Read the section entitled 'The Real and the Digital' in Wells, Liz. (2009) Photography: A Critical Introduction (4th edition). Abingdon: Routledge, pp.73-75. You'll find this on the student website. Does digital technology change how we see photography as truth? Consider both sides of the argument and make some notes in your learning log. Firstly, what… Continue reading Project 5 – Exercise – “The Real and the Digital”
Category: Part 1 – The photograph as document
Project 4 – Exercise – Sarah Pickering, Public Order
Look at some more images from this series on the artist's website. How do Pickering's images make you feel? Is Public Order an effective use of documentary or is it misleading? Make some notes in your learning log. Sarah Pickering's series called Public Order has a variety of images containing empty streets. However, something seems… Continue reading Project 4 – Exercise – Sarah Pickering, Public Order
Project 3 – Exercise – Street photography
Find a street that particulary interests you - it may be local or further afield. Shoot 20 colour images and 30 black and white images in a street photography style. In your learning log, comment on the differences between the two formats. What difference does colour make? which set do you prefer and why? Colour… Continue reading Project 3 – Exercise – Street photography
Project 5 – Exercise – Composite image
Instead of using double exposures or painting from double negatives we now have the technology available to use to make these changed in post-production, allowing for quite astonishing results. Use digital software such a Photoshop to create a composite image which visually appears to be a documentary photograph but which could never actually be. The… Continue reading Project 5 – Exercise – Composite image
Project 4 – Sectarian Murders
Look online at Paul Seawright's work, Sectarian Murders. - How does this work challenge the boundaries between documentary and art? Listen to Paul Seawright talk about his work at: http://vimeo.com/76940827 - What is the core of his argument? Do you agree with him? - If we define a piece of documentary photography as art, does… Continue reading Project 4 – Sectarian Murders
Project 3 – Contemporary street photography
Do some research into contemporary street photography. Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Paul Graham, Joel Sternfeld and Martin Parr are some names to start with, but you may be able to find further examples for yourself. Black and white was firstly used in photography due to technical aspects which has since been developed. It took a… Continue reading Project 3 – Contemporary street photography
Project 2 – Critical debates
If your interested in the critical debates around photojournalism, try and make time to find out more about at least one of these critical positions during your work on Part One. 1. Charity - Martha Rosler Martha Rosler believed that the social conscience of well-meaning photographers such as Lewis Hine was not helping the social… Continue reading Project 2 – Critical debates
Project 1 – Exercise – Citizen journalism
A photograph gives us the impression that we are there. By offering us a point of view on an event or scene, we are tricked, however momentarily, into believing that we're looking at the scene rather than a photograph of the scene. We are not witnesses, only the photographer was there, but the photograph gives… Continue reading Project 1 – Exercise – Citizen journalism
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