Exercise 3.3 recreating a childhood memory For this jaunt down memory Lane, we had to take an image, recreating a childhood memory. After some trial and error with self absented portraiture using a child to stand in for me, followed by some images that spark some nostalgia, I decided to include myself in the image. As …
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Assignment Two Props The brief for assignment two seems simple at first glance, choose a prop and create a set of images relating to it. Once I’d chosen the “White Shirt” category I originally started to storyboard an idea of “a day in the life of a white shirt”, from washing machine to wash basket …
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Assignment Five Making it up 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. …
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This project begins with Sarah Pickering’s, Public Order, exploring the Metropolitan Police Public Order Training Centre, a simulated urban environment where officers rehearse responses to civic unrest. Is this project an effective use of documentary or is it misleading? Are these images the best way to show what goes on behind these closed training sessions? …
Dora Maar at the Tate Study Visit.
It is a pretty familiar story, Female artist deleted from history And it’s the one that, broadly speaking, underpins this show at Tate Modern. Dora Maar (1907-1997) was a female artist footnoted by history thanks to her gender and her relationship with Pablo Picasso. But the most interesting thing to emerge from this fascinating retrospective …
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 4.1
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. …
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