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 […]
Category: Part 3 Research
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. […]
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 […]