Just a quick note here to let you know that I am going to be speaking at an event tomorrow night (Thursday 21st July) at the Centre For Creative Practices in Pembroke Street in Dublin. It’s called Music Photography in a Digital Age and was organised by Naomi McCardle as part of the PhotoIreland festival. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘visual culture’
Music and Photography Event
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Centre For Creative Practices, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Loreanna Rushe, Naomi McCardle, PhotoIreland 2011, visual culture on July 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Exception to the Norm: Representations of Urban Africa in Paul Seawright’s “Invisible Cities” (Part Two)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Criticism, tagged Africa, documentary, martha rosler, ncad, paul seawright, photography, sebastiao salgado, stereotyping, urban african photography, visual culture on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This post is part two of an essay on Paul Seawright’s Invisible Cities project. You can read part one here. Invisible Cities clearly must be considered as part of a tradition of documentary photography and as such it raises a number of interesting questions that I will now turn to. The first of these is [...]
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 | 6 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 [...]
Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before -Michael Fried (2009)
Posted in Photography Criticism, Photography Theory, tagged art, jeff wall, michael fried, modernism, ncad, objecthood, photography, theatricality, visual culture on December 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I became interested in Michael Fried’s recent tome of photographic art criticism after reading an interview with him in Aperture magazine. I thought it would serve as good overview of the work of a whole assortment of contemporary photographers. It certainly did that – and much more besides. In 1967 Michael Fried published a controversial [...]
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 [...]
Stereotyping As A Signifying Practice – Stuart Hall (1997)
Posted in Photography Theory, tagged ncad, photography, representation, ross o'carroll-kelly, stereotyping, stuart hall, visual culture on December 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This entry discusses an extract from the book Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. In it, Stuart Hall examines stereotyping and how this practice is employed to construct negative representations of people and groups. We routinely make sense of the world using types – broad categories of things with common characteristics. This allows us to [...]
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