Author: lindamayoux
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What are Artist’s Statements?
An artist’s statement is sometimes referred to as a ‘statement of intent’. It can be seen as a marketing device, or simply as a means of describing practitioners’ interests. They: vary in terms of their length and the details they cover. may relate to a specific body of work or it may talk about practice more generally. probably contains…
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Artists’ statements
Exercise 5.7 Prepare your artist’s statement An artist’s statement is sometimes referred to as a ‘statement of intent’. It can be seen as a marketing device, or simply as a means of describing practitioners’ interests. They: vary in terms of their length and the details they cover. may relate to a specific body of work or it may talk…
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Documentary Integrity and Truth
Being there How will you operate as a photographer? Will you ask permission or will you be a fly on the wall, a ghost who never affects the image? This is a major question relevant to your production ethics. If you tell people what you’re doing, then they’ll react differently to you; they may be…
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Reality and hyperreality
This is a practice-based course so we won’t be going into detail about the nature of truth, hermeneutics, reality and hyperreality. What follows is a very brief summary. However you may want to research some of these areas for yourself. You could start by looking at some of the titles in the reading list at…
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OCA Photography student blog links
(To be extended) Landscape https://pepperdog19.wordpress.com Stephanie d’Hubert eVALUATION link Hazel Bingham
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Landscape and Identity
The concept of ‘identity’ is central to most landscape photography – the cultural, historical, ecological and industrial factors shaping identities of people and places and the ways in which the two interact. ‘Identity’ is however not fixed. Individuals and groups of people are continually trying to reconcile multiple and changing identities as a means of making…
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Photography, memory and place
“… in Photography, I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality and of the past. And since this constraint exists only for Photography, we must consider it, by reduction, as the very essence, the noeme of Photography.” (Barthes 1982,p.76) Photographic images affect the way we remember…
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Industrial and post-industrial landscapes
Some activist photographers have been mainly concerned with industrial and post-industrial landscapes. Here big industry becomes the ‘new sublime’ to be feared and confronted in the hope of change and avoiding disaster. Mitch Epstein Ed Burtynsky Other photographers have avoided any overt messages, rather asking questions to which the viewer may have different answers. These…
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Landscape as a Call to Action
Photography, and the manipulation of photographs, is often used to highlight and raise political questions. Landscape photography in particular is often used in environmental activism – images of environmental degradation, urban squalor. In NGO advertising (eg GreenPeace) photographs are often manipulated to juxtapose elements that are then countered by a caption. Peter Kennard produces explicit political…
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‘Late’ photography’
In his 2003 essay, David Campany comments that: “One might easily surmise that photography has of late inherited a major role as undertaker, summariser or accountant. It turns up late, wanders through the places where things have happened totting up the effects of the world’s activity.” (‘Safety in Numbness: Some remarks on the problem of “Late Photography”’ (in…