerability of people suffering from this disorder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Upon reflection<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Whilst
this is not the first time I have worked with somebody suffering from this
disorder, it is the first time I have researched the disorder in as much detail
- both in terms of book work and by communicating with the sufferer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I
know that my outlook on the world makes it sometimes very difficult for me to
show the tolerance needed to always make the best of the situation.
Nonetheless, this exercise has given a completely new perspective on the
disorder and an unexpected level of clarity. I cannot begin to understand the
intensity of the feelings involved, but I do believe that it must be very
frightening for the sufferer to have to deal with those feelings on their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Possible
improvements and next steps:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a Magnum style essay and have M narrate the explanation of the images<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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images are constructed from multiple images and look contrived. It would be
interesting to find a way to communicate the themes in a simpler manner -
possibly using abstract images focusing more on texture, hue and saturation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time frame definitely didn't work, I had no idea how long it would actually
take to carry out a project like this. I'm not sure it could be called a
collaboration, sometimes it felt more like a cat and mouse game of stealth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would have liked M to be more engaged in the project, I suspect that if my work
project were more field based, rather than office based, this would not have
been the case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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concept images, rough photographs and drawing cobbled together definitely did
work. Both in terms of communicating my ideas to M and creating a clearly
defined final image. The final photo-shoot and image construction was rapid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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concept behind some of the images is quite complex and my somewhat limited
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effectively as I would have liked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a documentary course and the intention of these images is to document
depression from the sufferers point-of-view. As stated, these photographs
use/are metaphors to enable complicated feelings and emotions to be
communicated; this by default makes them very subjective... Doubly subjective
in this case, first because these images are '<i>my take</i>' on the disorder and second because they are based on M's comments
and behaviours. Accepting this complete lack of objectivity, is it reasonable
that these images sit in the genre of documentary photography?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-54218943611910824782015-02-08T14:53:00.000-08:002015-02-22T13:13:38.388-08:00Assignment 5 planning (part 6) - feedbackI was correct, currently this assignment is going horribly wrong; in fact it's actually become two separate assignments. So much for trying to converge my ideas for this project.<br />
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In trying to limit the scale of this project, I decided to focus on one building and build a portfolio using the different artistic styles employed by Piper, as apposed to taking 15 individual buildings/views and employing a single artistic style. Attached are the Piper images shared with the OCA critics:<br />
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-90887170040639882802015-02-08T12:49:00.002-08:002015-02-08T12:49:55.175-08:00Assignment 4 - most useful books<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please refer to the resource page of my blog for complete references.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b><b> On Photography</b> by Susan Sontag</span><br />
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These books were undoubtedly useful because they yielded quotes for my review, lets face it, if you write about anything related to photography it would be rude not to reference these authors at least once.</span><br />
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When I first started my degree, these books (specifically these books) were very scary - I did not mange to read any of them cover to cover on my first try, probably not on my second try either... Now they are well thumbed and normally one of them goes on holiday with me for a refresher read - does this make me sad, enlightened or brainwashed?</span><br />
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These stories need to be told because they need to be heard. They need to be heard so that we do everything we can to prevent history repeating itself, as is so aptly referenced by Linfields in quoting Gilles Peress "we, the Eurpoeans, are floating in the vomit of our own past, refusing to confront our responsibility for non-interventions."[1] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interesting, contemporary and challenging, a great go-to reference magazine and website.</span><br />
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-54643873498754115252015-02-08T06:46:00.000-08:002015-02-08T12:53:11.123-08:00Assignment 3 planning (part 5) - Moo to You (Blurb)Having got to a point where I was reasonably happy with the dummy book - see assignment 3 post part 4; I decided I would actually get my work made into a book.<br />
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It took 5 days to arrive and I was very impressed with the quality of the document received. This is the first book I've done and I have no reservations recommending Blurb.<br />
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I spent significant time reviewing my book and the more I looked at it, the more mistakes I found and the less I liked it... AND this was before I sent it to my tutor! As such, I decided to write up a list of corrections and send them with the book to my tutor.<br />
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The delivery of this assignment asked for a '<b><i>published pdf dummy book</i></b>', however, when I uploaded my book I managed lose the ability to get a pdf version - not sure how, when or where in the process this happened???<br />
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Having received feedback from my tutor re the format and the layout of my book, I have updated my file in Blurb with both of our corrections and am now having it re-printed. Still no pdf version though.....<br />
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<br />Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-73356801474153656712015-02-08T04:18:00.000-08:002015-02-08T04:18:05.109-08:00Assignment 1 images - New Year's Resolutions correctedIn further thoughts on this assignment I was debating as to whether I should convert these images to be more 'news-like'. Having completed the course now and investigated numerous different photographers, I am happy to stay with my colour images.<br />
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Documentary (or not) black and white can never truly be an accurate representation of the situation, we do not live in a black and white world - visually, emotionally or morally. Anything black and white can only be one take on a particular situation, this does not mean that I would rule it out and it certainly has its place. When communicating (particularly) horrific information it is probably the most pragmatic and the least gory way to get the message across whilst minimising sensationalism.<br />
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Regardless of how easily we are fooled by our eyes. even when daydreaming, humans are visually voracious and are constantly absorbing visual clues. All of this information is received in colour - even the black and white images - because of the light (natural or man-made), the environment (outside, inside, hot or cold) and finally and most importantly because of our mood. (From my research done for assignment 2 - depression.)<br />
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This assignment presents a very limited and distorted view of a group of people talking to a stranger and sharing 'personal' information. I believe presenting these images in black and white would further distort this view.<br />
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Changes to the text have a dramatic affect, the image is now the focus but at the same time the information presented is not diminished.<br />
<br />Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-44375185609247712482015-02-08T02:45:00.000-08:002015-02-08T12:51:01.722-08:00Assignment 3 planning (part 4) - my dummy bookThe dummy book layout sent to my tutor was a set of screen dumps taken from Blurb - this was sent as an A4 pdf with three pages of my dummy book per page of the pdf.<br />
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Blurb is actually very easy to use and its surprising how good your work looks when you're flicking through it in the preview screens. As part of the natural development of this assignment I ended up printing my book (screen dumps) cutting them to size and then sticking them together to create a book - trust me when I say Gerhard Stiedl has no worries!<br />
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Nonetheless, this was a very enlightening process, photos below:<br />
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To move from 2D to 3D completely changes your relationship with the document. I also found it much easier to edit, critique, annotate the 'book' and I have no doubt it became a better document because of this stage. I had made numerous changes to the book - works, font, image format, image layout, image positions, etc. before the creation of this first dummy, but it was the dummy that actually crystallised the project into something real.Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-36098054853364957152015-02-02T15:18:00.001-08:002015-02-08T04:25:54.451-08:00Assignment 5 planning (part 5) - old and new versions of NuneatonI think this might be going horribly wrong - John MacLean made the whole merged-image thing seem very simple!!!<br />
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I've been looking for ways to 'further' anchor my last assignment - ways of making it converge rather than diverge. I thought I'd found a possible route, but I'm not at all sure its working out...<br />
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I'm also very aware that Piper is currently no where to be seen, nor am I sure of how he would be incorporated into this assignment if it continues to follow this route.<br />
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Re my last post I've looked at the concept of a "<b>memories of ...</b>" series.<br />
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My concept was very simple:<br />
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<li>Check out the local photographic archives and select suitable images to reconstruct.</li>
<li>My archive search was focused on buildings that no longer existed (demolished).</li>
<li>The reconstruction process was then to bring the buildings back to life by simply merging them into today.</li>
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The first two activities were remarkably easy, in fact the number of possible images was quite overwhelming; that said, Nuneaton is know for its very radical approach to renovation - "<b>Why re-model when you can rebuild?</b>".<br />
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The issue was/is "<b><i>simply merging</i></b>" - there's nothing simple about it.<br />
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<li>Unless both buildings are blended together to interlock them, they shift their relative positions - above, below, in front of or behind</li>
<li>More than 50% of the image must be 'today' otherwise the theme and narrative is lost</li>
<li>The archive image has to be added to today's image and rescaled - it doesn't work the other way</li>
<li>The percentage blend ranges from 10 - 100%</li>
<li>What to pick out, at what percent, is very much trial and error - too little and they remain two separate images crudely 'bolted' together; too much and it becomes a meaningless mash. </li>
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Anyway these images have been shared with the OCA critics - let's hope they come up with some helpful pointers....Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-21366068563004568992015-02-02T15:15:00.001-08:002015-02-08T11:16:12.378-08:00Assignment 4 planning (part 7) - first draft...<b>First cut document submitted to my tutor for feedback:</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 150%;">Objectivity, ethics and
understanding…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Lyrics from Lilly
Allen’s song ‘The Fear<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: #17365d; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>’<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'll look at The Sun and I'll look in The Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'm on the right track; yeah, I'm on to a winner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Allen’s song went straight to number 1 in January 2009 and whilst
it was doubtless written ‘tongue-in-cheek’, it nonetheless, packs a weighty
punch directly at the culture we have created. Allen’s keen observational
skills enable her to poke fun at everybody, including herself, at the same time
as abdicating any responsibility for the situation – “And it's not my fault;
it's how I'm programmed to function.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">In our celebrity-obsessed, media-focused culture, it’s hardly surprising
the Allen’s words “I don't know what's right and what's real anymore” ring with
an ironic truth. As photographers, are we not at least partially complicit in
creating this kind of confusion between what’s right and what’s real?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Photography has never been, is not and never will be ‘<b><i>objective</i></b>’.
Is it not time we stopped talking about photographic objectivity and started
talking about the subjective truth of photographs?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">“For the first time, an
image of the world is formed automatically, without the creative intervention
of man… [requiring only] …the instrumentality of a non-living agent.<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>” “<i>The status of photography, at its birth,
hinged on what was thought to be its capacity for objective transcription</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>” and
for decades subsequent literature about photography repeated this “litany of
photographic truth<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>” until
it became a universal myth. “The photograph may distort; but there is always a
presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like the photograph<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
and this is fundamentally why the photograph has been unable to shake off this myth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Objectivity is by definition
“activities (including behaviours) <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">not
influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing
facts”. Objectivity relating to photography falls into two main categories:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">Category
1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The scene – the objective recording, by the camera
and the photographer, of what was actually in front of the camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The photograph – the duty of the photographic
team – photographer, developer, editor – the objective presentation of what was
captured in camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Category 1 – the scene<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">“The human
eye takes its visible world with it as it walks<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”,
in other words we are able to see everything but not all at once - our eye
flits form one part of a scene to the other; the camera on the other hand, sees
every detail all at once but only within its specific frame of reference – the
boundary of the photograph. Thus the camera has not only changed the way we
see, it has given us more to see and because of this new level of detail changed
the way in which we perceived things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">To
understand how photographs work subjectively we must accept the photographic
paradox<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>,
that in addition to photographic composition (the denotation), the photographic
sub-text (the connotation) of the image plays an integral part and must also be
considered. These two different but important messages do not work in
‘collusion’; rather, they form a structural paradox, wherein the connotation is
developed from information from the denotation. This ‘development’ in turn
creates an ethical paradox; theoretically the denoted information is ‘neutral
and objective and copies reality meticulously’, only to be ‘challenged’ by the
coded message (the connotation) that requires interpretation by the viewer resulting
in a potentially dramatically skewed reading because of their knowledge,
understanding and cultural biases. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Connotation
is further skewed when the photographer elects to stage the physical objects
within the frame. Isobel Hilton (The Guardian) echoes this view, in her article
entitled ‘The Camera Never Lies<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
(2008), on the run up to the Robert Capa-retrospective at the Barbican in 2008,
re-reviewing the controversy surrounding Capa’s photograph of </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Federico Borrell García (1936) and </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">commented on war photography that “<i>Ever since cameras first went to war, photographers have staged scenes,
rearranged bodies and had events re-enacted for the camera and we look at them
in two states of mind - open to their impact as authentic images, and aware
that to perceive the camera as a neutral observer is naive.</i>” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Category 2 – the photograph <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">William
Mitchell, accepted the existence of fake images and commented that “<i>extreme manipulation</i> … [was] … <i>technically difficult, time-consuming and
outside the mainstream of photographic practice.</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>” However,
by the early 1900’s photographers were ‘normally’ reworking their negatives to
create the ‘perfect’ image. Ansel Adams (who died in 1984) <span style="background: white;">revisited favourite sites and reworked his negatives
(from that site) until he was happy with the results, of ‘Moonrise’ (Hernandez,
New Mexico, 1941) he stated that “<i>the
negative was always difficult to print</i>” – requiring significant dodging and
burning to create an acceptable print – he continued “<i>it is safe to say, that no two prints are precisely the same.<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[10]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i>”
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Reuter’s<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
stance on manipulation is “<i>that anything
that could have been done in a dark room is acceptable, but we can't tolerate
anything that changes the editorial context</i>”. To put this into context
“Reuters, is one of the world’s largest international multimedia news
providers, reaching more than one billion people every day.<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”Thus,
clearly the manipulation carried by Adams was acceptable; unfortunately when
Paul Hanson carried out the same techniques on his winning World Press Photo (in
2012) of Muhammad and Suhaib Hijazi, the very emotional debate that followed conceded
that it ‘<i>did not change editorial context’</i>
but left world opinion divided regarding the need for that ‘type’ of
manipulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Approve or otherwise, the situation remains that
photographers regularly used dark room tools to perfect the look of their
images. Historically, the tonal look of an image started with the film the
photographer preferred, this was further enhanced by the chemical ‘reworking’ and
lead to the development of individual styles; similarly today many documentary
photographers have developed very unique and recognisable styles enabling them
to stand out in the crowd, for example, Edward Burtynski (CA, b 1955),
Sabastiao Salgado (BR, b 1944), Yuri Kozyrev (RU, b 1963), Marcus Bleasdale
(UK, b 1968). The ‘style’ may be specific to the photographer (e.g. Salgado) or
specific to a digital imaging laboratory (e.g. 10B<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>);
irrespective ‘style’ is a form of personal expression and as such directly
contravenes the definition of objectivity. But does ‘style’ not change the
editorial context? It could very well add gravitas to the article because of
the professional standing of the photographer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Deliberate fakery aside, the transportable nature of
photographs means that we should always question their integrity. For example,
a party, regardless of whether it genuinely contained any memorable moments,
becomes memorable as soon as somebody takes a photograph at that party – “<i>the event is only an event because the
narrator/observer created the event; The French Revolution was not the French
Revolution from day one, it only became the French Revolution after the event,
the event is not what happened but that which can be narrated.</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
Since the relative importance of any given situation can only be determined
after the event rather than before (and often during) the event, the decision
to take the photograph can only have be arbitrary, therefore, subjective rather
than objective.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">A photograph is created by isolating a fragment of reality
from its specific place and period in time; the danger, once isolated the
fragment immediately loses its original context and we are free to create it a
new one. “<i>The camera multiplies possible
meanings at the same time as destroying original meaning.</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
The same image will be treated differently by different people: - thrown in the
bin – considered worthless; stored in a draw – suitable for reminiscing;
printed and put in a frame on the mantelpiece - a proud moment to be shared
with everyone; printed and put in a wallet – a treasured moment to be relived
as required. In each of these situations, the same image has been given a new
context and has thus acquired new meaning. The status given to a photograph is,
personal, subjective and dependent upon the emotional relationship between the
viewer and the subject. In addition, this relationship can and does change over
time as the feelings/emotions of the viewer change towards the subject. Consider
‘the wedding photograph’ and a couples thoughts towards it as they approach
their fiftieth wedding anniversary versus their decree absolute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The above
examines the personal relationship with the personal photograph, but do we
react any differently to ‘external’ images? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<i>A
photographic discourse is a system within which the culture harnesses
photographs to various representational tasks.</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”
Back to the </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">two photographic </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">messages and their importance – the
denotations readability and the connotations understandability – without these
the photograph has no intrinsic communicative value. A photograph communicates
via a set of signs and symbols that build into a visual language and the
combination within the composition dictate the strength (or not) of the
message. Religious iconography is an interesting example, it is everywhere and
normally universally recognized – the people because of their attire and the
places because of the style of the building – nonetheless, this recognition has
done nothing to develop an understanding or tolerance towards other religions. We
are still killing in the name our own God’s and have been doing so for
thousands of years! So, whilst the denotation is understood, the connotation is
what? Not understood, misunderstood, ignored, not important because it does not
relate to me – our reaction to the image is totally subjective. Unless we can
bring some level of personal investment to the photograph, it is merely another
picture to be glanced before we move on to the next. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In order to make sense of our world, Allen states “</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">I’ll </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">look at The Sun and I'll look in The
Mirror” in theory, not an unreasonable option to refer to a daily newspaper to
understand what is happening in the world. But does </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">objective
reporting exist or do captions and the relative position (on the page) of the photograph
further skew the original narrative? We are all now well aware that in
newspapers and magazine “<i>p</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 200%;">hotographs, which fiddle with the scale
of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored
and tricked out.</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 200%;">”
However, we still firmly hold to “<i>our
conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph </i>[rather
than truly understanding that] <i>the
wholeness, coherence, identity which we attribute to the depicted scene is a
projection</i>”<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> and as
such the vision (the subjective view) of the editor. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Whilst photography is part mechanical function and part human
endeavour, neither of the parts is completely objective. Mechanical function
aside, the physical ‘extraction’ of an event from reality creates a subjective view
of that reality. The choice of framing, inclusion and exclusion of elements;
the camera settings; the style of the final image are all specific to
photographer and therefore subjective rather than objective. To continue to
drive for something that cannot be achieved is a fool’s errand and illogical. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Moving forward, rather than focusing on objectivity, it would
be more practicable to challenge photographers to tell the truth and work with
integrity and more appropriate to encourage the development of style and
individuality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Paraphrasing Christopher Anderson (Magnum Photos) “F</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">acts do not exist, but truth does; authenticity and integrity are
things we understand intuitively. All photography is a lie; the question is not
whether or not it is factual, the question is whether or not it is true.<a href="file:///C:/Users/KG/Downloads/Objectivity,%20ethics%20and%20understanding%20v3.docx" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>”</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest
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<span style="font-size: 22pt;">APPENDIX A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Fear</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I want to be rich and I want lots of money<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't care about clever, I don't care about funny<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I want loads of clothes and fuck-loads of diamonds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I heard people die while they're trying to find them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'll look at The Sun and I'll look in The Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'm on the right track; yeah I'm on to a winner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause I'm being taken over by the Fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Life's about film stars and less about mothers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">It's all about fast cars and cussing each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">But it doesn't matter 'cause I'm packing plastic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I am a weapon of massive consumption<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And it's not my fault; it's how I'm programmed to function<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'll look at The Sun and I'll look in The Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I'm on the right track; yeah we're on to a winner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause I'm being taken over by the Fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Forget about guns and forget ammunition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">'Cause I'm killing 'em all on my own little mission<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Now I'm not a saint but I'm not a sinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And everything's cool as long as I'm getting thinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't know what's right and what's real anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">When do you think it will all become clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">'Cause I'm being taken over by
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(1994) <b>Photography at the Dock.</b>
Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1. Did not agree that there were only 2 categories relating to objectivity - accepted, I should have been clearer that I only intended to discuss 2 categories in this document. </div>
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1. The development of the project from market stall holders to the inclusion of the New Year's Resolution gave the project an additional dimension.<br />
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2. Sources of research should be included in my learning log - e.g. annotated photos from books showing how I've incorporated (or not) elements into my own work.<br />
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3. 28mm lens would not normally be a first choice for this type of work - more normal would be 50mm - 80mm.<br />
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4. Layout and format is good, but the font needs to be reviewed.<br />
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5. My overall concept for the project was good; plus the idea of a revisit to check on progress in 6 months was excellent and enables a natural rework of the images.<br />
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This book presents shops across London and breaks the capital into areas, giving a short introduction to each area before then moving into a couple of pages of detail per shop visited.<br />
The layout of this book has a very relaxed feel about it and the format of the images varies across pages and from page to page. It is very much a <b><i>pick-up/put-down</i></b> book for the coffee table.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Cover</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Map and introduction to the area</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of shop visited</b></td></tr>
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<b><u>Shutting Up Shop (see references)</u></b></div>
</b><br />This book is the complete opposite from the one above - there is a short introduction from Londei about the project, he then launches his information.<div>
The layout is very formal (very OCA and right up Jose's street) with the left hand page providing a brief write-up on the shop and the facing page showing the shop and the employees. The only difference being he mixes internal and external views.</div>
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The nice thing about the copy of the book I have is that there is a revisited section at the back of the book.</div>
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(I suspect this is the influence for me to revisit my NYR project.)<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Cover</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of shop visited</b></td></tr>
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-73575855286936537572015-01-04T09:19:00.001-08:002015-02-23T04:06:37.917-08:00Assignment 1 - revisited<b><span style="font-size: large;">Assignment 1 - revisited...</span></b><br />
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generic project title of 'Markets' was agreed, with the caveat that it was not
just 10 photographs of stalls and stall holders. My initial research was to
clarify what constituted a typical market image, I then spent time at various
markets watching all activities from stall erecting in the morning through
until stall dismantling in the evening. Unfortunately, this just confirmed that
I took typical market images and so I needed to develop a different angle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a chance conversation with a busker, I found my angle - converse with the stall
holders to collect their new years resolutions (NYR).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In
the first section of this course we have debated 'what makes a document?', the
output being: context. As such I have developed a set of images that have two
common themes - markets and NYR, thus providing for the viewer a clear context
for the portfolio. To add further to the context, I have also titled each of these
images with the name (or nickname) of the individual and dated them 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In December 2013 I
included this paragraph re: “taking this [project] further”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I
intend to continue with this project even though the assignment is completed.
If treated correctly, I believe it could be a project that just keeps on going.
I am currently debating revisiting the market in July and asking the 'team' how
they are getting on with their resolutions. Follow up documentaries are always
the most interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1 Revisited<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Unfortunately,
I have been an infrequent visitor to the market since the original project and
when I did return to do the catch-up with the team only half of the original
people where there. As such it seemed like a
futile exercise, that said, I did not want to give up on what I still
believed to be a good project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Over
the next couple of months I toyed with numerous different possibilities around
the same theme and during my visit to the Brighton Photo Biennial I finally came
to the radical but obvious conclusion – why work very hard with a limited
number of people who are resistant to having their photograph taken by you,
when you could be working on a much larger scale and engaging with more people
by inviting them to join your project by taking their own photograph?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Without
doubt, Anthony Luvera’s project entitled “Assembly” influenced my new approach
to this project. To summarise the project, Luvera taught a group of homeless
people how to take photographs and then 'left them to it’. He then presented
this portfolio of images at the Biennial. I referenced his work on my blog in
my review on the Biennial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">For
my project this time around I did not target buskers or market stall holders; via
email I approached family, friends and work colleagues with a very clear and
simple brief:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I am currently working towards a degree in
photography and would like to enlist your help for one of my projects.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">This time last year I spent countless hours in
Nuneaton town centre talking to people (and photographing them) about new year’s
resolutions. This year I'd like to extend that project further. So....</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The brief should you like to get involved is as
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<li><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Using your mobile phone (ideally a phone, but any camera will do) take a selfie.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Portrait not landscape please - this helps for when I present the work at Uni.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In terms of the contents of the image it can be anything from a close-up portrait to full body.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">With your photo please provide both of the following pieces of information:</span></li>
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<li><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A new year’s resolution</span></li>
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<li><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">T</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">hen please email the photo (jpeg) and your info to me at this email address.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">This work needs to be formatted and presented
to my tutor pre Christmas so I'd be very grateful if you could send your images
to me by the 10<sup>th</sup> December.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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questions please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I
set myself the target of collecting 50 selfies, so I knew I would not be able
to afford to present the portfolio as per the brief ‘8x10 unmounted quality prints’.
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In
addition, since these images were not taken by me, a key criteria for the
assignment was ensuring that the portfolio was visually consistent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Fortunately,
earlier in the year, I watched a video by digiDirect demonstrating the Fujifilm
Instax Share SP-1 printer. This printer allows wireless connection and printing
of Instax photographs direct from your mobile phone. Whilst this Polaroid-esk format
would certainly standardise the photographs, it meant that the information (New
Year’s resolution and bucket list item) could no longer be added as captions.
One problem solved and another one created.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">This
problem resolved itself by accident when I dropped some business cards on my
desk beside the Instax photographs – they were virtually the same size. The
next steps were simple - design a business card format for the information and
attach the photograph to the card. The format for presenting the portfolio
naturally followed on from there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The
positive response to this project has been amazing, after some initial
disbelief people actively wanted to get involved. Not only that, but people
actually take the card file away to study the photos and read the information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A
good proportion of the people asked did not have a bucket list at the time,
subsequently, they have developed a list and I am aware that a number of bucket
list items are currently being actively planned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The
execution of this project, in this format, took significantly less time
(probably half the time of the original project) and rather than struggle to
‘get the shot’ people offered me different photographs to choose from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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commented that the original photographs I submitted for this assignment were
“certainly not the best photographs I had ever taken”. I would also have to
comment that these photographs are not the best and are undoubtedly not in the same
class of the photographs ‘taken’ by Luvera’s homeless people. However, I
genuinely believe that these photographs capture the true character of the
individuals far more accurately than Luvera’s portraits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-85119987142151071412014-11-09T11:01:00.000-08:002014-11-09T11:01:07.673-08:00Collaborative documentary<b><u>Exercise 49</u> - visit the the web pages of the "<i>Kingsmead Eyes</i>" project; the original project done in 2009 and the latest "<i>Kingsmead Eyes Speak</i>" project.</b><br />
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<b>Make notes in your learning log about how the work is presented on the website, in particular the use of mixed media - stills, video and audio.</b></div>
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Whilst researching photographers for this topic I came across Gideon Mendel and commented on two of his projects:<br />
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<b>1. <span style="color: black;">Through Positive Eyes, Mumbai, India</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: black;">2. </span></b><b>Kingsmead Eyes Speak</b><br />
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I found his work very interesting - his conceptualisation, his execution and his method of subsequent communication.<br />
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From my previous post:<br />
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<b>Kingsmead Eyes Speak</b></blockquote>
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Another project by Mendel, focuses on the Kingsmead school in Hackney and a group of 28 pupils aged 10 and 11. The children were again taught how to use a camera and sent off to photograph their surroundings - the eyes part of the project. In addition they were required to write a poem as a theme for their images. The images were not made into a video as before, instead the children read their poems aloud and we can hear this - the speak part of the project.</blockquote>
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Children are naturally creating and (I believe) have a natural eye for an image and this comes through very strongly with their images. What did surprise me was how very good there were at poetry. I particularly enjoyed <a href="http://www.kingsmeadeyesspeak.org/pupil/karolina.html" target="_blank">Karolina</a>, her images and poetry were excellent; and <a href="http://www.kingsmeadeyesspeak.org/pupil/mikotaj.html" target="_blank">Mikotaj's</a> poem about his brother being an alien made me laugh.</blockquote>
The 'work' - images and poems - were done by the children, both as a way to communicate their world to the outside world. Whilst both narratives are about the children, they are not linked - not a visual and verbal account of the same situation; as such are presented separately. I think adds strength to the body of work because you are given two opportunities to engage with the pupils.<br />
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This time around I listened to and read more of the work and I am still impressed by the quality, their vivid imaginations and their sense of humour. </div>
Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-13576068596247994932014-10-26T14:48:00.000-07:002015-02-02T15:19:00.214-08:00Assignment 5 planning (part 4)Follow on thoughts re what else I could use to focus or rather limit the scope of my project. Having spent last weekend at the Brighton Biennial and been exposed to some fantastic art, I think the scope of my assignment just expanded rather than contracted....<br />
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I'm specifically thinking about John Maclean and his project '<a href="http://www.jmaclean.co.uk/item_cat/projects/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hometowns</span></a>' - extract from Night Contact programme:<br />
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<b>Photographing the hometowns of ones art heroes. If every image we make is the result of an accumulation of other images, should our artistic influences be a source of anxiety, or a source of ecstasy? Hometowns, takes a reflexive view of the subject of artistic influence. It began life as a line in MacLean’s notebook — '<i>Photograph the hometowns of your heroes</i>’ — an idea for a layered investigation into the places which influenced the artists whose work has coloured his own. Two years later, that line has become a sixty-five-image photo-homage to a unique group of artists who have been mentors-by-proxy, and an endeavour to untangle the strands that connect Maclean to their work.</b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">© the artist</span> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">© the artist</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></td></tr>
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This leads me to think about 'found art' in the form of archive photographs of my hometown, combined with my own photographs to develop a '<b><i>memory of...</i></b>' series.</div>
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-52721283913535064442014-10-26T14:03:00.000-07:002014-10-26T15:55:12.560-07:00Brighton Photo Biennial 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breakfast on Saturday morning at the Lucky Beach</td></tr>
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Great weekend in terms of meeting people - students and tutors, discussing OCA work and getting a general overview of what's going on in the art world. I highly recommend this to all students and hopefully I'll be lucky enough to be back in 2 years time.<br />
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Rather than comment on all of the exhibitions we visited I'm going to limit this post to the items that spoke to me.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><b><u>'Afterimage' by <a href="http://www.cornfordandcross.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cornford and Cross</span></a></u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">"This was series of works produced from the removal and destruction of their photographs, which were previously conservation mounted onto aluminium substrates." (Taken from the gallery write up.) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">After much discussion in 'my' immediate group, it was decided this this was not photography, in fact we decided to call it not-photography. Nonetheless we all agreed that is was interesting conceptual art.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><b><u>'36 views + Sub-Urbia' by <a href="http://www.adrianturner.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Adrian Turner</span></a></u></b></span><br />
"In the summer of 2002, I stopped driving the 1.3 miles to work and instead started walking and taking photographs along the way." (Taken from the gallery write up.) AT selected a number of his photographs and printed them A5 on quality card for visitors to take away - a nice touch. I will always have fond memories of 'Manor Hill'.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manor Hill by Adrian Turner</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Another interesting discussion about landscape and about tutor feedback re landscape submissions. </span>One of these landscapes was what we considered to be 'classically' romantic, drawn directly from the style of the old masters - a soft-focus view through trees towards distant buildings. This lead us to discuss the influence (or not) of painting on contemporary photographic practices; this further lead to a discussion re what was acceptable to include in a photograph as an urban landscape - for example, is it ok to leave litter, telegraph poles and wires or gutters in your image? Do these items add to the overall aesthetics of the image? The general view was that whilst it may not be a 'pretty' aesthetic, it was still fundamental to the overall feel of the image and therefore an important part of the overall aesthetics.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">I found it interesting the number of students that commented (afterwards) as to similar feedback that had received about 'sanitising' their work re the un-pretty aesthetics of everyday life. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><b><u>'City Gorged with Dreams' by <a href="http://www.alexcurrie.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Currie</span></a> and <a href="http://www.petergates.com/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Gates</span></a></u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">"All the images have been shot in and around Brighton over the past year, and are an attempt to glimpse a side of the city that is often overlooked or ignored." </span>(Taken from the gallery write up.)<br />
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In my opinion this is psychogeography in its purest form and this particular exhibition contains some very well seen and composed images.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><b><br /></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><b><u>'Assembly' by <a href="http://www.luvera.com/assembly/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Anthony Luvera</span></a></u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Allegedly these images were taken by the individual in the image - might as well start on a controversial note... The photographer taught this group of homeless people how to take photographs and then 'left them to it'???? It is remarkable as to the similarity of the final images. I stress at this point that the images are excellent, impactful and even compelling, I just don't accept that they were taken by the homeless individuals. Naturally our discussions centred around what it meant to actually 'take' a photograph, does Crewdson actually press the shutter - no, but does anybody dispute he's the photographer - no! In this particular case, I feel the situation may have been reversed; the shots were set up (composed, choreographed) by the photographer, but the actual shutter was pressed by the individual - possibly as part of the engagement in the project. This lead us down the murky road towards authorship - hay, ho...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">This exhibition was unfortunately rather overtaken by the Photo Publishers Market and limited the amount of time we spent there. I did manage to pick up a little book of old photographs taken of my home town - I think this will be an excellent springboard for a personal project.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><b><u>'Re-mapping the flaneur' by <a href="http://wideyed.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Wideyed Photography Collective</span></a></u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">The feedback regarding this exhibition was very mixed - I liked it, the concept and the format of the presentation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the advent of cloud printing, it is the result of a collaboration between 97 photographers from 20 collectives based in 15 countries, and was designed to provide an overview of the global collective movement, of contemporary photographic practices, and the complexity of urban life worldwide.</b></span></span></blockquote>
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Basically there were lots of small images printed/exposed at various intervals along very long scrolls of paper. The images were of nothing special - just everyday life, the sort of thing you take on your phone to show your friends then delete; photographic white noise. In the first room the scrolls were threaded over pipes to create a waveform, then in the second room there were pinned to the wall - this gave the impression of walking through a life that was time-stamped by images. At the end of the scrolls, there were a little set of wooden draws that held all of the images - even the ones you couldn't see because they were hidden in the rolled up paper.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><b><u>The Photography of Extremes in 1970's Italy</u></b></span><br />
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Curated by Roger Hargreaves and Federica Chiocchetti, the presentation forces the visitor to engage with the exhibition - sometimes by stepping back in order to be able to see images presented on the upper shelves of old wooden bookcases, and sometimes by leaning in or bending down to look closely at images lying in the floor. Interestingly we are required to step back from 'riot' images - a natural reaction for most people, why would you want to be close to or involved in a riot? Conversely we are required to step forward to look over dead bodies, an uncomfortable situation especially as some of these images are very graphic.<br />
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<b><u>'Silent Fore to Aft' by Tom Pope and Terrence Smith</u></b><br />
This was a collaboration in that the two decided to cycle on a tandem from London to Brighton and make a film about their trip - the constraint the gave themselves was not to speak to each other for the full 7 day journey!<br />
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The film (15 minutes) was an absolute hoot. The film began relatively normally, recording the journey, the scenery, etc; but as they got into the journey it became more and more bizarre with their exploits, at times, becoming pure slapstick comedy. At one point in the film, (about 3 days into the journey) you can feel the tension building as they realise the enormity of the task they've agreed to take on.<br />
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We were fortunate to have them present their journey and explain the rationale behind the collaboration. It is a mad film and an equally mad task, but it was very interesting hearing them talking about how seriously they took the 'mission'. Well worth seeing the film if you can, but before you watch it think about how you would cope spending 7 days with the same person and not talking to them!<br />
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<b><u>Overall a fantastic weekend - I highly recommend it!</u></b>Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-81716213321678925162014-10-19T15:53:00.000-07:002014-10-19T15:53:46.466-07:00Post-documentary photogrpahy<div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Exercise 48</span></u></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- read the article on '<i>Postdocumentary
photography, art and ethics</i>' by Ine Gevers and summarise the key points
made by the author in your learning log.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Gevers states
that "This essay will touch on a number of difficulties that are widely
acknowledged within the post documentary discipline and that inspire critical, action;
that said the essay focuses on the ethical position of artists."
Throughout the essay Gevers offers references for different methods of
documentary communication; then discusses their efficacy, the benefits and the
challenges of each.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Originally,
the principle of aesthetics was straight forward:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">aesthetics
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">... and from
there, logically followed, the development of the 'ethics of perception' (in
other words) the ability to take on board and appreciate the new and the
different.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Latterly (post 1930's), there has been no
requirement for the new to be classically beautiful, in fact, regularly the new
was very specifically 'collected' because it was not beautiful; ironically only
to become 'beautiful in its own way' when exposed to greater scrutiny (and
often better understood) - this re-evaluation radically shifted world view on the
definition of 'beauty' (in photography).</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Aesthetics/ethics
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">environment,
other peoples experiences, tastes and influences have become ours; thus every
bodies 'aesthetics' are out in the world to be shared! Aesthetics now has a
life of their own and no one culture can control them.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rigidly
sticking to your own (set of) aesthetics will result in somebody considering
you draconian. Open-ended aesthetics are here to provide knowledge and insight,
however, this relaxed view-point appears to be having the opposite effect. We
all have our own frame of reference and individual views are bound to differ;
so in order to avoid the risk of offending others, regarding topics we either
don't agree with or don't want to be involved with, we put up internal barriers
and avoid the situation.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Photography
has educated (the nation, the world) intentionally and unintentionally - it
shows us more than any other media medium can. This can be beneficial because
it shares experiences and removes stigmas, however, the downside is it can
objectivise the subject and make common-place things that were previously
special.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">History
argues, falsely, photography's ability to "capture reality
faithfully" when from its earliest days the medium was used as a tool for
propaganda and dramatisation. Gevers states" although nobody believes any
more in the 'reality effects' of documentary photography, everyone is still
expected to behave as though they do."<br />
This essay was written in February 2012 (two and a half years ago) I'm really
not sure that today that is the case - I think it is more normal that people
don't' believe and challenge what the see/hear.<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Gevers further
states that "in this way image, perception, language and consciousness
continually reproduce and confirm each other" - I believe that is still
the case.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">The age old question of objectivity then becomes
the focus, initially defining the collection of 'objective' facts from medical
observation (back to exercise 36 - On Foucault: Disciplinary Power and
Photography) and whilst this type of recording can now only be done with the
express permission of the patient; one has to ask whether these documents (like
it or not) advanced science in the same way as the 'primitive' surgeries that
used to be carried out. Will we be talking about genetically modified food in
the same way in 30 years time?</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The follow on,
discusses the objectivisation or the de-humanisation of the individuals
observed, rather than people they became their syndrome. This assumes that all
doctors, by default, become professionally detached (loose their human touch)
and that their patients become ailments rather than people. Whilst this is a
disconcerting notion, it's difficult to think of any other reality - does this
go back to "once you've seen one famine picture you've seen then
all"? Similarly, once you've seen one heart transplant you've seen then
all?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Part of the
issue with documentary, is that it can so easily be brought into question.
Regardless of the 'facts' everybody engaged in any particular debate will have
a subjective view, not all of these will be informed, balanced or logical and
some will not even be relevant; add to this that the initial 'document' and
it's presentation was also subjectively created and questions are bound to
arise.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Gevers
references Rosler in terms of her ethical approach to projects and her need to
give 'voice' back to her subjects. Rather than using only images, she engages
directly with the individuals (and uses mixed media - photos, text, video)
enabling them to speak for themselves to avoid the risk of de-humanisation at
the same time as presenting a more balanced view of the situation. Similarly,
Gevers references Sekula because of his alternative approach to projects.
Sekula also uses mixed media but only provides partial scenarios to his
audience - he requires that the audience engage and finish the 'story' for
themselves.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Just because
an exhibition is extolled as a success, it doesn't actually mean it delivered
what the photographer and/or the curator had intended. This again goes back to
the fact the aesthetics and ethics are specific to the owner of the views and
potentially slightly (or completely) different to other peoples. A number of
examples are given, the most notable being the portraits by Douglas Niven and
Christopher Riley entitled S-21 of the genocide in Cambodia. Whilst the intent
was to 'show the inhumanity' of the situation, because of the location and the
presentation of the work it was 'transmogrified' into art and the more success
full the exhibitions, the further removed from its origins it became!<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Today
'ratings' drive behaviour and push stories way beyond what used to be
acceptable, as such 'documentary' images that were originally meaningful suffer
from over exposure and loose their meaning e.g. the falling man from the Twin
Towers. What was initially shocking, becomes common place and is then ignored.
How then do we move forward from this situation? Gevers proffers an option from
Alfredo Jaar - the black box exhibition of Rwanda, where he took thousands of
images but showed only one. Is this Jaar's trade mark form of communication? To
not communicate, not being prepared to sensationalise the horror of the
situation? Similar to his mini-movie 'The Sound of Silence'.<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Is Debord
correct? Do we act rather than live? Taking this further, do we relate to life
only if we have already seen it 'demonstrated' in a film? Are films a form of
universal crystal ball for us? We know what to do and what to say because
we've seen it 'played' by somebody else.<br />
How does what we see inform us? If we are spoon-fed everything, are we actually
capable of take it on board and genuinely understanding it? The expression 'you
learn from your mistakes' springs to mind - if we do not make mistakes because
we only live vicariously, do we actually learn?<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In today's
world, are we in a permanent state of over-stimulation because of the
continuous stream of information? Accepting that there is no way that we are
capable of processing all of this information, does this lead to a feeling of
alienation? Both Tester and Badiou believe this to be the case. Badiou takes
this further and relates it to our current 'format' of unachievable
and unrealistic contemporary ethics. How can all of us work to and
believe in one standardised set of norms? Badiou's view is that '<b><i>ethics
should become the enduring principle of individual process'</i></b>, in other
words, since nothing is 'normal' how can standardise how we behave and how we
view things; each situation has a unique set of circumstance and should be
assessed on its own merits. Hence '<b><i>truth is not something that can be
communicated, it is something that must be encountered'</i></b>.<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Is it possible
to change the world? Rosler believes it is, these photographs and
films challenge viewers to see beyond what is already known, beyond their own
limits - it is up to the viewer as co-author to give weight to
the image. As per my essay for assignment 4, the viewer is just as
culpable as the photographer and the editor in their subjective
interpretation of the image - ignorance is not innocence but sin. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-3829307138535483252014-10-17T04:52:00.001-07:002015-02-22T12:12:08.593-08:00Assignment 2 images - Depression portfolio updated<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These are the images updated as per my tutor feedback - to create a more cohesive portfolio of images, an element of 'drawing' could be incorporated into each of the photographs. </div>
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They were uploaded onto my blog so that I could discuss them with other students at the Brighton Biennial. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>No future</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's a nice clear day and then it's not; I could see and feel and understand and then the greyness starts to seep in. There's nothing I can do to stop it, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger until it takes over completely and everything slows to grey.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Black dog</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">He's an easy way to talk about it, superficial because he can't really explain my feelings but good at explaining my mood - bad day = big black dog! Before this, it wasn't really a dog, I'm not sure its really a dog now. But because I picked this dog, it seems more like a dog. A scary dog on a bad day.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Self medication</b><br />I'm entitled to some time off, time to not be who I am.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Trapped</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'm such
an idiot! I didn't do that, I can't believe I did that.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ever live this down, what are people saying about me?.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I can't go
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm such
an idiot. I can't stop thinking about it. I can't believe I did that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Its lonely not being able to talk about it. Just leave me alone, I'm fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Its difficult trying to talk about it. Just leave me alone, I'm fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Its impossible to put it into words so that you understand it. Just leave me alone, I'm fine </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Its tiring just trying not to think about it. Just leave me alone, I'm fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Its easier not to talk about it. Just leave me alone. Help me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Make you a cup of tea, on a bad day it would be just the same as you asking me to climb Mount Everest! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It takes all my effort and concentration to walk across the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">No matter how hard I try to change things - nothing works; the harder I try, the more frustrating the situation becomes. I end up so angry and frustrated with myself, it feels like I'm crying inside my head and no one can see, so nobody can help!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tired, so tired I can't think or feel or breath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So tired I can't move a muscle, I can't even close my eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So tired I can't sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I feel like I'm dead.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I wish I was dead.</span></td></tr>
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Feedback from the group in Brighton was very encouraging. An alternative approach suggested was to use the individual with the black dog (in every image) to communicate the different moods/stages of depression.<br />
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The drawings of the mug and the kettle, in every day tasks, were particularly appreciated.<br />
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Most interestingly, because of the amount of work involved in these images it would have been acceptable for me to have submitted fewer images for the assignment! That said, if I were to do this assignment again, I don't believe I would reduce the number of images in the portfolio - the 8 elements portrayed here only go part way to communicating the complexity of this disease.<br />
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The assignment brief states that this assignment is to be published on a blog page. I have yet to finalise the format in which I would like to present this particular assignment, in order for the photographs to make any sense the captions are critical. The size of the captions varies significantly and thus alters the size of the frame assigned to the image - I feel this is detracting and deminishes the overall strength of the portfolio.<br />
<br />Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-37848243946326370042014-10-12T13:18:00.001-07:002014-10-12T13:18:52.739-07:00Post-documentary art<b><u>Exercise 47</u> - listen to Jim Goldberg talking about '<i>Open See</i>' and his exhibition at the Photographers Gallery. Look at his website re the portfolio and reflect on how this works as a documentary project within a gallery space.</b><br />
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The selection of images shown in the video are more diverse than can be seen on this particular section of wall (image above). The significant variation is size of the images, does not appear to have any relevance to the importance or impact of either the artists narrative or the individuals personal journey.<br />
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In the video, Goldberg specially talks about the photograph of 'the boy crossing the river' (right hand side of the still above) and shares information re the power plant (obviously, just out of shot) and the pollution of the river - dead fish. I find this strange because clearly this image does not communicate the 'real' situation - so why show this photograph?<br />
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The portfolio is about the "2004 Olympics in Greece" and Goldberg's brief was to focus on the sub-culture created - the illegal immigrants that arrived for the work. Whilst the video is short (3.5 minutes) it provides an interesting commentary and shares some of the thought processes of the photographer. The 'section' of gallery we can see in the video does not show any written description to support the portfolio, however, Goldberg states (in an interview with the Guardian, November 2009) that <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.98px;">"<b><i>since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another.</i></b>" </span>In addition to this, a number of the images have text written on them - the story of the individual in their own words - giving the portfolio a very personal feel about it. No doubt this level of engagement with the subjects makes it much easier for the audience to gain a complete and informed understanding of this body of work.<br />
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Without the necessary 'words' I believe it would be very difficult to effectively communicate this type of storytelling documentary.<br />
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I think this may work very well as a documentary project in a gallery space, but I would like to see it for myself.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.opensee.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Open See</span></a> website is very different, the images scroll across the screen and the viewer has no say in what happens - you have no control over the speed, you cannot stop or pause the scrolling, you cannot click on an image to enlarge it! The site '<b><i>happens to you</i></b>' almost as though the photographer is showing how life happens to these 'dispossessed' people.<br />
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I am less convinced about the website, I find the site frustrating, even the instructions are totally abstract - I accept that I may be missing the point completely....<br />
<br />Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-70864134415496753702014-10-12T13:16:00.000-07:002014-10-12T13:16:00.524-07:00Contemplating documentary<b><u>Exercise 46</u> - read the article "<i>The Judgement Seat of Photography</i>" (in Bolton, 1992, pp 15-48) and add to your learning log the key research materials referenced in the text. </b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-font-width: 105%;">Cockcroft,<span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;"> E (1974) </span>"<strong>Abstract<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>Expressionism:<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>Weapon<span style="letter-spacing: 0.85pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;"> </span>Cold<span style="letter-spacing: 0.6pt;"> </span>War</strong>"<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">
</span>Ariforum,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>vol.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>12,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>no.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-font-width: 109%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-font-width: 105%;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>at<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>Modern</strong>"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Massachusetts<span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt;"> </span>Review,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;">
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Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-7654451246320266732014-10-05T15:09:00.000-07:002015-02-02T15:19:07.678-08:00Assignment 5 planning (part 3) <b>Analysing John Piper</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Feedback from my tutor is positive, so all systems are go...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">That said, my tutor has concerns re maintaining a tight control on the scope of the project "</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>t</i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">o </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">prevent the assignment being too wide-ranging you may need to find a way </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of restricting the focus further. Using John Piper as a visual influence is one </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">starting point, but you may also need to find another point to help define the </span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><i>project to produce the final 15 images</i></b>". </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Starting with currently my only starting point, John Piper, what do I understand about his art and his approach so far?</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">His control over colour is radical, the colour key for the final image often bears no resemblance to the original scene. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">His preference is to work in water colours when painting outside, thus</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> invariably his picture starts with a line drawing, normally in pencil and the colour follows. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">JP is known for his architectural drawings and his paintings tend to focus on very specific architectural elements of the buildings.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Key elements are depicted in great detail, often in pencil or coloured ink. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Often less than a third of his picture will be developed to this level of detail.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Often the most important element is left without colour</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The pictures tend to be very light at the centre, gradually getting darker and darker towards the edge of the frame</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">JP uses blocks of colour to support and communicate mood</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Piper regularly uses mixed media to communicate his ideas and is particularly fond of incorporating newspaper and photographs into his pictures. Not only are multiple</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> layers used to develop and build up the image, but Piper also duplicates sections of the image and applies different colour codes. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eye and camera - Multi figure (1972)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">St Anne's, Limehouse, London (1964)<br /><span style="background-color: white;">© The Piper Estate</span></span></td></tr>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Start looking at my area with Piper vision</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Identify the area of focus and take my photograph and use it to create a colourless line drawing</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Select the important detail that needs to be 'added' back in</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Select a colour palette that creates the feel and mood I wish to create</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Four simple steps - if only it were that easy.......</span></div>
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I also need to think about the 'other point' (or points) to help define the project.....</div>
</span>Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-43114650753066958882014-10-05T14:11:00.000-07:002014-10-05T14:11:17.429-07:00Documentary in the gallery space<span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Exercise 45</u> – look at the ‘<i>Cruel + Tender</i>’ brochure and listen to the interviews with Rineke Dijkstra and Fazal Sheilk. Make comments in your log.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not having seen this type of document before, I was very impressed by the ‘leaders kit’ produced by the Tate: -</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Having been to the ‘Beyond boarders’ exhibition at the <a href="http://www.impressions-gallery.com/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Impressions Gallery</span></a> in Bradford and been fortunate enough to meet the curator and receive a talk on how the exhibition was created, I found the introductory section fascinating – especially the intended inter-play between portfolio between photographers and across time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I felt it brought all of the elements of the exhibition together and then developed questions specific to the artist and/or portfolio; then further developed these questions into more general discussion points. The follow-on questions are very logical when they are written down in front of you, but unfortunately less so when you are trying to develop your own theme/scope for a project – these sections are certainly food-for-thought. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reading through this brochure and gaining a better understanding of some of the artists referenced, brings home the relevance of a good number of the exercises we have covered in this module. It’s almost as though the Tate is reinforcing the relevance of the work/topics we have been studying with the OCA!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was also particularly interested in the section on Tate Modern’s approach to learning: -</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“… encourages students to think not of one correct reading or interpretation of an artwork, but of plural readings. These will be based on the evidence of the artwork itself as experienced by the individuals viewing it, …”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So often in school I was asked a question and then given the correct answer – this is a very refreshing change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Interview with Rineke Dijkstra – Bullfighters and Mothers</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both sets of images very effectively portray powerful and mixed emotions – pain, relief, pride, confusion and exhaustion</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dijkstra’s aim was to capture a different view of these individuals, one not normally on ‘public display’ – in other words, to portray the experience rather than tell the story of the people</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another aim was not to take stereotypical images, nonetheless, there is a strong element of stereotyping, in Dijkstra’s own words “men fight and women protect” and both portfolios depict these characteristics</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most interesting was the comments re the impact of the womens’ photographs – the appreciation of the women that the pictures truly captured what it was like for them and that somebody had actually given them a voice, versus the ‘opinion’ of the men that the women were being exploited at a time of vulnerability.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I found this interview very interesting and felt that Dijkstra came across as being open and genuine. I found the images of the women very touching and felt that they captured the gentle but possessiveness of the situation. Whereas, I felt the bullfighters just look relived to have survived their ordeal!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over a 2 year period initially, Sheikh spent time living with/in 5 different refugee camps along the Eastern and Southern Somali borders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His aim was to ‘flush out’ what it was like to live in these borderland desserts; hence the duration of his ‘visit’ and the format of his images – stripped of everything other than the individuals so that they are the sole focal point</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheikh disliked the portrayal of the Somali people by the American media and decided to return to the camps some 8 years later and to ‘catch-up’ with the children he’d photographed; the aim being to show that whilst their plights were desperate they were survivors!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By way of explaining his use of a Polaroid camera for these images, Sheikh states that “I’m not very comfortable actually during the act of photographing. I decided to make it a community affair, wherein we would decide together who and how they [the people] should be rendered.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The exhibition includes testimonials from the individuals as well as diary like elements from Sheikh’s travels to the camps. He feels that whilst photographs are great in certain circumstances, they are not very effective for communicating the full story when it comes to “political and social turbulence”- thus the exhibition is a ‘marriage’ of text and image to create the overall ‘piece’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheikh’s images portray people with determination and real strength of character – rather than the waifs the American media were implying, as such, I am confused by his discomfort at taking these images and telling this story. The use of a Polaroid and the level of engagement implies that the people were actually involved in taking the images, but at no point does Sheikh confirm this. I felt there was something lacking with this interview, almost as though it was a prepared script – a good story to tell to the camera.</span></span></div>
Pdog19http://www.blogger.com/profile/02119110113205686647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940531621593416106.post-21403270346130539702014-10-05T06:01:00.000-07:002015-02-08T06:51:58.837-08:00Assignment 4 planning (part 6) - format for my review<b>Possible format/framework for critical review....</b><br />
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<b>Introduction -</b> (200 words)<br />
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<b>Objectivity - </b>(500 words)<br />
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<li>The 'status' of objectivity? Does it actually exist?</li>
<li>What exactly do we mean by objectivity - definitions?</li>
<li>How is it developed? How defines what is objective and what is not?</li>
<li>Is objectivity influenced by the language used and the format of the presentation?</li>
<li>How is objectivity 'abused'?</li>
<li>Why is it abused? Driving forces....</li>
<li>What is the perceived role of the photographer? Is this realistic today?</li>
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<b>Ethics - </b>(500 words)</div>
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<li>How is the language of photography defined? Modified? Corrected???</li>
<li>Are the visual symbol of photography really universally understood?</li>
<li>Why are these symbols misused? Are they misused?</li>
<li>Are the 'borders' between objectivity and subjectivity clear?</li>
<li>Are the 'borders' between subjectivity and truth clear?</li>
<li>How does objectivity live with ethics in a multicultural environment?</li>
<li>How many different sets of ethics exist across the globe? Could I live 'contentedly' within each set?</li>
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<b>Understanding - </b>(500 words)</div>
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<li>Does lack of objectivity really warp the truth?</li>
<li>Whose objectivity are we talking about? Whose truth are we talking about?</li>
<li>Even if publications are objective, how do we ensure readers are objective?</li>
<li>Is it possible to caveat information sufficiently enough to ensure true objectivity?</li>
<li>If objectivity is out, how do we effectively communicate our personal subjectivity?</li>
<li>Is this type of education of the general public possible?</li>
<li>How genuinely open to 'truth' is the general public - we are all guilty (to differing degrees) to only hearing what we want to hear and only believing what we want to believe!</li>
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<b>Conclusion -</b> (300 words)</div>
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Refer back to introduction and re-frame with closing arguments.</div>
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