Aug 23, 2018 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research SS, Surfaces and Strategies |
Engaging with photography through an academic lens soon brought me up against a question – what is critical theory? As I read the various recommended readings I became more and more confused. Here were writers reviewing the images of others from a wide range of...
Aug 23, 2018 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research SS, Surfaces and Strategies |
Before leaving this module and the experience, but not the learning, behind – I would like to reflect on one aspect of my experience of The Road to Elgol that I have not previously discussed and which features in many of my more recent images. I have already talked...
Aug 23, 2018 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research SS, Surfaces and Strategies |
Robert Adams (a contemporary American photographer who has concentrated his efforts on photographing the changing landscape of the American West) identified three broad types of landscape photography: geography, autobiography and metaphor. The geography approach is...
Aug 15, 2018 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research SS, Surfaces and Strategies |
A very interesting and relevant guest lecture, in terms of my Research Project The Road to Elgol, entitled Reframing Illness from Katrin Joost of the University of Cumbria. Katrin started by talking about the phenomenology of photography and photography as...
Aug 7, 2018 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research SS, Surfaces and Strategies |
The term “landscape” dates back to the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century and was adopted in a significant way by eighteenth century English painters. In England, the agricultural and particularly the industrial revolution provided a context that influenced the...
Aug 1, 2018 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research SS, Surfaces and Strategies |
I mentioned in my blog last week that I had become aware of the work of Olaf Otto Becker through a chapter by Julia Peck in Landscape photography in the web of life: Olaf Otto Becker’s documentary sublime in Goldie and White (2018). Throughout this course I have been...
