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Assignment 4 – Image and Text

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I have decided to proceed with my idea based on shooting landscape images, partly for practical reasons, fewer issues with social distancing, and partly to challenge myself as I do not think of myself as a landscape photographer. I have looked online for newspaper headlines from the beginning of the coronavirus lock down and have been able to find these for most daily newspapers, the exceptions being The Sun and The Times. I have compiled a list of 10 – 12 headlines that I think I can use and have shot a couple of images to start experimenting how best … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text

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Research task – Greg Shapley – Phoenix (P.123)

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Dr. Greg Shapley is an Australian cross-media, composer, curator and academic. His work Phoenix is part of a series titled ‘Non-representational Self-Portraits’. The description of the artwork on the Saatchi Art website states that the work has: …literally, been extracted from an image of the artist’s face using an intriguing process developed over time by Dr Shapley. This is a mechanical photographic process, yet this image renders up a a myriad of organic, idiosyncratic detail more akin to illustration or design. Saatchi Art Unfortunately there is no more information about the process and little more about Dr. Shapley so it … Continue reading Research task – Greg Shapley – Phoenix (P.123)

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Assignment 4 – Image and Text – initial thoughts

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I have been struggling to find a way to move forward with this assignment which I know is due to the lack of clarity about what I am trying to achieve and, more specifically, what text to use. I have an idea of how I would like to present the final images, prints with handwritten text, my thinking about this having been influenced by the looking at the work of Duane Michals, Jim Goldberg and somewhat tangentially, Elsa Dorfman. However, the words remain something of a struggle. My first idea is to find a poem that is about identity and … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text – initial thoughts

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Research Task – Justine Varga – Maternal Line (P.123)

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As part of the research for this section we are encouraged to find examples of photographers or artists who create portraits without including the human figure. One of the artist I have come across is Justine Varga, whose work, Maternal Line won the Olive Cotton award, named after the pioneering Austrialian modernist photographer of the 1930s and 40s, Olive Cotton (1911-2003); in 2017. The work was controversial, partly because it is not a traditional, figurative portrait. Partly because instead of taking a tradional picture of her grandmother, Varga instead asked her grandmother to draw and spit on a a piece … Continue reading Research Task – Justine Varga – Maternal Line (P.123)

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Penny Klepuszewska – Living Arrangements

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Penny Klepuszewska’s collection Living Arrangements was created in response to Kelpuszewska reading about the increasing averge age of the population and wanting to create a work that explored how ageing people living alone were affected by this trend and how the home, often considered as a place of sanctuary can instead become an island of isolation for some elderly people. The work, first shown in 2006, was featured in Tate Britain’s first ever photography exhibition, How We Are: Photographing Britain in 2007. Further images from the series can be found here. The series is shot in a similar style with … Continue reading Penny Klepuszewska – Living Arrangements