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As part of my research for assignment three, I searched online for contemporary photgraphers producing self-portraits. One of the photographers I came across was Rosie Hardy. From looking at her website, http://www.rosiehardy.com, it appears as though Hardy is primarily a … Continue reading Rosie Hardy – self-portraits
As part of my research for assignment three on Context & Narrative, Putting ourself in the picture, I wrote about Vivian Maier’s self-portraits. This can be read here. I am continuing to reserach self-portraiture as part of my preparation for … Continue reading Vivian Maier – self-portraits
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 – 1989) was and American photographer born in Floral Park, Queens, New York. In 1963 he enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he studied drawing, painting and sculpture. Mapplethorpe started taking photographs after acquiring a … Continue reading Robert Mapplethorpe self-portraits
Keith Arnatt (1930 – 2008) was a British conceptual artist who stuied at the Oxford School of Art and later at the Royal Academy Schools in London. In the late 1960s/early 1970s Arnatt produced several conceptual self-portraits. In 1968 Arnatt produced Invisible Hole Revealed by the Shadow of the Artist. Although notionally a self-portrait, what Arnatt was exploring was the veracity of photography as a medium. Quoted in John Roberts, The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966–1976, Arnatt stated ‘I was beginning to become aware of the unreliability of photographic evidence and began to play with that … Continue reading Keith Arnatt
I attended an online study event, The Politics of Portraiture, given by Arpita Shah and one of the photographers whose work was featured, and which we discussed, was Dawoud Bey. The work we looked at was his series Harlem, USA. Born in 1953 and growing up in Queens, New York; Bey started taking photographs at the age of 16 having been inspired by seeing the work of James Van Der Zee (1886 – 1983). Van Der Zee documented Harlem over sixty years and his work was featured in the contentious 1969 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Harlem … Continue reading Dawoud Bey – Harlem, USA
There are many challenges that the restrictions on movement the coronavisrus outbreak has created and taking photographs is a very minor one. I wanted to somehow capture the impact of the extraordinary times we find ourselves in but did not know how to do this whilst at the same time complying with govenment instructions around minimising going outdoors and maintaining social distancing. In the end an idea came to me whilst exercising and dog-walking as I was struck by the number of discarded gloves, and occassionally face masks, that I came across. I think my typology serves as a metaphor … Continue reading Coronavirus – gloves and masks
Daniel Meadows (b.1952) is a British photographer, photography and digital media teacher. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic in the 1970s alongside other notable British documentary photographers including Brian Griffin and Martin Parr. In the Spring of 1972, Meadows rented a disused barber’s shop on Greame Street in Moss Side, Manchester and opened a free photographic studio. Although he had to close it after two months, due to lack of funds, Meadows would use the experience to develop one of his future projects. After The Shop on Greame Street, Meadows produced two series with Martin Parr, Butlins by the Sea in … Continue reading Daniel Meadows
Martin Parr is probably the best known contemporary British documentary photographer. During the 1980s Parr was working and living in New Brighton on Merseyside where he shot his work, The Last Resort. Working in New Brighton at the same time … Continue reading Research task – What type of photographer are you? (P.63)
Irving Penn (1917 – 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits and still lives. Worlds in a Small Room, was a collection of photographs taken by Penn spanning a period of over 20 years which were taken whilst he was working on fashion shoots for Vogue. The photographs are portraits shot in studio conditions and started with a trip to Cusco, Peru, in 1948 where he hired a daylight studio to photograph with Northern light (Penn, 1974). Later on he had a custom studio tent built which he used on field trips between 1967 and 71. … Continue reading Irving Penn – Worlds in a Small Room
Julian Germain (1962 – ) is a British photographer who studied at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham and the Royal College of Art in London. His work For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness features images of Charlie Snelling taken over and eight year period from April 1992 until Snelling’s death in 2000. Germain met Snelling when he passed his house on his way to photograph a football match in Portsmouth. Intrigued by the brightly coloured yellow and orange house with plants, shells and things found on the beach for sale in the front window, Germain … Continue reading Julian Germain – For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness
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