- MPP
- Feedback - formative evaluation and online from March
- MA/PhD/PGCE
- Sidney Cooper - series of work
- Visit in March
- Come together as a group
- KS - evening event
- Wednesday = street photography
- Marketing
- Publication
- Ownership - investment
- Next week - lecture on staged photography
- Next week = tutorials
- London Trip tomorrow
- Framing - quality v price!
- Turner
- The ready made picture frame company
- Series 3/4/5/6 Never see a series of 16 at Free range - why?
Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes
- Dissertation - Last Formal Meeting
- Sense of urgency - not just do it - live it
- You can not take a month out for xmas
- Take 5/6 days off and graft for three weeks
- Some get a degree thru their delivery not their progress
- Opportunity for MA needs 2:1 or First
- To Do Lists - colour pen!
- get everything out of your head
- certain things cannot be put aside
- 'what i have achieved'
- do not start tomorrow...
- Proforma due date guarantees feedback before xmas
- Not marked but needs to be signed off
- "This is what I intend to do..."
- "This is why it is important..."
- Relevance/significance
- Who are the key people? Monographs
- What are the key texts? Photo Books?
- You sign to say you can get the resources
- Coherent (not polished)
- Next term is tutorials only - supervisor cannot chase us
- 1500 words sent prior to tutorial
- Also next term = Outside talkers and portfolio review
Guest Lecture: Ben Hills
- Ben Hills
- Long Days!
- had to constantly hassle for work
- 18 hour days as commercial assistant
- American connection - Mary Ellen mark, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz
- Wanted creative input
- Became location manager
- Years of experience
- Cannot make mistakes - people only remember them!
- Get given a 'scamp' (idea/drawing/photo)
- Toyota Hybrid - glowing, suburbia - Sam Hicks
- Deli - open doors - Will Sanders
- Hills & Lights for Talk Talk at dusk
- Spent five days travelling around - Saltdean
- All commercial photography requires council permits
- Convincing land owners that we will be ok
- Shhot gherkin from high level - less boring!
Guest Lecture - Laura Pannack
- Winner of World Press Photo
- D+AD
- How to approach people
- Advice from Mark Power = "Don't Stop Shooting!"
- Enjoys projects that are a challenge
- Camera is just a box!
- Style? No - just do what is natural...
Lecture Notes
- Estelle Rosenfeld
- Performing art and visual art mix (exploring the boundaries)
- Immersive theatre/promenade
- "not sure where it was going to take me"
- accumm - installation - repetition
- any medium presented by slide
- 'Take the Rose' video
- Voucher (postcard) directs them to website
- New project = 'Capture'
- Questioning themes and the form
- Photography and moving images
- Teaser is 1 min, showreel is 6 mins
- Timelapse app
Lecture Notes
- Next week Laura Pannack 3pm
- Tutorials with Rob 10-12
- Sidney Cooper 11th to 13th June = Hang.
- 6pm to 8pm on 13th = Private View
- Tear down is the eve of 21st
- Year group curator
- 20th = Karen will be doing an instant photography workshop
- Greater editorial control
- Show concept? Discuss in class
- Free Range?
- Kickstarter
Lecture Notes
- Dissertation - 'Abstract'
- Look at it from the readers perspective
- Academic discourse
- The role of the supervisor
- Marked by Karen, second marked by someone in the related field
- Third examiner - external will do three, plus all firsts and fails and borders (49/59/69)
- 1 - Looks at the title (must not be an either or, not binary oppositions)
- Run title changes by Karen
- Lure the reader in
- 2 - Scrutinises the Bibliography
- Need to be good and needs to be accurate
- True and substantial
- Build it as you go
- Look also at bibliographies in books you are reading
- Everything that has informed your writing
- Not just what you quote from
- 5-14 pages!
- 3 - Abstract
- Mandatory
- You write it last
- It is an account of what you have done
- It gives the game away first
- What you say needs to be evidenced in the 'paper'
- 200 words - not verbose -tightly written
- revelation
- compared (comparative analysis)
- names - substantiated
- 4 - Discourse (level of language)
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- 'clarity of exposition'
- do not start 'i shall...'
- see how others do it - make it interesting
- whack it out in any speak (never submit)
- Then you craft it
- Harden up soft language
- Setup - establish
- Can add things to footnote if you don't want to break flow of text
- eg Sontag suggests
- Quotes need to have (who, year)
- use of the word 'i' in conclusion
- it could be proposed
- it could be argued
- such and such says... however it could be argued
- Remember this may not be the only valid arguement
- 28th Nov - Looking at proposals
- Make them substantial so feedback can be given
Photographer: Gareth McConnell 'No Surrender'
These portraits, taken over the Easter Period of 1999, were situated in a Loyalist Bar in my home town of Carrickfergus. It was a place I had only ever glimpsed into as a teenager - through a cracked door or through the security bars of the adjoining off sales. I wanted to create a set of images of the loyalist community which did not adhere to the strict media guidelines of bowler hatted men, apprentice boys, Drumcree rioters and super star terrorists posed against backdrops of Shankill Road murals. I wanted to make photographs with all the dignity and poise of old masters and not to revel in the slogans and iconography so closely associated with the protestant people.
Photographer: Chris Shaw 'Life as a Night Porter'
The thing I like most about the pictures is the large element of what I call the chance meeting, the times I was so tired I lost the artifice and techniques of photography. I just took photographs to keep me awake. It became artless. The people I photographed, these episodes in the social fantastic would heighten and illuminate my whole night, often making a difficult job and my twelve-hour shift bearable. The sum of the book is really a hotel of my own imagination constructed from several hotels I have worked in and some Ive stayed in as a paying guest. In reality these hotels bear little or no resemblance to my actual pictures. It just depends on how you look at things. In my experience heaven and hell are places right here on earth, and you can stay in either one.
Lecture Notes
- Colour Photography
- Eggleston
- Szarkowski had seen work previously but did not think the public was ready
- Stephen Shore - personal statement - early colour photos
- Helen Levitt
- Mitch Epstein
- Light gallery in NY in early 70s
- Joel Sternfeld
- Shore did 'Tall in Texas' as postcards - saturated
- Levitt - gritty urbaness - elements of colour highlights debris in the streets
- Meyerowitz - snapshot aesthetic
- What they were interested in - personal statement
- Sonneman
- Slavin - used colour to differentiate personalities
- Commercial aesthetic? Photographed individual groups
- Krims - conceptual, polaroid transfers
- They all informed how we see colour today
- Groover
- Divola - colour spectrum, getting it real
- Sternfeld uses more narrative - shots appear set up
- Jeff Wall
- The word 'colour' was dropped in 1984
- Nan Goldin - Ballad - in 1986 the word 'photography' was dropped
Lecture Notes
- Vision 11 - Daniel Meadows
- Next Week - Nothing!
- Two Weeks - Group Crits - talk about your work
- Three Weeks - Laura Pannack 3pm
- Trip 24th Nov - Tate
- Trip 30th Nov - East End
- Photography & Anthropology - Lecture by Miranda Hutton
- Representations of the Other
- The 'Other' = people outside of our culture
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