Documenting the Real - Pioneers
- Look at the beginnings of archives of photography
- Jacob Riis
- 'The Photograph' by Clark G (1997) p145-166
- Authority & Significance - challenging these
- We can not make any assumptions
- Our proposals, less slack, less assuming - ie scholarly
- We all have subjective stance inherent even though we try objectivity
- What is your position, what are your beliefs and values?
- When something doesn't seem comfortable, challenge it. Explore it further
- Your project could be your perspective
- As photographers we are not neutral, we are intervening, we are active (capturing the moment is an intervention)
- Jacob Riis - project - active - NYC - director
- Documented dreadful living conditions in the Lower East Side
- Acute poverty, social depravation, uncontrolled immigration
- Systematic (not artistic), factual, extremely authoritive, image as evidence - the image becomes evidence - special locale
- Form of naturalism, seduce the viewer - window of the world
- Realistic (political attitude) explore in depth
- Riis wanted social reform - camera used to fight
- Great photographs, however Riis not a great photographer
- Tool for reform
- Lewis Hine - photography as political tool (not art)
- Mass image
- Kids at work
- Quote - Alan Trachtenberg (1977)
- Rhetoric in photography is putting forward an opinion
- Rhetorical - Documentary
ACPP: Environmental Portraits - Statement of Intent
ACPP – Environmental Portraiture
Statement of Intent
Having witnessed the diverse range of customers that visit my families business, a small marine business that is located in one the old arches at Ramsgate Marina I have decided to investigate the diversity of the customers through photographing the customers, individually, along with the item that they puchase.
My intention is to seek permission of the customer to accompany them back to their environment, where possible, and photograph them along with the item before it is used. I will explore the transition of the physical item as a commodity to an element of necessity and to show the relationship to its new owner through photographic juxtaposition of the the item, the new owner and the new environment.
I anticipate meeting fishermen, wind-farmers, engineers, firemen, council operatives, and many other tradesmen, along with cross-channel swimmers, boat owners, cyclists, and both British and foreign tourists. Due to the year round fluctuations to the customer base I plan on making this an ongoing and long-term project.
ACPP - Photographer: Rob Ball
- Rob Ball - A look at his work
- Physical print is the quality we are after
- Inspired by vernacular images in 'A day for Life'
- Interests, music & photography
- Fanzine written by friend, Rob took the pictures
- Wrote to Evening Standard for a job
- Runner for the NOTW (but took same photos as the pro)
- Press-Photographer course in Sheffield
- News job in Essex
- Staffer - Assistant Football Photographer
- Madrid?! Nottingham - free paper 'Topper'
- Article in Amateur Photographer on crime photography
- Weegee Exhibition 'Cruel & Tender - MA part-time
- Andres Serrano - NYC Photographer - morgue work
- Moved to B&W, available light only
- 'Pacemakers', serial number, about somebody!
- 'Guns', as opposed to pacemakers, both machines, but different
- Joel Sternsfeld - Large Format (2 sheets a day!)
- August Sander
- Bill Owens - Suburbia
- Sunday Supplements - Gibraltar - British
- NPG of a sculptor
- Interested in you and what you want to do
- 'In Silence' permanent ongoing project
- 'The Great Eastern' - biographical work
- Wet plate collodium
ADI - Colour Management II
- Consistency of Colour
- Gamut? Calibration must be done
- Soft-Proofing an image RGB/CMYK
- Printspace - help with profiles
- Calibration
- Gamut 2.2
- Bit Depth - 8 bit for printing
- DPi - printing (300)
- PPi - monitor
- Histogram - avoid gaps/spikes - lost information
- Remove default sharpening from Camera Raw before editing
- Photoshop > View > Gamut Warning - Grey can't be printed
- Window > Info - Original value
- Shadow/Highlight Command - Best for keeping information
- Levels are very destructive, curves less so
- Image > Adjustments > Shadows/Highlights
APDP- Medium Format
- Bexhill Exhibition - Egglestone - Colour Prints - Dye Transfer
- Absence in the Photo
- Fast film reacts to light quicker, Larger Grain, More Contrast
- Pushing Film 400 to 800 (in camera) develop as 800 (longer dev)
- Increases contrast and grain drastically
- Pulling Film - over expose, less dev time
- Less grain and less contrast
- 5 minute minimum dev time?
Photography in Film - Lecture: Memento
- Assignment 1 - Essay Memento or La Jetee
- 'Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts' by Susan Heywood
- 'Photography & Cinema' by David Campany
- 'The Cinematic - Documents of Contemporary Art' by Davis Campany
- 'Classic Essays on Photography' by Alan Trachtenberg
- Christopher Nolan - Director - Memento - Film Noir
- Memento - flashbacks are in B&W
- The current is played out in reverse
- 'Neo-Noir' - Nino Frank
- Neo-Noir - Chinatown, Taxi Driver, The Long Goodbye
- Anti-heroes - who do we trust?
- Can't trust anybody!
- Zooming into photographs (Blade Runner)
- Form of truth
- Sontag - Most of the photographs
- Objectivity - truth, unbiased, factual
- Subjectivity - personal feelings, beliefs & desires
- Godard Quote
- Polyscenic - multiple interpretations
- Polaroids from Memento - William Egglestone Style
- Sontag - Fragile Proof
- Essay Tips - Notions of Proof - Subjectivity - Memory & Identity
Documenting the Real - Approaching Documentary
- Conceptual & Intellectual step-up
- More confident
- Want to do - Compelled to do
- Don't ask lecturers - Convince them!
- Must work from a diary (work back from deadlines)
- Being organised allows 'time off' without feeling guilty
- Assignment 1 - Essay HCB
- Assignment 2 - 10 prints 'Open Brief'
- Naturalism, Realism & Truth
- The best essays are in fact 'Arguments'
- Genuine crossover of work but not a duplication (from one module to another)
- Critical Journals for every module (A5 is suitable)
- Depth of Research (NOT breadth)
- Be Creative (ie Walker Evans hidden camera)
- John Grierson Filmmaker 1920s and 1930s Documentary Films
- "The creative treatment of actuality"
- What do I bring to the shot? Different view point?
- Constructing a viewpoint
- Naturalistic - a surface reality
- Eastenders offers us a 'Naturalistic Aesthetic'
- Naturalism in style - representation - re-presentation
- Realism of attitude
- Truth? Ansel Adams WWII Photos of Nisei
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