We were asked to read the chapters Power and Wire from Edgelands (Farley, P. and Roberts, M.S., 2011). Wire Of the two chapters, Wire for me was the closest to bringing to life Edgelands, an area that marks a boundary between town and countryside marked by a “cross-hatch of wire”. The chapter talks of wire acting […]
Category: Part 2 Coursework
Exercise 2.5: Text in Art
Write down 12 – 24 brief observations during a short walk or journey by some means of transport A walk in Toadsmoor Valley Back in an hour Go this way Gate after gate Guided by wires Or penned by wires? Protecting the unspoilt or spoiling? A house, another house, and another Another gate Glimpses of […]
Exercise 2.4: Is Appropriation Appropriate
This exercise asks me to look at an from Geoff Dyer (Dyer, 2012) on artists that have captured scenes from Google Street view and asks me to answer the title of the exercise. I started this exercise with a pre-conceived idea of the images that would likely be simple screen grabs from google maps and […]
Exercise 2.3: Typographies
Typography is something I personally became interested in when I first started photographing people, but not something I have tried in a landscape context. I think I have found it difficult to understand where to start, what is it that makes a series of landscape images interesting enough to create a typographical series. I have begun […]
Exercise 2.2: Explore a Road
Part 1 – My Road Photograph a road near you in any style you choose. I found this exercise interesting, as the contact sheet shows, I took a variety of shots but roughly half were shot looking along the road itself and half picking out points of interest along the road. On the contact sheet I […]
Exercise 2.1: Territorial Photography
Exercise Review the paper “Territorial Photography” by Joel Snyder, published in the book “Landscape and Power” by Mitchell, W.J.T. (2002). The University of Chicago Press. Review of Paper Snyder starts by stating that when photography was first emerging (1830s) people were unsure what it is was for or how it should be considered. By the […]