The category containing all posts for part 3.
Make a list of some aspects of your personality that make you unique.● Start taking a few pictures that could begin to express this.● How could you develop this into a body of work? I think it is quite difficult … Continue reading Exercise 3.2 – Your personality (P.80)
For this exercise we are asked to present a series of five images that illustrate examples of the gazes mentioned in the course folder. The definitions that feature in the course notes are set out below: the spectator’s gaze – … Continue reading Exercise 3.4 – The gaze (P.85)
For this exercise I have to reflect on how marginalised or under-represented people or groups in society can be badly or unhelpfully portratyed and whether being an insider might help combat this. Marginalisation can be defined as: Marginalisation – sometimes … Continue reading Exercise 3.3 – Reflecting (P.80)
For this exercise I have to select ten images from my archive and separate them into two sets, one that can be thought of as windows, the other as mirrors. These are the definitions used by John Szarkowski in the title of the 1978 exhibition he curated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) in New York. The full title of the exhibition was ‘Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960’ (Marien, 2014). The press release from 1978 states MIRRORS AND WINDOWS has been organised around Szarkowski’s thesis that such personal vision take one of two forms. In metaphorical terms, … Continue reading Exercise 3.1 – Mirrors and windows (P.74)
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