Context and Narrative
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COURSEWORK
Part one: The photograph as document
Project 1: Eyewitnesses
Exercise – Citizen journalism
Project 2: Photojournalism
Research point – Susan Sontag: “Compassion fatique”
Research point – David Campany: “Safety in Numbness”
Project 3: Reportage
Research point – How is irony used to comment on British-ness or American values?
Exercise – Colour and the street
Project 4: The gallery wall – documentary as art
Research point – Paul Seawright: “Sectarian Murder”
Project 5: The manipulated image
Exercise – The Real and the Digital
Part two: Narrative
Project 1: Telling a story
Exercise – Bryony Campbell: “The Dad Project”
Project 2: Image and text
Exercise – Captions
Research point – Examples of relay: Sophie Calle & Sophy Rickett
Research point – Duane Michals: “This Photograph is My Proof”.
Exercise – Interpreting a poem through photographs
Project 3: Photographing the unseen
Exercise – Three case studies
Part three: Putting yourself in the picture
Project 1: Autobiographical self-portraiture
Exercise: Gearon Brotherus Wearing
Project 2: Masquerades
Exercise – Nikki S. Lee and Tracey Moffat
Exercise 2 – Recreating a childhood memory
Project 3: Self-absented portraiture
Exercise – Nigel Shafran
Project 1: The language of photography
Exercise: Elliott Erwitt
Part four: Reading photographs
Project 2: Reading pictures
Exercise: Deconstruction of an advertising image.
Research point: Diane Arbus and Jeff Wall
Part five: Constructed realities and the fabricated image
Project 1: Setting the scene
Exercise: Goodfellas
Research point: Gregory Crewdson
Project 2: The archive
Exercise: Question for Seller
Exercise: Recorded conversation
ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment 1- Two sides of the story
A1 Planning and preparation
A1 Submission to tutor
A1 Tutor feedback and response
Assignment 2 – Photographing the unseen
A2 Planning and preparation
A2 Submission to tutor
A2 Tutor feedback and response
A2 Formal assessment submission
Assignment 3 – Self-portrait
A3 Planning and preparation
Initial thoughts and ideas
Light bulb moment!
Working on chosen subject matter
A3 Submission to tutor
A3 Tutor feedback and response
A3 Formal assessment submission
Assignment 4- Reading photographs
A4 Planning and preparation.
A4 Submission to tutor
A4 Tutor feedback and response
A4 Formal assessment submission
Assignment 5 – Making it up
A5 Planning and preparation
A5 Submission to tutor
A5 Tutor feedback and response
A5 Formal assessment submission
Research – Theoretical
Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes
“The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” Erving Goffmann
Fire and Ice – Peter Wollen
Research – Visual
Uta Barth
Maria Kapajeva “Interiors”
John Maher
Duane Michals
Tracey Moffat
Joachim Schmid
Cindy Sherman ‘Doll Clothes’
Tim Walker
Jeff Wall
Rachel Whiteread
Dawn Woolley “The Substitute”
Exhibitions and study visits
Chasing Shadows
“Intermissions”: Edward Chambré-Hardman
John Maher – “Nobody’s Home”
OCA symposium – “Photography Matters”
The Factory 2016
Hard Focus: The Physicality of photography
Bibliography
Conclusion and Final Reflection
Note to Assessors
People and Place
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