Inspirational Quote: Martin Parr
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APDP - Tutorials
- Tutorials
- Essay
- Introduction
- Make Your Argument
- Back It Up
- Conclude
- Steering away from Ansel Adams - do I agree with statement?
- Print methods - not too much emphasis
ADI - Aperture I
- Use of metadata
- EXIF from camera
- IPTC via Aperture
- Orphan Works & The Digital Economy Bill
- Setting up metadata upon import
- Government launches online copyright inquiry
Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay I
- James Agee & Walker Evans - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'
- Margaret Bourke-White - 'A Portrait of Myself'
- Looking at Life Magazine
- Susan Sontag - 'Regarding the Pain of Others'
- Ernst Friedrich - 'War Against War'
- Next Week - Series of Photo Essays
- Magnum in Motion
- Films or slide-shows
- Think of sequence, use of sound (non-diegetic)
- Diegetic - of that world (non-diegetic - not of this world)
- What does adding non-diegetic sound do for us?
- James Agee - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'
- A documentary, this is a Political Book
- Stills Camera & The Printed Word
- The photographs and text are co-equal, mutually independent and fully collaborative
- These are not illustrations
- Agee & Evans - Road Trip - Writer & Photographer
- Evans was regarded as an essayist in his own right
- Depression, dust-bowl, Southern USA
- What is a Photo-Essay?
- it's a set of images that seek to tell a story, often but not always supported by text
- Usually sequential (insinuated/inserted photos into text)
- All photo essays are a collection of photographs but not all collections of photographs are photo essays
- Need to make an argument to turn collection of photographs into photo essay
- Ernst Friedrich collates a series of photographs
- Wasn't a photographer himself
- He wasn't a commisioning editor
- Pulls images together to make an essay
- Work is categorical in its form
- Book ' War Against War' is polemic
- Booked was banned, but went through ten editions by 1939
- As a polemic it fails - Outbreak of WWII
- Susan Sontag reading from 'War Against War'
- Photography as shock therapy
- Photographs have text (in four languages)
- Families told that victims were dead (Asylums and Sanctuaries)
- Friedrich brought the unseen into the seen
- Governments led counter arguments 'A Just War'
- 'The Dissenting Voice' as opposed to 'The Official Voice'
- Agee & Adams were embedded with the families
- They stay with three families - Triangulation
- James Curtis writes about Evans' work
- Not merely observing - giving subject space to reveal themselves
- Government sponsorship
- To document part of a nation at a particular time
- Life & Time magazines had massive circulation
- Evans' photography was very contemporary
- A mediated image - through the photographer (also camera & Editor)
- The 'Photographer' is a 'Recorder'
- Alan Trachtenberg - 'Essay on Photography'
- Version of reality/Interpretation
- Process of intervention can continue to darkroom
- Dorothea Lange
- Sequence of images
- Who is the audience?
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Made her money in advertising
- Life changing moment
- Life Magazine published FSA images
- Magazines shape and influence
- Editors modified images by the written word
- Concern for accompanying text
Photography in Film - Seminar: La Jetée
- Original language
- Lack of silence
- Minor key music
- Heartbeat speeds up as do transitions
- Whispering in German
- Key statements made while picture is black
- Emphasis on sound
- 'Museum of His Memory'
- Dateless world
- Peaceful music - endlessness
- Photography is the past
- Cinema is moving and thus the present
- Cinematic
- Look at remake (12 Monkeys) & Vertigo
- Recreating something from the past
- Told from the future
- Time travel makes you nostalgic for the present
- Aid to memory
- Pensive spectator
- People looking at photographs are 'pensive'
- people looking at cinema are 'rushed'
- Different forms of photography - less light in the future
- Noir (ish)
- Who has taken the photos - he is being tracked or he has taken
- Voyeur photos
- The definition is only ever produced in the present
- Future - through and down
- Abstract streets (1000s)
- Portraits
- Future
- Utopia - clean, highly polished
- Dystopia - Dark & ruins
- Show less - Imagine more
- Presenting as photographs given to memory
- Last Year in Marienbad - Alain Resnais
- Film: Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais
- Film is still a young art form
- All five questions are relavant
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