Mar 13, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
Our tutor advised that in considering the approach and story for our Critical Review of Practice coursework we find a quotation that encapsulates the essence and intent of our work. So I have been searching for the words . . . I had a couple of ideas but neither...
Mar 5, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
This week’s lectures and readings attempt to capture the sheer volume, diversity and contexts in which we view and interpret photographs and to the reproduction and recycling of images. The ‘ordinary image’, broadly defined as those we take with say a...
Feb 28, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
As part of our coursework we were asked to consider our ‘gaze’ in relation to our photographic practice – where is our gaze, are we a voyeur, how do we look at and understand the world and how does photography contribute to this? My gaze is firmly fixed outdoors in...
Feb 19, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
Our coursework this week has been focused on the commercial world of advertising. Katherine Frith likens our reading of adverts as similar to peeling an onion and identifies three stages – the surface meaning, the advertiser’s intended meaning and the cultural...
Feb 12, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
Our coursework this week is about Constructed Realities. In this context we have been asked to consider whether photographers might deceive in their image making and whether we construct ‘reality’ or deceive in our own photographic practice and whether we...
Feb 10, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
Our coursework this week has taken us into the realms of authenticity and representation through the eyes of Roland Barthes and others, the consideration of whether photography has any defining peculiarities and whether it is really real. Authenticity and...
