Alec Soth (1969-) is an American photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2004 his first book, and breakthrough work, Sleeping By The Mississippi was published. The book contains 46 images of people and places along the Mississippi. Shot … Continue reading Alec Soth – Sleeping By The Mississippi
For this exercise I have to create three images showing the link between a subject and their surroundings. I had originally wanted to approach my neighbours, two academics, a scientist and a linguist; and an artist and ask if I could photograph them at their places of work. However, due to the coronavirus outbreak I was unable to do so, so have photographed members of my family instead. This image is of my wife in the ‘telly room’ which is most definitely her space. Although it is the room where we both watch TV, for her it is much more … Continue reading Exercise 2.1 – Individual spaces (P.58)
For this exercise I have to emulate the work of George Perec and his 1975 work An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, in which he wrote down everything he could see from a certain viewpoint. I sat for … Continue reading Exercise 5.2 – George Perec – (P.127)
For this assignment I have free rein to produce a series of no more than fifteen images that relates to any of the material discussed in the course and must represent a notion of identity and place that I am … Continue reading Assignment 5 – Your Inspiration – initial thoughts
Stephen Shore (1947 – ) is an American photograph who along with William Egglestone and Joel Meyerowitz were pioneers in the development of colour fine art photography in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Shore’s photographic career started at an … Continue reading Stephen Shore – Uncommon Places
For this exercise I have decided to change the approach given in the course folder and instead of using someone else’s words, I have borrowed someone else’s approach. In my submission for assignment four I used words written by other … Continue reading Exercise 4.5 – Image & text (P.101)
Robert Frank (1924 – 2019) was a Swiss-American photographer most famous for his work The Americans, first published in France in 1958. The second child of a German father and Swiss Mother, Frank lived in Zurich where in 1941 he … Continue reading Robert Frank
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
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