This units essay was heavily inspired by the Year 1 Seminars on Walter Benjamin that I participated in at the beginning of this term. Although I had already read his work and aware of his ideas, these seminars (conducted by Paul O’Kane) really allowed me to dissect Benjamin’s ideas in a group forum as I felt that I… Continue reading Unit 8 Essay – Predicting the Future: A Small Anthology of Walter Benjamin
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Photography as a Fine Art| Graham Clarke in The Photograph, 1992
The Peeling Paint on Iron Bench, Kyoto; 1981 Notes: Pg 167 …under the auspices of Alfred Steiglitz extolled photography as an art form in its own right. For De Zayas, however, ‘photography is not Art, but photographs can be made into Art’. The statement is of significance because its puts into play so many assumptions regarding… Continue reading Photography as a Fine Art| Graham Clarke in The Photograph, 1992
The Portrait in Photography| Graham Clarke in The Photograph, 1992
Untitled No.122 1983 Colour photograph 220 x 146.7 cm Notes: The Portrait in Photography Pg 101 The portrait in Photography is one of the most problematic areas of photographic practice. …. ‘at virtually every level, and within every context the portrait photograph is fraught with ambiguity. And part of this ambiguity relates to the question… Continue reading The Portrait in Photography| Graham Clarke in The Photograph, 1992
Unit 7 Essay| Photography- “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce”; The infinite plurality of readings with specific reference to Martin Lister’s ‘The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’
Photography- “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce”; The infinite plurality of readings with specific reference to Martin Lister’s ‘The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’ With specific references to pages 220-224 of Martin Listers ‘ The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’ (1995), throughout this essay I will dissect how the digital-technological revolution associated… Continue reading Unit 7 Essay| Photography- “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce”; The infinite plurality of readings with specific reference to Martin Lister’s ‘The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’