Feedback

I am pleased with the feedback I received from my tutor this week. I am grateful to have some pointers and some suggested reading which will all help and go towards my next assignment.

Although, there was lots to like I do have plenty to work on to better myself. I am now going to be shooting in RAW to allow me to produce higher quality images and to correct anything that I wish to change. I had a few technical issues such as photo 2 was quite blown out therefore, I have purchased light room to help fix any exposure problems I have. In future I will also think about how my series of photos flow and how other viewers may read this. I did find it hard to link my two locations so understand it seems a bit of a jump to go from being outside in the Valley to suddenly inside the barn. Therefore, I am going to look at possibly a better connecting photo that will lead you to that second location.

Overall, I am pleased – I know I have lots to work on as I am a complete beginner so I am thankful for the feedback. I am now going to read up on the suggested photographers that my tutor has given me. Please read below.

Martha Rosler – The Bowery In Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems.

Martha created a text piece of photography called The Bowery in two inadequate systems which is currently on display in the Lethaby gallery in Central Saint Martins. This consisted of twenty one black and white images, twenty four text panels and three blank panels as part of an experiment to see how the photo text applies to social reality. Martha Rosler has played key roles in debates along contemporary art (Edwards. S 2012). The text in which Martha uses are all associated with drunkenness written in poetic ways and were all captured in the New York Bowery District. Please see an example below.

Olivo Barbieri

Olivo Barbieri is an Italian photographer who works in capturing natural and urban environments. He is most well known for capturing images from a helicopter using a tilt shift lense and shallow depth of field which, creates the idea that an object is infact a model (see example of his work below). By tilting the lens angle to the back of the camera it creates gradual blurring this is commonly known as selected focus. As you can see from the example below Los Angeles appears like a small model version from the use of this technique (Barbieri, O 2003).

Uta Barth:

When my tutor asked me what I wanted to gain from the course I laughed and said I want to take better photos – we discussed this as he had explained to me that not everyone has the same thought on a ‘good’ photo and that there was an artist called Uta Barth that deliberately takes out of focus photographs. Uta creates this blur by focusing on an unoccupied foreground – this was part of one of her recent studies of photographic presentation (Ottoman, K 1991) . Uta has two series of photos that apply this deliberate blur these are called Fields and Grounds. Grounds, which Uta began in 1992 are captured inside, to create this blurred imaged Uta used something to stand in the foreground of the composition. She would set the camera to focus on this collaborator which, would then move out of the frame and therefore leave this empty blurred space. Uta explains that she is mostly inspired through film and the reasoning behind her deliberately blurred photos are that she wants the viewer to think of their own activity when looking at the image (Manchester, E 2002). I actually find these pictures quite refreshing because they aren’t focused on anything specific it allows my mind to wander to ‘complete’ the picture in my own imagination.

Barbieri, O (2003) Out of the Green http://www.olivobarbieri.it/ (Date accessed: 19/05/2019)

Edwards, S (2012) Martha Rostler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems oro.open.ac.uk/31251/ (Date accessed 19/05/2019.)

Manchester, E (2002) Uta Barth Field #20 1997 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/barth-field-20-t07627 (Date accessed: 19/05/2019.)

Ottoman, K (1991) Uta Barth http://www.jca-online.com/barth.html (Date accessed: 19/05/2019)

Packard, C (2014)Martha Rosler Tackles the Problem of Representation. https://hyperallergic.com/155794/martha-rosler-tackles-the-problem-of-representation/ Date accessed: 19/05/2019)