Photo Critique

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