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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]