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David — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:04:37 +0000

Shortlisted for the PrintSpace Flickr competition

Clarke 1997:21

The photographer, like the poet, ‘sees into the life of things’

Photographic text

David — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:02:39 +0000

For Victor Burgin, “the intelligibility of the photograph is no simple thing; photographs are texts inscribed in terms of what we may call ‘photographic discourse,’ but this discourse, like any other, engages discourses beyond itself; the ‘photographic text,’ like any other, is the site of a complex intertextuality, an overlapping series of previous texts ‘taken for granted’ at a particular cultural and historical conjuncture” (Burgin 1977)

EDWARD RELPH

David — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:11:16 +0000

“THE SPIRIT OF A PLACE RESIDES IN ITS LANDSCAPE”

Edward Relph (1976,30) Place and placelessness, London: Pion

SPACE PLACE CULTURE?

David — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:11:01 +0000

“overlapping communities contend for visibility and for economic and political survival, the mosaic of different texts” (Jaworski & Thurlow 2009:29)

Space … is about contemporaneity (rather than temporal convening), it is about openness (rather than inevitability) and it is also about relations, fractures, discontinuities, practices of engagement. And this intrinsic relationality of the spatial is not just a matter of lines on a map; it is a cartography of power. Doreen Massey(2005: 85)

The construction of space in society is produced by cultural communication based on dialogue and text. Meaning is socially represented understanding of spaces in society. ‘animated dialogue’ (Kahn, 2003) between ideas/images of space and the material properties/features of space. Henri Lefebvre (1991), describes three forms of space; mental representations, the physical world and the interaction through living in a space.

Massey, D. (2005). For Space. London: Sage.

Introducing Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space, (2011)

Jaworski, A. and Thurlow, C. (eds.). (2010). Semiotic Landscapes: Text, Image, Space. London: Continuum.

Next class

David — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:06:00 +0000

Holy smoke! The next class will be on the 17 of April. Studio shots are looking good folks.

Long time no see

David — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:31:22 +0000

Well it’s been a long time since the last post. I have been a busy, busy bee working on projects and studying for a MA in documentary photography. For a starter for ten here’s a photo of my sisters new puppy, a French Bulldog called Leo.

Chips????

David — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:13:00 +0000

Stu Stu Studio

David — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:10:00 +0000

Studio research for the week. Can you find any inspirational or famous photographers who shoot in the studio. Think about the style of their photography and whether you would be interested in creating this style or shooting in a similar way.

Questions: What lights and light modifiers do they use? A really good resource for deconstructing lighting setups is ‘Guess the Lighting‘

Here’s a starter for 10, can you guess the lighting for this shot?

Studio Photography

David — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Studio Photography course will start on the 28th of February at 18:00. It will be a totally awesome course, fact. Here’s something I prepared earlier.

What is Britishness?

David — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:22:00 +0000

George Orwell described the national character thus:

“The English are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world

This weeks assignment is What is Britishness?