content to be different
“Bill at one time said to his great, highly-respected friend: ‘Well what am I gonna photograph? Everything around here is so ugly.’ And our friend said: ‘photograph the ugly stuff’” Rosa Eggleston (Wife) in{Holzemer 2008}. “I’ve seen him stare for hours at a china set. And not a particularly valuable china set” Andra Eggleston (daughter) …
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Part of the fuss around Sally Mann’s collection Immediate Family was that she had turned her children into objects. In the images of their childhood in rural Virginia, parts of their pre-pubescent bodies that should only have been visible (a matter of concern) to their parents had been objectified. The girl or boy, the ‘child’ …
“It has justly been said of him that he photographed them like scenes of crimes. A crime scene, too, is deserted; it is photographed for the purpose of establishing evidence. With Atget, photographic records begin to be evidence in the historical trial [Prozess]. This constitutes their hidden political significance. They demand a specific kind of …
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My work is a practice-research PhD. While no-one seems overly clear about what practice-research is, I am working with a bit of Ian Bogost and Alien Phenomenology, with a bit of Mark Amerika and remixthebook and a dash of object-oriented photography. What I will be handing in will be a series of JPEG-enabled eBooks and …
Well this about sums up the project. “No objects permitted within 2.0m of the Fence”… well that ain’t possible. I’ve spent the morning photographing them and being one. Oh and so has JPEG. I love the idea of a zone without objects as “sterile” too!
My decision to use digital pinhole was part historical, part philosophical and part aesthetic. Pinhole has a long history in imaging. Eric Renner traces it back long before the image could be ‘fixed’ photographically to naturally occurring apertures in nature through fourth Century BC reference in China to ‘Aristotle’s Problem’ the question he raises in …