Photography in Film - Seminar: La Jetée

  • Original language
  • Lack of silence
  • Minor key music
  • Heartbeat speeds up as do transitions
  • Whispering in German
  • Key statements made while picture is black
  • Emphasis on sound
  • 'Museum of His Memory'
  • Dateless world
  • Peaceful music - endlessness
  • Photography is the past
  • Cinema is moving and thus the present
  • Cinematic
  • Look at remake (12 Monkeys) & Vertigo
  • Recreating something from the past
  • Told from the future
  • Time travel makes you nostalgic for the present
  • Aid to memory
  • Pensive spectator
  • People looking at photographs are 'pensive'
  • people looking at cinema are 'rushed'
  • Different forms of photography - less light in the future
  • Noir (ish)
  • Who has taken the photos - he is being tracked or he has taken
  • Voyeur photos
  • The definition is only ever produced in the present
  • Future - through and down
  • Abstract streets (1000s)
  • Portraits
  • Future 
  • Utopia - clean, highly polished
  • Dystopia - Dark & ruins
  • Show less - Imagine more
  • Presenting as photographs given to memory
  • Last Year in Marienbad - Alain Resnais
  • Film: Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais
  • Film is still a young art form
  • All five questions are relavant

Photographer: Mark Power





ACPP - Wear Good Shoes

  • Working in Project
  • Next week - Individual Tutorials 20mins
  • Film Processing up and running - To Marcus by Tuesday
  • CF08 Booked to us Thursday Mornings
  • Location Lighting
  • Alec Soth - 2 Questions to Magnum Photographers
  • Abbas - Wear Good Shoes & Fall in Love
  • Chris Steele-Perkins - what interests you
  • Mark Power - discovery & being nosey
  • Fact & Documentary
  • Producing a 'book' of work - consistent - your voice
  • Need to be tied together in some way
  • Visual language or subject matter
  • Long-term projects
  • Carry on mini projects after deadline
  • 'The Sound of Two Songs' - Mark Power
  • 'The Shipping Forecast" - Mark Power
  • How to find an idea - when it's right in front of you
  • Thinking of the end game
  • Start low key and locally - Develop Visual language
  • Then Invest Time & Money doing the rest
  • Spontaneity - Imagination - Reality (Tension creates stronger images)
  • Maps!
  • '26 Different Endings'
  • Gregory Crewdson - Fine Art & Commercial (Crossover)
  • Story Telling
  • Similar - Jeff Wall, Phil Lorca diCorcia, Tom Hunter, Sam Taylor-Wood
  • 'The Twilight Series' - Gregory Crewdson
  • Suburbia, Paranoia, Claustrophobia
  • Hires Director of Photographer
  • Meaning through Light
  • Familiar to Strange (Tension)
  • 'Brief Encounter'
  • Location Scouting

Could You Survive Two Years Without A Paycheck?

"Don’t spend time comparing yourself to other photographers who might be more successful than you. So what? They aren’t part of your equation. You just have to put in the time, be patient, develop a strategy to survive the lean years, and move on. At the end of the tunnel, there is a light…" [Scott Bourne]

Digital Grey Kard

Finally after waiting three weeks for delivery my 'Grey Card' arrived. So now I can achieve better white balance from my RAW files.

British Journal of Photography: Lisa Devlin Wins Wedding Photography Prize

Amateur Photographer: Watchdog Warns Photographers Over Street Pictures

If a person 'actively objects' to having their picture taken in a public place then photographers should not publish that image, the privacy watchdog has warned. 

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was responding to an enquiry by Amateur Photographer after the watchdog said it has been contacted by people concerned over photos taken without permission and posted on the internet. 

While the watchdog said the Data Protection Act 'in no way' prevents people taking photos in public and publishing them, an ICO spokesman told AP: 'However, some circumstances will require photographers to exercise judgement on the taking and publishing of photographs. 

'If an individual actively objects to having their photo taken or if a photograph is taken without an individual's consent in circumstances which could clearly cause them distress or embarrassment, then it is good practice not to use that image.' 

While the ICO this week said it has no plans to issue 'specific guidance' on the use of photographs, the spokesman added: 'However, the publication of photos online is part of a wider issue about individuals' use of the internet which is an issue we are looking at.' 

Section 36 of the Data Protection Act 1998 provides an exemption for anyone processing personal data – which includes taking and publishing photographs – purely for 'personal, family or household affairs'. This specifically includes 'recreational purposes'. 

The spokesman added: '[The Data Protection Act] does not stipulate that photographers, whether professional or amateur, must gain the consent or everyone they photograph before they publish photos. 

'Professional and amateur photographers taking photos in the street, at a festival or at a football match, for example, do not need to obtain the consent of the individuals who appear in their photos.' 

ADI - Image & Text II

  • Martin Parr - Photographer, Film Maker, Curator, Judge in reality TV show
  • Photo Book is tactile, anyone can do
  • William Klein - NYC (1954)
  • Moryami?
  • Alec Soth - Sleeping by the Mississippi - Books & Website style
  • Blurb books & profiles
  • International Artist
  • David Goldblatt
  • UK Photographers Marginalised
  • Symbol/logo
  • 'Think of England' Parr as filmmaker
  • Moving into film shorts
  • Parrword
  • RAW images for next week (12)

APDP - Darkroom Printing 120 Negatives

  • Emulsion side down
  • Upside down in negative holder
  • Avoiding marks
  • Focus finder again
  • Test strips
  • Choosing the right negative!
  • What is missing can tell you a lot about a photograph