ACPP Notes







Rutland Water



  • Shot with Holga on Tri-X 400 
  • Push processed to 3200 with Kodak D76
  • Scanned from print

Photography in Film: Flags of our Fathers

  • Essay - Harvard Referencing Style
  • Revisionist westerns - darker in tone/more troubles/apologetic (to native american)
  • Flags of our Fathers
  • Eastwood a huge fan of John Ford
  • Raising of the Flag - Photo by Joe Rosenthal
  • Fenton, Brady, Capa, Lee Miller, Kevin Carter
  • 'Before the Rain', Salvador, Killing Fields, Apocalypse Now
  • Assignment 13th January
  • Read around the subject
  • Notions of truth, memory, identity
  • Sontag, Berger, etc
  • Framework - starting point
  • Don't tell me what happens! Assume reader knows the film.
  • Discuss, argue, engaging, interesting
  • Bibliography - internet sources ok, but balanced

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