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nightworkers practical: January 2010
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Saturday, 16 January 2010. My image research falls into two categories: style. I have split them up and links to the Style and Content pages can be found in the box on the right-hand side of this page. In the Image Style. Section, I will be looking at the way in which photographers have photographed workers: lighting, composition, location, etc, regardless of content. Section will cover images of workers, regardless of style. Posted by Karen Hope. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). British Journal of Photography.
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iconic theory: What is an Icon?
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Monday, 24 May 2010. What is an Icon? C S Peirce defines an icon as any sign that ‘may represent its object mainly by its similarity’ which can include anything from diagrams and maps to mathematical equations and metaphors (Mitchell, 1986:56). Dietrich (2003:9) states that the iconic image has existed for over 25,000 years and that the Venus of Willendorf dates from over 20,000 BC. Morgan and Welton, 1986:97). Morgan and Welton state that for many people, the astronaut appeals to people as a person who ...
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iconic theory: Photography and Religious Iconography
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Monday, 24 May 2010. Photography and Religious Iconography. Dietrich (2003:17) states that there are no practitioners who are predominant in the genre of religious photography, but Julia Margaret Cameron and Oscar Rejlander appropriated and used religious iconic images from art history in their photography. She adds that Fred Holland Day also uses ‘sacred subjects’ in his work. Deitrich (2003:19) states that Julia Margaret Cameron’s influence came from literature, Renaissance and pre-Raphelite pain...
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iconic theory: Religious Iconography in Dada and Surrealism
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Monday, 24 May 2010. Religious Iconography in Dada and Surrealism. Deitrich (2003:24) explains that Crucifixion (1930) by Picasso draw from and included symbolism traditionally seen in Renaissance art to create a self-portrait rather than comment on religion. One of Surrealism’s purposes was to defy Christianity and replace it with a new valid contemporary religion. Where an image of a woman performing fellatio has been superimposed onto it, and Man Ray’s Monument de Sade (1933), w. Posted by Karen Hope.
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iconic theory: May 2010
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Monday, 24 May 2010. Iconography was also used in Soviet Russia to symbolise strength and power under communism. In spite of the fact that photography was the. Revolutionary medium of the nineteenth century, invented during the years when Marx produced his major writing, he never mentions it except as another kind of ‘industry’. (Mitchell, 1986 :179). And in the visual arts, Engels suggests that the leaders of the revolution should not be glorified but should. Mitchell, 1986 :179). The ‘realismR...
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nightworkers photographic content: February 2010
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010. Found this picture on the Guardian site. The photographer is unknown, but the picture was taken in 1889 of the building of London’s underground system, showing the construction of the Central line. It opened in July 1900. Photograph: Unknown photographer/The British Library. Posted by Karen Hope. Sunday, 14 February 2010. Photographers who Photographed Workers. Bill Brandt published The English at Home. 1936) and A Night in London. 1932-35) is full of astute social observation.
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nightworkers photographic content: Brian Griffin – St Pancras
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Friday, 5 March 2010. Brian Griffin – St Pancras. Brian Griffin has been working on producing, for his client London and Continental Railways, what he believes could be the most substantial corporate book of photographs since the Great Exhibition of 1851, featuring approximately 165 subjects over 208 pages. Posted by Karen Hope. Brian Griffin – St Pancras. Brian Griffin - Workers.
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nightworkers photographic content
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010. Found this picture on the Guardian site. The photographer is unknown, but the picture was taken in 1889 of the building of London’s underground system, showing the construction of the Central line. It opened in July 1900. Photograph: Unknown photographer/The British Library. Posted by Karen Hope. Found this picture on the Guardian site. The pho. Photographers who Photographed Workers.
