I decided to undertake this exercise again, partly because the light was very flat on my previous attempt but mainly because I was not really conecentrating and I was not very pleased with the original series. The images we all … Continue reading Exercise 5.3 – Your journey – revisted (P.132)
Harry Callahan (1912 – 1999) was a self-taught American photographer who was inspired to take up photography as a career after attending a workshop given by Ansel Adams in 1941. Callahan worked for Chrysler before leaving to study engineering at … Continue reading Harry Callahan
Following my tutor feedback and comments from other students I have made some changes to the images for this assignment. At the suggestion of another student I have included an artistic statement with the images so that my intention for the series and the end result are all in the same place. Artistic intention For this assignment I wanted to create a series of images that looked at national identity, how the United Kingdom and more specifically the English have responded to the coronavirus crisis and what this says about the country. There are several reasons for concentrating on England, … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text – revised images
My feedback for assignment 4 can be read here. Overall I was pleased with the feedback and was particularly grateful to my tutor as he turned it around very quickly. I have amended the presentation of the images on my … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text – tutor feedback
Demonstration of technical and visual skills Materials I have not printed any of the images but intend to do so for assessment at the end of the course following feedback from my tutor. Techniques I did not use any new … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text – reflection
For this assignment I wanted to create a series of images that looked at national identity, how the United Kingdom and more specifically the English have responded to the coronavirus crisis and what this says about the country. There are … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text
Laura Letinsky’s image Untitled #54 is featured in the course notes and is from from the series Hardly More Than Ever which Letinsky shot over a seven year period from 1997 to 2004. The book is subtitled, The Posthumous Life of Leftovers and features images of the leftovers of meals along with text and poetry. Whilst the images definitely show sign of life with people being absent, I’m not sure how I feel about them. I think that the iamges are somewhat repetitive and the staging too contrived, as though the idea has been overdone. By contrast her series Somewhere, … Continue reading Laura Letinsky
How often do you see people walking and reading their texts or on the train and reading their tablet rather than enjoying the view? What are we missing when we do that? Breaking the initial question down into its two … Continue reading Research task – Your environment (P.125)
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