Collaboration : Photoworks

Great to get my issue of Photoworks this month.

This year - issue 21 showcases work produced for the Brighton Photo Biennial which is going to make up a little for not being able to get over to Brighton for the study visit or under my own steam so far. OK not as good as being there but it is going to be an interesting read. 

In the words of editors Ben Burbridge and Celia Davies: ' The theme of the Biennial responds to the prominence of collaborative modes of production, dissemination and reception encountered across areas of photography in recent years... the expansion of social media has spawned a dizzying array of participatory photographic practices, presenting opportunities and challenges to established systems of production and display'. Will be interesting to see if I come across anything that will resonate with what I shall be doing on this course...

Reading

Angier,Roswell. (2007) Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography, AVA Publishing SA 

Badger,G (2007) The Genius of Photography. London: Quadrille Publishing

Baker,Simon and Mavlian, Shoair (eds ) (2014) Conflict-Time-Photography London: Tate Publishing

Bown,Jane (2007) Unknown Bown 1947-1967. London: Observer Books

Burbridge,Ben and Davies,Celia (eds.) (2014) Photoworks annual Brighton: Photoworks

Cotton,Charlotte. (2009)The Photograph as Contemporary Art. 2nd edition. London:Thames & Hudson 

Dexter,Emma and Weski,Thomas (eds.) (200) Cruel and Tender : The real in the twentieth-century photograph.London : Tate Publishing

Dijkstra,Rineke. (2004) Portraits  Amsterdam: Schirmer/Mosel Production 

Eicker,Eva. (2015) Deutsche Borse 2015 Photography Prize.London : The Photographers Gallery

Ewing,William A. and Herschdorfer,Natalie (2006) Face The new photographic portrait. London: Thames  & Hudson 

Gibson,David.(2014) The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson 

Henry,M. (2015 ) Short stories.Berlin: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg

Hlynsky,David. (2015) Window- shopping through the Iron Curtain. London: Thames & Hudson

Leibovitz, Annie (2011 ) At work.  2nd ed. London : Jonathan Cape

Londei,J (2007 ) Shutting up shop. Stockport : Dewi Lewis Publishing

Photoworks (2015 ) Photoworks Annual 22 Holland: Photoworks

Prakel,David (2012) Composition 2nd ed. London: Thames & Hudson

Renaldi, Richard (2014) Touching Strangers. New York: Aperture

Shore,S. (2007 ) The Nature of Photographs: a Primer. 2nd ed.London: Phaidon Press

Short, Martha.(2011) Basics Creative Photography 02: Context and Narrative. AVA Publishing

Strauss,David Levi. (2005) Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics.New York:Aperture

At the beginning.. People and Place

Getting to grips now with the sense of excitement and positive anticipation that the start of  a new course always presents... 

Why this course? 

For me the real draw of People and Place is the opportunity of exploring places and people, space , buildings and activity from  a photographer's perspective. While I enjoy trying to capture people in the moment  at events and in activity, portraiture is definitely not a strength so I am hoping for some real progress here. 

Really looking forward to this course having spent this summer reading  Annie Leibovitz 'At Work' ,a brilliant and very readable insight into how she has worked over a long career.  Seeing her amazing black and white  and colour images in this book whets the appetite for more. 

Many of my favourite portrait images are black and white such as those of Chris Killip below or Jane Bown, whose work was highlighted in Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte's beautiful film  'Looking for Light: Jane Bown. 

Chris Killip : Youth on wall, Jarrow,Tyneside,UK 1976

Interesting to compare the working methods of Leibovitz and Bown .....chalk and cheese comes to mind ...I'll come back to this  when I get cracking on Part One. In the meantime... a reminder of a another summer book ..

And an interesting  exhibition that I came across accidently in Salisbury Museum in September- 'Cecil Beaton at Home - Ashcombe and Reddish', a biographical view of Cecil Beaton, self taught photographer, artist and set and costume designer. A fascinating mix of original photographs, artworks and possessions capturing the spirit of country house parties and costume balls and his life with a creative group of friends including Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant.

Cecil Beaton: Georgia Sitwell - Renishaw