For this post I will be summerising some of the notes I took down during the class we had on Friday 16th of April 2010. I felt that we covered interesting topics during this discourse sand it would be a good idea to share.
REALIST THEORIES
- Photographs as aesthetics artefacts
- The institution of photography
- Position and behavior of photographers
- The viewer/audience + context of image
"We have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives" Kozloff, 1979
EVERYONE IS INFLUENCED BY
- Taste
- Conscience
FILMS
- REAR WINDOW
- BLOW UP
- PEEPING TOM
ADVERTS
- Nikon - Nikon D5000 - Being creative is child's play!
- Cannon - The Canon Digital Rebel Ad
WALKER EVANS - Planned Documentry Style
INTENSION + AGGRESSION
- No longer for the few
- Widespread social uses
- Consciousness of photography an art
- The internet + Social networking (Facebook, Twitter)
- Magazine + Newspapers
THE FAMILY ALBUM
- Eviedence of being a good parent?
- Memories
INTERNET ALBUM
- Evidence of being a good friend
- Holidays
TOURISM
- As Souvenir
- Divise or experience
- Set up voyeuristic relation to the world
- An event itself
- Interface, Invade, Ignore
Photography suggest that time consist of interesting events that are worth photographing.
INTERVENTION
- The person who intervenes cannot photograph it
- EXAMPLE
BRASSAI - 'THE FLANEUR'
- No plan, Just wondering the streets.
- Mostly men
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