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 …
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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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