In these lessons we will be looking at increasing our knowledge of photography so that we can write a 1000-1200 word essay ("critical report") on photo manipulation.
Harvard Reference - name of writer/speaker of chosen quote
- date said/written (if no date write (N.D.))
- site/book name quote is from
- publisher, author and year published
- full address of site
Example: "...the act of turning a subject into an arrangement of tones without colour is an act of transformation and the photographer must decide how the subject is to be transformed into the language of light and shade." (Milton, 2005)
'100 Ways to Take Better Black and White Photoghraphs' Michael Milton, D&C, 2005
Errol Morris said all photographs are posed - watched first part of short film about his (then) new book 'Believing is Seeing'
Looked at the different meanings of words related to the project:
Pictoralism: movement that believed in making, rather than taking a photo
Appropriation: act of taking and reworking images, typically without owners agreement.
Historical and contemporary image manipulation
Mulmer - created 'spirit' photography - due to the long exposure of the photographs, he would have a member of his company stand behind the subject for a short amount of time at the end of the photo's exposure. He than edited the face of someone close to the sitter that had died.
Pictoralism - a movement encouraging people to see and use photography as art, started ny Henry Peach Robinson in the mid 1800s, the idea was to use several different photographs to make up the finished image. This took some time to be realised - when 'Fading Away' was first shown, the public saw photography as just a form of documentary and were appalled by Peach Robinsons lack of consideration for the girl and her family in the image. Jerry Ulesmann is his contemporary, but pictoralism is generally better understood.
Charles Dickens visited America in 1867. Photographic rights were given to Gurney & Son. A photograph not by Gurney & Son was published by Matthew Brady Studio - it was a highly edited version a photograph taken in London.
I gave up trying to decipher my notes - so thought I would prove I had taken them instead (sorry!)
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