Winogrand once said, “You have got to deal with how photographs look, what is there, not how they are made.” (Winogrand in Diamonstein and Callahan, 1982: 181) As already seen, my working practices are varied, and for a long time, I lacked identity as a photographer. During the duration of this MA, I am finding more […]

Within an average week, I look at many different photographs. Some intentionally, others I am exposed too through media, advertising and my work. The range of images varies wildly, but the percentage of those that stick with me is relatively small. For me, the images that carry gravitas are ones that showcase the living or […]

“Photographs are not simply different from other kinds of pictorial representation in certain detailed respects; on the contrary, photographs are not representations at all. They are the practical realisation of the general artistic ideals of objectivity and detachment.” (Snyder, Walsh Allen, 1975: 175) From previous posts, I have considered the views of Barthes, Szarkowski and Berger. I find […]

“The realists do not take the: photograph for a “copy” of reality, but for an emulator of past reality: a magic, not an art. To ask whether a photograph is analogical or coded is not a good means of analysis. The important thing is that the photograph possesses an evidential force and that its testimony […]

Berger once said: “a large part of seeing depends on habit and convention” (Berger 1972: Episode 1) This was especially true in the days before photography when the visual art form was channelled through the medium of a painting, or sculpture. The artist’s ability to recreate a scene and display that to an audience was […]