- My notes: transitions vary in length, dissolve and quick cuts, fade to black, pan around the photo, strong commentary, diagetic sounds, non-diagetic sounds, real voices in German? Backing music, heartbeat. Ancient animals - dinosaurs?! Many different angles of the same thing
- What is owed to photography and what is owed to cinema and what crosses over
- Photography - still images (pan, rostrum), duration & time, sound
- Cinema - strong narrative, soundtrack, eyes moving - illusion of present time
- Chris Marker (1962)
- author, movie maker, journalist, animator (documentary film maker)
- French resistance (formative experience to attitude to world)
- Informed by torture at Auschwitz (plus Algeria)
- Politically motivated
- Time/memory
- Low profile - rarely interviews
- Weaves his thoughts into films
- Cultural history - what forms us
- La Jetée - only entirely fictional film
- Deals with fears of the future
- New Wave - low budget films
- Artform - pushing borders, experimenting or dead!
- Left Bank Group
- Saw New Wave as mainstream!
- Alan Resnais/Agnes Varda/Chris Marker
- Marker worked on Resnais' holocaust film 'Night & Fog'
- Films to educate as well as entertain
- Fictional & Documentary
- Melancholic/Nostalgic - Hiroshima - Sans soleil
- Giving voice over influences image
- Stills enhance haunting film narrative
- Photographs are an excellent way to time travel
- Raymond Bellour
- Substituted themselves for my memory
Photography in Film - Lecture: La Jetée
Photographer: Jane Bown - "Henri Cartier-Bresson"
I am still exploring the work of photographer Jane Bown. This photograph is of another inspirational photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The following are quotes from the book "Unknown Bown".
"Some people take pictures. I find them"
"I love train stations and airports, places with lots of people where I can blend into the crowd and work unobserved"
"I was obsessed with textures and patterns—hair, cloth the grain of a piece of timber, the print of a fabric"
"I'm a one-shot photographer, I work quickly and hate fuss, always have done"
"I honestly think that all my best shots were taken on holiday"
"Sometimes I can see the picture immediately and then the first exposure is often the jackpot one"
"For that moment when I look through the lens, when absolutely everything is exactly right, love is the only way to describe what I feel"
"I can't really feel the excitement I felt when I looked down into that viewfinder, twisted the knob and everything came into focus"
"These pictures are the real me"
ACPP - Photographer: Marcus Doyle
- Tutorials will be brought forward (ideas & research)
- Marcus Doyle
- Started photography at 12 and did GCSE
- Influences - Weston & Evans B&W
- B&W printing (funded his projects)
- 1996 switch to colour
- Meyerowitz, Misdak, Shore & Egglestone
- Large prints needed larger camera
- Looking for the unusual and quirky
- A picture should be about and not of something
- Never be put off by places that are over photographed
- One project has led into another
- The size of the work is important and so is the camera
- Sheer amount of work (90 min exposures!)
- Times of day (late or early)
- Production values, sharpness and exposure
- Visually appealing
Martin Parr - How to Take Stunning Photographs
The final part of the series featured photographer Martin Parr. The series was more of a "how not to take crap photos" rather than take stunning photos but this last episode had a slightly different take. Firstly Parr asked them to take a 'series' of images rather than 'go and get a stunning image'. In the master class Parr taught the aspiring photographers the art of engaging their subjects. In his summary Parr stated "...by concentrating on one thing, coming in closer, exploring it better, making sure it's something you can identify with, that's when you can really reap the benefits of going to a place and trying to take away photographs that tell you something about your relationship to that place."
ADI - Image & Text I
- Bill Owens & Taryn Simon
- Looking at established photographers
- Bill Owens lived in the suburbs. Wasn't voyeur (outsider looking in)
- After Suburbia book he took break for 20 years until digital photography
- Captions that accompany his photographs make social statement
- Some photos have no text - unusual to mix and match
- The captions are what he hears in suburbs while he photographs although not necessarily matched up
- Website is very user friendly (links all there)
- Taryn Simon - text states the facts
- Detailed website
- 90% research, phone calls etc
- Multiple truths - artists intent, viewer, context
- Invisible space between image and text
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