Part Four: Project 1
Before you read any further, can you think of any photographs that are not used as a means of expression or communication? Blog about them. This was a fairly easy question to answer. As far as I’m concerned all photos communicate “something” regardless of intent. They may communicate something different to different people, they may…
Context and Narrative Part Four: Understanding Deconstruction, Codes and Semiotics
Although the idea of Semiotics and the other tools for deconstruction were beginning to make sense to me, I realised that I really needed to understand it better and in a far more detailed way. I found them confusing and sometimes difficult to separate. In this post I am attempting to unravel their meaning in…
Part Four Research Task: Insomnia
Brief Using the weareoca website you need to search ‘ Beneath the Surface’ to give you access to a blog about Jeff Wall’s (1994), Insomnia, interpreted using some of the tools discussed above. Read and reflect upon the chapter on Diane Arbus in Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs by Sophie Howarth (2005). This is…
Part Four Exercise 2: Deconstruction Task
Brief Rip out an advertising image from a newspaper supplement and circle and write on as many parts of the image as you can. Comment on what it is, what it says about the product and why you think it’s there. You could use this as the basis for your assignment if you feel it’s…
Part Four Exercise 1: Erwitt Analysis
For this first exercise we were asked to look carefully at an image by Elliot Erwitt and make some notes about how the subject matter is placed in the frame and what the image might tell us about Erwitt as a person. The image is entitled Felix, Gladys and Rover. New York, USA (1974) and…
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