Archive for the ‘Photograph as object’ Category
Stillness Becoming
Friday, Jonathan. ‘Stillness Becoming: Reflections on Bazin, Barthes and Photographic Stillness’ Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image ed. by David Green and Joanna Lowry (Brighton: Photoforum; Photoworks, 2006) 39-54 p.39 Long before the invention of cinema, for example, photography was associated with stillness in a way that other pictorial media were not. The […]
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Re-visions
Lomax, Yve. ‘Re-visions’ Writing the Image (London: I.B.Tauris, 2000) 15-27 p.16 How can I speak of just one history. And anyway, who has the singular authority to say, with all certainty, that there is one story which is, legitimately, the authentic one. I find that one is already many: re-visions in the plural. Re-visions: a […]
Filed under: Images and reality, Observer & the Photograph, Personal Responses to Images, Photograph as object, Photography's Materiality, Yve Lomax | Leave a Comment
In Plato’s Cave
Sontag, Susan. ‘In Plato’s Cave’ On Photography (London: Penguin Books, 1979) 3-24 p.3 In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally the most grandiose […]
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Joachim Schmid – Interview
In this interview with Joachim Schmid by Lens Culture, he suggests that he remembers events and places he has travelled, through the photographs he finds in those places. The project has a personal level as well […] its also my personal diary, I usually travel without a camera… so I don’t take any travel snapshots. When […]
Filed under: Found photographs, Joachim Schmid, Lens Culture, Memory & Photography, Personal Responses to Images, Photograph as object, using found photography, Vernacular Photography | 2 Comments
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 | 3 Comments
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 […]
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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!
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Photographs as Objects of Memory
Edwards, Elizabeth. ‘Photographs as Objects of Memory’ Material Memories ed. by Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward, Jeremy Aynsley, (Oxford: Berg, 1999) 221-236 p.222 [Edwards shall] shift the methodological focus away from content alone, arguing that it is not merely the image qua image that is the focus of contemplation, evocation and memory, but that its material […]
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Sassoon, Joanna. ‘Photographic Materiality in the Age of Digital Reproduction’ Photographs Objects Histories: On the materiality of images ed. by Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart (London: Routledge, 2004) 186-202 p.186 The invention of digital technology represents the first revolutionary change for photographic methods since Talbot’s invention of the calotype, which introduced the negative/positive process and […]
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Archival Meaning
Volpe, Andrea L., ‘Archival Meaning: Materiality, Digitization, and the Nineteenth-century Photograph’ AfterImage, 36 no.6 May/June 2009. 11-14 p.11 By focusing on the photograph as object and the terms on which digitization is changing access to photographs as archival objects, these exhibits prompt a rethinking of the history of nineteenth-century photography as a history of what […]
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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 […]
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The Trouble with Photography
The Trouble with Photography by Anne McCauley pp. 403-430 in Photography Theory, edited by James Elkins, published by Routledge, London, 2007. p.420 [on the seminar discussion] Rather than trying to prove that “a photograph is x” or “a photograph reveals y” beacuse of the way it is made or its relationship to its referent, […]
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Photographs as Objects
‘Photographs as Objects’ Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart in Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images, edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart, Routledge, London, 2004. 1-15 p.1 [Edwards and Hart note that in Camera Lucida what Barthes] describes first is not the image of two children but a material object. It is a […]
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