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)
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
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)
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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