“We are in a moment ….. in which the photograph shifts effortlessly between platforms and media.” (Squires, 2014)
This comment resonated with me most and reflects how I too work across different mediums and move between them:- digital photography, scanners, lumen prints and polaroids. I like to experiment – this might be partly due to the fact that I came quite late to photography and I don’t have the years of technical photography experience behind me so I have learnt to work with this and create another way to produce my work.
As I am a full-time mother my work is both inspired and restricted by my location and place in the/my landscape. It has forced me to think creatively how I can produce and represent my work and forced me to work with what is within my immediate location.
Liz. Wells comments (p. 193) – “Bonnell is not the only woman photographer to have remarked on ways in which family situation and care responsibilities impinge on work – particularly for a period of year where childcare responsibilities are paramount …”
(Maybe I need to do some research into the Female Gaze?? )
From doing some reading over the break – I found this comment from Martin Lister book on p.22 really interesting:-
“Not snapshots of life, but a life that is being frozen, arrested and flattened within it.”
I thought I had left my High-street project behind – but obviously I haven’t! (back to my earlier comment around the anxiety over settling on a subject comment). One area of future direction I identified in the last module with relating to memory and linking the project to old photographs (Postcards?) of the High-street (i.e. Francis Frith books) Photography (and even google maps) are continually capturing the demise and changes of our High-streets :
“to take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” Sontag.
The flattened and frozen words lead me to think about the “materiality” of the image – both digital and printed and the interplay between the 2 – so I did some test shots last week on my scanner – working with turning an image into physical 3-d object and then flattening it again. I would like to do some more research around this area:-
Wells, Liz. (2011). Land Matters landscape photography, culture and identity. London : I. B. Tauris
Sontag, Susan. (1979). On Photography. London: Penguin.
Martin Lister (2013) . The photographic image in digital culture. London: Routledge.
https://newmindseye.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/does-it-matter-the-role-of-photographic-materiality-in-the-digital-age/ . (August 2015)
Clare Wilson CRJ 