- Tutorials
- Essay
- Introduction
- Make Your Argument
- Back It Up
- Conclude
- Steering away from Ansel Adams - do I agree with statement?
- Print methods - not too much emphasis
APDP - Tutorials
ADI - Aperture I
- Use of metadata
- EXIF from camera
- IPTC via Aperture
- Orphan Works & The Digital Economy Bill
- Setting up metadata upon import
- Government launches online copyright inquiry
Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay I
- James Agee & Walker Evans - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'
- Margaret Bourke-White - 'A Portrait of Myself'
- Looking at Life Magazine
- Susan Sontag - 'Regarding the Pain of Others'
- Ernst Friedrich - 'War Against War'
- Next Week - Series of Photo Essays
- Magnum in Motion
- Films or slide-shows
- Think of sequence, use of sound (non-diegetic)
- Diegetic - of that world (non-diegetic - not of this world)
- What does adding non-diegetic sound do for us?
- James Agee - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'
- A documentary, this is a Political Book
- Stills Camera & The Printed Word
- The photographs and text are co-equal, mutually independent and fully collaborative
- These are not illustrations
- Agee & Evans - Road Trip - Writer & Photographer
- Evans was regarded as an essayist in his own right
- Depression, dust-bowl, Southern USA
- What is a Photo-Essay?
- it's a set of images that seek to tell a story, often but not always supported by text
- Usually sequential (insinuated/inserted photos into text)
- All photo essays are a collection of photographs but not all collections of photographs are photo essays
- Need to make an argument to turn collection of photographs into photo essay
- Ernst Friedrich collates a series of photographs
- Wasn't a photographer himself
- He wasn't a commisioning editor
- Pulls images together to make an essay
- Work is categorical in its form
- Book ' War Against War' is polemic
- Booked was banned, but went through ten editions by 1939
- As a polemic it fails - Outbreak of WWII
- Susan Sontag reading from 'War Against War'
- Photography as shock therapy
- Photographs have text (in four languages)
- Families told that victims were dead (Asylums and Sanctuaries)
- Friedrich brought the unseen into the seen
- Governments led counter arguments 'A Just War'
- 'The Dissenting Voice' as opposed to 'The Official Voice'
- Agee & Adams were embedded with the families
- They stay with three families - Triangulation
- James Curtis writes about Evans' work
- Not merely observing - giving subject space to reveal themselves
- Government sponsorship
- To document part of a nation at a particular time
- Life & Time magazines had massive circulation
- Evans' photography was very contemporary
- A mediated image - through the photographer (also camera & Editor)
- The 'Photographer' is a 'Recorder'
- Alan Trachtenberg - 'Essay on Photography'
- Version of reality/Interpretation
- Process of intervention can continue to darkroom
- Dorothea Lange
- Sequence of images
- Who is the audience?
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Made her money in advertising
- Life changing moment
- Life Magazine published FSA images
- Magazines shape and influence
- Editors modified images by the written word
- Concern for accompanying text
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
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.
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