Documenting the Real: The British Tradition

  • Semi-Detached viewing?
  • Standardisation/Differentiation
  • Is there still an appetite?
  • Brandt - indicative of the British tradition
  • Subjects are given a value (by being photographed)
  • Mannerism (assists with Man Ray)
  • Roger Mayne 
  • Medium is being fore-grounded (modernism)
  • The Street
  • Outsider coming in
  • Tony Ray Jones
  • The English at the seaside
  • Some photos are funny but he is not making fun
  • Chris Killip
  • Not political or idealogical
  • Zak Waters 
  • On the Road
  • Is always in project
  • Barrier between camera and subject (becomes thematic)
  • Iconography

ADI: Aperture II

  • Shortcuts - i inspector, f full screen
  • ALT+SHIFT+H - Highlight Hot & Cold
  • Enhance - Global
  • Definital - local therefore more subtle
  • Adjustment HUD is in workflow order
  • Color correction affects the shadows only
  • Levels
  • Never desaturate for B&W conversion
  • When you adjust B&W sliders they must add up to 100% for a balanced image
  • Viewer Mode>Compare
  • Enhance>Tint
  • Curves - more detailed correction than levels
  • Beware of saturating skin tones
  • Use PSD 8-bit for external editing

APDP: Colour Film & Filters

  • Subtle adjustments
  • Use opposite colour to balance light
  • Tungsten lighting
  • Filter for the predominant light source when light is mixed
  • Florescent lighting
  • Use gels
  • When using film everything works different as using a negative
  • Overexpose to increase contrast in colour film
  • Out-of-date slide film to shoot

Photography in Film: Documentary II

  • Sally Mann - 'What Remains'
  • Documentary gives us a film about a still subject
  • Who is the auteur of the film?
  • Filmmaker making a film about a photographer who they are a fan of
  • (A scholar of Mann's work)
  • Perspective of the filmed (through Mann's camera)
  • What, Why, How?
  • Emphasis on the locale
  • Endorsement
  • The things that are close to you - best
  • Make art out of the ordinary
  • 'Art is everywhere'
  • Explore project from two different angles
  • End show with uplift - living faces at 'death show'

Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay Seminar

  • Agee - Photos were later printed as part of book
  • HCB text? Always some text
  • Equality text & photos
  • Henry - Vietnam - TV War
  • Contemporary -Different types of medium. Diegetic sound

ACPP: Portraiture

  • Portrait Prize - No-one smiling - Criticism
  • August Sander
  • Structured way of recording
  • Recording different types
  • Grouped - Professions/Artists/The Last People
  • 'The face of our time' - started 1904
  • Dead-pan style
  • Photographic inventory - 'Science & Art'
  • Available light only
  • Photographed the people who were on the periphery
  • Circus performers/Disables - Not popular with the Nazis
  • Published after the end of Nazi-Germany
  • Treated everyone the same, not just poor or rich
  • Charlotte Cotton - deadpan aesthetic
  • Sander work was reaction to expressionism
  • Rineke Djikstra
  • Photographed subjects at times of change
  • Nothing for the viewer to work our
  • Similar pictures, difference are highlighted more
  • 'On editing' - video, photographs of friends
  • Simon Roberts - 'Motherland'
  • Avoids cliches
  • Subtle
  • 5000 images edited for book
  • Website for feedback and new ideas
  • Joss McKinley
  • Ability to interpret light
  • Exposed only for highlights - mood to image
  • Don't be afraid of too much shadow
  • Deliberately under-exposes film