How to write about contemporary art by Gilda Williams

On writing my essay, I came across this book at a fellow student recommendation. I started to read just the chapter about doing an academic essay, but the book seem to be so well written and I was so curious how it is structured and what is it all about, widely speaking, about writing about…

Exercise – Elliott Erwitt New York, 1974

1.How has Erwitt structured this image? The image has a foreground, a blurry background and the content is show in the middle. There are three sections of the image ,each one specifically defines an other subject. Picture is cropped. 2.What do you think the image is ‘saying’? Apparently I assumed that there were two people in…

Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes

photography in opposition with cinema - does photography  has a genius of its own? similar with theater - death. spectrum. ... in front of a film I am not able to close my eyes.The screen is not a frame but a hideout referent- what it represents (my note - the scene behind the image ,…

Nigel Shafran – Washing-up

I was a little bit surprised by the fact this subject could interest a man , but in a way I think art is not abound gender , it is about questions , about existential issues. Here, as I see it is not about washing stuff in the kitchen which by its nature , is…

Project 3 – Self-absented portraiture

  "Most of these women have moved to a new country, as I have, not to get married, but to realize their own potential in whatever they do: write, draw, paint, photograph or invent" "With this ongoing project I am interested to open debates on imagery of women in contemporary society in the context of the historical, cultural bias…

Project 2 – Masquerades

Is there any sense in which Lee’s work could be considered voyeuristic or even exploitative? Is she commenting on her own identity, the group identity of the people she photographs, or both? • Would you agree to Morrissey’s request if you were enjoying a day on the beach with your family? If not, why not?…

Autobiographical self-portraiture

In  Iron Man, OCA student  Keith Greenough was trying to approach himself of his non-idealisitc self- by this I mean trying to see as he is himself not as other people see him. The portraits are not posed, show him a little bit tired. I personally like this kind of portrait which is honest, but…

Jodie Taylor – Memories of Childhood

Jodie Taylor’s work deals with nostalgia, which at first may seem like an unphotographable subject I have to be honest and state that I have read this exercise after doing the assignment 2 but it seems that there are a lot of similarities between the two works. So it is clear that I took an…

Project 2 – Image and text

Psalm 122 A song of ascents. Of David. 1 I rejoiced with those who said to me,     “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” 2 Our feet are standing     in your gates, Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is built like a city     that is closely compacted together. 4 That is where the tribes go up—     the tribes of the Lord— to…

Project 1 – Telling a story

Exercise 1. How does Briony Campbell’s The Dad Project compare with Country Doctor? 2. What do you think she means by ‘an ending without an ending’? 1. They both have a linear storyline - present things chronologically. While the subject of E. Smith was a country doctor and the subject was his involvement into his…