Notes from week 1
What do you make of the mirror and the window analogy?
Which one do you identify more as a practitioner.
It’s interesting that the 3 of the first images produced were of windows, I have found from personal experience of introducing students to the use of their first use of a pinhole camera to be drawn to the window as this leads to success. As far as the analogy is concerned, it can be argued that the photograph taken is reflection of the photographer in a sense. When we refer to the concept of the viewfinder cropping and framing and image, to the outside world the photographer is framed by the window in a similar fashion. It’s an interesting parallel considering the inclusion of mirrors in the development of the single lens reflex camera and also the mirrors used in the camera lucida to flip the image up the right way.
As far as which Identify with as a practitioner, I think it depends on the subject matter I am photographing. I may be looking at subject more from a visual perspective and in this case I feel more connected to the concept of the window. If it is a personal subject that I am connected to and it reflects some aspect of me then I feel I identify more with the mirror.
Notes from week 2
Week 2 interdisciplinary
Discuss the difference between discipline eg Film Photography and Discourses- Journalism(often something that is a critical discussion)
Barthes quote about photograph being the past and mortality
Cited examples of trainspotting, Lock stock, It’s a wonderful life and moving image using the still image.
Questions posed.
What does the moving image tell you about the still photographic image?
How distinct do you think the still is to the moving image nowadays?
Do the practical similarities outweigh the theoretical differences?
How might you use moving image in your own practice?
Presentation 2- photography and the art and science
Used by Anna Atkins to document algae growth, very acurated scientific illustrations.
Use of Infra red in congo, used a Kodak infra red film used typical for military photography aerial
Phototography used for psuedo uses such as photographing ghost, through the manipulation and layering of images.
How has the relationship between photography, science and technology affected how we attribute ideas around knowledge and truth to the photographic image?
What aspects of technology have had the most profound impact upon the development of photography?