Context and Narrative: Assignment Four – A Picture is worth a Thousand Words – Reworked Submission
My tutor suggested that I there were a lot of questions raised for this length of essay and perhaps I should concentrate on just one or two. He also suggested that I needed to try and use less speculative descriptions of the image. Coming back to this after a couple months I can see what…
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…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Four – A Picture is worth a Thousand Words – Submission
Why do photographer’s take photos of war? Is it to inform, to record, to shock or protest? Is war inherently photogenic? Anja Niedringhaus was very clear about her intent “If I don’t photograph it, it won’t become known,” (Niedringhaus, n.d.)Is it wrong to admire a war photograph as a piece of art? This picture by Anja…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Four – A Picture is worth a Thousand Words – Research
At War – Anja Niedringhaus (2011) This book was purchased at the same time I attended an exhibition of several different photogrphers work in Berlin in October 2011. It also includes text written by Niedringhaus herself with contributions from others, which gave me an insight into photographer and information that helped me to get…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Four – A Picture is worth a Thousand Words – Feedback and Reflection
I enjoyed this assignment far more than I imagined. Writing an essay of any length is a daunting task and 1000 words sounded like a mammoth one to me. As it turned out I could have gone on writing way past the 1000 word restriction! The first daunting thoughts of course came from my initial…
Context and Narrative: Assignment Four – A Picture is worth a Thousand Words – Planning
Brief Write an essay of 1,000 words on an image of your choice. The image can be anything you like, from a famous art photograph to a family snapshot, but please make sure that your chosen image has scope for you to make a rigorous and critical analysis. The planning for this assignment is going…
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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