Photography in Film: The Photographer as Filmmaker

  • Photographers who also made films
  • Latching onto events/issues
  • What is lost? What is gained? Enhanced? Sound? Carried through?
  • Man Ray - Surrealist/Avant garde
  • Photography Intervention:
  • Led to Impressionism/Expressionism
  • Cubism - various planes (trying to out do photography)
  • Dadaism - anti-art. Attack on art practice
  • Surrealism - playing games, challenging expectations
  • Surrealist Film - deconstruction form. Free & exciting
  • Doesn't have to make sense
  • Andy Warhol - Critique & celebration of culture
  • Relationship with minimalist art. Is it boring or are people boring?
  • Screen Tests (500). Bolex - 2mins 45secs
  • William Eggleston - Stranded in Canton
  • Ed Ruscha - Gas Stations (Link back to Dada)
  • Every single building on Sunset Strip
  • Maysles Brothers - Direct Cinema
  • Remove polemic (by removing talk over)
  • Larry Clark
  • martin Parr
  • Framed through the still image

Documenting the Real: Being In Project

  • Quality of Prints (10)
  • Photo Essay 10, 20, 30. Some Text? (An Arguement - Not Describing)
  • Slideshow 10, 40, 50. Stills only. Titles, Transitions, Sound)
  • Concept or Place (or both) other image makes it work
  • Critical Journals need to be Critical and not just descriptive
  • Shoot - Review - Shoot (Tenacity)
  • Review - Wait - Return & Review / Share
  • Pitch, don't ask.

APDP: Personal Photography

On Being a Photographer & On Looking at Photographs


ACPP: Editing

  • Next week - PrintSpace - Research local exhibitions
  • Output/Portfolio
  • Be Inspired -Look/Talk About Work
  • Gallery Visits
  • Project Proposal - Submit November & Re-work Through 3rd Year
  • Editing - Contact Sheet/Time (Don't do it from PC)
  • Physical editing from prints
  • Body of work to make a statement (not singular image)
  • Eugene Richards/Selgado/Soth/Parr/Erwitt/Rankin
  • Pre-Editing - before taking photos. Output = Book? - Think early!
  • Joakim Eskiidsen - 30,000 images down to 250 for book
  • Cheap prints, put on wall, 
  • Images that help show the journey (taken along the way)
  • Available light only?
  • Bill Jay & David Hurn - On Being A Photographer
  • Myths
  • Conscientious - Website
  • Writing an artists statement
  • Not ambiguous/not generic/leave unanswered questions
  • Exhibitions -take photos of curation (with phone?)

Magnum Submissions


Interesting to see digital submissions only for UK and US.

A Bad Camera Made Beautiful

Exhibition: The Lives of Great Photographers


National Media Museum 14th April - 4th September 2011