Assignment 4 – Image and Text – revised images

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

Laura Letinsky

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

Assignment 4 – Image and Text

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

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

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)