Category: Presentation
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Digital C-type
Digital C-Types (also known as ‘lambda’ or ‘lightjet’) use a digital-analogue hybrid process. This is the method used by high street labs nowadays, regardless of whether you supply them with a roll of film or a memory card. Traditional silver halide photographic papers are used in a machine that exposes the paper to light from…
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Inkjet printing
Inkjet printers use an array of different colours and tones of ink that are applied onto specially coated paper. Inkjet prints can be produced on inexpensive domestic printers to make prints up to A4 size, A3+ printers can be bought from eg Canon and Epson for slightly more. Costly ‘large format’ printers that can produce…
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The Gallery Context
Traditionally the photograph has been considered in terms of a print, and the high point of recognition for a photographer being an exhibition of their prints in a Fine Art Gallery. Galleries may present very different types of space in terms of lighting conditions, amounts and shape of space and general ‘feel’. But a tendency…
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Create a Slideshow
Task Look at some of the audio-visual slideshows on the websites listed above. Make some notes about particular works of interest, considering how they are edited, sequenced and how audio is used with images. Note down your own personal observations. (See Post Time-based audio-visual presentations) Whether or not you intend to present your photographs for…
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Exhibitions and the White Cube
Reflections on: Thomas McEvilley’s summary of O’Doherty’s 1976 series of articles for ArtForum in his introduction to O’Doherty, B (1999) Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space University of California Press Traditionally the photograph has been considered in terms of a print, and the high point of recognition for a photographer being an exhibition…
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Photobooks: design and publishing
Print-on-demand and self-publishing The expansion on print-on-demand services now makes self-publishing fairly straightforward. These enable direct sales through companies like Amazon at price mark-ups decided by the photographer. There are a number of services on offer that I looked at: Photobox snapfish shutterfly apple mixbook Review of options: https://www.cnet.com/news/best-and-worst-photo-book-making-websites-for-you/ But the one I chose – it…
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Photobooks: Inspiration
Types of Photobook Surveys and catalogues catalogues for exhibitions ‘Survey’ publications draw together a collection of individual images or a group of practitioners working in a similar area. Some surveys seem more didactic or directed at the art market, such as 50 Photographers You Should Know (2008), Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (2009), reGeneration: 50 Photographers…
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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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Designing a project brief
Project briefs are of different types and allow different levels of negotiation and artistic freedom. (what follows is from the Course Manual and will be revisited in Assignment 5) Commercial (client-led) briefs Any engagement with commercial photographic enterprise will involve a brief of some kind. This may be in the form of a legally binding contract,…