Summary of Essay by Joel Snyder Initial ideas on the 'character' of Photography from it's 'invention' in 1839 was one of puzzlement as to what Photography was and how it stood in relation to other image making practices i.e painting, drawing. The photographic prints were seen as machine made. Photographs were seen as mechanical and …
Exercise 1.6: The contemporary abyss
Edmund Burke's definitions of the sublime are what we always relate back to but as Simon Morley points out, " the term has a rather archaic ring." (Tate, 2019). Burke's definition below: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the idea of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort …
Exercise 1.5 : Visualising Assignment Six: Transitions
The most obvious location for me to photograph is the huge beautiful park that I have at the bottom of my road! I walk through it on my way to work and enjoy the changes of the seasons. My plan is to photograph one specific scene on a weekly basis with a view to this …
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Exercise 1.4 : What is a photographer?
Firstly we must put the essay by Zayas into it's historical context. Photography was a relatively new invention and the camera primarily a scientific instrument. What had preceded the turn of the 20th century had been an era of romanticism with impressionist and post impressionist artists. In many ways Art responded to the industrial revolution …
Exercise 1.3 : Establishing conventions
Looking at the conventions used in eighteenth and nineteenth century landscape paintings. The Hay Wain by John Constable 1821 (Artble, 2019) Firstly, I have to say that this painting (or at least a cheap copy of) used to hang above the fireplace whilst I was growing up. I had no idea what it was however …
Exercise 1.2 : Photography in the museum or in the gallery
Notes on 'Photography's Discursive Spaces: Landscape/View.' by Rosalind Krauss Krauss begins by comparing two images, the first a colloidian photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan taken in 1868. The second, a lithograph copy of the same image produced in 1878. The first image has been slightly overexposed which adds to it's mystical aesthetic whereas the lithograph has …
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Exercise 1.1 : Preconceptions
My typically bucolic landscape! The landscape I've drawn is what I'd typically expect in the Lake district. It's what I love, I can just imagine a day walking up one of those hills. I recognise this is a typically bucolic rendition of what landscape is. This exercise could have been a seascape or I did …
Landscape, Place and Environment 