Format Photography Festival

Format Photography Festival - 4th March to 3rd April 2011 (Derby)

Leica M8 Photos













All photographs shot in Aperture priority at f/2 and ISO 640
(No editing)

Setting Photographic Goals


Setting Photographic Goals - An interesting article byThom

ADI: Other Websites I Like


ADI: Inspirational Website Designs
















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