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
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)
I have been trying to think of how to approach this assignment given the restrictions imposed by the coronoavirus lock down. My tutor and I discussed self-portraiture during my last tutorial and although I was initially reluctant, I am now warming to the idea. My tutor provided some links to photographers who have worked in this field; some like Francesca Woodman and Keith Arnatt I wrote about as part of my Contaxt and Narrative blog. The others, Robert Mapplethorpe and Ray Billingham I am aware of but need to research further. In addition to well-known photographers who have worked in … Continue reading Assignment 3 – Kyle Thompson
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
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)
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
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