Identity and Place – Part One: Exercise 4 Archival intervention
Brief “Memories evoked by a photograph do not simply spring out of the image itself, but are generated in a network, an intertext, of discourses that shift between past and present, spectator and image, and between all these and cultural contexts, historical moments” Kuhn, A. Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (2002) London: Verso.…
Identity and Place – Part One: Exercise 3 Portraiture Typology
Brief In response to the work of the artists you’ve read about so far, try to create a photographic portraiture typology which attempts to bring together a collection of types. Think carefully about how you wish to classify these images; don’t make the series too literal and obvious. Once complete, post these portraits on your…
Identity and Place – Part One: Exercise 2 Background as context
Brief Study the backgrounds of Sander’s portraits very closely and reflect upon what you see. Where does the subject sit in relation to the background? If location-based, does the head sit above or below the horizon? Has the background been deliberately blurred through the use of a wider aperture and therefore shorter depth of field?…
Identity and Place – Part One: Exercise 1 Historic Portrait
Brief Do some research into historic photographic portraiture. Select one portrait to really study in depth. Write a maximum of 500 words about this portrait, but don’t merely ‘describe’ what you see. The idea behind this exercise is to encourage you to be more reflective in your written work (see Introduction), which means trying to…
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