Course module for Falmouth Flexible Masters Photography Course PHO702
Man Ray (1890-1976) was an artist that worked in various mediums, most significantly, photography and painting were where he is best known. His practice spanned many of the well-known movements including an informal connection to both Dada and the ensuing Surrealism. Both Dada and Surrealism are considered the for-runners to Read more…
Cast your minds back. Sorry for some of you lucky ones that can’t go far enough back for my first two. When advertising was allowed to advertise. The Hamlet advert was always a winner. The message for me as an 8-year-old, with the Venus de Milo advert, 1974 was that Read more…
Within my current engagement, it is seldom that the image is objective without it being steeped in a large helping of subjectivity. The practice is not about looking through the window of the photograph but examining the photograph for its own worth. Peeling the layers and baggage that photographic practice Read more…
Thinking of the nature of photography in line with the consideration of staged or constructed I feel that it is important to be mindful of the situation you are in and be honest with your practice. If you analyse the concept of staged and constructed where do you stop? You Read more…
Is it real? and how are we receiving the image is the core of the weeks’ investigation. These two aspects play together well. There are images out in the wild that are accepted not because they are trying to impose fake images but because we have the pre-knowledge that it Read more…
There has been much thought along with this abstract progression and finding context. Many have suggested that follow the art history trail. Surrealism and abstract expressionism both leap out as possible avenues of interest however, sadly at this stage I feel that neither fit the bill to inform the practice. Read more…
A quick search online reveals many fake images and I feel that most of them work because people believe that it could be true. I see that this image is pertinent to photographic practice on several levels. Practitioners currently working on projects, as the photographer may have been here. The Read more…
From investigations, it’s clear that the context of photographic images is swayed and changed with how the image is consumed. This is a significant factor that any practitioner has to consider when producing any body of work. Abstract images, where I am currently practice is no exception to the issue Read more…
Successful failure. One area of investigation has led me to explore the practice of beer can pinhole photography. I have placed “beer can” cameras out in the local area. With the size of the aperture, the exposure time becomes months. One of my cameras had been in the field for Read more…
Nathan Jurgenson promotes an interesting discourse within his book about how the social photograph has exerted its presence on our life. However, it felt to me that at times it was a very random and disjointed ramble. I walk away from the book feeling that it aspired to be something Read more…