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 …
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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. …
Exercise 3.2
Nikki S. Lee is a Korean born American (B1970) Best known for her chameleon like identity shifting images of photographs of American subculture. Where she infiltrates these cultures and gets passers by to take her photograph on a disposable camera. Her self portraits are reminiscent of photographer Cindy Sherman. Dressed and made up in different …
Exercise 3.1
In this exercise we are looking at self portraits, Self portraits, have, historically, been a personal look at an artist. In a world where the self portrait has become diluted and devoid of meaning. Looking at the work of these artists, they are bringing back a sense of individuality and authenticity to the self portrait. …
Assignment Two
After deliberating over the “Photographing the Unseen” and “using props”, I choose the Props project, more specifically the “White Shirt” option. I wanted to create a cohesive narrative, a story of a “White Shirt” on a daily journey from washing machine back to wash basket and whatever happens in between. On reflection this didn’t match …
Assignment 2 Reflection
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 and all that …
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