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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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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Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs
Posted on November 28th, 2009 No commentsInteresting article from Guardian based on exhibition of Victoria photography at the British Library.
Rosemary Hill writes: “The early Victorians were the first generation to see themselves through the camera lens, but the idea of photography, the possibility of making an exact reproduction of visual experience, was one – like flight and the philosophers’ stone – that had haunted the imagination of inventors for centuries. The “camera obscura” or “dark room” that could project images on to a blank surface was known in antiquity, but a long hiatus followed. Then, at the end of the 18th century it was found that paper coated in silver nitrate would retain the image of an object placed on it for a tantalising moment before it faded.”
Captain Henry Duberly, paymaster of the 8th Hussars, with his wife Frances Isabella during the Crimean war, 1855. Photograph: Roger Fenton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Full article here – http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/28/british-library-victorian-photography-exhibition
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Possible London trip
Posted on November 7th, 2009 2 commentsWould anyone be interested in trying to get together a group visit to some photography exhibitions in London? It would have to be either a Friday, a weekend, or out of term time – and probably impossible to get a date that suits everyone. It would also have to be ‘unofficial’ – so not a minibus job orgaised under auspices of BAL – I’m envisaging either coach or train with everyone managing their own transport arrangements.
Hard to choose when to go, but something significant like the The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize – 12 February – 17 April 2010 – might be a target around which other things might be fitted. This might help – www.spoonfed.co.uk.
Let me know if you are interested in principle, and I’ll see what we can sort out…
PS – Line of Lividity
I know at least one of you out there (you know who you are…) has talked about a body of work based on death and dying.
This is not a challenge…
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The first era of photography – British Library collection
Posted on October 25th, 2009 No comments“It’s not an institution best known for its photographic collection, yet the British Library next week unveils an important archive of historic images which trace the development of the medium from its beginnings in 1839 to the early 1900s.”
Village near Yokohama, Japan, c.1869
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Nadav Kander – Prix Prictet environmental photography award
Posted on October 24th, 2009 No comments“Sponsored by the Geneva private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate crucial messages to a global audience; and it has a unique goal – art of the highest order, applied to the immense social and environmental threats of the new millennium.”
These are also great examples of the photo essay – a small collection of images around a central theme or subject, reinforcing the core message. Nadav Kander is the 2009 winner, from an impressive shortlist which includes Andreas Gursky and Edward Burtynsky. His work on the changing face of the Yangtze river is part documentary, part landscape, all art. In fact it bridges these three so well we might discuss it in class, so worth having a look.
Kander’s website is a wealth of material too – I particularly like the Arctic Circle work – www.nadavkander.com
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Sony World Photography Awards
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 No commentsThis is partly to test the blog post is working – but still useful to see the sort of work that gets selected for big awards. Lots of B&W still going on – especially in the documentary areas…
http://www.worldphotographyawards.org/2009.aspx
No photos – too many to choose from! 2008 and 2009 winners still on-line if you root around.
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Beatles to Bowie: beneath the surface of 60s photography
Posted on October 3rd, 2009 No commentsJagger is pretty, Nureyev is pretty, Polanksi is pretty. But how much does a celebration of the 1960s through glamour photos and fan mags tell of the world of substance beyond, asks Jenny Diski…
Review in Guardian on new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/03/beatles-to-bowie-sixties-exposed
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