This post is something of a departure from the usual business on this blog. It is an essay I wrote on Paul Seawright, focusing in particular on his Invisible Cities work. This work comprises of photographs taken over a three-year period in sub-Saharan African cities. In many senses the work goes against the grain of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Photography Criticism’
Exception to the Norm: Representations of Urban Africa in Paul Seawright’s “Invisible Cities” (Part One)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Criticism, tagged Africa, art, documentary, guy tillim, invisible cities, ncad, paul seawright, photography, Photography Criticism, urban african photography on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Paradoxes of Digital Photography – Lev Manovich (1995)
Posted in Photography Theory, tagged 3D graphics, Andreas Gursky, art, digital photography, Lee Manovich, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, realism, visual culture, William Mitchell on February 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In this essay, written in 1995, Lev Manovich explores the ramifications of digital technology and photography. He asks if such a thing as digital photography really exists, and to what extent this really differs from traditional photographic practice. Manovich starts by referring to a range of digital innovations that have transformed the practice of image [...]
Playing In The Fields Of The Image – Abigail Solomon-Godeau (1982)
Posted in Photography Criticism, Photography Theory, tagged abigail solomon-godeau, art, john szarkowski, Maartje van den Heuvel, modernism, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, post-modernism, richard prince, vikky alexander, visual culture on February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This essay appears in Solomon-Godeau’s Photography At The Dock collection. It deals with a number of post-modern photographic artists, explaining their work, and situating it in opposition to the established canon of modernist art photography. It is deeply critical of many of the fundamental assumptions of modernist photography that would have been elaborated in the [...]
Introduction To The Photographers Eye – John Szarkowski (1966)
Posted in Photography Criticism, Photography Theory, tagged art, elliot erwitt, jeff wall, john szarkowski, modernism, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, realism, the photographer's eye, visual culture on February 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
John Szarkowski’s book The Photographers Eye was based on an exhibition of the same name held at the Musuem Of Modern Art in New Work in 1964. It featured the work of Friedlander, Evans, Strand and many others, and attempted to give an overview of the fundamental challenges and opportunities of the photographic medium. In [...]
The Subject As Object: Photography and the Human Body – Michelle Henning (2000)
Posted in Photography Theory, tagged fetishism, freud, michelle henning, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, psychoanalysis, stuart hall, visual culture, voyeurism on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After finding aspects of Stuart Hall’s text difficult to grasp in parts I turned to a chapter from Photography: A Critical Introduction (edited by Liz Wells) to try and get a better handle on the relevance of psyschoanalytic theory to photography criticism. It explains Freud’s take on voyeurism and fetishism clearly and concisely. Representations of [...]
The Documentary Debate : Aesthetic or Anaesthetic – David Levi-Strauss (1992)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Criticism, tagged art, david levi-strauss, documentary, martha rosler, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, visual culture on December 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In this article Levi-Strauss writes about the relationship between aesthetics and politics in social documentary photography and essentially mounts a defence of the role of the aesthetic within this genre. He starts by observing that the right in America have always recognised the subversive, and deeply political role, of the aesthetic in art and this [...]
Post-Documentary, Post-Photography – Martha Rosler (2001)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Criticism, tagged documentary, martha rosler, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, visual culture on November 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Martha Rosler is a visual artist whose writings on photography theory have been widely influential over the last two decades. In this essay, her concern is with how documentary photography can continue to function in the postmoden world. The traditional practice of social documentary photography as a means of helping underprivileged, dispossessed or marginalised groups [...]
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