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Assignment Five
This assignment is the accumulation of the Context and Narrative module, we have covered a varied workload in this module, it has been enjoyable and challenging. I have been lucky in the fact that the work on this module has, completely by fate, coincided with a very significant life experience. It only seems right that …
Assignment Four
For this assignment I have chosen, Napalm Girl by Nick Ut. This image, as powerful as it is, also has a personal attachment for me on different levels, firstly, I am in the military, this image is a stark reminder of atrocities that can happen in war. Secondly, this image was used in my photography …
Research Point
Read and reflect upon the chapter on Diane Arbus in Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs by Sophie Howarth (2005, London: Tate Publishing). For this research point, we had to read Sophie Howarth’s deconstruction of Diane Arbus’s Brooklyn Family image. What first struck me was the almost, forensic analysis of the image. Everything is up …
Exercise 4.2
Rip out an advertising image from a newspaper supplement and circle and write on as many parts of the image as you can. Comment on what it is, what it says about the product and why you think it’s there. You could use this as the basis for your assignment if you feel it’s taking …
Exercise 4.1
At first glance, this black and white image, Felix, Gladys and Rover, by Elliot Erwitt, looks like two people walking A small dog. On closer inspection, we slowly realise the gentle comedy of the image, a comedy which is characteristic through much of Erwitt’s work. Erwitt, who was known for his humorous images of dogs, …
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Assignment Three
For this assignment, we had to keep a diary of events for two weeks. This is not the easiest for me, I am not the most articulate of writers at the best of times and asking for two or three pages of diary entries each day seemed a lot. I downloaded a Diary app (Day …
Exercise 3.3
For this jaunt down memory Lane, we had to take an image, recreating a childhood memory. After trying trialing self absented portraiture by getting a child to stand in for me, and just some images that spark some nostalgia, I decided to include myself in the image. As this section is all about self portraiture. …
Exercise 3.4
Shafran’s collection of Washing Up documented the everyday household chores of cleaning the dishes. This series of photographs were not originally from a set idea. They were in fact created because Shaffron wanted to start the New Year with a more positive approach. He wanted “Something with lots of shapes,where shapes would change and keep changing.”. From …
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