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Photography in Film: Rear Window

  • Tutorials?
  • How is the photographer represented?
  • Photographer as hero - Mad Dog & Glory
  • Recommended films:
  • The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
  • The Picture Snatcher (1933)
  • The Eyes of Laura Man (1978)
  • The Public Eye (1992)
  • Peeping Tom (1960)
  • High Art (1998)
  • Fur (2006)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Hitchcock - Iconic Figure
  • Voyeurism
  • Rear Window - Spatially Remote
  • Edward Hopper - Twentieth Century Painter - Painted the City
  • Anemphathetic sound - music that is indifferent to on–screen action
  • Campany quote - 'involved but apart'
  • Scopophilia - see Mulvey Essay - 'Visual Pleasure & Narrative Pleasure'
  • Klute (1971)
  • Body Double (1984)
  • One Hour Photo (2002)
  • Disturbia (2007)
  • Screening - 'The Making of Rear Window'
  • Screening next week of Rear Window
  • Jazz Music soundtrack

Documenting the Real: Street Photography I

  • Street Photographers - Hunters...
  • 25th March - 'The Creative Plus' - strategies to succeed
  • Gallery/Sidney Cooper/Free-Range
  • Assignment II - talk by reading week
  • Book - Street Photography Now
  • Chris Weeks - Photography for Purists
  • Riflemans Gallery - Darkroom Photograph Series
  • Early Street Photography - Slow shutter speeds - few people
  • Stare - Walker Evans
  • "It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long".
  • "Butterflies" - HCB
  • Robert Frank - Drugstore
  • Harry Callahan - Chicago
  • Roy DeCarava - Graduation
  • William Klein - Swing + Boy + Girl
  • Weegee - Their First Murder
  • Roger Mayne 
  • Look at the work of Gilden & Meyerowitz
  • Garry Winogrand - American Legion Convention
  • Diane Arbus
  • Ralph Meatyard
  • Helen Levitt

ACPP: Street Photography

  • Overview 2011
  • Developing your photographic voice/defining own interests & passion
  • Ask yourself:
  • What are you interested in?
  • What do you do?
  • Street Photography & Road Trip
  • Practical - make your own decisions
  • Location shoots - Broadstairs
  • Next week - Margate
  • Week 3 - coach to London
  • Talk from Miranda - anthropology
  • After reading week - PrintSpace
  • Second Assignment - Issued
  • Work in any medium - analogue/digital/mixed
  • Looking for consistency across ten pictures (visual/conceptual)
  • Well edited
  • Doing it because you want to do it
  • Street Photography
  • Heyday in 1960s & 1970s
  • Not taken seriously in the art world
  • Not just creative dead ends & juxtapositions
  • Bruce Gilden
  • Confident, comfortable, close (unique)
  • Composition & Emotional content
  • Format Photography Festival
  • Viewer is a participant
  • Seeing characters
  • Walker Evans
  • Passengers NY Subway
  • Stare!
  • Trent Parke
  • Studied as a photojournalist
  • Color
  • Pushed boundary of the medium
  • Reserved - from a distance
  • Shoot a load of shit - Get a few good ones
  • 40 rolls medium format per day
  • Exposes for highlights - black can stay black
  • Forever chasing light
  • Knows spots where the light is even for just ten minutes
  • Plan
  • You never know when picture will come
  • Street Photography is the most accessible

ADI: Planning the next few months

  • Week 20 - Project Management
  • Week 21 - Symposium on creating books - Bring two books
  • Week 22 - Booksmart - Bring 20 RAW images
  • Week 23 - Project Presentation - 10 mins - Print out designs web layout/book design
  • Week 24 - Project Presentation & Tutorials
  • Week 25 - Tutorials
  • Week 26 - Reading Week
  • Week 27 - Web/Digital retouching
  • Week 28 - Guest Speaker - 'Wet Operator'
  • Week 29 - Looking at all students websites
  • Week 30 - ? (Was International Trip)
  • 1st Proof of book/2nd Proof of book (month required
  • Project Management - Plan backwards
  • Evidence (Dates/Log/Gant Chart?)

ADI: Website Schedule


APDP: Philosophy

  • What makes a good photo?
  • Recommended reading: Towards a Philosophy on Photography by Vilem Flusser
  • Next week - Lith Printing