8/2/2021
We need to look into the physicality of print.
Duane Michaels (Photographer)
- Known for his sequences of photographs
- How humanity deals with emotion
Learn to look at the picture subjectively
- Learn that crits aren't personal but subjective
- Remove the personal connections for a brief moment
A series contains a collection of images which are contained within it's own right. We can have multiple sequences of photographs within different series.
- This is similar to paining
- Anything 2D
The photograph is what it is which is completely flat. We are explaining what our feelings are rather than the photograph.
- We are talking about us as humans
- Culture (our own or someone else)
Are we a technician or artists?
Amsel Adams:
- Technician
- Studies greyscale
- He is important to photography
- His photographs aren't challenging, just beautiful
Don Mcullen:
- The picture makes you want to do something
- It makes you want to help the man
We need to fail and be prolific with our work.
David Hockney:
- Landscape artist
- Painting the landscape from life/memory
- His work is optimistic
- He uses bright colours
- Unrealistic
- Imaginary
- He is painting what he wants to see
- Abstract and literal
22/2/2021
Photobooks and how to display our photographs
Paul Hill
- Look into Peak District photographs
- Dark Peak, White Peak (raised the bar for photobooks)
- Landscape photography
- The photographers place (look into)
(Sequences and Series) Consider within my work
Observations whilst walking (thinking and looking)
When I think of natural landscapes I think of lines within the environment
Paul Hill used the environment to draw from
- His photographs remind me of pencil drawings
- His work shifted for obvious to simple and direct
- Abstract drawing and painting
- Almost looks like silkscreens
- We aren't looking at nature but instead we are looking as paintings and mark makings
- They force us to think
- There is a political element to his work
- His works take on different shapes
- Square forces us to focus on the centre of the photograph
- Goes from seasons within the landscape to the circle of life
- Two sides of the same coin
- Yin and Yang
- His work removes all human life within the space which allows the photographs to become a metaphor for the human mind
- They become more than a book
- We all change our own environments whether we realise it or not
1/3/2021
Dreaming: The Gokstadt (Thomas Joshua Cooper)
- His photographs are large scale
- Uses a large film camera rather than digital
- Epiphany (What his work is based on)
- Titled in simplistic ways
- Has an identity
- Native American
- What is identity?
- His photographs start to be literal but then becomes more abstract
Point of no return
- A map of two worlds (America and Africa)
- Where are we from and what we make from that
- There are no answers
- He placed points within these places and photographed the essence of these places
- The photographs are abstract
- Furthest corners of the environment
- His work is wrapped around history
- He knows and understands his craft
- He offers the photographs to us, leaves clues, and invites us to come up with our own abstract reasons
- He spends a lot of time researching and establishing how the image will look
- This is crucial and important
- He has immense control over his work
- He doesn't like to justify his images
- He wants us yo figure out the reason behind his photographs for ourselves
8/3/2021
Video About Domestic Photography
The nature of the domestic
- Home, family, and the dust that gathers (dust is a metaphor)
- Cleaners, mothers
- People ignore the mundane
- The photographer observes how her time and experiences became gendered
- Domestic drift (accepting the everyday) (Photographers previous work)
- Accepting Difficulty
- Disrupting
- Interfering with the glassiness of the domestic environment
- The story behind the photographs sent matter
- She photographs the signs of kindness and care within the home
- She photographs her sons
- She has an interesting way of exhibiting her work within a book format
- Understanding human resistance
- Mushrooms poem
- Her frame of reference
- This is something we should all do
- Synthesise
- We should all know what other artists are doing
Second Photographer
- See's stardust in the everyday after the death of her child
- The cosmos
- All this was seen within her home
- Dust, cobwebs, pregnancy scan
- "I come from the stars" photographers daughter
- Drawing and meditation
- Uses circles to show the universe
"The artist has to be quiet enough in order to reach full concentration" (Meditation like)
Look into Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Discussion between the two
- When we are forced to stay inside we do look closer at our environments
- Bring a mother forces us to do this
- Understanding our inner self
- This is hard to do
- It's a compulsion for some
- Frustration with photography
- Photography is neat, sharp
- The home isn't
- Production value is high
- There should be a sense of wonder
