This is a private blog site to support the Photography AS/A2 classes I run in Bournemouth - I use it to share ideas, research, useful (I hope!) material, and point out good photography stuff on the web.
When I can I will add other relevant content - exam materials, handouts, etc. If you can think of something that should be here feel free to let me know. Some pages may end up being password protected….
If you think you should have access to the site, please get in touch.
Richard
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email update
Posted on October 28th, 2008 No commentsthought it might be useful to get the blog to email you when there is something new – so this is a test, to see how it works – or even if.
in theory you have the option to control this, incuding switching it off…
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Jason Francisco
Posted on October 28th, 2008 No commentsIf you like good black and white street photography, this might be just the thing. A range of works, if you plough through the site – the link drops you into the middle.
Think about the format – what can you deduce about his working practice? Think about depth of field and focus. What sorts of skills and approaches do you need to do this sort of work? What is it about black and white photography that seems to give this type of work more presence, more power?
Jason Franciso – Time in San Franciso series, untitled.
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Thierry Roy
Posted on October 24th, 2008 No commentsDe la part de Thierry – ‘Merci, tous!’
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Barbican Exhibition
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 No commentsJust seen the Capa/Taro exhibition at the Barbican. Well worth it, not just to see their work, but also that of 4 modern artists working around the theme of war. I definitely think she’s the better photographer…
I do like the work of An-My Lê, who uses large format cameras.
An-My Lê
Target Practice, USS Peleliu, 2005You can see more of her work here.
And perhaps was most of all moved by the work of Geert van Kesteren – unlike Lê, whose work is calm, contemplative, van Kesteren is old school, in the thick of it, putting himself at risk to take his photos. In particular, there is a significant portion of work drawn from mobile phone photographs taken by Iraqis…
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Boyd Webb
Posted on October 15th, 2008 No comments
Lung II – Boyd Webb (click for more images)
A New Zealander who trained in the UK, I’m including him just as a counterpoint to the straight photography of Yousef Khanfar that some of you seemed to enjoy. This is modern art photography too – the construction of an imagined reality, preserved through high quality photographs.
I was quite surprised to find he photographs flowers too…
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Gerda Taro – War Photography at The Barbican
Posted on October 15th, 2008 No comments
This show contains a revelation. Robert Capa, the Hungarian war photographer and founder of Magnum, the photo agency, famous for his Spanish Civil War photograph, Falling Soldier, is given the lion’s share of the upstairs gallery space and the ground floor is occupied by contemporary artists’ video film and stills from Afghanistan and Iraq, but the undisputed star of the show is the little-known Gerda Taro, who worked on the front line of the Spanish Civil War.
Taro was the first woman known to shoot pictures in battle and the first to die in action – in Spain in July 1937 at the age of 26 (Capa was to die in 1954 while on assignment in the First Indochina War). Born Gerta Pohorylle to a Polish-Jewish family, she was in Paris when she fell in love with André Friedmann. They later changed their names to Gerda Taro and Robert Capa. Read the rest of the article at Times Online.
There is more about her life and work here. I’m just blown away by this photo – such a sense of intent hopeless [is that me with my 20:20 historical perspective?] vulnerability, combining with mental images of kids playing cowboys ad indians… [sorry - we did that in the early 60s].
see what you think.
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Ground Glass
Posted on October 12th, 2008 No commentsI like this – and you may find it useful – a website documenting Women Photographers through the years. Part One – up to the 1960s – is here.
There is also a site providing on-line exhibition space to Women Photographers – I found some of this work extemely insightful. You need to click on ‘Previous Exhibtions’ at lower right to see the list of photographers.
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Yousef Khanfar
Posted on October 11th, 2008 1 commentWe haven’t finished with exposure yet – will be talking next week about creative decisions based around choice of shutter speed, and consequences. So appropriate to add this photo – a random find while looking for something entirely different – but it seems to sum up what you can do…
Yousef Khanfar – Tango, Australia
More here – just a bit more than good straight landscape photography. How has he created these effects?
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Pentti Sammallahti
Posted on October 11th, 2008 No commentsI have a particular penchant for modern Scandinavian photography – it is other, offset, dislocated in some way from the Anglo-American experience we are usually fed.
I think the framing of these shots is immaculate. Some feel like large format, some not, some hard to tell. the panoramic format works wonderfully here with subjects well away from the usual use – of long horizons. what more playful use of the format than this image. But is this a crop or a panoramic camera?
Well worth checking out a range of his work – try here.
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New Ideas, Old Technology
Posted on October 8th, 2008 No commentsBy an indirect route [links from a site Chrissy recommended], I found – and very much like – the work of Stine Krogh today. A particular interest of mine is the idea of ’surface’ in photography. It’s a machine made medium, so we would imagine no scope for the marks of the maker’s hand you might find in other art forms – the studied mark making of a painter, the touch of the potter’s fingers fired into the clay, the sign of tool and strength of blow on stone. But i believe there is a surface – a patina – created by some techniques, some approaches. You can see more of her [film based] work here.
“Lonely Tree” by Stine Krogh
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More Low Light Photography – painting with light
Posted on October 4th, 2008 1 commentLandscape Photography’s Altered StateMany landscape painters (like most cosmetic surgeons and makers of silk flowers) do their best to make their artifice look natural. In this jungly photo-painting called “Koreshan 39″ (2008), Washington’s Frank Hallam Day flips that ancient striving. While his picture is a photograph (shot after dark in Florida with a 13-megapixel tripod-mounted camera), it’s a color painting, too. The exposure took 30 seconds. During that half-minute, the artist set a pair of flashlight beams, one yellowish, one bluish, playing on the fronds and vines, altering the spirit and the colors of the night.
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Fancy investing in art?
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 No commentsKym has just sent me a link to a rather grand photo auction at Bloomsbury Auctions – that’s New York, in case you want to pack your toothbrush and credit card…
MARIO GIACOMELLI (1925-2000) Untitled, from
lo non ho mani che miaccarzzino il volto, c. 1962Some really interesting stuff from a range of living/not quite photographers. It won’t tell you much about them, but there is a splendid list [8 pages] to work through – enough to give you a flavour. people there i haven’t heard of, so Kym gets the first ‘Wow! You’ve surprised me!’ award of the year. If you see something interesting, look them up?
have a look – http://ny.bloomsburyauctions.com/auction/NY015/20/1
and from this long list, some splendid flower photography from Tom Baril. His own site is intensely annoying, so I’ll let you find him in Google…
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Posted on October 1st, 2008 No commentsDriving home last night from Bournemouth I caught part of a Radio 3′ Night Waves programme on Manuel Alvarez Bravo – a Mexican photographer working from the 1920s on. Interesting stuff – and the programme is worth listening to – Radio 3 Listen Again – if only to see how the discussion evolves.
Anyway, there was mention there of Alvarez Bravo’s mentor Tino Modotti – an enigmatic Italian photographer who worked in Mexico – and in particular her flower photographs which are quite splendid…
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