Lecture One - Week 7

9-10.15 - 10A02 - Lecture 
10.30 - 11.30 - 10C - Tutorial (Dick Whyte) 

Assessment Two - Visual Essay

Lecture Notes:

Looking at the first photo ever produced, and a 2006 recreation of it from googled images all over the web.

17th Century Enlightenment:
Science supplants religion providing universal explanations.
"All of a sudden a method was found to apply science so that it could result in vision" - Vilem Flusser
"Photography was the first product of applied science"

Apparatus - Everything programmed or coded.
There is a battle between human and apparatus.

The photograph and the photographic:
-Images are recorded and documents
-Archive of photos for a place

Three readings this week - Need to be looked at and understood!

Two attitudes - Aesthetic and Utilitarian/Instrumental

Surveillance photography:
-To analyse faces, bodys, etc.
-Spread sheets analysing identity portraits
"Big brother" system - facial recognition

Photographic iconography in a book.
-Iconographic photographique de la solperate (Jean-Martin Charcot 1880)

Vision and Power - Soviet Russia

A New Version - Alexander Rodchenko
"Photography - the new rapid, concrete reflector of the world"
"The public ceased to be viewers and become operators" (Ribolta 16)

Family of Man - Most popular exhibition
-> Television becomes american foreign policy
Third reading on television more.

Tutorial - 

Assessment two - critical positions: an exhibition catalogue essay.

Lens - Frame - Dissemination
-Technical
-Mechanical
-Reproducible

Image
+
Text
-content
-history
-purpose of exhibition
-essays

Visual is a support for the essay, essay isn't just a description.
*Critical*

Consider images in relation to the text. The story images tell.
You need to start selecting images.

Your essay topic relates to the theme of the two topics, environment, technology, identity, collective, belonging, consumerism, ethics. You select images to express these amounts to their fullest.

Example: Consumerism and Identity though identity Barbara Kruger.
Consider: Do you want to critique the images or do you want the images to critique?

-Can use anything photographic (including movies)

TO DO:

-Readings 1-3
-Research Imagery
-Blog post
-Tutorial 1 - Keyterms (select terms to start thinking about putting my essay together)
-Bring example images
-Relate to quotes in document and go onto relating to readings