This research is my notes on reading the article Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men (Bright, 1985) which reflects on the portrayal of the landscape in that area. Bright’s document is essentially written in three parts. Firstly, Bright sets out the historical context of landscape photography, beginning with Dutch landscape painters and progressing to the early parts […]
Category: Part 4 Research
Photographer: Ingrid Pollard
From the course material I investigated Ingrid Pollard further. In the course her work Miss Pollard’s Party and Pastoral Interlude are highlighted. In these series she reflects on her relationship, as a black person, with the British countryside which she sees as a an area occupied by predominantly white people, see Fig. 1. This caught my attention as […]
Photographer: Melanie Friend – The Plain
I reviewed the collection “The Plain” by Melanie Friend (Friend, 2021). This body of work is taken in Salisbury Plain which is both a conservation area and a military training ground. Her work aims to show the tension between the two. On a personal note, I was so taken by her images on the website, I chose to purchase […]