WEEK 4

READING:

The Spectacle of the Other - Stuart Hall

- 'The same photo can carry several, quite different, sometimes diametrically opposite meanings.'
- 'However, the attempting to 'fix' is the work of a representational practice, which intervenes in the many potential meanings of an image in an attempt to privilege one.'
- Roland Barthes (1977) argues, the image and text are two discourses, 'the discourse of written language and the discourse of photography - are required to produce and 'fix' the meaning.'
- People who are 'significantly different to the majority' seem to be exposed and represented through to binary extremes, (good/bad).
- Barthes - would call photographs with a connotation (message or meaning) and denotation (showing an event) a meta-message or myth.
-  'This accumulation of meanings across different texts, where one image refers to another, or has its meaning altered by being 'read' in the context of other images, is called inter-textuality. We may describe the whole repetoire of imagery and visual effects through which 'difference' is represented at any one moment of historical moment as a regime of representation.'

WORKSHOP:

Testing the Nikon SB-800 Flashgun -

Editing to make the pictures slightly film like -

William Eggleston - 

The Godfather of Colour Photography :

Though his images record a particular place at a certain point in time, Eggleston is not interested in their documentary qualities. Instead, when asked what he is photographing, Eggleston simply answers ‘life today’. Curator Simon Baker explores the work of this master and pioneer of colour in fine art photography. 

Juno Calypso

- Juno began a series of self-portraits disguised as a fictional character named Joyce.

- Secretly photographing herself at her grandmothers house or in bedrooms rented online. Joyce was used to reenact the private life of a woman consumed by the labour of constructed femininity, carried out to the point of ritualised absurdity. 

- In 2015 Juno spent a week alone at a romantic-themed couples resort in the USA to continue her series of self portraits. With a suitcase of wigs and lingerie, Juno posed as a travel writer and multiple rooms as a stage to perform solitary acts of desire and disappointment. In 2016 Juno returned to the honeymoon hotel to continue to continue the series.  https://www.junocalypso.com/about/

Selection of Photographs :

Things to consider - 

- Exposure

- Focus

- Resolution required or desired 

- Required aspect ratios and final display method

- Blurring 

- Composition and rule(s) of thirds

- Tonal spectrum/histogram

- Colour

Ask yourself -

- Does it contain subjects of interest?

- Does it fit with the concept of interest?

- Does it stand out in some way that is visually unusual?

- Is it amusing, affective, provocative? 

Series criteria - 

- Consistency 

- Pattern

- Narrative/Story

- Repetition 

- Variety 

PRESENTATION :