Further Reflection I was pleased with my tutor’s feedback on this assignment and did not identify anything that would suggest a need to change my image set. My final images are therefore shown below. In my initial reflection, I had stated that I was a little disappointed with my images when comparing them to Burtynsky […]
Category: Part 3
Assignment 3: Reflection
Technical and Visual I am happy with the technical accuracy of my images in terms of capture parameters such as exposure and the like. I have chosen to stick with a 5:4 format which I find achieves a nice balance between a width to show the scene I want to show but with a stronger focus […]
Assignment 3: Final Submission
Landscape as Political Text This assignment explores the impact of sustainable energy on the North Cornwall countryside. I have captured these shots in the same week that the G7 are meeting, in Cornwall, with sustainability high on their agenda and so the timing and location seemed very appropriate. We think of sustainability as a way of protecting […]
Exercise 3.6: ‘The Memory of Photography’
This exercise summarises and draws some conclusion on Bate’s paper The Memory of Photography (Bate, 2010). Photography and its relation to human memory Bate’s document discusses the relationship between photography and memory. In particular he discusses whether or not it helps or hinders one’s recollections. His paper is titled The Memory of Photography and he begins […]
Photographer: Susan Lipper, Trip
Lipper’s project Trip is a collection of 50, square, images intended to portray an imaginary trip across America. Each image is accompanied by text written by Barthelme which read in conjunction with the images does evoke a different inquiry into each image but is not directly written to tell a story of the images themselves. Taken […]
Photographer: Luc Delahaye, History
Delahaye began his photographic career as a documentary prhotographer and in that role, won three World Press Photo awards and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for reportage twice (O’Hagan, 2011). Looking at the images he took during this area, they are shocking in their directness of capturing the consequences of war. Fig. 1 is an example. […]
Exercise 3.5: Local History
Stroud’s industrial heritage is rich, the town is famous for the production of cloth helped by its five valleys and rivers that were used to drive the mills. One of the main areas that the industry focussed on was Chalford (Industrial Heritage | Visit the Cotswolds Stroud District, n.d.). In fact, “From the 1500s until the […]
Photographer: Paul Reas, Flogging a dead horse
Paul Reas’ Flogging a Dead Horse (Reas, 1993) is a collection of images that portray the British Heritage tourist industry. This is an industry that sells itself as providing a view into the past, onto the heyday of Britain’s industrial revolution, and its Empire. This industrial era has now gone, and so we have an industry based on […]
Exercise 3.3: Late Photography
Review of Campany, Safety in Numbness This exercise reviews Campany’s essay “Safety in Numbness: Some remarks on the problems of ‘Late Photography’ (Company, 2003) Campany’s essay uses Meyerowitz’ collection Reflections of Ground Zero, a set of images taken in the aftermath of the New York’s 9/11 as the basis for his analysis but his discussion points […]
Exercise 3.2: Postcards
Postcards The postcards shown below are all captured from the internet after searching for “Cotswolds Postcards”. I do not have any of my own postcards and, seeing as I live in the area was interested to see what the results would be. The main site I found was Zazzle which is where these images come from (Cotswolds Postcards, […]
Exercise 3.1: Reflecting on the Picturesque
What is picturesque? For me it means something that warms my heart when I look at it, but this is not an objective statement, so something more precise is required. Earlier in this course in Exercise 1.3 I collected a set of paintings from the 18th and 19th century and then found photographic images that were of a similar […]