Photography in Film: Documentary I

  • Sally Mann Film - 'What Remains'
  • Annie Leibovitz - 'Life Through a Lens'
  • Produced by allies!
  • Acutely visually aware
  • How does filmmaker remain auteur or does the subject take control?
  • Rather than looking at them we are looking through them at the world
  • Show from viewpoint = Take the viewpoint
  • Less critical of the subject
  • Leibovitz - highly cinematic
  • Biography
  • Commands & manipulates the subject
  • She has a vision. She is an auteur in her own right
  • Life & work are inseperable
  • Prolific docementation
  • Simple ideas
  • Deep breath and move on
  • Vanity Fair cover - her work
  • The Edward Steichen of vanity Fair
  • Talent - she provokes people
  • Susan Sontag - complemented each other
  • Sometimes you just get a persona

Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay II

  • Margaret Bourke-White - 'Louisville Flood' 1937
  • Life Magazine front cover
  • Knowingly constructed the image
  • Dignity & Order as opposed to disorder
  • Political, Keno-eye to Keno-fist
  • The Decisive Moment - HCB
  • Knowing with intuition - HCB
  • Tyler Hicks - the decisive moment?
  • Manipulative sounds
  • Image & Sound endorse each other
  • Magnum in Motion
  • Bruce Gilden - Hybrid - Sound carries us through

Kodak D-76 Developer


Started using Kodak D-76 developer today. Negatives look good with more contrast, will makes some prints tomorrow. 

Parrworld





Being Stephen Shore

Inspirational Quote: Martin Parr

Work hard and connect with you subject - that is, in everyway, emotionally and spiritually...

Photographer: Michael Ackerman