READING:
Culture of Connectivity - Jose Van Dijck
- Dijck starts to introduce what kind of platform Flickr is by explaining its uses and statistics. Then follows by taking apart its motto ‘Share your photos. Watch the world’. Firstly, '
- exchanging views to achieve an agreed upon viewpoint', secondly, 'sharing pictures leads to a collective experience.' and thirdly, 'Flickr functions as collective memory'.
- 'collective memory has become problematic in the age of digital networks (Hoskins, 2009).'
- The 'technological unconscious' - We are aware of what lies on the surface of social media platforms and the basic uses of them but have no idea what goes on behind the scenes, 'What David Beer (2009) calls the ‘power of the algorithm’ could be considered the core of the technological unconscious.'
- The 'continuous present' - 'any memorizing activity takes place in the current flow of contacts between people and machines and cannot be the result of either an individual or collective reminiscence.'
- 'Culture of connectivity' - Dijck expands on Hoskin's concept by showing how 'the notion of connectivity has become to our understanding of culture.'
Susan Sontag - On photography
- 'To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, therefore, like power.'
- This was a very interesting reading and I did really like it because of its simplicity. Sontag gives examples from history but also relates photography to today's society.
SARAH MOON:
'Sarah Moon, previously known as Marielle Warin, is a French photographer. Initially a model, she turned to fashion photography in the 1970s. Since 1985, she has concentrated on gallery and film work.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Moon)
- Fashion photography and colour inspiration :
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT:
Location scouting:1) Blue background - Tichborne St, Brighton
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