Archive for the ‘Materiality’ Category
The Eyes of the Skin
Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin (Chichester: Wiley, 2008) p.10 All the senses, including vision, are extensions of the tactile sense; the senses are specialisations of skin tissue, and all sensory experiences are modes of touching and thus related to tactility. pp.10-11 Our contact with the world takes place at the boundary line of [...]
Filed under: Books, Image Proliferation, Juhani Pallasmaa, Materiality, Mechanics/Politics of Vision, Phenomenology, Touch/Tactile Perception | Leave a Comment
The Memory of Touch
Marks, Laura U. ‘The Memory of Touch’ The Skin of the Film (London: Duke University Press, 2000) 127-193 p.162 Haptic perception is usually defined by psychologists as the combination of tactile, kinesthetic, and proprioceptive functions, the way we experience touch both on the surface of and inside our bodies. In haptic visuality, the eyes themselves function like organs of [...]
Filed under: Laura Marks, Materiality, Phenomenology, Touch/Tactile Perception | Closed
Arnaud Maggs – installations
Filed under: alternative photographic techniques, Archive & Photography, Arnaud Magg, Installation, Martha Langford, Materiality, Memory Objects, Photograph as Document, Photograph as object, The Archive, The Collection, Working with the archive | 1 Comment
Julian Walker
From his website: http://walkerjulian.tripod.com/id34.html Most of my work is site-specific; where it is not, it is strongly referencing an idea or set of ideas. In this sense it is reactive, exploring how I can understand specific bits of the world, or exploring how other people have done so. Hence my interest in museums, collections and [...]
Filed under: Installation, Julian Walker, Materiality, Memory Objects, The Archive, The Collection, Touch/Tactile Perception, Working with the archive | Closed
Claudia Angelmaier
From http://www.claudiaangelmaier.de/index.php The play with the images of art and their history is at the heart of Claudia Angelmaier’s work whereby particular focus lies on the pictures and their mechanical reproduction, material image and contextual situation. The protagonists of Angelmaier’s large-scale photographic works are books, postcards or transparencies and slides which show copies of “the [...]
Filed under: (re)constructing photographs, Archive & Photography, Claudia Angelmaier, Materiality, Mechanical Reproduction, Nostalgia for analogue photography, Photograph as object, Photography's Art History, The Archive, The Collection, Touch/Tactile Perception, using found photography, Vernacular Photography | Leave a Comment
Mohini Chandra – Album Pacifica
One of my favourite works. It tells us more about photography than seeing ‘the photograph’ ever could. Buy the book here: http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=745&page=0 I have scanned the images myself so hopefully this won’t have any copyright issues – but I want more people to be able to see this work!
Filed under: Content vs Materiality of Photographs, Familial relations & Photography, Family album, Installation, Materiality, Memory & Photography, Mohini Chandra, Narrative & Photography, Observer & the Photograph, Photograph as object, using found photography, Vernacular Photography | Leave a Comment
From the Museum of Touch
Stewart, Susan. ‘From the Museum of Touch’ Material Memories ed. by Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward, Jeremy Aynsley, (Oxford: Berg, 1999) 17-36 p.31 Of all the senses, touch is most linked to emotion and feeling. To be ‘touched’ or ‘moved’ by words or things implies the process of identification and separation by which we apprehend the [...]
Filed under: Essays, Materiality, Susan Stewart, Touch/Tactile Perception | Leave a Comment
Vernacular Photographies
Batchen, Geoffrey. ‘Vernacular Photographies’ Each wild idea: writing, photography, history (Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT, 2002) 56-80 p.57 [Batchen describes] what has always been excluded from photography’s history: ordinary photographs [...] the photographs that preoccupy the home and the heart but rarely the museum or the academy. [Batchen describes reasons why vernacular photographs were written out of [...]
Filed under: Essays, Geoffrey Batchen, Materiality, Memory & Photography, Memory Objects, Observer & the Photograph, Photography's Art History, Photography's Materiality, Vernacular Photography | Leave a Comment
Batchen, Geoffrey., ‘’fearful ghost of former bloom’: What Photography Is’ Where is the Photograph ed. by David Green (Brighton, Kent: Photoforum, Photoworks, 2003) 15-29 [Batchen discovers a large 19th century photo-object combining hair, waxen flowers, wreath, words and a photograph] p.19 Memory is here given a physical manifestation. Or perhaps it would be more accurate [...]
Filed under: Essays, Geoffrey Batchen, Materiality, Melancholy/Death & Photography, Memory & Context, Memory & Photography, Memory Objects, Photograph as object, Photography's Art History, Studium/Punctum, Vernacular Photography | Leave a Comment
Materiality: An Introduction
“Materiality: An Introduction” Daniel Miller pp.1-50 in Materiality, edited by Daniel Miller, published by Duke University Press, London, 2005. p.5 [...] objects are important not because they are evident and physically constrain or enable, but often precisely because we do not “see” them. The less we are aware of them, the more powerfully they can [...]
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{rowan lear} findings- “Lots of barbed wire entanglements” : tiny portrait of young woman
- Children playing cricket
- Squinting boy holding dog with lead
- Woman standing in kitchen, hiding behind wooden boardImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Two girls and two boys, standing beside field of cowsImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Woman in dress standing by building at end of driveway
- Two prints of portrait of boy with shirt and jacket
- Young girl with hat and doll sitting on chair in garden
- Landscape with tree nursery/orchard
- Man playing on ship deck under lifeboat with woman reading
- Two (twin?) boys in matching clothes standing in field
- Young man with hat and pipe standing against corrugated metal wall
- Island from sea
- Man with hat on donkey
- People standing in archway
- Man, woman and two boys paddling in water
- Two men on side street with steps
- Two women standing with twin boys and carrying girl
- Man and three women sitting on grass under trees
- Village, trees and valley
- {writings}
- Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else 22 April 2012
- TANT 4 March 2012
- Let us tell the stories of the dead 21 January 2012
- This is a photograph 10 October 2011
- My brother’s photograph 22 April 2010
- Not my mother’s album 2 February 2010
