MA Photography – Page 5 – Rob Jones Photography Critical Research Journal

Week 2 – Reflections

This week’s work has been focusing on the different and often similar arguments made by Barthes, Szarkowski and Berger around the meaning of the image and its authenticity. This has given me a lot to consider regarding my practice as it focuses on the emotive and the subjective role the photograph has. The ability for it to […]

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Week 2 – Further Questions of Authenticity

“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 […]

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Week 2 – A Question of Authenticity

“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 […]

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Week 1 – Reflections

I am starting the work for this module reviewing the feedback from my last work in progress submission. The work was based on the theme of autumn, and the focus was looking to capture the sense of change and serenity that accompanied that body of work. The feedback from this module includes the following comments: […]

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Week 1 – Informing Contexts?

Szarkowski once wrote “The history of photography had been less a journey than a growth. Its movement has not been linear and consecutive but centrifugal. Photography and our understanding of it have spread from a centre; it has, by infusion, penetrated our consciousness. Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive […]

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Human Choices

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 […]

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Sustainable Prospects module – Oral Presentation

My oral presentation for the Sustainable Prospects PHO704 18/19 Part-Time Study Block S1.

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Week 11 – The last push

Mirrors and Windows – one is Subjective and one Objective. One is the soul, One is the eye. Together they see the world. It is this thread that I have settled on for my submission of my WIP for this module. It is also a revelation in terms of my own practice. But how? Struggling […]

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Week 10: Challenge

This week I finally made it to a craft fair!!. My first ever public event selling my work. It was a huge step, inspired mostly by this modules push and some close friends who more or less dragged me there. The Kingsbury Christmas Fair ran on Saturday evening and was an amazing rollercoaster ride for […]

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Week 10 – Photography and fine arts

This week posted an opportunity for me to run my draft WIP portfolio past some of my peers and tutors. This gave me the chance to look at my initial ideas and see how well the worked flowed. I had put together a draft portfolio and sent over a link. Overall this was received very […]

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Week 9 – Who buys photography – part 2

This week I took a break from the river and my MA work to help clear my mind and decided to pursue one of my other photography passions. That of the great Somerset Illuminated Carnivals. The Somerset Illuminated Carnivals are highly regarded as the largest illuminated procession in the world. They run at night during […]

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Week 8 – Who buys photography – part 1

Following on from last weeks webinar with Sophie I have spent the last few days working on a methodology to fit within Nature and Wellbeing theme for my Work in Progress Portfolio (WIP). The challenge still exits where the subject matter is still very large, so I am now further simplifying down. Of the three […]

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Week 7: Challenge

For this weeks Forum request, we were asked to think about who our audiences and markets are and to find a way to market and sell one picture. As part of this module, I was inspired to establish and develop a stock sales account as a test for my photography work. This was for all […]

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Week 7 – Commercial Environment

This week’s webinar has been a complete revelation. I was able to speak with Sophie for around 45 minutes on my work and its direction. I was struggling with finding a common link to the work and an angle that would tie all the images together. I was finding that the collecting of images was […]