Final Show Notes

• Reply–all email for everyone to communicate
• Publication? Show of hands 15 out of 21
• last year £900 for 1000 booklets
• kitty?
• raising money?
• appearance
• Curating - discuss in March
• Use people to their strengths
• Rob & Miranda's MA Show - external designer for publication - minimalist
• Maquettes - work with designer
• Poster - link to designer
• Postcards? Pros and cons? Jon to explore further
• Website? Show of hands 2 out of 21
• "Graduate Show"
• name not to be one point something...previous!!
• FOL10 | 1mag1ne | Vision 1.0 | Exhibit #1
• Space
• leaflets outside
• magazine ads
• discussion each week during MPP
• costs of website - find out

Lecture Notes

• Staged Photography Lecture - Miranda Hutton
• Susan bright - narrative
• Charlotte Cotton - Once Upon A Time...
• The opposite of the photo–essay
• One tableau image
• Cindy Sherman - Film Stills (Bordering staged according to Susan Bright)
• Jeff Wall - absorbed in film
• returning the gaze
• lightboxes - echo movie screen/billboard
• Sugimoto - Movie Screens
• di Corcia - lighting, Hollywood. Dramatic. Twilight suggests change
• Crewdson - parents were psychoanalysts
• American suburbia
• filmic/film crew
• Bill Henson - 'Crewdson–like' teenage - inbetween stages
• Tableau - picture on grand scale
• for gallery/wall space
• Michael Creed - talks about performance/posed
• doing the everyday things
• Painterly observation - direct link to novel
• Holding something back - viewer interprets (back/no face)
• Construct then removes things - works in reverse - incomplete

Lecture Notes

• 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

• 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

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

Talk by Simon Roberts 19th October 2011

Authorship. Author not illustrator. Motherland 5000 photos. My own visual language. Looking at leisure time. What hasn't been photographed? Interrogation of the landscape. Aesthetic, found framing style. Value of the environment. Overt statement in photography. Three months planning. Democratising the commission and citizen journalism. Photos and text. Ask people to send photos. No curating or editing. Photographic wall. Cover of book needs model release. The Role of the Roadtrip.

Creative Plus 18th October 2011

Graduate Show Summer 2012. Free Range? Dates? Sidney Cooper 14th June to 21st June 2012. Question: "What do you do?" Brand/Values, must create a package. Prepared cover letter, statement about me, why I would be good for your gallery. Teacher Training? NESTA. Values and placing their importance.

Mixed Media 17th October 2011

Must book tutorials early and come with 'stuff' Plagiarism in terms of mixed media has two areas of concern Written must be sourced Practical needs to impose your signature (authorship) Authorship is the opposite of plagiarism! An early prototype needs to accompany the proposal Intervention/take back to source Ambitious Project The mixing can be a theoretical paper and a portfolio Inter-connections between modules are allowed We looked at Karen's Project, elastic band, resin ball, huge print Christian Marclay, music playing cards, snapshot aesthetic, beautifully produced Development discussion on 7th November

Dissertations 10th October 2011

Round table talk about our ideas. Conference in February re Family Album propaganda. Ideas? Photographer as filmmaker. Facebook and family album propaganda. The role of the road trip in photographic projects. SdC. Develop Ideas on 31st October. Plagiarism is passing work off as your own. Must source all your quotes. Biblio and notes need to be in good shape. If you can't source it you can't use it. 'as Barthes argues' or 'Sontag suggests'. 1200 words. Tutorials. Procrastination. Being boring and disciplined helps. Fear? Perfectionism? Poor time management? Laziness? Writers block? Don't try and write in a polished way, write then polish later! Proposals. Avoid chronological, too broad, a zillion books do this. Similar in the way you pitch your practical ideas. Convince the tutor it's doable and worthwhile. Hundreds of hours. Acknowledge the work ou are undertaking. Break project down into tasks. Give progress update to yourself.

Major Practical Project - Introduction

• Producing one project
• How to produce a project
• Presentation to gallery standard
• Project engagement
• How to Steal like an artist
• Need to be excited and energised by projects
• Passion
• Daniel Meadows - Uni projects!
• Tony Ray-Jones - systems & notes - reflected on his own work
• Rob Ball - cataloging cigarette machines
• John Cyr
• Managing a Project
• Research - finding a subject
• Planning (schedule)
• Doing!
• Output - book, exhibition, distribution
• Promotion - before, during and after completion

Dissertation - Introduction

• Difficult conversations - no time for nurturing
• No time for slacking
• No one will chase you
• Fill in the silence
• Proformas!
• Work back from hand in date - mechanism?
• Time Management - 90% manage/10% craft
• 1000 word proforma
• Talking about research projects
• 8000 - 10000 words
• By March supervisory tutorial
• Abstract 200 words (10% of mark) - written at the end
• Individual support
• Intense tutorials - book early and often - come with ideas
• Initiate independent study
• Research - start with enthusiasm - fall off - must push past the lulls
• Chapter of a book to be taken on to PhD
• Proforma 8th December 2011 and deadline 26th April 2012
• Working Title is ok, worry about title in March
• You sign to say you can acquire the resources
• Bibliography - what are the 5-10 key texts in this field? (total 30-50 texts)
• Emailed response over xmas so I can get going!
• Not nailed down - you can change and re-submit proforma
• Everything you read informs dissertation and must be in Biblio.
• Joined up thinking?
• Methods of research booklet
• Get started! Thinking! Diary! Notebook!
• Four colour pen...
• Library - drill down deep
• Inter library loans/journals/electronic journals/buy
• Run at an idea hard for three days!
• What is out there? What has been done?
• Can i put a spin on it?
• If boring - leave it!
• Need to feel a passion
• Is it doable? in 10000 words?
• Dummy run
• Live it!

Mixed Media - Introduction

• Think of Mixed Media as a single module
• Essay can be a photograph & not necessarily writing (piece of work)
• Research this term - ideas & prototypes
• Essay next term - doing it - tutorial based
• Tutorials available 5-7pm
• Esther Rosenfeld - Artist - how do you define yourself?
• Critical Journal is a key piece - what, why, how...
• Deadline 24th April 2012
• Proforma deadline is 8th December 2011
• 80/20, 50/50, 20/80
• 5 min film & 1000 word essay
• 3 minute film & 2000 word essay
• Storyboard/sequencing & 4000 word essay
• Proforma = 500 words
• Resources - assistant, camera, sound
• Bibliography
• Substantial Critical Journal - SOI, all research, prototype (storyboard & seq.)
• written research, visual research, contextualisation of your position
• critical reflection
• Where and how you will do it will be part of the prototype
• Journal is returned and re-submitted in April
• Prototype is returned and re-submitted in April
• Must be ratified
• What is Mixed Media?
• Opportunity to undertake practice (practice based research)
• Can be a photography portfolio (the essay is the mix)
• Examples - walk & sound track, photography & fell walking
• Do it and document it, photo or film (evidence it)
• Co-related mixed media and MPP
• Tight neat package of assignments - everything is contributing
• Example - non print publication or a book or a banner (self publish)
• Magazine?
• Narrow yet deep!
• A one minute film takes one day to edit

My Notes

“Sortir du Cadre”

Personal Project

1. A specified subject
2. Narrative/Journalistic style
3. Consistent approach
4. Consistent style

• Photo essay - chronological presentation
• Personal project - wide–ranging (not tied to chronology)