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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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Posted on December 6th, 2009 1 comment
One of Dorothea Lange's images of Florence Owens Thompson, California, 1936. Photograph: Dorothea Lange/Corbis
Sean O’Hagan applauds a meticulous biography of Dorothea Lange who will forever be defined by her images of the Great Depression… Useful background stuff in this review by Observer of new biography…
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Photography quotes you should know
Posted on December 5th, 2009 No commentsI subscribe to a rather amusing photography blog called the Digital Photography School. Posted today was a list of famous quotes from photographers which I thought were rather good forming perhaps a musing on what photography is.
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” – Peter Lindberg
“The important thing is not the camera but the eye.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” – Ansel Adams
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.” – Anonymous
“If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” – Robert Cappa
“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.” -Arnold Newman
“Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).” -Henri Cartier-Bresson
“The word ‘art’ is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one’s work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.” -Manuel Alvarez Bravo
“People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.” -David LaChapelle
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.” – Ansel Adams
“You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus” – Mark Twain
Ian F
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Doing Street Photography
Posted on December 5th, 2009 No commentsRoss has forwarded these links about street photography…
And now the police… Two good articles on the legal position if street photography, and a copy of an email from ACPP that you night usefully print out and carry with you, in triplicate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/dec/05/photography-section-44
The quote you need to read from the Independent article:
Chief Constable Andy Trotter, chairman of Acpo’s media advisory group, took the decision to send the warning after growing criticism of the police’s treatment of photographers.
Writing in today’s Independent, he says: “Everyone… has a right to take photographs and film in public places. Taking photographs… is not normally cause for suspicion and there are no powers prohibiting the taking of photographs, film or digital images in a public place.”
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Various bits and pieces…
Posted on December 5th, 2009 No commentsA few reminders – or if you didn’t know, then you need to read this…
AS/A2 catch-up morning - this in lieu of a day we missed back in October or somewhere. BAL have set up an additional morning class 10 – 1 on Saturday 12th December – usual place. I’m going to keep this fairly open, but it would be a good time to get some feedback from me on progress, have access to my library, do some research, practice some Photoshop. It would be useful to let me know if you intend to come – I’m sorry that this date won’t suit everyone.
Absences: BAL have a policy now of ringing up everyone who doesn’t show up, and where i don’t have a reason. So – if you know you won’t be able to make the class, either email me please or telephone BAL – or let me know the following day if the absence was unexpected. BAL have contractual targets for course retention rates, so if anyone doesn’t show they start firing up their support procedures – it’s also to see if there is a problem we can help with.
And for those kit lovers out there, Helen has forwarded a YouTube special - bizarrely, Downfall was on last night. Great, if harrowing, film…
Just a reminder – term ends w/c 14 th December 2009, and we start again (yippee!) already w/c 4th January 2010.
I would like to see some work in progress from you during the last week of term – GCSE, AS and A2 – so plan for a group critique. Images on memory stick, or available through Flickr will do fine….
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Recent Articles and Book Recommendations – might be worth a look…
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 No commentsThe New Topographics exhibition has been put back together and is on tour – guess what? It’s not coming to UK. That might tell you something of how seriously we take photography here: the New Topographics arguably saw the birth of conceptual photography, and is a major landmark. It’s not just another twist on landscape.
http://carefullyaimeddarts.wordpress.com/category/new-topographics/
Tour comes to Europe in 2011 – I think Bilbao sounds the most tempting… There might be a group from AUCB going to one of these – I’ll let you know.
Stocking filler material – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6662802/Photography-books-of-the-year.html
An exhibition in New York, unfortunately, but a good review worth reading – Robert Frank’s The Americans in the Guardian.
And finally – another review of the Deutsche Börse prize shortlist which we will probably include in London visit.
Enjoy…
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